'Stuff Your 15-Minute Cities!'

Endless Thread

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Reddit, Technology

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

What do livable and walkable urban environments have to do with "the real life Hunger Games"? And why are people in Oxford, England and elsewhere coming out in droves to protest seemingly innocuous traffic restrictions?

On this episode of Endless Thread, co-hosts Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson explore one of the strangest conspiracy theories circulating today: the 15-minute city.

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0:00.0	WBUR Podcast, Boston.
0:07.0	Amory, have you ever seen the Hunger Games?
0:15.0	Yeah, the first one at least.
0:18.0	I volunteer to strip you!
0:20.0	I volunteer, yes, yep, I saw that.
0:22.0	When I say the real life Hunger Games, what comes to mind for you?
0:27.0	Wall Street, the grocery store on Sunday before a store or something.
0:34.0	That's good.
0:36.0	Yeah, I think about when we're in a long drive in the car with my wife and she starts getting
0:42.0	snippy with me, you know, because she's getting angry.
0:46.0	Yeah, or is it because you're being annoying?
0:49.0	Oh, it's both.
0:50.0	It's 100% both.
0:52.0	All right, I stand with Sarah.
0:54.0	Oh, it's dead. Don't get me wrong.
0:56.0	So until recently, I feel like the real life Hunger Games didn't really mean much to me.
1:02.0	But about a month ago, I started to see this kind of uptick in posts on Reddit and also on YouTube and also on Twitter.
1:12.0	With people saying that the globalists, the elites, the bad guys, had a new plan for making us all lick their boots.
1:19.0	It was going to be a real life Hunger Games situation.
1:25.0	I'm not talking about the grocery store on Sunday.
1:28.0	Okay.
1:29.0	Okay.
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