Episode 20: G.P.S. for Drunks, and Coming Home to Serbia

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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4.2 • 6.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2016

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week: A Manhattan bartender, prizefighter, and onetime bank robber returns to his ancestral mansion in Serbia; Michael Friedman brings us a new song written from the campaign trail; and a devastating play tackles rape culture.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the New Yorker Radio Hour.
0:06.0	How do I get out of here?
0:09.2	I can help you with that.
0:11.8	Stumble downstairs.
0:13.4	In 20 feet, a cluster of smokers will be on your right.
0:19.0	You will not feel like saying goodbye to more people so continue walking with your head
0:24.6	down because if your head is down you are invisible and therefore not rude as you exit carry
0:34.0	your jacket because you are warm from alcohol and too lazy to do all that complicated stuff with your arms.
0:43.1	Begin walking in the general direction in which you feel the subway station may be situated.
0:51.0	In 100 feet, pull your phone out to look at a map.
0:56.4	Make a slight detour to scroll through Twitter while standing in the middle of the sidewalk.
1:05.4	Forget why you took your phone out.
1:08.2	Continue walking.
1:10.5	Depending on traffic, yield to crowds of other drunk people.
1:14.9	They are different from you in tighter skirts and higher heels. But in another sense, they are the same.
1:21.0	You're all just trying to squeeze as much experience out of your youth as possible.
1:26.8	In a sense, you're all just sailors on the sea of...
1:30.3	Oh, one of them is throwing up.
1:33.8	Fear right.
1:37.4	In 500 feet, turn left into a bodega
1:41.1	and proceed to wander aimlessly through the aisles for ten minutes.
1:46.8	Pause to make prolonged eye contact with a bodega cat.
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