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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you should Know from House stuff Works

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Speaker 1: dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark.

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Speaker 1: There's Charles W. Chuck Bright. Uh, just sitting there normally right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm not doing anything unusual. I think we should have

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Speaker 1: started this with taking the A Train. I think we

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Speaker 1: should have changed up our music. Well, let's do that. Okay,

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Speaker 1: how about this? All right? Howe? How we are we

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Speaker 1: train to find the quickest way to get um? We

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Speaker 1: did okay, thanks thanks to the magic of post production,

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Speaker 1: we did and said that was taking the A Train.

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Speaker 1: Who made that song? Boy, I don't know who originally

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Speaker 1: composed it, to be honest, Well, I think I think

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Speaker 1: we should find out. Well who who just performed it? Well,

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Speaker 1: there's many versions. Well what's the one you selected, like

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Speaker 1: a week from now? Uh, I don't know. Did they

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Speaker 1: do a train? Now it's a jazz tune? Oh? John Coltrane?

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Speaker 1: Did he do it? Let's go with Coltrane? Man, maybe

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Speaker 1: I should just do it and that that that then? Oh?

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Speaker 1: Is that that song? Yeah? Thinking the A Train? That's

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Speaker 1: a good song. Is it instrumental? Because you know a

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Speaker 1: lot of those instrumentals actually have lyrics. What the old

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Speaker 1: jazz tunes. Yeah. Really they in the train. That's it

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Speaker 1: that You're right? Okay, let's go with Duke Ellington's version.

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Speaker 1: Duke Ellington did the a train at the beginning of

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Speaker 1: this episode. I hoped everyone liked it. The Duke. We

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Speaker 1: haven't heard it yet, that's right. Um So, Chuck, I

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Speaker 1: know that you know what the subway is because we've

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Speaker 1: been on the subway together. Yeah. Do you remember when

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Speaker 1: we were in New York. Um, I believe it was

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Speaker 1: for ABC Go, our first little opportunity there, and we

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Speaker 1: were going to meet you me yea, And I remember

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Speaker 1: I met you me Uh that was that where in

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Speaker 1: that bar? Afterwards? Well, I mean I worked with her,

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Speaker 1: but then I was like, that was the first time

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Speaker 1: you ever hung up? Yeah exactly. Um. So we were

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Speaker 1: the New York subway, and I remember we were looking

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Speaker 1: at the subway and um, the the whole thing just

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Speaker 1: turned into like this series of confusing lines to me

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Speaker 1: and like suddenly I was blind and like holding your arm,

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Speaker 1: and like I had the mind of a child, and

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Speaker 1: not even like a really bright child either. It was

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Speaker 1: just kind of like what does it say, um, and

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Speaker 1: I can report after being back in New York with

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Speaker 1: you me several times that I do that to her still,

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Speaker 1: that we're enabling you was what's going on? I think

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Speaker 1: it is. I think if you guys had thrown me

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Speaker 1: in and be like you figure it out, figure it out,

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Speaker 1: I could have, but I don't have to. Um and uh.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of nice because it's really infusing. So when

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Speaker 1: you go to New York, you just kind of like

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Speaker 1: just go with Yumi's wind wherever she blows kind of

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Speaker 1: but the wind is coming from her heavy size that

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Speaker 1: she's the one who has to like read the subway. Yeah. Um.

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Speaker 1: But now that I've read this article how subways work,

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Speaker 1: I don't understand the New York subway system any more

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Speaker 1: can tell you that the rails are made of thirty

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Speaker 1: five ft long pieces of carbon steel that are five

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Speaker 1: inches wide, And you could run any train, any train

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Speaker 1: on the world, in the world on those rails, not

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Speaker 1: in the world, but at least in New York, because

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Speaker 1: I guess there's different cages, but there the New York

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Speaker 1: subway system was designed so that you could just kind

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Speaker 1: of if you wanted to, like go to Cleveland on

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Speaker 1: a subway train, you could. Yeah, that's I was designed. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they could put it on just a regular railway track,

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Speaker 1: then go to Cleveland and then you get to Cleveland. Ego, jeez,

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Speaker 1: I want to go back to New York. Cleveland's where

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Speaker 1: the first stoplight in the country was. Did you know that? Really?

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Speaker 1: I like Cleveland. I'm just kidding. That's where my home

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Speaker 1: away from home is now. Oh yeah, so it was.

