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Sep 23, 2026
Tom HamlettHOST
Like, New Yorkers who can tell you, like, what used to be on that corner, how much a pizza slice used to be, what the subway was like back in my day.
Tom HamlettHOST
I will say to back in my day one thing about New York, is I am of an era of New York where MetroCards were a thing, because now MetroCards are gone, which is crazy, and I was living in New York when the subway was $1.75.
Tom HamlettHOST
It is now $3.
Tom HamlettHOST
It is now $3.
Meg MansellHOST
And Miss Rachel gave her take on the viral YouTube channel.
Meg MansellHOST
Have you seen this? Subway takes? You sit on the subway, you hold a MetroCard and he asks you, a celebrity, usually for their hot take, which is what Miss Rachel's done.
Meg MansellHOST
So what's your take?
Rachel Griffin AccursoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Some nursery rhymes and kid songs need to be retired.
Michelle SmallmonHOST
TTP, tap to back.
Pat CostelloPANELIST
I was still in New York when they had MetroCards.
Pat CostelloPANELIST
Rest in peace, the MetroCard.
Pat CostelloPANELIST
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Brandon JulianHOST
We've only had Omni fully up and running for less than a year now, but now memorabilia collectors can put the city's junk in their trunks.
Brandon JulianHOST
Like the legendary Pizza Rat, dancing performers seeking spare change in pesky turn-style fair jumper-stealing-free rides, MetroCard machines are the indelible fixtures of the subway system until their retirement last December.
Brandon JulianHOST
Now, these clunky contraptions, some of them weighing over 1,000 pounds, can be an indelible fixture in your living room.
Brandon JulianHOST
As New York City Transit is auctioning off decommissioned MetroCard vending machines, or MVMs, and MetroCard Express machines, or MEMs, to the highest bidders through August 19th.
Brandon JulianHOST
Excuse me.
Brandon JulianHOST
Excuse me again.
Brandon JulianHOST
Through August 19th.
Brandon JulianHOST
The auction marks the first time that everyday individuals will be able to own these steel dispensers, which sold prepaid fare cards to commuters for nearly three decades.
Jesse JarnowGUEST
It was faster like that.
Jesse JarnowGUEST
Using MetroCards was faster than people taking their apps out to, like, blink their way onto the subway.
Jesse JarnowGUEST
Exactly.
Jesse JarnowGUEST
I mean, sure, that was faster.
Kareem RahmaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But when it came time to do the show, they really let it rip.
Shannon BurnsCORRESPONDENT
You famously hold the MetroCard when doing the interviews in New York.
Shannon BurnsCORRESPONDENT
Will you be holding a Presto card?
Kareem RahmaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Let me pull out my handy-dandy Presto cards.
Gabe HenryGUEST
I don't think that's wrong.
Gabe HenryGUEST
Do you know that I've been keeping receipts and old MetroCards in my top sock drawer since I was about nine?
Sarah MarshallHOST
See? And that's a great collection.
Gabe HenryGUEST
I have receipts from pharmacies that no longer exist, receipts that say-
AshleyHOST
And today we're talking about Time, the Kalief Browder Story docuseries that's on Netflix, part five, entitled Injustice for All.
AshleyHOST
So the episode opens where we left off last time with Kalief being released at 2 a.m., given a MetroCard and kind of told good luck.
AshleyHOST
and different talking heads just say, you know, there's no adjustment they give him.
AshleyHOST
They're not apologizing to him.
AshleyHOST
They're just giving him the MetroCard and sending him loose in the middle of the night.
AshleyHOST
And remember, this was a surprise for him because he also wasn't at the hearing, so he was not aware that this was going to be happening from what we gather.
AshleyHOST
And so his mom says, you know, I was really glad to see him.
Steve BakerGUEST
So he stayed with him the night of the 4th, 5th, and 6th.
Steve BakerGUEST
And then person of interest number two on the morning of, and this is where he became a person of interest, is that person of interest number two used the MetroCard that person of interest number three loaned him.
Steve BakerGUEST
That was a MetroCard that person of interest number three had purchased a year prior to on his own credit card in his name.
Steve BakerGUEST
And so it was easily trackable by the FBI.
Steve BakerGUEST
Once they had identified through photography, CCTV, person of interest number two, they could backtrack through that mechanism.
David FreiheitHOST
Question.
David FreiheitHOST
Yes.
David FreiheitHOST
Why did they even identify person of interest to back determine where he came from with whose MetroCard? It was because he was doing suspicious things in the county.
AstraPANELIST
We're a little busy right now.
AnthonyPANELIST
Well, this week, a select group of transit aficionados gathered in front of a warehouse in Queens after they were informed that they had won one of 60 MetroCard vending machines that were up for auction.
AnthonyPANELIST
Oh.
AnthonyPANELIST
Each person spent about $2,000 for these decommissioned machines.
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