"Cars are Done" with Adam McKay
The War on Cars
The War on Cars, LLC
4.9 • 937 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Adam McKay is the Academy Award–winning screenwriter, director, and producer behind such movies as Don’t Look Up, The Big Short, Vice, Anchorman, Talladega Nights, and more. He is also the founder of Yellow Dot Studios, a nonprofit production studio that raises awareness and mobilizes action on the climate emergency. Adam joins us to discuss his career and the existential anxiety that led him to write and direct the star-studded Don’t Look Up, one of the most successful Netflix movies of all time. We also hear about the books, films, and music that inspired him, and why humor is a useful tool for tackling serious subjects. Plus: Adam's relationship with driving, the power of visual storytelling, and why he thinks the age of the car is already over… even if most people don’t know it yet.
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Books, movies, and music mentioned in this episode:
Generation Dread by Britt Wray; Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neal Postman; A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit; and The Vortex by Scott Carney & Jason Miklian
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957); Dr. Strangelove (1964); and Dogtooth (2009)
Public Enemy; LL Cool J; Kurtis Blow; Run-DMC; and Eric B. & Rakim
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This episode was edited by Ali Lemer. It was recorded by Kaden Pryor at Third Wheel Podcast Studio in Los Angeles. Transcriptions are by Russell Gragg. Our theme music is by Nathaniel Goodyear. Sound effects from the BBC Sound Effects Archives © 2024 BBC.
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| 1:13.2 | They're already a relic and we just don't know it. |
| 1:18.7 | And it hasn't fully manifested. |
| 1:22.1 | But they're done. |
| 1:23.8 | Like we will never again have a car culture like that. |
| 1:27.8 | Our relationship with transportation in the way it was formulated through the 20th century |
| 1:33.9 | is already severed. |
| 1:36.0 | We are now in a new geologic age. |
| 1:39.8 | And that age does not include car culture. |
| 1:46.9 | This is the War on Cars. |
| 1:49.8 | I am Doug Gordon, and with me is my co-host, Sarah Goodyear. |
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