Armchair Anonymous: Public Transit
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Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to Armchair Expert early and ad-free right now. Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. Or you can listen for free wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Anonymous. I'm Dax Shepard and I'm joined by Monica Padman. Hi. Today is crazy public transit stories. And let me just glance about these. Yeah. Well, I'll tell you, subways are hot spots for action.
They sure are. There's a lot that goes down on those public transports.
Yeah. Yeah. I'll tell you, it made me want to use more public transportation.
I could see that.
Yeah.
You got to get on the bus.
I'm missing out on a lot of stories.
Yeah. One was like, okay, I'll just, yeah, forget it.
One was wild, right? One almost made you throw up.
Oh, God. Oh, God. Yeah, there's a pretty, there's a hard to listen to one in here. Don't listen.
Don't listen. All right.
Bye.
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Hard times come and go
Hello. Hi.
What fake name do you want?
I'm going to go by Jess on behalf of my coworker, who's also a huge armchair fan. I told her I would use her name as my fake name.
Okay, great.
Aw, shout out Jess.
Where are you?
I'm currently in Baltimore, Maryland, sitting in the lactation room of my office. Oh, wow. It has a little fridge in here, a microwave, and a couch.
Netflix? They ought to put Netflix in there.
They do want you to bring your laptop in and probably continue working, but I guess you could probably sneak in a little bit of watching time.
No one's going to enter the lactation room, that's for sure. That's a safe place.
When I worked at the front desk at SoulCycle, sometimes there was an afternoon shift and there were breaks between the classes. And sometimes I would watch TV on the computer.
Oh, yeah. That's fine.
Is it fine? Yeah, that's natural. Right, Jess? I've never admitted that.
People watch TV at work, I think.
Hmm. I'm not going to rat out anybody I work with.
Okay, so you have a public transit story.
Yes, so it actually takes place in Madrid.
Oh, great.
This was when I was 16 years old. I was a junior in high school. It was around 2015. One of the things that my high school offered was a trip to the respective country in which you've been learning the language of. So they had Italy, France... and Spain offered to the students that were taking those languages. For me, I had been taking Spanish since kindergarten. At the time, I was really sharp with it. I wish I still was, but that was an awesome opportunity and I was really lucky because it was an extra cost and my parents offered to pay to let me go. On the trip, it was 40 Spanish students and then there was three chaperones. So there was two Spanish teachers that tagged along and then one PE teacher from one of the schools in the district.
Who got a free trip to Spain.
Yeah, I guess. I think you'll learn later why he was important for the story. I was 16. I didn't really have any spending money of my own and my parents had paid for me to go on the trip. So additionally, they gave me some spending money. My mom set me up with my first ever debit card she put like 150 us dollars on that and then my mom also got out 150 euro cash for me but one of the things my mom really emphasized was that there's a lot of pickpockets in europe just be careful be aware of your surroundings make sure you keep your money like in your front pocket somewhere close to your body and i was like yeah yeah whatever and
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