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Speaker 1: Now they're an Acron, but yeah, it's a suburb of Cleveland.

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Speaker 1: I never realized that. And I'm from Ohio and I

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Speaker 1: didn't realize that it was a suburb. It's like half

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Speaker 1: hour or so. I always thought Acron was more towards Dayton. Yeah, alright,

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Speaker 1: so Dayton, let's talk about it all right, let's talk

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Speaker 1: about subways. The Metro and France. Five hundred forty seven

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Speaker 1: subway station. Yeah, that's pretty good. No, no, not even there.

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Speaker 1: There's no building in Paris that's more than five botch

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Speaker 1: that one. No, but it really you helped build up

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Speaker 1: the drama okay, Um, the the Tube in London, mind

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Speaker 1: And that's why the New York subway system looks like

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Speaker 1: a play of spaghetti man. It's really tough to read.

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Speaker 1: It's not just me. It can't just be it's not.

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Speaker 1: You just have to zero in on your area and

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Speaker 1: then you're like, oh, just you gotta blur your eyes

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Speaker 1: and block out everything else. And then everyone behind you

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Speaker 1: was looking at you like tourists. Yeah, exactly what's got

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Speaker 1: his eyes crossed? And why? Why is does that guy

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Speaker 1: next to him look like Ronnie Millsap all of a

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Speaker 1: sudden because I saw him walk down here? Just fine.

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Speaker 1: The London Underground is the oldest, open in eighteen sixty three.

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Speaker 1: The Metro was next in hundred in New York not

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Speaker 1: far behind in nineteen o four. And Tracy, who wrote

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Speaker 1: a very thorough article this is a Tracy V. Wilson Joy. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know it's gonna be good. Um. She points out

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Speaker 1: that this they all kind of happened within pretty dense

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Speaker 1: space of time. Because the Industrial Revolution people were out

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Speaker 1: a decent egg roll. Yeah, I'm gonna move into the

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Speaker 1: Well yeah, and before that there weren't jobs and factories

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Speaker 1: because there weren't factories. Part of the Industrial Revolution was

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Speaker 1: the rise of factories. Everybody threw down their agrarian tools

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Speaker 1: clever word play, thank you, um, and they moved to

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Speaker 1: the cities. And when they moved to the cities, all

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Speaker 1: it's a good point. City fathers in these areas Paris London,

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Speaker 1: out how to move a bunch of these people at once,

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Speaker 1: and what they came up with was mass transit, but

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Speaker 1: it was all above ground mass transit, and it involved horses.

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Speaker 1: Remember the Wing Cries Typhoid Merry episode. One horse produces

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Speaker 1: twenty pounds of poop per day, and New York had

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Speaker 1: like a hundred thousand horses or something like that walking around. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know how much poopa subway train produces zero. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's probably a couple of guys pooping on the trains,

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Speaker 1: but attribute that to the guy on the train. That's

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Speaker 1: not really the subway. That's true. It is not exhaust

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Speaker 1: as you as you would call horses spoop um, they

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Speaker 1: wouldn't call it, So you're right. They had horse drawn

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Speaker 1: carriages and these cool things called omnibusses, which were longer

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Speaker 1: horse drawn carriages. Now they're known by their slang term bus.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's what that's what a bus is. I'm

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Speaker 1: glad you brought that up. People in New York. Worst

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Speaker 1: would recommend that you occasionally take a bus trip. Don't

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Speaker 1: a tourist bus, a double dunker bus. Don't take those, No,

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Speaker 1: a regular bus, you're you're a little metro card. You

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Speaker 1: that's just my advice of tourist. Don't be afraid of

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Speaker 1: the busses in New York. It could be a great

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Speaker 1: way to get around. There's also cabs, you know. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but you know those are expensive, man. Yeah yeah, I

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Speaker 1: you know where your local elector lives. That's right, that's

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Speaker 1: pretty impressive, chuck. So what happened with these buses though?

