True Stories, with me, Mike Bannett, and the star of the show, You.

This episode of True Stories contains content that is, I feel, unsuitable for young listeners,

so listener discretion is advised.

Hello, listen. listener discretion is advised.

Hello listeners and welcome back to true stories. The podcast where I take a back seat and leave the storytelling to members of my audience at patreon.com.

Stories that are, well, there's a pretty broad remit as to content.

The most important thing is that they're entertaining and true, just like our story today.

But before we get to that, I just want to say, do be sure to stick around after the story

because I have some good news for any fans of the Underwood and

flinch podcast and so to our true story which takes place in New York City. That's a bad, that's a... that's a...

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Well, anyway.

That's that's a bad rendition of a 70s tune new york so

so good they named it twice you probably know that though if you're of a certain age

anyway sorry I'll get back on to this.

Our story. I first met our storyteller today. Mike met many years ago, back in 2010,

when my wife and I went to New York for a brief holiday visit to see

the city obviously and some friends but also to meet up with some of my listeners, you know, for a meet and greet, and one of them was

Mike who was at that time working in the New York City subway in a job he'll tell you more about in a moment but while we were there he was

kind enough to take my wife Pauling and me on a guided tour of some of the hidden

and really rather creepy places in the underground subway network.

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