Ep 342 – Free Transit is Good

Srsly Wrong

Society & Culture, News & Politics, Comedy, History

4.9 • 518 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Should public transit be free? Or will removing fares cause all busses and trains to sink into the earth, never to be seen or heard of again? This episode we systematically go...

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0:00.0	You're seriously wrong.
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0:20.0	You're right. You're wrong
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0:25.6	You're wrong. I'm seriously wrong.
0:38.2	You're wrong.
0:54.0	We are your co-host, Sean and Aaron,
0:56.7	each more Sean and Aaron than the last, and I'll let you guess which is which. Each more
1:01.4	podcast than the last, each episode. It's more and more unfolding as the universe does.
1:06.9	Yeah, and as you get to the bottom of more and more things, you dig deeper and deeper tunnels that interconnect in more and more intricate ways until you burrow deeper and deeper to the core of truth.
1:17.7	And that's kind of what we're aiming for over our podcast run.
1:20.9	So this week we're trying to get to the bottom of the issue of free transit, free public transit, which is an increasingly popular sort of
1:29.8	democratic socialist demand as part of the climate transition. There's a lot of discourse around
1:34.6	this recently. Zoran Mamdani recently won the Democratic primary in New York on a Democratic socialist
1:40.6	DSA-affiliated ticket. Really big victory. Kind of reminded me what happened in Vancouver, actually, when I saw it.
1:46.9	I nodded approvingly.
1:48.5	And yeah, Democratic socialism, kind of of the Bernie sphere, you know, strong left-wing
1:53.3	politics, but through electoral mechanisms.
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