TEASER: Listener Origin Stories

The War on Cars

The War on Cars, LLC

Cars, Society & Culture, Culture, Bicycling, Politics, Urbanism, Walking, Transportation, Cities, Transit, News Commentary, News

4.9 • 937 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Last month the three hosts told their origin stories, or how they first became aware of the problems associated with cars and automobile dependency. Our stories included everything from lessons learned during early driving lessons to our individual experiences living in car-dependent places. The response to that episode was so great that we put out the call to our Patreon supporters to tell us their origin stories. We heard from people from all over the world — including a few friends and former guests of the podcast — who all wanted to share how they were radicalized into The War on Cars.

***This is a preview of a Patreon-exclusive bonus episode. For complete access to this and all of our bonus content, become a Patreon supporter of The War on Cars.***

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0:16.5	Hey everybody this is a sample of a special bonus episode of the War on Cars. We are an independent podcast and depend on listener support.
0:20.8	So to access all of our bonus episodes and listen to regular episodes completely ad free,
0:26.0	visit the War on Cars.org, click support us and sign up on patreon for just three dollars a month.
0:33.0	As thanks, we will send you stickers and a handwritten note.
0:37.0	Okay, so last month for our bonus episode, the three of us shared our origin stories, how we got radicalized,
0:47.0	so to speak, into the war on cars. And the response to that from our listeners was great.
0:51.4	People started sharing their own origin stories. So we decided for this month that that's what we would do.
0:57.6	We would let listeners share their origin stories. So we put the call out on Patreon and a bunch of folks responded and sent in voice memos.
1:07.3	We won't be able to include all of them in the body of this episode, but stay tuned till the
1:11.7	end. We're just going to run them all and if
1:14.5	you're celebrating Christmas with your family just like have it on in the
1:17.7	background just let this sort of seep into your family's brains.
1:20.5	Kind of like a war on cars you'll log.
1:24.7	Yeah, just keep it running.
1:25.7	Just let yourself fall asleep to this with a cup of egg nog.
1:30.0	Yeah.
1:31.0	And you'll, and you'll wake up transformed.
1:33.6	That war on cars spirit.
1:36.0	All right, here's a voicemail from a friend in the UK.
1:42.0	Hello, I'm Stue.
1:44.8	As I'm speaking to you, some would have you believe that I'm trapped within a 15 minute
1:48.9	radius of my house in Oxford UK.
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