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Speaker 1: Past. Good. Well. Hi, it's Buzz Night, the host of

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Speaker 1: the Taking a Walk podcast series, and we're sprouting off

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Speaker 1: a new series of the Taking a Walk podcast series.

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Speaker 1: It's called Taking a Walk with a Perfect Stranger. So

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Speaker 1: we're here in New York City and I'm walking down Broadway. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and what's your name? My name is Lucian. Lucy is saying,

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Speaker 1: it's nice to meet y'all. How's your daygo? Man? My

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Speaker 1: dad's going pretty good. I just started pre college courses

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Speaker 1: at Parsons. I'm an artist and fashion designers, so I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm just really excited, you know, just because I haven't

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Speaker 1: really had this type of opportunity yet. I'm a self

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Speaker 1: taught artist. I'm seventeen years old. I've made good money

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Speaker 1: so far, but it's nice to have. This is a

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Speaker 1: good fucking opportunity like this. That's awesome. You're you from me.

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Speaker 1: I'm from ninety sixth Street. I was adopted at birth.

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Speaker 1: My parents are French and Jewish, so I went to

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Speaker 1: a French school growing up. I left that a couple

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Speaker 1: of years ago. Recently, I was in rehab for five

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Speaker 1: months for weed. Because you know, white immigrant parents, it'd

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Speaker 1: be like that. I just recently got back a couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks ago. I got six months sober. I'm just

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Speaker 1: back on my heart. Shit. You know, I work a

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Speaker 1: raised candy store down on Tonkins as well to save

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Speaker 1: up funds. It's challenging, but I know I'm gonna make

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Speaker 1: it through it. You know. It's awesome. Yeah, we'll see

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Speaker 1: Taking a Walk the regular series where I'm walking with

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Speaker 1: people ahead that I know, you know some people, and

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Speaker 1: then I'm walking with some new friends. But it is

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Speaker 1: about stories of people, you know, finding resilience and finding

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Speaker 1: their way with stuff. So I think it's really great

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Speaker 1: that you're sharing your story. So describe the scene if

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Speaker 1: you can't. Where we're walking right now in the part

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Speaker 1: of New York. We're walking down Broadway downtown between like

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Speaker 1: the Union Square and Soho areas. It's a sunny day

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Speaker 1: and Monday, so it's not too busy. You've got you know,

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Speaker 1: your NYU campuses. We're walking past the Eighth Street station

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Speaker 1: downtown in Brooklyn. There's a pretty city graffiti because you know,

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Speaker 1: it's that type of neighborhood you're not gonna get the

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Speaker 1: good graffiti, gentrified shops. There's an old school McDonald's right there.

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Speaker 1: It's interesting. You know, it's not my favorite spot, but

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Speaker 1: it's a beautiful day and it's not a bad spot either. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I love how you described that. That's a perfect description.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I've walked this area a lot, so I

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Speaker 1: come from originally, I come from Stamford, Connecticut, but are

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Speaker 1: to work in New York actually many years ago, but

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Speaker 1: I come here all the time, and I live outside

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Speaker 1: of Boston right now. But so so when someone comes

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Speaker 1: up to you, though, I think it's so brave with

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Speaker 1: you to be the first person here on the taking

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Speaker 1: a walk with a perfect stranger. You feel pretty cool

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Speaker 1: about that. Shit. I love it, man, I love our,

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Speaker 1: I love creation. I love getting out itself, and I

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Speaker 1: love when people are you know, closed out the assholes

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Speaker 1: or just insecure assholes and they go out of their

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Speaker 1: way to learn about other people and to create because

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Speaker 1: by doing that, not only are you getting out of yourself,

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Speaker 1: but you're expanding yourself as well. Yeah. That's really cool. Good,

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Speaker 1: that's a good lesson. Well I'm gonna leave you in

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Speaker 1: a second, but I thought we would do you like

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Speaker 1: TV trivia for sure? All right, So let's try this

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Speaker 1: one here. I got a couple of them. See how

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Speaker 1: you do on it? Okay, all right on siginf Well,

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Speaker 1: what is Kramer's first name? I'm gonna give you the

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Speaker 1: four choices. A is Cosmo, B is Nico, c as Chuck,

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Speaker 1: and das Brad. I feel like Chuck Kramer sounds made.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I have to watch sun Felt Shuck Kramer.

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Speaker 1: It rolls off the tongue. That's cool. I'm gonna give

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Speaker 1: you the you know, incorrect answer sound effect. The answer

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Speaker 1: is Cosmo Kramer too, Lucien Right, yeah, Hey, it's really

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Speaker 1: nice to meet you. Thanks for taking a walk with

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Speaker 1: a perfect Stranger's nice to use your man. Have a

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Speaker 1: good day.