The car culture wars; plus, the problem with child stars

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🗓️ 12 April 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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President Biden has been pushing new regulations to promote electric vehicle production to combat the climate crisis — and former president Trump is using those regulations as a talking point against Biden. To break down how cars became the latest weapons in the culture wars, host Brittany Luse is joined by NPR's transportation correspondent Camila Domonoske and Dan Brekke, a reporter and editor at KQED in San Francisco who covers transit. Together, they talk about why Americans are so invested in their cars — and how cars became more than just a policy battle.

Then Brittany discusses a new HBO documentary series that is making waves right now: Quiet On Set. The show alleges a pattern of sexual harassment behind the scenes at Nickelodeon, and includes interviews with several former child stars describing experiences that range from taking part in sexualized gags to facing downright sexual abuse while working for the network. Brittany looks closer at the trouble with child performers with Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson, co-hosts of the Eating for Free podcast. They discuss what makes child performers especially vulnerable to abuse — and they ask why society demands performances from children.

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0:08.0	When tipping first came it was the most un-American thing to tip,
0:12.0	and now it's the most un-American thing to take it away.
0:15.0	The long complicated legacy of tipping in America.
0:19.0	Find NPR's throughline wherever you get your podcasts.
0:23.0	Hello hello I'm Brittany Loose and you're listening to it's been a minute from
0:30.7	NPR a show about what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident.
0:37.0	This week we're connecting the dots between a prophecy from 1918, a metaphorical
0:48.6	bloodbath and electric vehicles. I know, I know. How are all of these things related?
0:55.4	Well, we're going to find out with NPR's transportation correspondent Camilla Dominozky
1:00.3	and Dan Brecky, a reporter and editor at KQED in San Francisco who covers transit.
1:06.3	Camila, Dan, welcome to its been a minute.
1:08.8	So happy to be here.
1:09.8	Oh, it's great to be here.
1:11.1	Oh, right, we are getting in gear. We are getting in gear. So y'all may have heard, but we are in the
1:19.8	middle of an election year, which means that literally anything could become the next hot
1:25.1	issue and one of the things I have been surprised to see become a political issue
1:28.8	this year is electric vehicles. President Biden has been pushing new regulations to promote
1:34.7	EV production to combat the climate crisis.
1:37.6	Yeah, transportation is the single largest source of emissions in the United States.
1:42.2	That's right. Of carbon emissions, the United States. That's right.
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