Emergency Intercom – "I Love New York"

Host: iHeartPodcasts
Episode Date: October 8, 2025
Hosts: Enya Umanzor and Drew Phillips

Episode Overview

This episode captures Enya and Drew’s adventures during a trip to New York City for Fashion Week. Walking the streets, riffing on city life, and reflecting on everything from spiritual psychosis to New York bar culture, the pair offer their signature blend of deadpan banter, personal storytelling, and existential humor. The episode is a loose, free-ranging conversation peppered with surreal bits, impromptu debates, and a dose of heartfelt reflection—perfect for fans who love the duo’s chaotic friendship and witty takes on pop culture.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

Arrival in New York & Instant Culture Shock

• First Impressions of New York:
  • Enya and Drew describe the energy of New York as both "cloudy and gorgeous" (03:20), expressing awe at how quickly darkness falls in the city in fall.
  • An encounter with local teenagers exposes their outsider status. A teen says Drew looks like he just came in from Miami, leading to a humorous but slightly destabilizing exchange:
    • “He looked at Drew and was like, ‘You look like you just came in from Miami’... It decentered him and destabilized him in a crazy way.” — Enya (03:34)
    • “Then I yelled, ‘You’re not even from Brooklyn... you have to check in with me!’” — Drew (04:46)

NYC Survival, Losing Stuff, and "Worldly Goods"

• Enya’s Forgetfulness:
  • Enya consistently leaves her phone, iPad, and wallet around the city.
    • “No, we know you’ve left your iPad, your wallet, your iPhone, your vape. Literally any technology or identification that Enya's had on this trip has been left somewhere.” — Drew (05:13)
  • They recount a cafe incident where a stranger returned Enya’s phone, identifying her from her Blythe doll wallpaper (06:46).
• Worldly Detachment:
  • Enya (mock-philosophically): “I don’t attach myself to worldly goods because I am earthly.” (05:00)
  • Drew: “She left her wallet in the Uber... that guy was a saint. Came up on $40 for Enya’s fault.” (05:44)

Fashion Week & Brand Collabs

• Industry Satire:
  • They poke fun at Fashion Week and joke about bizarre brand collaborations:
    • “We have to start asking what a brand’s sexual identity is, because I’m starting to believe most brands are polyamorous.” — Enya (07:54)
    • “Supreme is the ringleader... Supreme is a Supreme witch.” — Drew (08:23)
• Influencer Invasion:
  • Both express mild embarrassment at being podcasters/influencers adding to the city’s Fashion Week chaos:
    • “Everyone here already has to get terrorized all week by every influencer who’s come into town to be like, look at my shoes, look at my shirt, look at my pants, and look at us. No different than the rest.” — Enya (09:19)

NYC Nightlife & Bar Culture

• Gay Bar Adventures:
  • Drew describes his ventures into New York's gay bars, forgetting their names but loving the chaos:
    • “I went to the gay bars of New York. I went to Animal... Berserk. And I went to the Lexingborough or whatever. The Lex...” — Drew (10:17)
  • Enya jokes about Drew’s inability to remember or document experiences but being “the most inquisitive person in terms of random information.” (10:38)

Existential/Spiritual Humor & "Religious Psychosis"

• Praying at 3am:
  • Drew discusses late-night anxiety and bouts of "religious psychosis" (12:03):
    • "Every single night at like 3am the devil's at—where, mind you—I enter like a level of religious psychosis. I'm like, oh my god, the end is near. I need to start praying to God, bitch. I'm not even a fucking Christian like that." — Drew (12:12, 12:51)
  • Enya: “My OCD convinces me that if you start praying, you're actually doing the opposite because you’re only talking to God when you need something.” (13:12)
• Quick Detours:
  • They pivot into banter about being dripped on by possible slime, and a memory of getting hand sanitizer sprayed in the face in Chinatown (13:30).

Pet Psychics, Cat Demons, and Attention Spans

• Pet Readings:
  • Enya recounts watching a woman do psychic readings for pets, including a "demon cat":
    • “The cat was saying that it is both evil and good. It shares both of the intentions.” — Enya (22:01)
  • She reflects on her own long attention span for surreal internet rabbit holes, joking she watched a ten-minute pet psychic video at normal speed (23:28).
• Screen Time:
  • The pair compare phone screen times, revealing marathon TikTok and YouTube sessions (24:07).

