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.

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

I'm Anna Seale.

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.

That would include the New York City subway, the air train at Norfolk Liberty International

Airport, and for anybody who's down in South Jersey or Philadelphia, it would be on Petco.

They would hear me making announcements or my disembodied voice at least, making announcements

in those places.

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.

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