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🗓️ 19 April 2019
⏱️ 69 minutes
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0:00.0 | Today's episode of the Big Picture is brought to you by the National Highway Traffic and |
0:04.7 | Safety Administration. |
0:06.2 | It can be a little frustrating, especially if you're in a hurry or running late, to find |
0:09.6 | yourself at a railway crossing, waiting for a train. |
0:12.1 | And if the signals are going and the trains aren't even there yet, you can feel a bit tempted |
0:15.2 | to try and sneak across the tracks. |
0:16.8 | Well, don't. |
0:18.0 | Ever. |
0:19.3 | Trains are often going a lot faster than you expect them to be, and they can't stop. |
0:22.7 | Even if the engineer hits the brakes right away, it can take a train over a mile to stop. |
0:26.1 | By that time, what used to be your car is just a crushed hunk of metal, and what used |
0:29.3 | to be you, well, better not think about that. |
0:31.8 | The point is, you can't know how quickly the train will arrive. |
0:34.0 | The train can't stop even if it sees you. |
0:36.0 | The result is a disaster. |
0:37.7 | The signals are on, the train is on its way, and you just need to remember one thing. |
0:41.6 | Stop. |
0:42.6 | Trains can. |
0:43.6 | I'm Sean Fennes, the editor in chief of The Ringer, and this is the Big Picture, a conversation |
0:57.3 | show with a bunch of LA residents. |
0:59.6 | I have two guests on this week's episode of The Show. |
1:02.6 | In the back half of the show, I had a lovely conversation with the actor Andrew Garfield, |
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