Milo Time

Please enjoy his episode, which reminds us that most things that happen in lives life first appeared in an episode of Seinfeld.

Please enjoy this episode of Milo Time, the first ever recorded remotely. And please also enjoy the remains of a container of ice cream--directly from the container itself--in honor of our Milo.

Milo Time as a look at the list of things Milo loved. Milo Time as much more than just a look at the list. We are starting a new initiative. Milo Kessler Fund at Brooklyn Tech. Tree in Prospect Park, Bench in Prospect Park, Plaque and paving stone at the US Open. Essential and heartbreaking memorials to Milo. Co-naming 1st Street between 1st Street 4th and 5th Avenues "Milo Kessler Way." Co-naming process has been been heartwarming and communal. Submit a writing in favor of the Co-naming request. Statement to Community Board 6 and New York City. Share the submission.<...

Please enjoy this discussion concerning the great Kendrick Lamar. Milo put us on to Kendrick when he (Milo) was very young. Milo told us Kendrick was a genius and he was absolutely right.

Having listened to the last episode of Milo Time, called Personal Statement, and in thinking about the few episodes prior to that one, Lisa has other recollections to discuss. While not prompted entirely by the List of things Milo Loved, this discussion is what I hope Milo Time can be at times: A completely unexpected conversation that is, above all, honest, real, and true to our experience. I thank Lisa for her courage and love as evidenced by her willingness to raise and discuss such difficult and sensitive matters "without a net."

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Join me for words from Milo.

Welcome to Brooklyn, English Major and sports, Dave and Lisa are Mets fans, Mets stole Juan Soto from the Yankees, Lisa appreciates the meditative feel of baseball, Lisa noticed the Oakland A's are playing in Sacramento in a minor league park, Alana loves Juan Soto, Jose Siri injured, Sweaty ridge sounds like something from Blazing Saddles, Not necessarily something Milo loved, but it's on the list nevertheless, Milo unusual looking, enormous head, Eyes wide set, Tiny nose, Milo had curly but thin hair when he was very young, Wispy, curly hair matted down on top of his forehead, Sweaty...

Brooklyn, Stay tune for the NEW version of Sweet Lefty, the song about and dedicated to Milo, by The Idea of Machines, Techno version, Andrew Edison grew up in Houston, Milo and Daryl traveled to Houston the Summer Max first went to sleepaway camp, Milo wrote Max a two word letter "I threw", Andy Edison and Brian Cooper, Jacquie and Kendall Cooper, Milo and Kendall bonding by couch diving, Aquarium, Astros game, Donna Edison, Shelby Edison, Such a great trip, Photos @milotimepodcast, Milo the Comewith Guy, Anything we did Milo was game, Milo and Shelby playing Wiii, Sleeping in...

On this episode we explore Lisa's experience as a dear friend throughout Milo's treatment. Daryl has questions.

Upper West Side, Indian Wells Tennis, Daryl and Alana ticket buying, Lisa wants better seats, Daryl's ticket buying preferences, Stadiums at Indian Wells are small, Lisa notes Daryl's preference for not-great seats at sporting events, Lisa trying to persuade, Larry A is a great selection for Max, Larry A=Lawrence of Arabia, Max and Milo loved movies, Find Milo's Letterbox'd account @milotimepodcast, Donny B, Max and Milo had their own language, No Country, Inglorious, In, Mel Brooks, Clint Eastwood, Renee Russo, Watching Larry A with Milo while Milo was in treatment, The Maltese Falcon, Coded language between the boys...

Upper West Side, Lea Thone, Los Angeles, Indian Wells, Rain in Indian Wells and San Diego, Central Park April 2001, Al Gore chart, Very little snow in New York City anymore, Callback to Bully Tanner episode, Citizen Cope, Appalachian extends through the Berkshires, Lee in particular, Hike with Max and Milo, One granola bar, Trail marked with paint slashes, Markings spread out, Milo is 5 and Max is 8, Daryl with a horrendous sense of direction, Daryl concerned each time the markings are out of view, Visions of The Blair Witch Project, No phone on me, Boys made fun of me for...

Lisa keeps the focus on our amazing visit with Lea Thone and here equally amazing son, Eli Wall. 

Upper West Side, Mughlai Indian restaurant, Eagle Court, 84th between Broadway and Amsterdam, Alana and Daryl love Indian food, John Scully and Daryl played cribbage in college, Cribbage simply a card game, Board is just a scoreboard, Milo loved cribbage, Maybe a thousand games of cribbage with Milo, Milo liked sports video games, FIFA, Madden, NBA2K, Milo preferred a board game, Catan, Better strategist would win more often over time, Over time Milo would beat me more often than I would beat him, Video games don't require strategy the same way, Cards were always interesting to Milo, Probability...