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Speaker 1: And with all the horsepoop? As they said, this is

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Speaker 1: because there's no more room up here. Yeah. We we'd

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Speaker 1: that little reference. Which one. So this TVM tunnel boring

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Speaker 1: it actually supports the tunnel as it digs and does

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Speaker 1: a really really great job. But um, we all love

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Speaker 1: the TV. They're fairly new though. They didn't have these

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Speaker 1: dynamite yeah or TNT, depending on where your preferences lie. Um. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: New York City alone, UM had eight thousand laborers to

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Speaker 1: and a little bit of air can get in, doesn't

425
00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:29,760
Speaker 1: mean you don't have to have like a massive air

426
00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:32,960
Speaker 1: circulation system. And if you've ever been like deep within

427
00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:36,080
Speaker 1: the bowels of the subway system, then you might be

428
00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:40,200
Speaker 1: wondering if it's working properly, But it is, or you'd

429
00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:43,800
Speaker 1: be dead. Yeah, you'd die. Yeah, Yeah, they're the It

430
00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:46,560
Speaker 1: takes a tremendous amount of air to be recirculated to

431
00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:50,400
Speaker 1: allow humans to live underground. I think she said something

432
00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:53,040
Speaker 1: was it? Ye, six thousand cubic feet of fresh air

433
00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:55,960
Speaker 1: per minute is what is what they're shooting for. I

434
00:24:55,960 --> 00:25:00,520
Speaker 1: don't think it's there now, but that's their goal. Should

435
00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:05,560
Speaker 1: we talk about some of the signals, yeah, train signals. Yeah. So, um,

436
00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:09,840
Speaker 1: before a long long time ago, when a driver reached

437
00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:12,560
Speaker 1: a stoplight and had to come to a stop, they

438
00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:14,359
Speaker 1: had to put a key in and turn it to

439
00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:17,520
Speaker 1: reset the stoplight and be able to drive. And there's

440
00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:21,040
Speaker 1: a term called keying by that they still use. So

441
00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:25,119
Speaker 1: they do still use it. Now it's much more automated, um,

442
00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:27,920
Speaker 1: but there's there's still a set of signals where it's

443
00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:31,520
Speaker 1: like stop, proceed with caution, green light, you know, just

444
00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:35,280
Speaker 1: go as fast as you can. They do a speed limits. Yeah,

445
00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:39,400
Speaker 1: of course. Yeah, they're posted too, aren't they. Uh yeah,

446
00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:44,040
Speaker 1: I mean the driver can see them at least imagine

447
00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:45,600
Speaker 1: if you were looking and you're up front, you could

448
00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:47,920
Speaker 1: probably see him and to have the driver around the

449
00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:50,840
Speaker 1: shoulder and be like, we're going way faster than the Yeah.

450
00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:52,919
Speaker 1: I mean Martha here in Atlanta, which is sort of

451
00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:55,639
Speaker 1: a subway, you can um, I mean you can ride

452
00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:57,800
Speaker 1: it right up front by the the person and I've

453
00:25:57,840 --> 00:25:59,560
Speaker 1: done this many times and just kind of spide in

454
00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:02,320
Speaker 1: on how you drive the Marta train, and every time

455
00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:04,000
Speaker 1: I look, I'm like, I could totally drive this thing

456
00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:07,200
Speaker 1: right now. Oh yeah, yeah, dude. It's just like it's

457
00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:10,000
Speaker 1: got a little forward lever and a neutral and a

458
00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:14,000
Speaker 1: reverse and a break and then that's pretty much it. Yeah,

459
00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:15,720
Speaker 1: I could do it right now. You can drive it

460
00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:19,679
Speaker 1: through arms Crost right mark. Have you seen it's been

461
00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:22,280
Speaker 1: going around Facebook, the Marta map compared to the rest

462
00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:26,960
Speaker 1: of the world's Facebook. Oh, it's like New York, London, Paris,

463
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:28,399
Speaker 1: and they all look like a play a spaghetti And

464
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:31,240
Speaker 1: then it's Atlanta with its little plus sign plus sign

465
00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:35,960
Speaker 1: it's got two branches. But I will argue that, I mean,

466
00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:38,359
Speaker 1: it does suck in a way. But I will argue

467
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:41,840
Speaker 1: that Atlanta didn't build it subway in eighteen sixty three.

