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Speaker 1 (00:02):
What would you talk about on your on your podcast?
All right, somebody got something I got, I got Jack
shipped to talk about. I think I have an idea. Yes,
go okay. So Diamond obviously needs to be the one
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to tell this story, but she had quite a New
York moment on her way into work today. She said,
a couple recently, and then it made me think of
all of our first New York moments, or maybe the
biggest New York moment. I think we should talk about them.
M hm, okay, Diamond, tell us your story. You're New York,
welcome to New York moment, even though you've been here
for years. I was born and raised in New York, right,
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so you you don't think anything would like top your
expectations of New York and like people being out of control? Um,
but this morning went over like it boiled over in
my car. Couldn't find a park thanks to everyone who
drove to work today and was in the way. Um,
so I had to park like maybe a block away
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from where I usually park around the building, and a
drunk man was just I don't want to use the
word harassed because it sounds a little like super serious,
but yeah, no, he was harassing me. It's like standing
outside of the car yelling, what are you doing? What
are you doing? Then he starts yelling in Spanish and
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I'm like, well, I don't know what he's saying, but
he's very angry. You couldn't figure out what he was saying.
But he was yelling directly at me, and I tried
to turn and he walks around the car to like
yell in my film, like, oh my God, get out
of this car. What am I gonna do? Thankfully Garrett
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came and helped me. This guy was humping her car,
like he I would definitely have your car checked out
for some type of disease or whatever. Like he was
in the front of the car just you know, God. So, yeah,
what did you say to him to get him away?
So I didn't say much. He apparently he calmed down
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as soon as he saw myself and another gentleman that
works with the building approached Diamond, and uh, he he
was just like he. I don't know if he was
yelling at Diamond or he was yelling at Diamond's car.
I think he was trying to have a conversation with
Diamond's car. He was that drunk um and then Diamond
walked back into the building. I took the car to
go park it somewhere else, and all of a sudden,
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he starts helping me get out of the spot. Like
he went from being an aggressor to Diamond to helping
me get out of the parallels. Oh my god, but
you know that is like your stereotypical news, like it
really only does happen in New York to have somebody
harassed me like that, and then all of a sudden
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to flip on a Diamond try and back your car, Like, yeah,
that's I remember when my parents first came to visit,
and my parents grew up in like Erie, Pennsylvania, had
never been in New York City, had never written the subway.
I'm like, hey, let's take the subway up to the
Natural History Museum. So we hop on the subway. And
I had written the subway probably three times before that,
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never really had an incident that was remarkable. So I
told my mom and dam like, hey, it'll be fine,
We'll be great, don't worry. My mom had a person
on like underneath her jacket because she was concerned she
was gonna get mugged. Whatever, so we get on the
subway and then instantly the guy comes on that is
speaking to Jesus. Have you ever had that guy like Jesus,
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I Save us Save and just as loud as can
be and just speaking in tongues, and I might looked
to my mom and dad, I'm like, Okay, it's real simple,
We'll just change cars when we get to the next stop.
So we get to the next stop and we change cars,
and then this other woman comes in totally unrelated to
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the other guy, who proceeds to then um start like
going through her bag and changing her clothes, like taking
her shirt off, and I'm like, like, you know, just
full on disrobing in the like in front of my mom,
who's horrified at this point, and I'm just like, you
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can't fucking win Man, New York City. And nothing particularly
phases me anymore. But I only have two memories of weird,
like really weird things, both involving trains. One on the
subway where there was a woman taking a dump in
the corner. As I was getting on the train, I
was like, why did I get into this car? And
like three years ago, I was coming up the stairs
at Penn Station and there was a dude completely naked
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laying on the steps masturbating, and I mean the steps
were crowded. There were seventy people walking up the steps
and he and it like it was nothing and no
one cared. What you see last week? Why don't see
it last week outside the cad Oh the cab driver
taking a dump on the sidewalker. I'm saying that too,
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that's crazy. Why would I think? I don't understand if
he pulled over in front of the hotel on the
corner down there, pulled his pants down, and I was like,
I was at the red lineer, what is he doing?
