Subway dancers should be employed by the MTA. Ft. Olivia Carter
Summary
Olivia Carter thinks subway dancers should be on the MTA payroll. She's watched hardened men smile at their performances and believes they're the most talented thing to happen to a subway car. Kareem disagrees about safety. He's felt threatened by kicks coming dangerously close to his face. The conversation spirals into bean dipping (apparently jiggling someone's poop), salary negotiations where Olivia confuses three figures with six figures, and an impromptu dance attempt. She's not a numbers girl, she clarifies, she's a big ideas girl. Both agree the performers deserve fair wages and that showtime dancers are iconic to New York culture, even if Olivia initially suggests paying them $900 a year before correcting to $100,000.
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So, what's your take? Subway dancers should be employed by the MTA.
100% agree. I like them. They're talented. They're delightful. They're the best thing to happen to a subway car. No offense to you in your show. It's okay.
I wish they were here now. There's less of them.
Yeah, because they're not making enough money on the subway. I think part of it is like people really like it, but they are so scrapped for cash right now that they don't give the money. So, you have to sort of watch them like this.
Yeah, cuz if you watch them like this, then you owe them a lot of money. Yeah. So, you have to like sort of like act like you don't like it. But, everyone likes it. I've seen a hardened man smile at them on the subway.
I felt unsafe many times when they were dancing.
Really?
I mean, have you stood? No. I would sit down and watch them. I watch. Don't touch my nose.
I'm not going to. I'm saying it's other men that make me uncomfortable on the subway. I'm not going to touch your nose. I'm saying the foot, the foot comes this close.
But they're not going to hit you in the face. You don't know. I think that they would hit someone in the face if they like needed it. Like if someone like bean dipped me or something on the subway.
Wait, what? Bean dipping is when you jiggle someone's poop.
I've never heard of that. Yeah, you jiggle someone's poop.
Who does that?
Have you ever tried the subway dance? No. Do you want to try it? I'll hold your microphone.
No, you can try it. Okay, that's pretty good.
Yeah, leave a tip, you guys. I think that all the people working in the subway to provide entertainment for us commuters—
Yes. —should all be employed.
The subway dancers specifically, I think, are so iconic to like New York culture and we have to like preserve the culture.
Yeah. And employ them to do it more.
What's the salary? I don't know. I'm not a numbers girl. I'm a big ideas girl. It's a fair wage. Three figures.
Is that too much? No, that's too little.
Wait, three figures? That's six numbers. Three figures is three numbers.
The highest three figure salary is $900. Can I say that one more time? I'd like to do six figures.
Okay, that's 100 comma 0000. Correct.
Right. Showtime.
Showtime.