Gabe Whaley
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143 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 30 Sep
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We had to put it in the right place.
Does it go outside our studio in Brooklyn?
Do we put it in Times Square?
My colleagues and I conferred for a little bit, and we realized there's only one place that this thing can ever go.
It's Art Basel, Miami.
So we take it to Miami.
Somehow we get our way into a gallery and we get into a booth.
And on day one, people were actually a little bit hesitant to engage, which I totally get it.
It's a little bit shady.
It's a particip story, I understand.
But eventually, people would muster up the courage to swipe their card.
They would clock in at like $100 in their bank account balance, maybe $1,200 in their bank account balance.
By the end of the day, however, someone ended up swiping and clocked in at $12,000 in their bank account balance.
And then things started to get a little bit weird.
The next day, a famous celebrity DJ named Diplo showed up with his entire entourage, pulled out his debit card, swiped it in the machine, clocked in at $3 million in his bank account, and shot to the top of the leaderboard.
And honestly, like, the rest is kind of hazy because a crowd amassed so huge around the ATM machine for the following three days that the art fair actually assigned five extra security guards
Not to protect the ATM machine, but to keep the crowd from bumping into the artworks of the neighboring galleries, which was actually very funny.
But the most interesting thing that I got to observe here was this unexpected crowd dynamic where when people with astonishingly low bank accounts would swipe their cards in front of this captive audience, by the way, and I'm talking really low, like $2, like concerningly low.
They would swipe, they would get ranked at the bottom, and then they would turn around to face the audience, and the audience would lose their minds.
Like, they were cheering and screaming and celebrating and clapping and taking pictures, and it was sincere.
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