The Barry Bowe Show

First episode of :the Barry Bowe show" LIVE from June 14, 2023.

We go with Steve to watch My Friend wrestle Cry Baby Waldo – then the guys go out to Pinocchio’s for a Sicilian pizza – and Jess winds up joining them. 

We go to a yoga studio for a hostile showdown between Jess and Margo over who owns the claim to Steve’s affection - and a shouting match ensues.

We drop in at Jess’s condo the next morning and catch the blowback between Jess and Pablo from her party the night before – and the shit hits the fan. 

We take a ride in the elevator with Steve and Margo after Jess’s party – and find out whether or not they’re still pretending to be on a date. 

We go to Jess's party and watch a charade develop when Steve and Margo pretend to be boyfriend and girlfriend – or are they pretending?

We step inside a meeting at C.I.D. headquarters inside the courthouse in Media – we find out that the Sinaloa drug cartel is using Uber drivers to distribute Fentanyl in Delaware County – and then a pair of detectives go to Babes in Toyland to begin investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of the dead stripper. 

We pick up the story the next morning at Steve’s apartment – My Friend drops in to bullshit – he hears about Steve’s adventure from the night before with the stripper and with Jess – and My Friend soon comes to the conclusion that Steve’s the reincarnation of Sigmund Freud. 

We’ll join Jess and Margo at Happy Hour at The Grog in Bryn Mawr – and a crazy idea – we’ll drop into the Babes in Toyland strip club for their Happy Hour – and then we’ll venture out to Media Station Apartments and find a dead body.

Chapter 4 begins with Steve getting back to his apartment around 4:30 the next morning. He goes inside, gets online to check on his latest story submission – and gets kicked in the nuts.

Steve pulls away from the stripper’s apartment building after transporting her home from the Babes in Toyland topless club. He immediately gets a request to pick up a rider – and it turns out being Jess, who just got off the phone with Margo. She decided to spend the night at her parents' home and called for an Uber. She lays out her troubles – Steve listens – and they wind up having drinks at the Black Horse Tavern.

Introducing Jess in her Main Line condo talking on the phone to Margo – Jess has been drinking wine all day because she just got fired from a lucrative job without warning – and she’s commiserating with Margo because she reached out to her boyfriend all day for moral support – but he ignored her. 

Uber driver Steve Piasecki is approaching Geno’s Steaks in South Philly when his cellphone rings – it’s his sidekick My Friend – who also moonlights as an Uber driver while he tries to climb the ranks in professional wrestling – ring name: Hit Man Bruno. Then Steve gets a request to pick up a stripper at the Babes in Toyland topless club - and the adventure begins.

Steve Piasecki is a handsome young man, 34, from Delaware County, PA – and he’s an aspiring mystery rider – hoping to become published one day. He moonlights as an Uber driver to pay his bills – and he becomes an amateur sleuth because dead bodies keep turning up – all of them linked to his Uber riders – and then Steve invariably finds the killer – or helps the cops find the killer.

Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald inside a Dallas police station on November 24, 1963,

Introducing "1964 – The Year the Phillies Blew the Pennant" - written by America's Best Crime Writer Barry Bowe is COMING SOON – Not only is 1964 a Season of Infamy for the Phillies – but it's also a dramatic year in the history of the United States.

Esteban Ernesto Echevarría Samson is the real name of Steven Bauer - one of my favorite actors.

Absolute Power is a 1997 crime drama starring Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, and Laura Linney – good acting and good plotting.

The Art Student and Red the Bartender are trivia discoveries from watching Clint Eastwood's Absolute Power.

The In-Laws 1979 is the original movie - starring Peter Falk and Alan Arkin.

Wilt Chamberlain scores 100 points and sets an NBA record in Hershey, PA, on March 2, 1962.

Tulsa King stars Sylvester Stallone as a New York Mafia bigshot who gets exiled to Tulsa, Oklahoma - I love Season 1 - can't wait for Season 2.

Jack Ryan Series is on Amazon Prime - suspense, action, crime, and drama – started in 2018 & still going strong.

House of Horrors Revisited remembers the Gary Heidnik murder case.

Quiz Show takes you behind the curtain to show you how the producers rigged the TV quiz show Twenty One.

Man with a Camera is a TV series from 1958-1960 starring Charles Bronson.

Burn After Reading – “A disk containing mysterious information from a CIA agent ends up in the hands of two unscrupulous and daft gym employees who attempt to sell it.”

The Enforcer is a 1976 Dirty Harry movie starring Clint Eastwood and Tyne Daly.

God's Pocket is a 2014 movie based on Pete Dexter's novel of the same name.

The Grays Ferry Incident was the trigger for Pete Dexter's novel God's Pocket - and movie.

Capote is a 2005 movie about Truman Capote's life starring Philip Seymour Hoffman – covering Capote’s life from the 1950s until his death in 1984.

Restorative Justice takes a look in the recent killing of Jennifer Angel in Oakland, California.

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest is one of the funniest movies I ever saw.

In Cold Blood Executions - both Dick Hickock and Perry Smith hanged by the neck during the wee hours of April 14, 1965.

The Blob is a 1958 science fiction slash horror film starring Steve McQueen and Aneta Corseaut.

Escape from Alcatraz - starring Clint Eastwood - is based on a true story.

Linda Fiorentino is an Italian girl from South Philly who became a Hollywood star – then disappeared.

Full Metal Jacket is a 1976 film about the Vietnam War – about the violence that war entails – about masculinity – and about how violence and masculinity are intertwined.

Marathon Man is my #11 movie of 1976.

In Cold Blood Trial came down to the sentencing - life imprisonment or the death penalty.

Steve McQueen is the King of Cool.

All the President's Men is my #10 movie of 1976.

Eagles’ fans – NFL fans – Miami Dolphins’ fans – there’s no NFL game today – so let me fill the void by providing this NFL flashback to Christmas Eve in 1972 – I’m living in Fort Lauderdale – the 14-0 Dolphins are playing a playoff game against the Browns at the Orange Bowl – but the game’s blacked out in our viewing area.

WTF? How are we going to see the game?

“No problem,” I say. “Let’s rent an airplane.”

Key Largo is a classic film from 1948 - starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, and Lauren Bacall.

A Chinese Spy Balloon is flying across the U.S. undeterred.

Papillon is based on the autobiography of Henri Charriere – a safecracker wrongfully convicted of murder – who’s sent to Devil’s Island.

Murder By Death is my #8 movie of 1976.

In Cold Blood Manhunt takes 45 days to find the killers of the Clutter family.

Cape Fear 1991 is a remake of 1962's Cape Fear - both great movies - based on John D. McDonald's novel The Executioners.

The original Cape Fear was released in 1962 - starring Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, and Polly Bergen.