Partying, Alcohol, and Social Anxieties

• House Party Evolution:

  • Reflections on party culture from Project X-style high school parties to today’s blackouts:
    • “Now to go to a house party, it’s to black out so you don’t have to deal with what’s going on.” — Drew (27:24)
  • Enya and Drew worry about their family histories of addiction, joking with darkly comic fatalism:
    • “Cats don’t know not to go by a candle till they get their whiskers burnt a little bit, you know?” — Enya (29:37)

• Drinking in Public:

  • The duo discuss buzz balls vs. Cutwater drinks, joking about Steve Lacy influencer syndrome and question the legality of drinking outside (42:42).

New York City Wonder, Paranoia & Living in the Moment

• Marveling at the City:

  • They frequently break to admire NYC’s beauty, express awe at the city’s construction, and ponder conspiracy-like thoughts:
    • “How did they build this city so fast? Did you know that they only started building buildings this tall in 2010?” — Enya (21:03)
    • “Is there a law that everybody has to turn their lights on at a certain time? Because every light just is on now, just kind of naturally. It's so weird.” — Enya (52:36)

• On Living in NY:

  • Drew: “I love just like mobbing around solo... You go outside, you run into friends, and then you spend the day. You don’t have to make plans and like a finite plan scares the ever-living out of me.” (25:09)

Banter, Friendship, and Signature Bits

• On Kissing (Or Not):

  • Enya and Drew riff on never having kissed, imagining an exaggerated, platonic friendship:
    • “We’ve never for real kissed ever... We want to build up the tension between this kiss so much that by the time we actually get to kissing, it’s like, oh my God, that’s it.” — Enya (54:07, 54:15)
    • “When we kiss, are we gonna kiss or are we gonna make out?... I’m not putting your tongue in my mouth.” — Enya (54:25, 54:28)

• Fake Fights:

  • “We fake fight the most in public... some of our fake fights are what we really want to say, but it’s like guised as a bit and like wash our hands, move on.” — Drew (55:14)

• On NYC as Possibility Space:

  • “The thing about New York is you don’t even know where the night is going to take you... that’s why people love to come here.” — Enya (51:50)

• On Friendship:

  • Drew jokingly frames providing Enya with alcohol as his form of support:
    • “See how I cure her frustration? See how I provide for my girl when she’s sad? I get her alcohol.” (55:43)

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• "I don’t attach myself to worldly goods because I am earthly."
  — Enya (05:00)

• "Supreme is the ringleader, and Supreme is a Supreme witch."
  — Drew (08:23)

• "My OCD convinces me that if you start praying, you’re actually doing the opposite because you’re only talking to God when you need something."
  — Enya (13:12)

• "Cats don’t know not to go by a candle till they get their whiskers burnt a little bit, you know?"
  — Enya (29:37)

• "You could just, like, expand your world tenfold. Tenfold."
  — Enya (51:50)

• "We never, for real, kissed, ever... We’re like saving it, like Mormons."
  — Enya (54:07)

Timestamps for Key Segments

• [03:02] – Arriving in New York; pacing and blending in vs. being an obvious outsider.
• [05:00] - [06:46] – Enya’s forgetfulness and “worldly detachment” bit; Uber and café story.
• [07:32] - [09:19] – Fashion Week, surreal brand collab jokes, influencer invasion.
• [10:17] - [10:54] – Drew’s night out at NYC’s gay bars.
• [12:03] - [14:13] – "Religious psychosis" and praying at 3am.
• [15:04] - [15:31] – The concept of pet psychics and demon cats.
• [23:28] - [24:22] – Screen time confessionals.
• [25:09] - [26:41] – The joys and anxieties of spontaneous NYC social life.
• [27:08] - [29:37] – Alcohol, party culture changes, addiction fears.
• [42:42] - [43:39] – Drinking in public, cutting loose, “buzz ball” adventure.
• [51:50] - [52:23] – On NYC’s endless possibility and construction conspiracies.
• [54:07] - [54:44] – Never-kissed running gag.

Overall Tone & Style

The episode is raw, unfiltered, and intentionally chaotic, featuring a mix of absurdism, candid vulnerability, and low-key philosophical musing—all filtered through Enya and Drew’s affectionate, sibling-like antagonism. Their style is irreverent, self-deprecating, and marked by rapid-fire transitions between bits, serious reflection, and surreal nonsensical jokes. Fans of Emergency Intercom will find this episode to be a quintessential, densely packed experience of the duo’s offbeat world.

For New Listeners

If you're new to Emergency Intercom, expect a comedic, meandering conversation that’s as much about the existential dilemmas of young adulthood as it is about poking fun at influencer culture and everyday absurdities. This episode is a love letter to New York—that both celebrates its chaos and marvels at its beauty—while examining friendship, partying, and the surreal inner lives of two very online people.