Maybe he could wait? But why did he go into
the hotel? Maybe so wait? I don't know. The one
time I saw a woman taking a dump and peeing
in the middle of the street. She was yelling. First,
she was saying take a picture, and all last longer.
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Then she said, you don't want to let me in
your establishment to do my ship. I do my ship outside.
So I was like, okay, wow, how big daddy of her?
On behalf of the New York City Tourism Board, I'd
like to say, please come here. I saw some footage
last week from one of our friends Astra. She has
video of a guy pulling his put in broad daylight,
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is sitting on the hood of a car and just
going back and forth in the middle of Times Square
where there are people in the middle of This all
happened while broad I was closed. Now the broadways open again,
we should be fine. Yeah. I was on the path
one day and there was a guy. He had on
kind of like a thick coat, but there was an
actual needle, like a like a heroine needle sticking out
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of the coat. So I was like, hey, you have
like something jabbed your coat. He looked at me, cracked
out and goes, I'm saving that ship for later, that
needle stuck in your coat. Alright over. I had my
first moment the first semester in turning here because I
was walking to the bus stop and someone came up
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to me and licked my cheek. He licked up the
side of my face, and when I said, what the hell,
he goes that's how I say, hello, Oh my gosh,
did you get tested for all sorts of stuff? I
said to my dad and he like looked into my eyes,
he goes, you're fine. Danielle didn't scary lick your cheek ones, No,
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he licked my neck. That didn't somehow. Yeah, I threw
ship at his head there. But when I first went
into New York, I think I took the bus there
when I was younger, and I remember a guy as
soon as I got off the bus, he stuck his
face in the middle of my chest and he goes, wow,
look at those watermelons. And I was like, okay, this
is I'm getting back on the bus. I'm not gonna
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happen these stories. You are totally entitled to just punch
that person. I think you're in shock though a lot
of times, and you just don't know what to do.
You're like, what, right. Well, I remember one time I
was walking across the street. I was going I think
we had an event in Madison Square Garden or something,
and I'm walking on, like crossing thirty second Street, and
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the light changed, so then all this flood of people
crosses from both sides. As I'm halfway across the street.
This old woman is seriously old woman, probably in her seventies,
gray hair, carrying a bag with yarn in it. If
he gets down with a crouching stance like this, it
goes it punches me to punch me in the nuts.
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I'm moving to the side quick enough that she punches
my thigh and I'm like, what the But it was
seriously one of these moments where you're like, did that
just fucking happen. It's the sound effect that has moved
you know. She was walking up and down the street
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looking at crotches and going, this is the one that
really annoys crotch. I mean, it's New York. Nobody gives
a ship like. People just kept walking and I'm like,
do I hite this woman? And I just like, I
feel like, if you spend time in New York, you
gotta do what my dad used to tell me about softball.
He said, when you're on the field, you have to
know what you do with the ball before it comes
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to you. Always have it in mine, so you have
to line up. You're okay. Next time I get almost
who odd in the nuts or someone tries to lick
my face, but turn around and punch them. Never in
my life did I think Mrs Doubtfire would try and
punch me in the balls. And I got a guy
getting off the path train one day and I was
just standing to wait waiting to get on and he
pinched my cheeks. I think I told you guys about this.
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He pinched my cheeks, like both of them, right in
his hands, and he was like, chubby cheeks, love them
and just kept going And I was like, he didn't
really assault me, but he grabbed my face. Yeah, she
does have cute cheeks. Though, you can't blame the guy.
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In all of your time coming to New York City
when you would come up to visit, did anything like
that happen? No? And that's I feel very left out now.
I felt like I still need to have that experience.
I've never seen anybody take a ship or jerk off.
I've never had anybody punched me in the balls walking
across thirty seconds street. Nothing. Nobody ever put their face
in my chest and staid nice or even leaves it
for that fact. Nobody put their face and said nice watermelons. Nothing,
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that's crazy. Do you want us to arrange this next
time you visit? Like we could go on Craigslist and
find a nut puncher for you. I feel very left
out and very Unnew York. But isn't it still so
funny that all of us have these new York stories
and the craziest headlines still come out of Florida. There's
too much of this ship that comes out of New York.
