Interview With Bill Janovitz - Author of "The Cars: Let The Stories Be Told"
The Kirk Minihane Show
Barstool Sports
4.6 • 7.9K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Kirk talks with Bill Janovitz about the band The Cars. New York Times bestselling author Bill Janovitz delivers "the definitive story of The Cars" (Rolling Stone), one of the most popular, beloved, and influential bands to emerge from New Wave—with a foreword by Cars keyboardist Greg Hawkes. Get a copy of "The Cars: Let The Stories Be Told" here: https://www.amazon.com/Cars-Let-Stories-Be-Told/dp/0306835061
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Kirkmanahan show listeners. |
| 0:01.4 | You can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. |
| 0:05.2 | Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:09.2 | Okay, in my left hand, I have a copy of the cars. |
| 0:11.6 | Let the stories be told. |
| 0:13.4 | Bill Jenevitz is the author. |
| 0:14.5 | I talked to this book on the show. |
| 0:15.8 | I think tweet about it. |
| 0:17.3 | Fantastic. |
| 0:19.4 | Bill, nothing I like better than a good book about a band. |
| 0:24.8 | Just the life of a band. |
| 0:26.7 | Warren Zanes, I thought, did it well in the Petty book. |
| 0:28.7 | It was almost really about the heartbreakers as much as Petty. |
| 0:31.4 | And this is much the same. |
| 0:33.6 | It's fantastic. |
| 0:35.3 | Oh, thank you. |
| 0:35.8 | Yeah, I highly recommend if you haven't already read the Mike Campbell book from the inside from from just read it last year. |
| 0:40.9 | You know, whenever came out this year. |
| 0:41.9 | It was it. |
| 0:42.2 | It just came out, right? Yeah, I read it. It was great. Last summer. Yeah. Yeah. Amazing. There's a lot of parallels with the cars for sure. That's true. Yeah. So why, I guess the obvious first question, why the cars? |
| 0:54.8 | Well, I, you know, question, why the cars? |
| 1:01.5 | Well, I, you know, I kind of start the book by talking about what they meant to me. |
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