While Milo never met Lea, we know he would have loved her and her Son Eli, just as we do. Thank you, Lea and Eli for your courage in all matters.

As March 11, 2025 approaches, please celebrate our boy. And if you are inclined, please let us know about it. 

Upper West Side, Studio A, Henry's room, Alana, Max, and Daryl old stomping ground, Spending time with Dave and Lisa in Southern California, Indian Wells, Palm Springs, What else will we do in LA?, Lisa's Los Angeles friends remain normal, Great produce in LA, Erewhon grocery store, Waymo self-driving cars, Like there's a ghost driving the car, No need to wait for a human, Just an app and a machine driving, Smoothest turns conceivable, Luddite Daryl will report back on Waymo, Dave Hillman angle to Bleeder, Dave used to live on 6th Avenue, Ray Mercer boxing match, Marc Rosenthal...

Upper West Side, Uneventful trip R to the 2, which went local, Great children's books, Daryl becoming emotional at the end of The Story of Ferdinand, Not preparing as a rule, to allow real emotion to appear, Lisa summarizes The Story of Ferdinand, Milo had some Ferdinand in him, Marched to the beat of his own drummer, Words at the end of The Story of Ferdinand caught Daryl off guard, I'm Still Here, Emotional reactions to art, Lisa calls back to an episode in which we discussed a harrowing weekend down the Jersey Shore with the Nachsin family, Kara Kramer...

Upper West Side, Studio A/Henry's room, Portugal, Alana, Max, Lacie Foreht, European vibe, American vibe v. European vibe, Lisbon, Porto, Santiago de Compostela, Very European, Face-to-face communication, Walked, ate, drank, had a lovely time, Ren & Stimpy, Plumpy, Candyland, Board game, Move around the board by picking cards, Plumpy sent you back to the beginning, Trips to Florida with Gordon, Katie, Zachary, and Noah, Milo, Max, Alana, and Daryl, Playing Candyland with the boys and nephews, Daryl would spot Plumpy and set it aside, Uncle Daddy, Boys and nephews doing a song and dance about Uncle Daddy drawing Plumpy...

Upper West Side, Studio Henry, Lisa swimming at the JCC, Drama, Swimming lanes, Slow lanes, Fast lane, Medium lanes, People in incorrect swimming lanes, Swimming etiquette, Relative speed?, Metropolitan Diary submission, No physical altercation, George Baruth is a name from a book, Matt Christopher, Very mundane books, Daryl wrote a letter to Matt Christopher, The Kid With The Golden Arm, The Kid Who Only Hit Homers, Title is exactly the plot of the book, Star of the book was named Sylvester, Shady old man named George Baruth give Sylvester advice, Moral of the story was very oblique for second...

Join us for one of Milo's favorites. We hope you find some place to listen, just quietly.

Lisa botched the subway ride to the studio, Atlantic Avenue, DeKalb Avenue, NYC Subway is extraordinary and safe, though there have been recent publicized incidents, Not Dot Fot was a refrain Max and Milo used to repeat, Our family loves racket sports, Tennis, Ping pong, Kadima, Makeshift ping pong table, We ultimately bought an outdoor ping pong table, We hired someone to build the ping pong table, Wouldn't it be great to have lights so we could play ping pong into the night,  Bike ride to Lowes or Home Depot, Purchase flood lights and the wrong bulbs, So distraught, O...

Lisa in the studio in Brooklyn, Julie Keil Riordan needed to help clean the clutter in the studio, Plea to audience for questions, information, discussion, beef, etc., Soccer-adjacent episode, Soccer players often wear nicknames on their jerseys, Pele, Edson Arantes Do Nascimento, How does a soccer player receive his or her nickname?, Brazilian soccer name generator, We found the website when Milo was in second grade, Karen Bacall, Alana's Brazilian soccer name was Fishba, Daryl's was Daldo, Max was Mildo, Milo was Kessliano, Henry Hillman was Hezo, Same name generated every time, Karen Bacall, Milo's second grade teacher, was...

Milo's big brother and closest friend and confidante, Max, joins Milo Time this week to discuss Brooklyn Tech High School, the extraordinary Fellowship we have establish there in Milo's honor, and many other related matters. Thank you for listening to this deeply special episode.

Lisa back in the studio in Brooklyn, First episode of 2025, New Year's Eve, Jody, Debbie, Samantha, and Nora Brant, Alvin Ailey, Home on NYE before midnight, Samantha Brant an accomplished dancer, very self-effacing, Alana's birthday, Lisa has listener response and feedback of her own. Talking about talking about Milo, Lisa notes that a proper response to a grieving friend is not that complicated, Daryl concedes he has failed friends in his past and has empathy for others in our world trying to communicate with us,  Lisa's first reaction to news of our impending vacation, Lisa wants us to have m...

The most special Milo Time guest, Alana, and I discuss the joys and challenges of life events. Please join us for a listen and then join us in conversation.

Join me as we take a look back at the first two years of Milo Time. What have we learned? What have we accomplished? 

Upper West Side, Lisa and family traveling to Colombia, Shout out to Debbie Hillman Goldberg and Iris Hillman, Iris Hillman's 84th birthday, Cartagena, Isla Baru, Debbie's daughter danced at the Nets game, Bass-O-Matic, Strat-O-Matic, Stratocaster, Company in Long Island, Game for young sports fan nerds, Board game, Index card for each player on each team in Major League Baseball, Gateway drug for fantasy sports, The card for each player matched the performance in the previous year, Reggie Jackson, Joe Charboneau, Still making Strat-O-Matic cards today, Topps Attax, Wonder if the boys will like Strat-O-Matic, Enough baseball nerds out there...

Lisa hosting in Studio C, Henry, Isabel, Lisa's 11-year-old niece dancing at a Brooklyn Nets game, Westchester, Eastchester, Eric Adams former Brooklyn Borough President and soon-to-be former Mayor, G Train, Lisa used the G Train to watch a friend run the marathon, Daryl and Lisa ran the marathon the same year (1998) after training together, G Train runs directly from Brooklyn to Queens without going into Manhattan, Milo loved to watch and play tennis, Milo played tennis at the Prospect Park Tennis Center, then played tennis in Bay Ridge, then at the tennis program in Mccarren Park in Williamsburg, Milo...

Studio C in Lisa's apartment, Rocky the cat, Thanksgiving behind us, Dave and Lisa heading back to LA, Are people in LA just like people in NYC?, Similar with different complaints, SNL the Californians, Californians talk about driving while New Yorkers talk about alternate side of the street parking, Lisa selects Baba Israel, Nothing to do with Babka, Rapper/Spoken word artist, Brooklyn Academy of Music Spoken Word Poetry Slam, Baba Israel as host, Max and Milo were shocked and amazed, Max was first being exposed to music outside our control; Milo not quite yet, Attended with other good...

Thanksgiving is a holiday we loved as a family, Family tradition of hosting Thanksgiving in our home, every year from 2001 to 2021, Food shopping the day before Thanksgiving, With the boys the evening before Thanksgiving, Begin cooking the night before Thanksgiving, Stuffing, Cornbread, Pumpkin Pie, Turkey, Brisket, Guests included a combination of Gordon, Katie, Zach, Noah, Marc, Alicia, Scott, Jared, Daryl's parents, and Alana's parents, Thanksgiving dishes, Apple cider from the Jericho Cider Mill, Alana and I always took a moment to note how lucky we were, Thanksgiving is the headline holiday of the year, What are you doing about...

Brooklyn, West Side Highway, Brooklyn car wash, Lisa and Dave spending chunks of time in Los Angeles, No Fall activity in Los Angeles, Lisa doesn't like the cold anymore, Isabel and Max bundled up in a blizzard, Seems like there is a lot less snow now, No Halloween winter coats anymore, Mr. Miyagi, Pat Morita character (aka Arnold from Happy Days) in The Karate Kid, Murray the Cop was Al on Happy Days after Pat Morita was Arnold, The Karate Kid, Elizabeth Shue, Ralph Macchio, Big Islanders fan, William Zabka, Cobra Kai, The Karate Kid ridiculous, Lisa defends The...

Brooklyn, Jets football same as it ever was, Alana and Lisa collateral Jets damage, Watching the Jets is a separate kind of bravery, Dave and I care less about the Jets now than we used to, JetsCast Inspired by Milo Time available each week during the NFL regular season, Milo's birthday November 7, The List of Things Milo Loved growing quite a bit recently, Farmer's market in our neighborhood, Migliorelli's apple cider is available there, Milo loved the apple cider, Milo always loved apple cider, Apple cider is a bit of a snack, Not that thirst quenching, Visit to the...

