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🗓️ 13 August 2020
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Writer and podcast host, David Sims joins gabrus to talk about a strong shared fascination with the NYC subway system.
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0:00.0 | What's up, shitheads! Welcome back to another episode of High In Mighty! It's me, your boy! The number one fuckboy! The number one fuckboy! |
0:20.0 | Oh, brother! It's me, Johnny G, the number one fuckboy! Who's currently remembering that his wife is on an actually important video chat for work, and my neighbors have previously mentioned to me that they've heard me screaming or able to Google the name of my podcast, because I say it so fucking loud! |
0:39.0 | John Capress also joining me in the High In Mighty Studios, my nearly silent co-host Arthur, Capress Arthur, give him a shout out, no shout out from Arthur. Also joining me in the High In Mighty Studios, I've been on his podcast number of times. I feel awful that he hasn't been on mine yet, but he's here now, he's a voice in my ears during the quarantine, and now he's a voice in yours. Guys, it's from blank check podcast, Steph writer for the Atlantic, all the way from Mary Old England, David L. Sims! |
1:09.0 | That's right, David Sims coming in your ears from Mary Old England! |
1:14.0 | I think... |
1:17.0 | Yesterday, one of my neighbors was like, hey, do you host a podcast at your house? And I was like, and this is on Zoom, and I'm like, oh yeah! |
1:25.0 | So now I close my windows and blast the AC rather than a window. What a question, I hope no one, another of my neighbors, never asked me, oh hey, do you host a podcast? |
1:35.0 | I don't want to be thought of as the noise I'm making. Completed about music or sex noise, don't complain about like, hey, I'm hearing some loud hosting. |
1:45.0 | Well, the humiliating thing is he's like, yes, so then I Googled High In Mighty, and I'm actually friends with Amir. That's so weird. Now I'm like, fuck, people can hear me enough that they could determine what I'm saying. I bet it's just the fucking windows. |
1:59.0 | Damn, that is my old... Well, hey, whatever, at least now maybe he's listening now. I don't know, maybe you made another fan. |
2:09.0 | Yeah, fingers crossed. Well, if that's the case, that's my grassroots marketing, is hopefully I just eventually enough neighbors sign up to listen to my podcast. |
2:21.0 | If you just yell loud enough, like your whole block can be patrons. Fingers crossed. Slow but steady rising as I keep moving like the budget for my marketing is just like getting new apartments every week. |
2:35.0 | Right, right. You're like a virus. You just go buck by buck. This is how you get more listeners, trust me. I'm going to super spread our events and screaming fuck boy in people's faces. |
2:49.0 | David, we have a lot in common, but one of the things when we were talking about what we wanted to maybe speak about on this pod, you mentioned your love of the New York City subway system, which is something that I'm a huge fan of too. |
3:03.0 | Yeah, as movie guys, as movie guys, we're used to being fans of things that let us down frequently as well. That's true. That's true. |
3:12.0 | So that I will say the New York subway system is I'm a complicated fan of it. It's hard not to be it's hard to be just, yeah, it's true. But no, I just I was just thinking through like, you know, whatever my very and like this was the first one like this was my first before I even remember as a little child because I grew up in New York City when I was a little kid. |
3:37.0 | My first thing that I liked was like the subway map and learning how the subway worked and making my parents in like 1990 take me on the J train, you know, because I was like, well, I haven't been on the J train yet my parents being like, it's kind of like an intense one and like making you know, like just sort of try, I think trying like they would take me on every darn subway train that they could find and try to sort of like shield little three year old David from, you know, |
4:06.0 | you know, the folks on the train who maybe would be like a little more intense for a little kid. Right. I don't know how else to put this. I mean, the New York subway used to be just a little hairier than it is now. |
4:19.0 | Yeah, yeah, it used to be a little more lawless, a little like sort of like you were out on your own sometimes on those. The J train was my train for like a year when I lived in Williamsburg because I lived in South Williamsburg. |
4:33.0 | Sure. L train was always down and to commute into the city, I would take the J to the L of the J train. Sure. Yeah, you go to Essex Street. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But the fuck and I would remember being like to my co-workers at VH1, they're like, you ride the J train? I'm like, yeah, they're like, where do you live? I'm like, yeah, it's kind of hard to I live at South Forth in Bedford. Like, yeah, man. |
4:54.0 | Oh man. You know, that's exactly where there was supposed to be a station right there. That's why West Forth Street is called West Forth Street. Did you know that? I'm full of these kinds of facts. Wait, the West Forth in Manhattan is called West Forth because there was supposed to be a South Forth. Right. Because you know, no other subway station is like West or you know, even though New York has those addresses, they don't the subway stations don't signify like a West East usually. Yeah. West Forth Street is called West Forth Street. Like sort of oddly. |
5:23.0 | And so the reason for that is there was supposed to be a South Forth Street station as part of like a big expansion that never happened that the shell is there there's this an abandoned station shell buried in Williamsburg on South Forth Street that never got used. Holy shit. I had no idea. That was my first apartment. Right. And there's those kind of like urban adventured types who like, you know, they know how to like break in and run around in there. Yeah. I remember reading an article about like some dudes that were like, like, I'm trying to get a shot at the station. They had like some sort of, like, I just want to get a shot and say, yeah, that's what it is. Yeah. I mean, it's like a lot of people, but it's like a lot of people that are like, you know, like they're like we're like, they're like, you know, like, they're like, they're like, we're like, they're like, you know, they're |
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