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- [JC] Hey beautiful, powerful woman,
you going my way?
- Hey yeah, I'll go where ever you wanna take me.
- [JC] Hop in!
- By the way, this is like a fun color car.
And electric?
I would like to get me one of these.
- Take me to a bagel shop, stat.
- Ah we're in New York
so that's not gonna be a problem.
Oh hey, I'm Negin Farsad,
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a social justice comedian.
If you don't know what that is, Google it.
- By the way, so happy to be in this city
'cause you have everything I need.
- Absolutely, do you need 12 Ethiopian restaurants
within a one-block radius of where we're driving?
We can provide that,
that is not a problem. - Thank you.
And I do feel like New Yorkers
really believe in this city, and they love this city
even though that there's elements of it
that make it more difficult.
- [Negin] Yeah, yeah.
- Oh hi, hi.
- You guys going to the Statue?
- [Both] No.
- [JC] Thank you, though.
- We totally look like--
- [JC] We look like tourists?
Nothing to see here.
- [Negin] Come with their camera crew.
Tourists who have a camera crew.
New York is like, really into not having climate change.
All about it.
- Great.
- However, there's like a problem.
- Tell me.
- Its transportation.
- Right. - Because here's the thing,
like, there's so many bike lanes,
and there's a bike share program
and there's subways and buses and ferries
and there's so many different forms of transportation
that we're really trying to crowd out the cars,
but the cars are proving very resistant.
- Mm-hmm, because it's private cars, right?
- People wanna just get in, one person at a time.
It causes an obscene amount of congestion,
a whole bunch of emissions, it's really loud.
- And especially since now
you're going to have a kid soon, right?
- Yeah, I've got baby inside of me right now.
- We have a baby inside an electric car.
- There's three of us in the car.
- I love that. - Okay.
- I love that we have a third, third wheel, am I right?
- If you have a baby stroller
and you wanna use the subway,
nothing was built for that.
- No. - So it's like
weirdly difficult, you know?
- Right. - And between bikes
and subways and walking on the ol' gams,
which is the city was designed for the gams, really--
- Your gams be looking good lately.
- Hey, thank you very much.
I even, what it would be really fun
about the future of New York
is if we looked like Beijing did in the 1920s,
where everyone is just on a bike.
- Right. - I would be into that.
- Watch.
- I don't need it, the noise and the possible death
and all that stuff.
Not that you can't get hit by a bike
but it's gonna be a lot less painful,
I'ma be honest with you.
- A hundred percent. - Right?
- It would be more embarrassing than anything else.
- Completely. - It's like,
did I just die from a bike?
- I know, like, please don't put that in my obituary.
The worst way to die is being run over by like,
a slow-moving bicycle.
- This guy?
- Yeah no, nobody wants that.
Here's the extra fun thing about New York,
there's a proposal on the books
to change the entire fleet of buses
to electric buses by the year 2040.
- 2040?
- That would reduce the cost
of respiratory illness by $150,000 per bus,
a year - And that's if they stop
eating those hot dogs - If they start using, yeah.
Stop eating the hot dogs
and all the buses are electric, I mean--
- 100% world health. - We're living forever,
we're living forever in New York City.
- Thank you to everyone involved
in the New American Road Trip.
We couldn't have done this without you.
And to the people watching this, go out there,
get involved in your community,
your local projects, talk to your mayors, talk to the people
that are inventing new ideas for a better planet.
Be sexy, care about the planet.
But it's not about sex, I don't wanna objectify you.
We know how that works.
- I wanna objectify you.
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- Thank you all so much.
On behalf of the New American Road Trip,
this is Negin Farsad, I'm JC Coccoli,
have a good life.
- [Negin] Bye!
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- For a second there it got sketchy.
- Do you want me to do.
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