The hour-long program includes special guests, man-on-the-street interviews, and live music by the evening's musical director, Leslie Goshko.
More than once, incredulous shoppers handed over cash-stuffed books to the guests manning the till.
The guests, men on one side, women on the other, pressed close to capture the moment on their phones.
Guests – men wearing drag, women 'hooker' costumers – are bussed out to a secret location, often a country mansion, for an evening of bizarre rituals, drugs, pumping dancing music and sexual excess.
One of the guests, a man in his forties proposed going to a quiet bar for a drink.
Mr. Smiley had two African-American guests, a man and a woman.
The house is too small for guests, the man says, but the missionaries are free to speak to his family in the yard.
Staring by turn at Sarju and at his guests, the man splits the twig down the middle and gives his tongue a good scrape with its green inner parts.
One of the wedding guests, a man named Noorullah, told me a story I hadn't heard from anyone else — that before reaching the ceremony, the bomber stopped to ask a local boy where exactly it was being held.
At the Pierre Hotel, where some room service waiters are on a first-name basis with guests, one man said the offerings included Dover sole, lobster, lamb chops, and chilled Evian in glass bottles.
