Colin Rosenblum
Colin Rosenblum, of YouTube legends Colin and Samir, joins Esteban in the sauna to talk about the places we live, the trains we lost, the lawns we’re ruining, a skyscraper with its own zip code, and Colin’s shirt preferences. But mostly the shirt thing.
HOSTED BY Esteban Gast
DIRECTED BY Stoney Sharp
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR / EDITOR Connor Linnerooth
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Adam McKay, Staci Roberts-Steele, Anna Wenger, Jessie Bluedorn, Esteban Gast
GUEST Colin Rosenblum
PRODUCER Stoney Sharp, Carl Fieler
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER Brittney Badduke
CONSULTING PRODUCER Elijah Zarlin
DP / CAMERA OPERATOR Connor Linnerooth
SOUND Brandon Cruz
SET MEDIC Paul Joubran
SPECIAL THANKS to Big Oil for being so sneaky and evil that we had to make a show about their disinformation and lies.
FACTS, REFERENCES, AND MORE
Buildings use 40% of global energy (and only 1% get retrofitted)
https://www.energy.gov/articles/doe-announces-46-million-boost-energy-efficiency-and-slash-emissions-residential-and
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/02/climate/buildings-emissions-climate.html
General Motors (and Firestone Tire, Standard Oil and others) were convicted of conspiring to monopolize public transit
https://changeagent.nelrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Dismantling-Public-Transportation.pdf
The PBS documentary Taken for a Ride (1996) it’s THE definitive film on the conspiracy, free on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-I8GDklsN4
If the 40 million acres of American lawns were converted to native plants, it would sequester 4 times more carbon than they currently do:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/04/04/native-plants-climate-change/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2020/08/19/climate-change-prairie/
https://www.nasa.gov/earth/nasa-funded-study-finds-lawns-are-largest-irrigated-crop-in-the-us/
The Empire State Building is basically a vertical town:
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/organization/empire-state-building
Books:
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
- Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City by Peter Norton
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Documentaries:
