Quit Your Car: It's Zero Percent About Transportation.
The War on Cars
The War on Cars, LLC
4.9 • 937 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2018
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
When is a car not a car? When it's a source of solace and comfort, a curbside living room and a personal aesthetic statement. This episode is brought to you "live" from the interior of a 1987 Cadillac DeVille as we hear from Alex Brook Lynn, the producer of FAQ NYC, about why she escapes to her car for a little private time amidst the hustle and bustle of the Big Apple. What would it take for Alex to quit her car?
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Almost half of Americans (45%) go to their car to have a private moment. (Fast Company/IKEA)
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Aaron Naparstek @Naparstek, Sarah Goodyear @buttermilk1, Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.
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| 0:00.0 | I think |
| 0:04.0 | Alex Brooklyn has just found a parking spot. |
| 0:07.0 | Can I fit in there? |
| 0:10.0 | I think so. |
| 0:11.0 | Do you want me to get out and like... I mean, I don't know if I can't know if I can I could I could |
| 0:16.8 | I could move that Vespa Aaron, what are we listening to? |
| 0:25.0 | So I met with Alex Brooke Lynn, that's her real name. |
| 0:34.8 | She's from Manhattan, not Brooklyn. |
| 0:36.7 | Okay. |
| 0:37.6 | Alex Brooklyn. |
| 0:38.6 | She's the producer of FAQ NYC, which is an awesome podcast about local New York City politics. |
| 0:46.8 | Alex owns a 1987 Cadillac DeVille and that's me and her trying to find a parking spot for it in Greenwich |
| 0:56.4 | Village the day after Halloween. I don't think so I think I'm too long. I kind of want to do it. Yeah. Can I try to park it? Yeah. |
| 1:07.8 | Yeah. You won't be insulted? No. God. I didn't even learn to drive until I was like 22. |
| 1:15.0 | I'm from Ohio, so I'm like, we couldn't even like, we had like no freedom without driving. |
| 1:22.0 | If somebody gave me a car, no freedom without driving. |
| 1:22.6 | If somebody gave me a car when I was a teenager, |
| 1:26.1 | I would be dead. |
| 1:27.9 | So Aaron, you tried to park this 300 foot long tank. |
| 1:31.8 | I really wanted to do it. Wow wow I didn't want to like man |
| 1:34.1 | explain her parking you know you like that guy well like she was pretty willing to let you |
| 1:38.3 | know she she said she was okay with it was very okay yeah it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, man's planning parking. Yeah, don't do that to me because I once I once parallel parked a 14 foot moving truck on Steinway Street in Astoria after driving for 10 hours and I parked it on the first |
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