SHORT 1:46 A straphanger wants old ethnic women to understand what their shirts say before they buy them. Kareem's not having it. The conversation spirals into a hilari...
SHORT 1:40 A stranger surprises Kareem by agreeing that "Gulf of America" works as a name. What follows is a spirited riff on geographic naming rights, colonial history...
SHORT 2:01 A stranger on the train argues Britain should keep the royal family, but not out of respect. She calls them "embarrassing" nepo babies associated with scanda...
SHORT 1:57 A passenger makes the case for daily naps, and Kareem's all in. The straphanger reveals he's been napping continuously since childhood, never taking a break...
SHORT 1:55 A straphanger makes the contrarian case that summer is actually the worst season, and her secret weapon is soup. The entire food group goes out of commission...
SHORT 1:50 A traumatic childhood balloon accident has left one passenger with a lifelong vendetta against latex and foil. "I was 5 years old," he tells Kareem, recounti...
SHORT 1:35 A straphanger drops a spicy take: if you throw a destination wedding and later divorce, you should reimburse your guests for their travel costs. She's talkin...
SHORT 2:04 A straphanger thinks emergency alerts should only make that terrifying sound for one thing: incoming ballistic missiles. She's fed up with Amber Alerts and S...
SHORT 1:56 A Londoner on the train defends his city against claims it's a "no-go zone," arguing that critics are either disconnected or racist. He tells Kareem that Lon...
SHORT 1:30 Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, boldly declares his city the best in the world, sparking a heated but friendly debate with Kareem about whether New York or...
SHORT 2:42 Eric Andre shows up with scorching hot takes about country names that sound uncomfortably close to slurs. Niger needs rebranding. Guinea too. "It's literally...
SHORT 1:47 A UK music fan makes a bold claim: the music coming out of the UK right now is the best in the world. Kareem agrees, though he points out the Beatles as a hi...
SHORT 1:34 Lukas Gage has a firm stance: sex should only be a nighttime activity. Maybe midday is acceptable, but mornings? Absolutely not. Kareem pushes back hard, arg...
SHORT 1:50 A stylish stranger wearing python boots drops a bold declaration: if you need a stylist, you're not stylish. His own fashion awakening? Trying on Versace jea...
SHORT 2:17 A woman with strong opinions about footwear tells Kareem that shoes aren't actually designed to fit human feet. She's spiraling after her doctor told her to...
6:12 Comedian Malik Elassal has a take that'll ruffle some feathers: space is none of our business. He argues that humanity's obsession with the cosmos is tone-de...
SHORT 1:20 A rider with a questionable German accent claims to be from the Black Forest and insists "there is no 'they' without a 'we.'" Kareem tries multiple times to...
SHORT 1:41 A straphanger's hot take: we should let horses go. Free them. The rider argues that humans have given horses way too many jobs, from physical labor to racing...
SHORT 1:40 A stranger fresh off a 72-hour Berlin party bender stumbles through a conversation with Kareem that's equal parts incoherent and hilarious. The rider insists...
SHORT 1:49 A masked stranger in Berlin claims he's been partying for 72 straight hours and won't stop until Monday. He left his house Wednesday. When Kareem asks why th...
SHORT 1:44 A straphanger pitches mandatory gap years in active war zones instead of backpacking through Europe. The initial pitch gets pushback, but Kareem's convinced...
SHORT 2:53 Comedian and juggler Marcus Monroe steps onto the train with a provocative proposition: every country should have exactly one nuclear bomb. He argues it woul...
SHORT 1:58 Motaz Azaiza tells Kareem that the camera is much stronger than a sword. It opened the world's eyes to what's happening to his people, though the achievement...
SHORT 2:03 A rider from South Carolina argues that Southern culture and Arab culture are cut from the same cloth, rattling off similarities that catch Kareem off guard....
13:17 Bill Burr hits the subway with Kareem Rahma for a characteristically unfiltered conversation that ricochets from Bloomberg's "Illuminati meeting" in Europe t...
SHORT 2:03 A straphanger makes the case that we should absolutely cheer when planes land, and Kareem's fully on board. Flight is a miracle, they argue, so why treat it...
