The Sordid Story Behind a Piece of Public Art
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🗓️ 17 November 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Ever wonder who made those cute little metal statues at the 8th Avenue ACE/L subway stop? Turns out it was a dog murderer named Tom Otterness. Tracie found out all about him. Plus, we catch up with Katie Price and Harvey, get Madonna gossip from the book No Crying in Baseball: The Inside Story of A League of Their Own, and listen to Barbra Streisand list off the things she keeps in her purse, from the audio version of her new memoir, My Name Is Barbra.
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| 0:00.0 | One two three |
| 0:03.1 | three. I was. I was researching a fun fact and then a story unfolded. Wow I love that happens. |
| 0:18.8 | Yeah. Okay so you know those little iron I I think they're iron, those like little sculptures at the 14th |
| 0:26.7 | Street 8th Avenue. Yeah, they're the little people carrying money bags and subway. |
| 0:31.4 | They're subway, they're like anthropomorphized subway |
| 0:33.9 | tokens right but like a monopoly hat I think they're cute I always thought they were |
| 0:38.0 | cute there's one that's like looks like a a sewer cat is lifting and an alligator is coming out like biting one of them |
| 0:45.0 | and they're playful and I just think they're funny and cute so I was like I wonder who did |
| 0:49.4 | those yeah I had to take the subway recently which I rarely ever do. |
| 0:54.0 | Right. |
| 0:55.0 | So it's this guy named Tom Otterness. |
| 0:57.0 | Uh-huh. |
| 0:58.0 | Like around my parents age, he's from Kansas. |
| 1:00.0 | He is one of the most prolific public artists ever. He has made millions of |
| 1:05.8 | dollars doing this stuff. The name of that piece or those pieces, whatever, that |
| 1:11.2 | installation is called Life Underground. |
| 1:14.0 | He has works all over the city, all over America, all over the world, and so he's become very, very |
| 1:20.2 | wealthy doing this. |
| 1:21.4 | He even did a balloon for the the Macy's |
| 1:24.0 | Thanksgiving Day parade before. In this style or? No he did a balloon. Yeah but |
| 1:29.4 | what was the balloon of? Oh sorry, Humpty Dumpty. He's and he's upside down. I wonder if they still use it. |
| 1:35.4 | I feel like I've seen that Humpty Dumpty. Me too. Absolutely I've seen it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He has |
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