Carpooling is just peer pressure with seatbelts.

• Intro: Boy With a Coin, Iron & Wine, Sub Pop Records (2007)
• Poem: Coda, Octavio Paz
• Music: Tightrope (feat. Big Boi) - Big Boi Vocal Edit, Janelle Monáe;Big Boi, Bad Boy/Wondaland (2010)

My GPS said 'turn around when possible.' I've been trying to do that since high school.

• Intro: Boy With a Coin, Iron & Wine, Sub Pop Records (2007)
• Poem: Instructions on Not Giving Up, Ada Limón
• Music: Workin' For a Livin', Huey Lewis & The News, Chrysalis\EMI Records (USA) (1982)

I'm not too proud for day-old donuts.

• Intro: Bad Bad News, Leon Bridges, Columbia (2018)
• Poem: On Meditating, Sort Of, mary
• Music: Good Man, The Grooveliner;Aina Cook;Ryan Stewart, The Grooveliner (2021)

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the left lane.

• Intro: Bad Bad News, Leon Bridges, Columbia (2018)
• Poem: From 'Sabbaths 2007', Wendell Berry
• Music: Plant the Garden, Melt, Melt Records (2024)

The world would be a kinder place if we learned how to zipper-merge.

• Intro: Bad Bad News, Leon Bridges, Columbia (2018)
• Poem: This World, Czesław Miłosz
• Music: Your Soul & Mine, BADBADNOTGOOD, XL Recordings (2024)

I remember when driverless cars meant using your knees.

• Intro: Bad Bad News, Leon Bridges, Columbia (2018)
• Poem: In the Morning, Before Anything Bad Happens, Molly Brodak
• Music: Tender Defender, Vulfpeck;Theo Katzman, Vulf Records (2025)

// April 27, 2026

That's emotional support rust.

• Intro: Bad Bad News, Leon Bridges, Columbia (2018)
• Poem: And Isn't Everything at Risk, Gregory Orr
• Music: Comfortably Numb, Scissor Sisters, Polydor Records (2004)

These donuts aren't gonna eat themselves.

• Intro: Come on Eileen, Save Ferris, Epic (1997)
• Poem: Late Fragment, Raymond Carver
• Music: Groove Is in the Heart, Deee-Lite, Elektra Records (1990)

Nothing says 'productivity' like people who won't take their right of way.

• Intro: Come on Eileen, Save Ferris, Epic (1997)
• Poem: Te Deum, Charles Reznikoff
• Music: Grace Kelly, MIKA, Casablanca Records/Island UK (2007)

The merge lane is about momentum, not courtesy.

• Intro: Come on Eileen, Save Ferris, Epic (1997)
• Poem: The Committee Weighs In, Andrea Cohen
• Music: Rebirth Of Slick (Cool Like Dat), Digable Planets, Pendulum Records (1993)