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Some More News: Car Ownership and Car Insurance Are Kind Of A Giant Racket

Some More News

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🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Hi. You know how in America you’re basically required to own a car? The car ownership-insurance-industrial complex likes it that way. Get the world's news at https://ground.news/SMN to compare coverage and see through biased coverage. Subscribe for 40% off unlimited access through our link.


Hosted by Cody Johnston

Executive Producer - Katy Stoll

Directed by Will Gordh

Written by Tom Reimann

Produced by Jonathan Harris

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello America! Here's some news.

0:05.0

America! We love it! And here's some more news. Here in America, bigger is better.

0:13.0

That extends to everything from the size of our hamburgers to the distance we have to drive to get those hamburgers.

0:18.0

Because I don't want to walk anywhere unless I absolutely have to.

0:21.6

Have you walked anywhere recently? It is terrible. The point is America is incredibly spread out

0:29.1

compared to almost every other nation in the world. And while we could have designed a robust

0:33.8

train system to navigate that, we didn't. If you recall, we did an entire episode

0:39.8

about how America was rather insidiously designed for car ownership, from sedan to shining

0:45.6

sedan. Remember in Roger Rabbit how spoilers, Judge Doom is secretly conspiring with the weasels

0:51.4

and also with R.K. Maroon to eliminate the city's public transit

0:54.2

system and spoilers, which all the blue-collar workers depend on, even this good-hearted

0:59.0

MOOC in favor of interstates dotted with endless hamburger signs. Bob Hoskins may have thwarted

1:05.1

him in the movie with a steamroller and a hose full of Hulk piss. But here in reality, Judge

1:10.8

Doom's plan came true in America, which we love.

1:14.6

You pretty much can't work or thrive or survive if you don't have a car.

1:19.6

Cars won.

1:20.6

Everything that happened in Roger Rabbit is just pure fantasy.

1:24.6

It's an irresponsible film, irresponsibly sexy. More like Bob Hotskins.

1:30.3

Am I correct? Yes, I am Bob Hotskins. Anyway, cars are bad.

1:45.0

Maybe I'm being a little reductive there.

1:50.0

Cars are fine. No one's ever died because of a car, after all, impossible.

1:54.0

But here in America, owning a car is way more of a nightmare than it needs to be,

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