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It's the Sound of Young America, I'm Jesse Thorn, this week on the program comedian John

Malaney. Before we get to the interview, here's a selection from his brand new CD called The Top

Part. I've lived in New York City now for a few years and I have a new phenomenon in my life

where late at night on the street, women will see me as a threat. That is funny, yeah.

That is silly. It's weird too because like I'm still afraid of being kidnapped.

But I'll give you the best example of this. A couple of months ago, I was at a subway station

at two o'clock in the morning. I'm changing between trains two o'clock in the morning and at this

subway station, you have to walk down this long hallway in order to change trains. So it's two o'clock

in the morning. It's just me and this woman and we're walking down the hallway. She's walking a

few yards ahead of me. But she keeps giving me the over the shoulder like that. Then she starts

to pick up the pace. She starts to walk a lot faster. So I think, oh, she must hear

the train coming. Or maybe she feels it in her feet like a Native American in a movie.

So I start to sprint down the hallway at her and she looks back and she's like,

and then she gives chase. So now we're booking it down the corridor at two o'clock in the morning

and I'm gaining on her. I'm gaining on her and we're getting to the end of the hallway

and she starts to go into that like dead end to shuffle, you know, that women do when you chase

them and I'm almost there. I'm almost at her and then it dawns on me. Oh, she's running from me.

It's the sound of young America. I'm Jesse Thorn. My guest on the program is comedian and writer

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