468
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:46,440
Speaker 1: They built it in like nineteen seventies something, and but yeah,

469
00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:48,560
Speaker 1: it stopped. Okay, I was gonna say, this isn't a

470
00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:51,400
Speaker 1: work in progress. No, they've added some stuff since. Yeah,

471
00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:54,040
Speaker 1: a little bit, but really it's pretty bad. It does

472
00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:56,960
Speaker 1: suck in every way. I mean, it's it's great if

473
00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:58,719
Speaker 1: it goes from the one place you need to go

474
00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:01,119
Speaker 1: to the other place you need to go. Sure, and

475
00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:04,879
Speaker 1: chances are that's not the case, and it sometimes it does, though,

476
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:07,680
Speaker 1: especially if you live near a rail line. But even still,

477
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:11,320
Speaker 1: you make one big l Yeah, I mean it's great

478
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:14,719
Speaker 1: for me. I'm like Falcons game day, you know, right

479
00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:19,119
Speaker 1: down the street, Hop on there my brown bag, Hop off.

480
00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:24,600
Speaker 1: I'm right at the stadium. Yeah, it's nice your brown bag, so,

481
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:27,920
Speaker 1: you know, for hyperventilation, right in case something bad goes down,

482
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:31,120
Speaker 1: in case the six hundred thousand cubic leaders of error

483
00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:34,480
Speaker 1: isn't moved through now most of Atlanta is above ground subway. Really,

484
00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:37,200
Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying. It sucks in every way. Uh.

485
00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:39,600
Speaker 1: These things run on electricity these days, not like the

486
00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:43,000
Speaker 1: old steam train days. Yeah. I don't even know that

487
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:46,359
Speaker 1: that was worth mentioning. Well, I think so because you

488
00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:49,080
Speaker 1: have the third rail that everyone knows is very dangerous. Yeah,

489
00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:52,440
Speaker 1: six volts in New York and you have a hundred

490
00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:55,679
Speaker 1: and twenty coming into your house. Really yeah, oh wow,

491
00:27:55,800 --> 00:28:00,639
Speaker 1: So it'll get you. It'll fry rap like they're not kidding. Uh. Uh.

492
00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:03,080
Speaker 1: Sometimes the third rail is between the two tracks. Sometimes

493
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:06,200
Speaker 1: it's on the outside and then you generally have a

494
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:09,679
Speaker 1: a brush or a shoe sliding shoe or a wheel

495
00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:13,080
Speaker 1: that connects to that and that supplies power to the train.

496
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:17,760
Speaker 1: And um, they used to have its own power plant

497
00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:21,880
Speaker 1: to run the subway system in New York. I guess

498
00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:24,680
Speaker 1: these days they just mooch it from everyone. You know,

499
00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:27,960
Speaker 1: if you follow a chord in the subway, it's actually

500
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:31,119
Speaker 1: going into somebody's living room. It's coming through the window.

501
00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:05,560
Speaker 1: All right, I think the fact of the podcast, I

502
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:07,480
Speaker 1: will give it to you, but to me, it's the

503
00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 1: geometry train. Yeah. I've seen these before, but um you have.

504
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:14,920
Speaker 1: I've seen ones that were just there. It looks like

505
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:19,840
Speaker 1: a little platform or something like that going by. Yeah, well,

506
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:24,959
Speaker 1: or I dreamt one, uh yeah, this one in the

507
00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:29,200
Speaker 1: diagrams like full of computers and people. I haven't seen that.

508
00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:33,400
Speaker 1: But basically a geometry train, like if you have you know,

509
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:37,320
Speaker 1: hundreds and thousands and millions of miles of subway track,

510
00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 1: and some of it dates back a hundred years um

511
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:49,080
Speaker 1: thanks to seismic activity, fire um weather peoples. Yes, all

512
00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:51,680
Speaker 1: this stuff is going to basically pull your checks out

513
00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:54,480
Speaker 1: of alignment. And tracks need to be fairly precise to

514
00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:58,640
Speaker 1: keep trains from like hopping off right so to um

515
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:02,360
Speaker 1: to basically keep or find I should say, the rails

516
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:04,400
Speaker 1: that are out of alignment. They have this thing called

517
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 1: the geometry train, which have your lasers that you're so

518
00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:10,640
Speaker 1: fond of, and uh, it basically just goes down the

519
00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:12,960
Speaker 1: track every track, and these things are running like twenty

520
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,200
Speaker 1: four hours a day, seven days a week. Um. Yeah,

521
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:17,520
Speaker 1: the one in New York runs at all times. Cool

522
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:19,440
Speaker 1: and uh, and you would think it would have to.

