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TEASER: Hollywood and Bikes, Take 2
The War on Cars
The War on Cars, LLC
4.9 • 937 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2023
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
In episode 103, we looked at depictions of cyclists in movies such as The 40-Year-Old Virgin and TV shows such as Arrested Development and asked, "Why Does Hollywood Hate Bikes?" Our co-host Sarah Goodyear unfortunately missed that discussion, so in this exclusive bonus just for patrons of The War on Cars she brings some recent pop culture specimens to examine: the NBC sitcom American Auto and the BBC soap The Split. We also respond to listener comments about some of the movies and television shows we missed last time out — including Stranger Things, The Goonies, and Breaking Away — and follow up on some new bike-related developments on the feel-good show Ted Lasso.
In this teaser, Sarah offers some thoughts on American Auto starring Ana Gasteyer.
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| 0:00.0 | There's one episode in particular that I think really does a great job of hitting some of these themes. |
| 0:06.7 | It's episode 7 in season 1 and it's all about a potential recall. |
| 0:12.0 | So in a roundabout way, they find out. about a |
| 0:15.0 | potential recall. |
| 0:18.0 | Pauls, I don't even know what that is, |
| 0:20.0 | a PAWL, have been installed in an SUV and that's something that prevents the car |
| 0:26.4 | from rolling out of park and the characters don't really know what the heck it is |
| 0:31.0 | either so that's kind of funny but |
| 0:33.2 | but I'm like we're really showing our ignorance |
| 0:37.6 | transmission parking Paul yes exactly |
| 0:40.8 | it is a device fitted to a motor vehicle's automatic transmission that locks up the transmission |
| 0:46.7 | when the transmission shift lever selector is in park. |
| 0:51.3 | Is in park. |
| 0:52.3 | Right. So basically they've put Paul's that should be in a lighter car into a heavier car |
| 0:59.5 | They freak out and are like oh my god God, are we going to have to recall 2 million of these cars? |
| 1:06.8 | And there's a lot of confusion and a lot of deliberation about what is the moral thing to do, |
| 1:12.4 | what is the ethical thing to do, and they stay up all night thinking about this. |
| 1:16.7 | And they really, they get exhausted and they're really tormented by it, you know, and they start talking about what it is that they're making. |
| 1:27.4 | One of the characters is an engineer, and he has kind of a revelation. |
| 1:32.4 | I just wanted to make nice things. and he has kind of a revelation. |
| 1:33.0 | I just wanted to make nice things. |
| 1:35.4 | Didn't even have to be cars. |
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