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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Over our stuff? No, you know what it is? 'Cause we've been painting for close to 20 years, and a lot of the graffiti artists have grown up watching our work,
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
and they want to be able to do the type of work that we do. So there's pretty much a respect there.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Quite, you know, a lot of people make that misconception that we don't respect each other; we have no respect for anything; but that's not so true.
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{Audience speaker}
Do you ever get the urge to go out late at night--
[[Cross Talk]]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
--and paint?
{Audience speaker}
and be somewhere where you're not supposed to be?
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Ah, I mean, we've done it for close to 20 years, and every once in awhile you get that urge, I mean,
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
but these days we keep so busy that it's hard to. The thing is, we're easy to find nowadays,
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
so -- [[Laughing]]
[[Cross Talk]]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
police actually come to our office and say, "What you fucking guys been up to?" "Nothing".
[[Laughter]]
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{Speaker 2}
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We're actually in the yellow pages now, so it's kind of hard to hide now.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
I'm sorry Leonard, you had asked?
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{SPEAKER name="Leonard"}
Well, why did you guys and other graffiti artists decide to use the subways as a medium?
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
I mean we grew up-- I mean it's a funny thing 'cause in New York City, we grew up; it was just a part of our upbringing.
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
We grew up watching subway graffiti. From a young, very young age, I can remember going downtown with my grandmother, and when I got off a subway I turned around,
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
I saw this huge Yosemite Sam painted on the outside of the train, and at the time I didn't really know what it was. It was all around us, and as I got older I sort of became more curious about it,
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
and I was always into art, so it was sort of the direction. And that's what was happening at the time in New York. Everyone who was painting was doing subways,
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
and I think the reason was because it was just like a rolling canvas. You would paint it in the Bronx, it would travel through Manhattan and Brooklyn; it'd travel the whole city, the whole day and you'd have like a million viewers.
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{Audience speaker}
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
It was pretty hard. There were several thousand people doing it at the time.
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{Audience speaker}
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
I mean there a lot of people who've gone early in the--

{Audience speaker}
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Thank you

{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Thank you
No you're absolutely right -
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{Audience speaker}
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Yeah.

{Audience speaker}
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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Where're you from?
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Transcription Notes:
A few inaudible sections at the end. 7/30/21 7:57 am there are muffled portions of the audio toward the last 15 seconds of the audio.