523
00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 1: I wonder how long it takes for a geometry train

524
00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:25,840
Speaker 1: to hit every track. Yeah. Man, that's a good question.

525
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:29,320
Speaker 1: It's gotta take years. But anyway, it just rides along

526
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:32,840
Speaker 1: and takes precise measurements of the alignment of the tracks,

527
00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:36,400
Speaker 1: and anything that's over one point to five inches out

528
00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:38,920
Speaker 1: of alignment, there's a report that's violed and says go

529
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:42,480
Speaker 1: fix that track. And they also, just as an added bonus,

530
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:46,600
Speaker 1: the geometry train finds hot spots using heat centers and

531
00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:50,240
Speaker 1: shoots them with fire extinguishers, Like if there's something flammable

532
00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:53,760
Speaker 1: in the other track, they could uh combust, whether it's

533
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:58,880
Speaker 1: like a Derrito's bag, a cool ranch Derrito's bag, Uh,

534
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:02,000
Speaker 1: any kind of Derrida goes back, Well, the dudes probably

535
00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:05,000
Speaker 1: already toast anyway, if he's on the third rail, he is,

536
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:09,040
Speaker 1: And uh, that's a good reference for a spontaneous combustion podcasts.

537
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 1: In New York City and in many cities, the fair

538
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:15,520
Speaker 1: does not cover the costs of running this massive system

539
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,800
Speaker 1: about half yeah in New York. So um, if you're

540
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:21,960
Speaker 1: complaining about the price of a subway New York, just

541
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 1: remember it could be double yeah if they were to

542
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:28,200
Speaker 1: cover all the costs. So counter blessings new Yorkers. Yeah,

543
00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:31,120
Speaker 1: don't complain to me, and thank New York for big government.

544
00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:38,080
Speaker 1: Do you like the subway? Uh? Tracy points out that

545
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 1: the subways and at least the tunnels over the years

546
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:47,200
Speaker 1: have been the site of refuge and terror. That was

547
00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:50,560
Speaker 1: a great setup, that's true though, Oh yeah it is. Um.

548
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:55,120
Speaker 1: During World War one and two in London and Paris,

549
00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 1: I believe people saw it cover against air raids. Um. Yeah,

550
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:03,480
Speaker 1: in the subways. But world War One I was like,

551
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:07,000
Speaker 1: that's when they were dropping bricks on each other, Like really,

552
00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 1: that's how you would take down a plane. You fly

553
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 1: over another airplane and drop a brick and just go

554
00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:15,160
Speaker 1: right through a wing. And that was that for the plane. Yeah,

555
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 1: I thought they at least had the little tube like

556
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 1: the and it would shoot something like this somewhere mortar,

557
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:24,800
Speaker 1: but that's ground based. That's those are mortars. Yeah, well yeah,

558
00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:27,080
Speaker 1: I guess you would still need to take refuge against

559
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 1: the mortar. Doesn't have to be a plane, and a

560
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 1: mortar comes through an air so yeah, air raid. Do

561
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 1: you want to get technical? But yes, World War two

562
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:41,040
Speaker 1: for sure, during the blitz um of London. There are

563
00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:44,960
Speaker 1: a lot of people underground in the tube seeking help

564
00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 1: and shelter. That's right, as are the mold people. Um,

565
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 1: if you haven't seen the documentary Dark Days Highly recommended,

566
00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:53,920
Speaker 1: is that about the mold people? Or this is like

567
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 1: the theres a. It's a group of homeless people. They

568
00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:58,960
Speaker 1: don't identify themselves as mold mold people as one of

569
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:01,920
Speaker 1: those terms. You know, the people above ground made up,

570
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:06,240
Speaker 1: uh somewhat sensational, But there are people living underground, some

571
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:08,560
Speaker 1: I haven't been up in a long long time. In

572
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:11,080
Speaker 1: this dude made the documentary. I think he actually went

573
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:12,840
Speaker 1: underground and lived there for a couple of years to

574
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:15,720
Speaker 1: do this. Yeah, yeah, so he wasn't like, you know,

575
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:17,840
Speaker 1: I'll be down there for a few hours on Wednesday,

576
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:20,680
Speaker 1: but then I have aybody lost appointment after that, so

577
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:25,320
Speaker 1: I need to get back above ground. Um. And then

578
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:30,440
Speaker 1: everyone remembers the Tokyo sarin gas episode killed twelve people.

