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Every once in a while, Paul, the subway will still surprise me. Oh, yeah. I didn't think that was possible. I've lived here so long. I thought I'd seen literally anything you could see on the subway. Yeah. But I saw something that I just, and it was funny, it's something that's always been there. Yeah. I had just simply never seen it before. I was riding my local train.

Yeah.

Going uptown as one does.

And there's a stop where I was on the first car.

And at the beginning of the track, there is a door.

Yeah.

Right?

That, like, leads into, like, God knows what, Narnia.

Narnia.

Yep.

Exactly. Took the words right out of my mouth. It's like the train to the Hogwarts or whatever. It's where you get to the mole people. Right. And like that's not unusual. I've seen that before. Okay. I've seen like a door in the middle of the subway track. What I had never seen before was a peephole on a door on the subway track. The kind that you have like a regular

New York City, like an old-timey apartment, as though someone was living there and was like,

hang on, I got to see if that's my pizza delivery. No, it's someone, it's someone like asking for

money. Never mind. Never mind. What is that for? That's got to be like some kind of shelter, right? Like a bomb shelter? Oh, maybe. Did you see the thing? Someone was doing this online about like the buildings that are fake buildings that actually exhausts for the subway that I've never heard it before until like this past six months or something like that. Yes, I follow that same guy on Instagram.

I know you're talking about.

He's a New York historian and he's amazing. Yeah, there's just apartment buildings that they built in New York that are fake apartment buildings. And they're just an exhaust system for the subway. It was on parks. No, it was in Brooklyn Heights. Yeah. What you're talking about. Yes. warning for this episode.

It's going to be so much elitist East Coast content.

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