SHORT 1:34 A French rider schools Kareem on la bise, the casual cheek-kiss greeting that replaces handshakes across France. She argues hugs are way more intimate than t...
SHORT 1:54 A straphanger makes the case that seagulls should replace bald eagles as America's national bird. The argument? Seagulls are scrappy, resilient, and honest a...
SHORT 2:03 A straphanger with Zimbabwean polygamist roots delivers a scorching take: polyamory doesn't count in big cities. His logic? Having a polycule in Brooklyn is...
4:47 Comedian and writer Zainne Saleh has a provocative take: morning supremacy is misogynist. Kareem, a natural 6 a.m. riser who hasn't used an alarm in a decade...
SHORT 1:58 Fadily Camara has strong feelings about bathroom design. Her Airbnb in Paris features six toilets, two showers, and three bathrooms, all in separate rooms. W...
SHORT 2:00 A rider challenges Kareem on white people's tendency to publicly call out autism, sparking a hilarious cultural comparison about how different communities ha...
SHORT 2:09 Space is none of our business," one straphanger declares, kicking off a wild debate about whether humanity should fix Earth before chasing aliens. Kareem pus...
SHORT 2:01 A Somali-Norwegian rider tells Kareem about living with what he calls "dual racism," experiencing discrimination as both a Black person and a Muslim. Before...
SHORT 1:56 A straphanger pitches a bold proposition: every country should have exactly one nuclear bomb. Kareem's not buying it. The rider argues that limiting the glob...
SHORT 1:57 If the food from your country of origin isn't delicious, you shouldn't be allowed into New York City." That's the provocative take from a rider who admits he...
29:04 BMX legend Nigel Sylvester and Kareem take the subway through Queens, which Nigel declares is "the king of all boroughs." Born in Jamaica, Queens, Nigel trac...
SHORT 1:30 A rider drops a provocative claim: the Earth became flat in the year 2000. But she's not talking about conspiracy theories. She means culture itself has flat...
24:12 Cate Blanchett wants leaf blowers "eradicated from the face of the earth." Seriously. She tells Kareem that 30 minutes on a leaf blower creates more pollutio...
1:03:45 Jane Goodall, at 90 years old, takes her first ever subway ride with Kareem. They talk about everything from the "good legs" comments she faced as a young sc...
SHORT 1:51 A self-proclaimed Disney adult who actually worked at the parks defends going to Disney World solo, sparking a heated debate with Kareem about whether the Mo...
SHORT 1:31 Cazzie David has a passionate hatred for naps, and Kareem is right there with her. Naps are disgusting, she declares, launching into a tirade about waking up...
SHORT 1:37 A stranger on the subway insists that every man should have to wear a Speedo to the beach at least once, framing it as a path to personal freedom and, let's...
SHORT 1:44 A passionate stranger in Paris launches into a fiery defense of French style against accusations that it looks gay. His argument? Straight men have been "cul...
SHORT 1:00 A Chicago native defends her city's pizza supremacy against Kareem's skepticism, insisting deep dish isn't the only option. She name-drops Beggars ("thick bu...
SHORT 0:58 New York City's noise pollution has one subway rider ready to legislate. Kareem meets a straphanger who's fed up with the city's relentless cacophony and has...
SHORT 0:46 A Londoner with strong opinions rattles off a rapid-fire list of takes that span continents and controversies. "America should have never been independent,"...
SHORT 1:00 Everything is political" is the take from a straphanger who insists that silence itself carries a political message. No stance is a stance, they tell Kareem....
SHORT 1:00 A straphanger has a controversial take: stop sending audio messages. Kareem immediately disagrees, arguing it's much easier to send a voice note than type ev...
26:19 Comedian Robby Hoffman declares war on tipping culture, arguing that restaurants have turned customers into unpaid workers while guilt-tripping them with iPa...
SHORT 1:00 A woman on the subway has had enough of bachelorette parties, and she's not holding back. Four days, five days, costume changes "like it's the Met Gala," the...
SHORT 0:42 A subway rider wants you to eat bugs. Crickets, specifically. His pitch? They're good for the environment because they're cold-blooded, so unlike cows that b...
SHORT 0:28 An Australian straphanger brings a wild perspective to New York's rat problem: they're actually cute. Coming from a country where "literally every animal can...