579
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 1: Sure that was incredibly frightening. UM London, thousand five seven

580
00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 1: seven it was July seven. Oh yeah, was that significant

581
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 1: or no? That's just how they referred to it, like

582
00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:50,160
Speaker 1: we referred to nine eleven is nine eleven interesting? And

583
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:53,960
Speaker 1: then in our own nine eleven UM it destroyed subway

584
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 1: station and damaged some of the track. I think we

585
00:33:56,640 --> 00:34:00,320
Speaker 1: talked about that in the UM nine eleven memorial. I

586
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 1: think you're right. Didn't they preserve it somehow? Like they're

587
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:06,560
Speaker 1: one of the trains is going to be in the museum.

588
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 1: I think so, because that rang a bell to me.

589
00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:11,319
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hit that up in November as well. Oh man,

590
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:13,239
Speaker 1: I can't wait to go to that. It's gonna be

591
00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:18,040
Speaker 1: something else. UM. Originally you had tickets, then that became coins.

592
00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:22,520
Speaker 1: These days you might have an R F I D ticket. UM.

593
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:24,640
Speaker 1: I think that was. I was in Switzerland. It was

594
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:28,879
Speaker 1: like an honor system thing. Really. Yeah. I remember being

595
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 1: there and looking around like I don't see like where

596
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:34,000
Speaker 1: you put the ticket in or anything. I think it's

597
00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 1: just on our system. It was either Switzerland or Sweden.

598
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:39,319
Speaker 1: I think of Switzerland, and I just remember thinking, these

599
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:43,879
Speaker 1: people are crazy. So you just didn't pay a cent

600
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:46,879
Speaker 1: just to teach them a lesson. Yeah, no, I paid

601
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:51,719
Speaker 1: my fare, so chuck. Train car. If you are a

602
00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 1: train car, how how many axles are you going to

603
00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:58,040
Speaker 1: go through? If you're in New York, if you're part

604
00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:01,160
Speaker 1: of their system in your lifetime, well, you're gonna live

605
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:05,520
Speaker 1: about forty to fifty years. Um, you will go through

606
00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:08,920
Speaker 1: twenty four axles and twenty four motors over the span,

607
00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:12,239
Speaker 1: so that'll be two years. You're gonna get gussied up

608
00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:15,719
Speaker 1: a little. You're gonna get forty eight wheels over that time. Yeah,

609
00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:18,279
Speaker 1: not bad, not at once. And at the end of

610
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:21,200
Speaker 1: your lifespan, they will dumpy in the ocean off the

611
00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:23,959
Speaker 1: coast of South Carolina. Have you seen pictures of that? Yeah? Yeah,

612
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:27,520
Speaker 1: I found a whole little gallery. It's only like ten pictures.

613
00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:32,160
Speaker 1: But um on fast Code design um dot com they

614
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:36,040
Speaker 1: have it's called surreal photos of subway cars being thrown

615
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:38,920
Speaker 1: into the ocean. It is surreal it's really because you

616
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:41,120
Speaker 1: look at that and you're like, no, how could you? Yeah,

617
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:44,839
Speaker 1: and then oh, it's good for the environment somehow, right,

618
00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:47,520
Speaker 1: as long as they take the gas out first in

619
00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:49,879
Speaker 1: the oil. All right. So I got some more little

620
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:53,960
Speaker 1: fun things. Uh. The overhaul and repair shop on Coney

621
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:57,200
Speaker 1: Island is where it all goes down. Um. They have

622
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:02,880
Speaker 1: over one three over five hundred thousand square feet of

623
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:06,279
Speaker 1: shop space. We just counted that fast. Yeah, I just

624
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 1: you know, five thousands wasn't kind of each square foot? Um.

625
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:15,640
Speaker 1: And this is where everything goes to get worked on

626
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:19,799
Speaker 1: in New York. Everything they can even work on regular trains. Um.

627
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:23,279
Speaker 1: They can store eighteen hundred subway cars there. And they

628
00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:30,480
Speaker 1: have a car wash that um subway car wash o business.

629
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:37,359
Speaker 1: It cleans the exteriors of over one thousand cars once

630
00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 1: a week and that's fifty thousand washes in a year.

