Hi there, welcome to the Adam Ruins Everything podcast. I am your host Adam Conover.

This is the podcast offshoot of our true TV show Adam Ruins Everything.

First of all, for everyone who's asking, yes, the show is coming back.

We're doing all new episodes starting August 23rd.

You can catch them then on True TV.

It's going to be so much fun.

And you can find full clips and full episodes at true TV

dot com slash Adam Ruins Everything and the watch true TV app. Okay so you might be

asking yourself I know what the TV show is what is this Adam Ruins Everything podcast let me explain on the show we have incredible

expert guests on every week who unfortunately I only get to talk to for like two minutes on the show

but I had so much fun chatting with them on set when the cameras weren't rolling I was like I want to talk to these

people for longer so that's what we're going to be doing on the show we're going to be

talking to the incredible expert guests that we had on

the show in a longer format about their work about the ideas contained in their work

about the ideas that we talk about on the show and heck we might end up talking to

a couple comedians who have been on the show as well but

for most of the time it's gonna be all expert all the time it'll be a lot of fun so my very

first guest on the podcast is Salita Reynolds who's the general manager of the LA Department of Transportation,

and I was, I'm really, really excited to talk to her because here's the thing.

I personally think if you've seen the Cars episode, which she appeared on, you probably know that I think car culture is craziness. It's an insane

transportation system that we've saddled ourselves with that has so many downsides,

environmentally, just in terms of what it does to our cities, in terms of how

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