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I mean, for any of these stories, which would be
a headline eat Erie Pennsylvania, this ship happens, It's happening
right now. How are the people on the crutches like
that are begging for money? And then when the light turns.
I've seen them tuck the crutches underneath their armpits and
run to the next so that they can And I'm
just like, what, wait a minute, the amount of money
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I have given I should own a basketball team somewhere
in the Tristate area. Yea, I'm always have a New
York story? Or does he not venture into the city often?
He was the woman, Yeah, but I will the next
time I see you know, I'm from the city, so
everything seems normal to me, Like all this stuff is
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a guy laying on the subway steps jerking off in
the corners. It wouldn't it wouldn't phaze me. It just
it's like, Okay, it's New York. This fifteen million people
in the area. It doesn't it's just used to it.
It's like it's like froggy when when one of your
friends marries his cousin, it doesn't face you. No, I
still think it's wrong. No, No, I still think I don't.
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I don't think they should be because like crazy stuff
happening outside the window, everybody, even the guys who are
born and raised in New York, New Jersey, runs to
the window to see what's happening. Those people are just Okay,
I've got something here, so let us. I want you
to each give your subway tip. Like when you're writing
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the subway, what is one thing that you always do?
So one thing that I do? Okay, all right, hang on,
as soon as I step into the car, I take
a big sniff, take a bait, like if you're no seriously,
because everyone's in a while. You'll get in there and
there's human excrements. You never seen that? Are you kidding me?
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You're talking about the ones that are on people already
or on the floor, on the floor. I have seen
that more times than I care to count, because there
would be times where I just get into a car
because I'm like, I just gotta standing here, and then
two seconds later the doors closing on what's that smell?
And then you see a pilot ship. So if you're
taking the New York City subway, take a big sniff
as you're walking in, because you do have a chance
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to go to that next car, the number two, number
two train number two. I mean, mine simple, just don't
fall asleep ever. I I did it when I was
in high school. I woke up. I was coming from
the garden, supposed to get off at one of the
last stops in New York City to get back home
into Staten Island. Fell asleep, woke up in Brooklyn. And
when you don't know the train system, waking up in
Brooklyn is kind of scary because you're like, where the
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hell am I? So don't fall asleep. My tip is
don't sit under the map because people are gonna be
in your face staring at the stops unless you like that,
unless you like they're gonna have their dicks in the
subway is usually like right, if you're sitting down, it's
like here and above, and then people are gonna have
to come up to you if they're looking where they're going.
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Don't sit near the map. Mine is mine is don't
touch the pole. So whether no matter what happens, get
those calf those uh thigh muscles in shape, and do
not touch the poll because the jers on the pole
I can't even imagine. You don't look at anyone in
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the eye either, yea yourself. Keep reading the signs above,
Just keep reading them over and over again. My tip
is take a screenshot on your phone of the New
York City subway map, and this way you have it
on your phone, you don't have to go over to
the seat where somebody's gonna hate you for staring at
the map like scary pointed out thing on your phone,
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so that you can always look and see where you
are and what stop you're at. See I have bit
your resting face. Normally I understand that, but if I'm
on the subway alone, I intensify it so much because
I want everyone to think that I'm really mean and scary.
I feel like I get bothered less. Mine is more.
Somebody told me this when I first came here, and
I just stick to it all the time. Never ever,
especially if you are a woman, get into a car
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where nobody else is in it, and if everybody gets off,
you get off too, and you wait for the next
turn to come by with people in the actual car,
because that's when the weird stuff goes down when you're
alone in a subway car. So I just texit if
I have to. Yeah, if I'm always nervous when I
see that door open, when the trains moving between stations
and then somebody comes from another car, which you're not
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supposed to do. Yes, like, what's going to happen now?
And it's not. I always think like, oh, maybe it's
going to be like a surprise performance from the Jonas Brothers.
But too much challenge to challenge, much too much late night.
Those dancers are always so talented, but smell like death.
I really it has. Bernie said, Please come to New York.
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It's great here for the subway. Don't buy the candy.
An words from you Diamond on riding the New York
City subway. Um, get on with your headphones on, but
don't play the music so people won't talk to you,
but you'll be able to hear every smart Uh. This
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