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The Long Island Railroad and Adam Sandler Sighting
from Babies in a Volcano · #53
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
2 minTim tells a story about a family on the Jamaica LIRR train, riffs on his dad explaining transvestites as a kid, and imagines a conductor snapping after a passenger brags about seeing Adam Sandler at the airport.
- 1:41Tim describes riding the Long Island Railroad from Jamaica, where families from South Carolina board heading into New York City.
- 1:53Nostalgia for when New York was wilder — Tim recalls transvestites fighting in the Village when he was a kid.
- 2:16His father called them 'shims' thinking he was being progressive without realizing the term itself.
- 2:31A South Carolina father tells the conductor he saw Adam Sandler at the airport from Saturday Night Live.
- 2:47Tim fantasizes about the conductor shooting the father for making such a mundane observation.
- 3:03The sighting genuinely cheered up the South Carolina father, which frustrates Tim.
- 3:14Tim role-plays what would happen if someone actually saw him in the airport — they'd just walk by without acknowledging him.
- 3:28He expresses feeling insignificant compared to Adam Sandler in this hypothetical encounter.
- 3:39Tim transitions to confessing something he's actually ashamed of.