I think it was my imagination that really drove me and helped me survive because I would imagine being a girl and then later on being a woman.

That was how I let off the pressure to live this life that I had to live, but at the same time, not deny the way I felt.

This is death, sex, and money.

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot, and we need to talk about more.

I'm going to see.

If you live in the New York City metro area, you might recognize Bernie Wagon Blast's voice.

Right now, the primary way that I show up in people's daily lives

is on transportation. And that would include the New York City subway, the air train at Newark

Liberty International Airport. And for anybody who's down in South Jersey or Philadelphia, it would be on

Patco. So they would hear me making announcements, or my disembodied voice, at least,

making announcements in those places.

Oh, that's interesting, that distinction between you and my disembodied voice. Does that

feel separate? Well, especially on the New York City subway, it feels a bit separate.

It sounds very staccato in terms of how it's presented, because it's a computer putting together all these little words and phrases that I recorded and trying to make a sentence.

So it would sound something like, the next, downtown, number one, will arrive in one minute.

I know that.

That was amazing.

So that is kind of disembodied when I hear it.

In fact, I was a little bit early, and I actually ducked down into a nearby subway station just to hear how it's sounding these days.

Oh, what did you think?

Well, it sounded fine. It was a little bit loud, I thought.

But you kind of have to be loud in New York to be heard over all the other noise.

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