631
00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:43,839
Speaker 1: It's a lot of washes. Then they just came out

632
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:46,080
Speaker 1: with the new UM survey on the New York subway

633
00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:49,360
Speaker 1: system and the Q line was ranked the number one line.

634
00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:54,600
Speaker 1: Which where is that? I'm not sure? So Q runs

635
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Speaker 1: between Coney Island still all Avenue in Brooklyn and Astoria.

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Speaker 1: Did mize Boulevard and Queens m So in other words,

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Speaker 1: that's the one no one takes. So it's very clean.

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00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:07,719
Speaker 1: It's very clean. And for the fourth year in a row,

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00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:10,719
Speaker 1: the Sea train was ranked as the worst UM. It

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00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:14,960
Speaker 1: failed an all four measures amount of scheduled service delaysed

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Speaker 1: caused by mechanical breakdowns, cleanliness, and announcements UM, whether or

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00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:24,359
Speaker 1: not the announcements like or even something you can hear

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00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:27,560
Speaker 1: makes sense, or whether it's just garbled mess. Get see

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Speaker 1: this is why I can't like, I can't do it

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Speaker 1: by myself. Yeah, well, you certainly don't get any help

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Speaker 1: most of the time from the the conductor. Yeah, driver,

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00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 1: Yeah we should we should know this. I would think conductor,

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Speaker 1: ticket taker, ticket taker. Uh. And then New York ranks

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Speaker 1: number seven and ridership in the world. Uh, Tokyo is first, Moscow, Beijing, Shanghai,

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Speaker 1: soul Ah Quangs. How where's that China is it? I

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00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 1: would imagine, Well, I mean that's a Chinese word. I

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00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 1: just haven't heard of that. Paris, Mexico City in Hong Kong,

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Speaker 1: London is not even in the top ten. And and

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00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:15,880
Speaker 1: that's the number one UM. But you know why, because

655
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 1: World War two happened, and everybody got cars afterwards, and

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00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:22,640
Speaker 1: a lot of subway lines just kind of fell into disrepair,

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00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:27,040
Speaker 1: and like a whole generation was raised without really using subways. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and black cabs are so roomy and private, but not

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Speaker 1: just in London, in UM the in the United States especially.

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Speaker 1: That's true. Yeah, because we talked about the l A

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Speaker 1: H and why the cars become the predominant form of

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00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:44,360
Speaker 1: transportation um number of miles traveled by an average subway

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Speaker 1: car um in between repairs in New York that was

664
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Speaker 1: seven thousand, two thousand, eleven hundred and seventy two. But

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Speaker 1: I think that means they're taking better care of them,

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Speaker 1: not that they're just chirking the responsibilities New York in

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00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:03,840
Speaker 1: two thousand eleven, all the subways combined traveled three hundred

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Speaker 1: forty two million miles, and in total, New York's four

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Speaker 1: hundred sixty eight stations are only sixty fewer than the

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Speaker 1: rest of the subway systems in the United States combined. Wow,

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00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:21,279
Speaker 1: pretty cool. That's my favorite. And end to end they

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00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:23,120
Speaker 1: always have these. If you laid the tracks end to

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Speaker 1: end New York cities would go from New York to Chicago.

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Speaker 1: That's it. I thought for sure something now just New

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Speaker 1: York to Chicago. Yeah, I'm a little disappointed in the

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00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:37,680
Speaker 1: lowest station. If you've ever felt a little weird a

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00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:41,480
Speaker 1: hundred ninety first Street in Manhattan, that's because you are

678
00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:46,600
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty feet below ground. That crazy probably shift.

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00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 1: It ran into a shift problem. The lady to go down.

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00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:52,239
Speaker 1: You should tell people what that is. Well, it's very

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00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:56,720
Speaker 1: hard rock. It's a metamorphic rocks. The flake rather than break,

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Speaker 1: so it's very hard to get through. That's my motto,

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Speaker 1: flake don't break. Right. We came up with like three

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Speaker 1: mottos and catchphrases in this one cut and cover, flake

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Speaker 1: don't break. And I guess don't take the C train?

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Speaker 1: Is that maybe? And the C train is like it's

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Speaker 1: insult to injury because I think the A, C and

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00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:18,480
Speaker 1: E or like the blue line, and the A and

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00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:20,759
Speaker 1: the E are doing pretty well, and the sea is

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00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 1: like the ugly step child. Where is it? Where? Oh,

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00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:25,960
Speaker 1: it goes all over like you can get it down

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Speaker 1: in the West Village and then I believe it goes

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Speaker 1: north and then cuts over somewhere around Midtown, then goes

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Speaker 1: up the East side. I think it doesn't go into Brooklyn.

