Car Horns

Episode notes

Alex Schmidt is joined by comedy writer/podcaster Diana McCallum (FromSuperheroes.com, host of ‘Talk From Superheroes’) and comedy writer Eileen O’Connell (Funny Or Die, The Pack Theater) for a look at why car horns are secretly incredibly fascinating.

Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week’s bonus episode.

LINKS FOR THE GUESTS:

• FromSuperheroes.com
• ‘Talk From Superheroes’ podcast
• Diana McCallum on Twitter
• Eileen O’Connell on Twitter
• Eileen O’Connell on YouTube
• VoyageLA interview with Eileen O’Connell

RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE’S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

• native-land.ca
• U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture
• The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)
• Mapping Manahatta: 10 Lenape sites in New York City (6sqft)

RESEARCH SOURCES:

• Meep Meep! The History and Evolution of Car Horns (Car And Driver)
• The Objekt Series: Car by Gregory Votolato
• How Do Car Horns Work? (HowStuffWorks / YouTube) — this video in particular has great diagrams of a horn mechanism, and where a horn sits in a car.
• Klaxons; What makes them sound like that? (Technology Connections / YouTube) — this video in particular has great close-up views of actual horns and klaxons.
• The British Columbia Motor Vehicle Act (as of 2010)
• The history of car radios, from AM to Apple (The Globe And Mail)
• Charts & Graphs: Technophobia (Lapham’s Quarterly)
• India’s transport minister plans a more melodious traffic flow (The Irish Times)
• NASCAR Lingo 101 (Fansided.com)
• Why don’t NASCAR race cars have doors? (NBC Sports / YouTube)
• Birds, bison, and bears—here’s how to see wildlife from your car (National Geographic)
• Memory Alpha Wikia entry for Klaxon
• sample of an “Awooga” on old klaxon
• sample of a WWII submarine dive klaxon
• “OmarDrives” on YouTube: “Here are the HORN SOUNDS I tested in 2020”