Alison wants to know if you are going to take the 'bucks.
- Wendy: how do people in new york feel about that "Empire State" song by Jay-Z?
- Alison: mostly I hear negative reactions to it
- Wendy: I feel like if someone wrote a song about LA, I'd be like, cool it
- Alison: and by that I mean I read negative reactions on twitter
- Wendy: of COURSE you love New York. you're a fucking billionaire
- Alison: yeah
- Wendy: you can buy a taxi and drive it around central park. right? that's what people do in new york?
- Alison: that's the dream, yes. to own your own taxi
- Wendy: young broadway dancers say, "someday i'll buy a taxi and drive it around central park!"
- Alison: it's what so many songs are about
- Wendy: then i'll buy a subway car and ride it to see the statue of liberty with rudolph giuliani! and the musical "Cats."
- Alison: I'm going to one day own my own subway car and then I'll charge exorbitant rates to give people rides. I"ll be like Daddy Warbucks. if he had anything to do with subways
- Wendy: he did
- Alison: I suspected he did
- Wendy: that's why they call subways "warbucks"
- Alison: Ah! I never made the connection before
- Wendy: there you go
- Alison: when I'm in a rush I just say I"m going to take the 'bucks
- Wendy: yes. you do say that
- Alison: like are you going to call a friend who owns a cab or are you going to take the 'bucks