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Speaker 1: I don't think so, is it the L train? I

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Speaker 1: don't remember. You know more than I do. Man, I

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Speaker 1: just I miss the old and I guess they still

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00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:45,799
Speaker 1: have some, but the old red like the seven train

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00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:48,960
Speaker 1: I remember had those old red trains that look like trains.

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Speaker 1: They didn't look like subways. I don't they look like

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Speaker 1: regular locomotives to me. I like my subways to look

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00:40:55,160 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 1: like subways. Trains should look like trains. Smells like poop gum.

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00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:02,800
Speaker 1: Apparently in New York the gum is so bad and

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00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:05,399
Speaker 1: some that you can lose your shoe. I can see

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00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:09,759
Speaker 1: that you can actually get mired in the gum. Um.

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Speaker 1: Have you got anything else? Give up your seat for

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Speaker 1: the ladies. That's what I gotta say. That's a big one. Um. Yeah,

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00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:20,080
Speaker 1: good going, Chuck. That's a fine ending. If you want

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Speaker 1: to learn more about subway etiquette and the tunnel boring

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00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:26,960
Speaker 1: machine and the cover method, you can type in subways

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Speaker 1: SU beat W A Y S into the search bar

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00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:31,520
Speaker 1: at how stuff works dot com and it'll bring up

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Speaker 1: this fine article by Tracy V. Wilson. Uh. And since

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Speaker 1: I said search bar, it's time for listening to now. Uh,

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00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:45,520
Speaker 1: this one was an anniversary of UM two two young

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00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:48,680
Speaker 1: people in love. Okay, we had something to do with that. Okay,

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00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:51,440
Speaker 1: guys have never written in before. I just thought I

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00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:53,840
Speaker 1: would be appropriate. Uh, seeing as my boyfriend and I

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00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:57,879
Speaker 1: are celebrating our three year anniversary. Is partly due to you, guys.

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Speaker 1: A few years back, Nathan was trying and failing to

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Speaker 1: win over my heart, and then he began striking up

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Speaker 1: conversations about the weirdest things like abandoned cities, blood pressure,

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Speaker 1: and robots. I found this odd at first, but then

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Speaker 1: began to love this quirk of his. It's like she's

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Speaker 1: been in love with us, let's get real. Yeah, but Nathan,

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00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:20,560
Speaker 1: he brought up the blood pressure episode. Well that's what

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Speaker 1: she says, That's what she said. Uh, long story short,

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Speaker 1: he ended up winning me over. Not long ago. I

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00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:32,160
Speaker 1: was poking around his iTunes library. Oh yeah, that's dangerous, uh,

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Speaker 1: and discovered the source of his information YouTube. We both

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Speaker 1: love the show now and sometimes sneak out of our

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00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:41,040
Speaker 1: houses to make spontaneous midnight trips to McDonald's and listen

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Speaker 1: to your show while eating Big Max in the car

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Speaker 1: and young love so sweet like that sweet and terrible

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Speaker 1: for your arteries. Uh. From time to time, I'll make

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Speaker 1: him pancakes for dinner. Uh, and we'll listen. I love

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00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:57,160
Speaker 1: that and we'll listen as we Really, I do all

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Speaker 1: the cooking he does. However, get all agitated when I

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00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:03,399
Speaker 1: where I mentioned that Chuck has a sexy voice. Came

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00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 1: to see him like throwing his pancakes and stuffing around

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Speaker 1: the apartment. Josh is sexy and that is from Monique

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Speaker 1: in California. And um, congratulations Monique and Nathan pancakes for dinner.

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00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:20,880
Speaker 1: It's right. A couple of that listens to s Y

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00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:24,480
Speaker 1: s K together stays together exactly. UM, let's see if

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00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:26,759
Speaker 1: we brought you together. I want to hear about that,

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00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:29,439
Speaker 1: right sure, Um, if we've brought you in a loved

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00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:32,160
Speaker 1: one together or it's strange to you from your family,

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Speaker 1: either way, UM, we want to know about it. You

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Speaker 1: can tweet to us at s Y s K Podcast.

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