Parking Is Hell (Rebroadcast)

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🗓️ 21 August 2014

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

There ain't no such thing as a free parking spot. Somebody has to pay for it -- and that somebody is everybody.

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0:00.0	Hey podcast listeners, everybody knows summer is a great time for a road trip, but what about
0:05.5	when you finally get to where you're going?
0:07.6	Now it's time to park your car.
0:09.9	If it's been any time thinking about that, the lowly parking spot we have.
0:15.6	Too much time probably.
0:17.0	The following episode, an encore presentation, is called Parking Is Hell.
0:21.4	Hope you enjoy it, and I hope all your parking experiences this summer are less bad than
0:27.4	the ones you're about to listen to.
0:34.4	I think, you know, 50 years from now and people look back on New York and of course other
0:44.1	cities that they'll say what did these people think they were doing?
0:49.8	That's Donald Shoeop.
0:51.3	He is a college professor at UCLA who is obsessed.
0:55.0	Well, it's not really fair to call him obsessed.
0:57.8	Who is...
0:58.8	You have to...
0:59.8	Actually, he is obsessed.
1:01.3	He's obsessed with this one thing that we all do all over the world and that we do
1:05.4	so bad Shoeop's opinion that someday we'll look back at it the way we now look back
1:11.4	at bloodletting.
1:13.6	Seriously?
1:14.6	Bloodletting?
1:15.6	It seems scientific because there were elaborate tables and diagrams and it had to be done
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