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SuperLife with Darin Olien

That New Car Smell | Fatal Conveniences™

SuperLife with Darin Olien

Darin Olien

Education, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

The average American spends 1.5 hours a day in their car. That number may even be higher for you. Our cars, especially with the windows rolled up, become a small contained environment. The particles in the interior air of your vehicle get recycled in and out of your lungs, and your body. But what exactly are you breathing in with that new car smell?

 

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0:00.0

It's that time of the week for another fatal convenience.

0:06.0

This is a bite-sized segment that addresses some of society's fatal

0:10.5

conveniences and the steps you can take to avoid becoming a victim of them.

0:16.1

I define fatal conveniences as the things we may be doing because the world we live in

0:26.2

makes us believe we have to. Tap water, shampoo, sunglasses, food.

0:29.0

I dive into the hidden truths behind some of our everyday choices that could not only be harming us, but even

0:37.2

killing us.

0:38.8

So let's dive in.

0:40.0

Hey everybody, welcome to the show another awesome installment of

0:46.3

fatal convenience sometimes fatal conveniences I always try to leave on a high note right so I always like to leave on a high note, right? So I always like to have problem solution,

0:57.0

alternatives, and this one's kind of cool because industry-wide, it's changing.

1:05.2

And so there's kind of an upswing,

1:06.7

and there's not also a clear solution

1:10.7

that gets us out of it.

1:12.6

And that is the new car smell.

1:17.6

We absolutely all of us know what that is.

1:21.8

Isn't it funny? It's the same type of smell in every new car and we

1:28.2

make that association and those associations are powerful. So the fatal convenience is the new car smell.

1:36.0

It's basically called VOCs, volatile organic compounds

1:42.0

that are permeated through the seats, the vinyls, the

1:47.4

leathers, the treatments, the formaldehyde, the really intense plastic that they use and that's actually there's a

1:56.8

technical term called car fluff because it's a type of plastic that's nearly

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