Welcome back, Lisa, Thanks to Lisa for putting herself out there on Milo Time, Lisa acknowledges there is no such thing as "expertise" on the subject without the experience, You can't go wrong with saying something, We're always happy to learn that people are thinking about Milo, Annual run in Milo's honor Sunday November 10, Meet at 9:00 at Milo's tree in Prospect Park, Construction of our home, Milo stomping down the stairs after waking up, Alternative to singing in bed, Beautiful noise, particularly in hindsight, Just the way Milo walked down stairs, Max much lighter on his feet and a...

Milo loved the New York Yankees, Milo Seemed like the kind of person who would be a Mets fan, Daryl's father was a Yankees fan, Even though Milo's sensibility was more Mets, he was always a Yankees fan, Milo was at the first Yankees win at the new Yankee Stadium with Alana, Max, and the Pritchard family, While Milo was treating Alana, Milo, and I would go to games at Yankee Stadium, Amazing effort by Alana and Milo, Those games were extremely memorable for all of us, My father and I were at the Bill Buckner Game and at...

Ridiculous for Daryl and Alana to be recording about one specific thing that Milo loved, Sometimes the little stories are emblematic of bigger things, 101st episode, Jared Fontaine guest on episode 100, Lisa Cohen has co-hosted about 90 episodes, Latest group of Milo Fellows at Brooklyn Tech High School, Run in Milo's honor Sunday November 10th at 9 a.m. sharp, Milo's 21st birthday November 7, Explaining Milo's Fund, Link to donate in the Linktree on the instagram page @milotimepodcast, Challenges going to Brooklyn Tech, January event at Brooklyn Tech with our families and Milo's classmates, friends, and teachers, Fund is heartbreaking and...

100th Episode, Openings are cold, Jared is The Idea of Machines, Jared wrote Sweet Lefty about Milo, Jared and Daryl have played soccer together for about ten years but didn't really know one another, Jared and a number of soccer friends attended Milo's service, Jared has become a good friend of mine and a good friend to Milo, Jared is grateful to have gotten to know Alana and Max, Jared kept up on Milo's treatment and has thought about him quite a bit since, Jared was moved by Milo's service, Service was packed, Jared has come to know Milo...

Early October game in Brooklyn, Fall is a difficult time for grieving parents, PS 321, MS 51, Difficult reminders in the neighborhood, Celebrity a fun game we've played with David and Lisa, Description of Celebrity, I Think You Should Leave, The Colgate Comedy Hour, Playing Celebrity in Nantucket with the Toll-O'Flanagans, Bill, Michelle, Caity, Spencer, Robbie Toll, Bruce Toll, Mom's doing bad, Woodloch, with Alana's parents, Irwin and Terry, Duncan Reynaldo, The Cisco Kid, Alana getting upset that the boys would know the names Alana put into the hat, Boys were correct a high percentage pf time, Ask Alana about it...

Lisa coming across the country to record this episode, Lisa chilly in 67 degree weather now, It's not the heat it's the humidity, Lisa extolling the Los Angeles weather, Car culture is too much for Lisa, Encouraging the listening audience to discourage Lisa from moving to Los Angeles on the podcast instagram page @milotimepodcast, Perfect episode to follow the Mike Lane? episode, Milo shaking his head at me with disdain "Dad's doing bad," Max could certainly list more things, Dad approaches random families/newborns to guess the age,  Lisa agrees that "Dad's doing bad," Dad checks the refrigerator is closed a...

Lisa Cohen back on Milo Time, Lisa spending time in Los Angeles, Not planning to live in Los Angeles, Lisa very comfortable in Los Angeles, Daryl more like Woody Allen in Annie Hall in Los Angeles, Lisa enjoying the climate in Los Angeles, Is "missing the seasons" really a thing at our age?, Mike Lane is a person, Max and Milo were friendly with a pair of brothers, Ben and Zachary Everett-Lane, Nachsins and Muchnicks, Ben Everett-Lane also went to Brooklyn Tech High School, Milo was disdainful at the suggestion that "Mike Lane" was a name, Seeking input from...

Lisa Cohen back next week and thereafter, Alana Fishberg, US Open, Donald Viscardi, Please join us on Milo Time, @milotimepodcast, Run in Prospect Park in Milo's honor Sunday, November 10, meet at Milo's tree at 9am sharp, Join us for brunch at our house after you finish, The Conversation at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, 4:40pm, Sunday September 15, Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall, Teri Garr, Harrison Ford, Cindy Williams, John Cazale, Cazale in five movies, all nominated for Best Picture, JetsCast Inspired by Milo Time, Mitch Epner, Please join us on the podcast, Dropping by Wednesday at midnight each week, Plymouth...