This is a head gum podcast.

Hello and welcome to Factually, I'm Adam Connovert.

Thank you so much for joining me on the show once again as I talk to an amazing

expert about all the crazy shit that they know that I don't know and that you

might not know. We're going to have our minds blown together. It's going to be a great time.

Now, I want to thank everybody who has come out to see me live doing my brand new

hour of standup across the country. I just got back from Boston and Arlington, Virginia,

and up next I'm going to Nashville, Spokane, Washington, Tacoma, Washington, and New York City.

And get this. We just added two more cities to the tour.

I'm going to be in San Diego at the laugh factory from September 8th through 11th and in Portland

at the Portland Helium from September 29th through October 1st had to Adam Connovert.net

slash tour dates for tickets. That's Adam Connovert.net slash tour dates. But look,

if you've been traveling around the country as much as I have, it's hard not to notice the

transportation in America success. If you're flying, you have to deal with constant

cancellations, terrible customer service, higher prices than ever, and multi-stop trips now that

airlines are cutting routes. If you're driving, you have to deal with traffic paying for gas,

and oh yeah, taking your life into your own hands and the lives of other people who you might

accidentally kill behind the wheel. And if you're getting from city to city via another method,

well, just kidding, that doesn't actually exist. Because in most of the country, there is no train

or bus service between even major cities. And of course, once you're in the city itself,

driving is pretty much your only option because most cities have either poor or non-existent

public transportation. Our country is built around the car, physically, psychologically,

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