Aviva de Kornfeld

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82 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 19 Jul

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This American Life · 892: Trapped on a Bus · 19 Jul 2026 podcast

So the first thing they try to do is reason with the bus driver, reassert the normal facts and rules for the bus ride.

Duck said that two guys went up to him at the front of the bus and said, man to man, we're going to Union Station.

He said, no, we're not.

Didn't work.

After that, someone notices that he has a French accent and thinks like, oh, maybe this is a language barrier issue.

So they start talking to him in French and then end up arguing with him in French.

And then it becomes very clear it is not a language barrier issue.

And then Duck just starts firing off post after post and you can feel things escalating, like as you're reading the thread.

And it's like first the bus company is trying to call the driver and he's not answering.

And then someone pulls up Waze and sees that they're going 20 miles over the speed limit.

And then someone gets the bus company on speakerphone and is walking it up to the front of the bus.

And then Duck could actually hear the bus company guy yelling, you're going to Union Station to the bus driver.

And then he screams in response that he doesn't get paid enough and is refusing.

Wow.

And then, you know, person after person, each kind of feels like they're going to be the hero who convinces the bus driver to get back on track.

And so each person, like, takes their phone with the company reps on speakerphone to the bus driver.

And then in response, he just grabs them and hangs up.

Well, so then that is the next thing that people are thinking about doing.

So while a couple passengers are in the front of the bus fighting with the driver, the rest of the people in the back of the bus are debating whether or not to call the police because like half the bus is thinking this is actually just going to agitate him further and that feels dangerous.

And the other half are like, well, the bus company can't help us.

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