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Adam Conover has ruined weddings, the suburbs, sitcoms, college, personality tests and TurboTax. Now the host of “Adam Ruins Everything” and the Netflix comedy docuseries “The G Word” is out to ruin another thing: the assumption that you need a car to live a fulfilled life in Los Angeles. Conover hated driving since the day he moved from New York to L.A. in 2014, but his disdain reached a breaking point when he nearly hit a bicyclist. “People were honking at me and I got all frazzled and I was like, ‘This is ruining my life,’” he says.
He decided to see if it was possible to take public transportation to work, and it was. (A DASH bus ride costs less than a buck.) Today, Conover walks or takes public transit just about everywhere. He’s an evangelist for programs like Metro Micro, an L.A. County-run service that’s similar to Uber and Lyft but only costs $1 per ride. (In a review of the experience on TikTok, he says, “The best part is I didn’t get nauseous riding around in the back of some weird Uber dude’s Kia Sorento.”)
Here’s how Conover would spend his ideal Sunday in L.A.
Illustration by Jaya Nicely @jayafish
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Dec 25
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