You’ve seen them. You’ve yelled at them.
Drivers so clueless they make Mario Kart look like a documentary.
In this rage-fueled episode of Stay in the Gray, Ryan takes a sarcastic—but seriously needed—look at what’s happened to basic driving competence. From FaceTiming at 70 mph to poodles in the dashboard to the nationwide allergy to turn signals, we’re calling it out.
🎙 Topics include:
– Distracted driving deaths (and why they’re rising)
– Tailgaters, left-lane hogs, and rolling stops
– School zones, speed traps, and why pets shouldn’t be projectiles
– The dangerous side of "just bad driving"
Cringe. Laugh. Reconsider your habits.
And if this episode made you flinch behind the wheel... good.
🔥 Hit Follow if you’ve ever had to brake for someone else’s stupidity.
Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction: The Epidemic of Bad Driving
00:46 - Welcome to Stay in The Gray Podcast
01:24 - Today's Topic: Terrible Drivers
04:24 - Distracted Driving: A Deadly Issue
07:34 - Tailgating and Left Lane Hogs
09:43 - Unrestrained Dogs: A Furry Danger
11:56 - Ryan's Rant: Turn Signals and Common Courtesy
15:05 - School Zones: A Serious Matter
17:20 - Final Thoughts: Be Considerate on the Road
27:07 - Conclusion: Stay Alert, Stay in the Gray
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America's Got turn signals but refuses to use them.
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You're driving a fucking two ton machine that can kill people.
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It's in 2022 alone over 3500 people died just because someone
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had to answer that text. Driving is basically the biggest
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shared group activity that we have every single day with no
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supervision. It's like Mario Kart but with
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real consequences and 0 skill. Unless you don't have any arms
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and then you likely wouldn't be driving.
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But let's just say you found a way to drive with no arms.
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That is the only way you're excused from not using your turn
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signal. Welcome to Stay in the Gray
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podcast. I'm your host, Ryan, and I'm
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here to bring you raw conversations about life and
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those undeniable human truths. We dive into the chaos one issue
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at a time, blending comedy, controversy and the
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unexplainable. Get ready for transparent ideas
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straight from the Gray areas where most answers are hiding.
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So stay curious, stay inquisitive.
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Please stay laughing. Stay in the Gray.
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Come check it out. We'll see that.
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Hey guys, April the 14th just keeps flying.
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I'm going to have some fun today, and I hope you do too.
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This is something that most of us can come together and bond
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over. No more is this 5050 divide a
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little more than 5050 possibly about politics and about Gaza
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and about tariffs and all of those things that fall under
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that umbrella. Today we're going to talk about
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something a little different and that's fucking drivers that
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suck. It is beyond me that I had to
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deal with this on a day-to-day basis.
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Trey and I used to do a segment on the show back in the day
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called an awareness of self-awareness.
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And what that means if you can't figure it out, is that people
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need to understand, become self aware of the things they do that
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not only piss people off, but that are dangerous and that
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annoy me, quite frankly. It, it's driving and cars on the
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road and trucks on the road. This is one of the things that I
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think might send me to my grave. It's unreal. 3 different things
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on the way back home today, I'm sitting here ready to do this
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show. And I was like, well, there's
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another one, There's another one, There's another one.
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Just you can, I have to pull over sometimes and just take a
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deep breath. We'll talk.
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I was coming up with the title of the show and, and I admit
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that I was getting some help with it because I wanted it to
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be clever. And I had a couple of these from
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mine, but a couple of these were assisted by my AI partner, if
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you will. But every one of these applies
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to you people that I'm talking about.
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So, so here it is. This is an awareness of
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self-awareness. That's the main one behind the
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wheel of idiocy. That's my favorite driver's seat
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of dumb. License to drive poorly.
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Staring into stupidity. America's Got turn signals but
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refuses to use them. Caution morons at the wheel and
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drive like no one's watching and it shows.
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I have one more Fast and the Furious and the flat out dumb.
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I'm looking at you people, and I joke and I joke, but bottom line
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is that this can be deadly. This can impact people's lives.
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Lives can be taken. Lives can be ruined.
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And I'm trying to joke about it because I want people to to
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listen and to go, yeah, you know, this happened to me the
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other day. Why are people like this?
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But then really be able to sit back and go, man, we need these
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people to actually understand because it's not good.
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And I have kids now and and that's my biggest priority is
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keeping them alive. And you're not helping.
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So let's start. Let's roll.
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This is the big one is distracted driving.
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That's obvious. That's cell phones and food,
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things like that. So whether it's texting, which
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is the biggest one, probably taking selfies, doing videos,
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eating your food, that Big Mac you got to get before you get
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back to the office, whatever the case may be, I just don't
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understand the need to do it right there.
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Are our attention spans so vastly hindered these days that
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you can't sit at a light without looking at your phone?
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The eating thing, I'm not going to lie to you, I've done it
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before and every once in a while I still do it.
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But I guarantee you there's not anything else that I'm doing
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besides driving and focusing on that.
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And I set it down in between bites.
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So maybe I need to be more self aware when I eat in the car, but
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have you pulled up to somebody before and seen this?
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I, I do all the time. People that are literally, it
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looks like they're on FaceTime, They're talking to people what
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they're driving. If you're talking to somebody
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and you're looking at a different camera, chances are
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that there's something coming from this direction that you're
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not going to see. Be aware, be observant, know
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what's happening around you. You're driving a fucking two ton
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machine that can kill people. All right.
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And that was just the first one. How about some stats?
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In 2022 alone over 3500 people died just because someone had to
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answer that text. Somebody was distracted and they
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call those distracted deaths. It's a non catastrophic
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annoyance because in the part that isn't deadly, you're
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sitting in a light and people are trying to wait.
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Happens a lot in the in the left turn lane.
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The arrow pops on, you've got your fucking music on, you're
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looking at your phone, you're texting, and you don't see that
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the arrow changes. Well, there's only so long
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before that arrow turns, and usually the left turn lane isn't
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very long. And if other people behind you
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are trying to get somewhere, what are you doing?
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You're holding everybody up because your dumb ass is looking
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at a phone and listening to your music and you're unaware.
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I had a situation not long ago. I was leaving the golf course
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and I was trying to meet some people.
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Fortunately it was just for a lunch, but I got behind this guy
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and and honking didn't work. He must have had his music
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blaring and he went through two cycles of the light.
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These days I'm not going to get out of my car.
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Who knows what what somebody's carrying or freak somebody
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freaks out. But boy, that horn I was, I was
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using and he didn't hear it. Two light cycles.
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What are you doing? And finally he turned and I
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think everybody else in line zoomed by him and everybody was
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flipping them off. And, and rightfully so.
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Usually I'm, I warn people these days about flipping people off
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or yelling because like I said, you don't know what they're
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capable of. But get off your phones.
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I don't even want to condone this, but at the very least put
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it on top of your wheel and be looking at the light and looking
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at your phone at the same time. Because if you're going to crash
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into a pole, I don't give a shit, but I need to get
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somewhere. The next one, tailgaters.
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This is a common one people don't like.
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Very rarely, I'll probably push up on somebody if they've done
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something wrong or if they're doing #3 which is coming up.
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But these people are trying to climb into your back seat with
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their lovely Kia Soul. And in traffic, this is so
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annoying, especially when the highways are congested.
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Where are you going to go? Where are you going to go?
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Even if you got through me or I moved out of the way, where are
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you going to go? If you live in a rural area or a
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city and you're listening to this and you don't get a lot of
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back-to-back bumper to bumper traffic, then ignore this and
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nobody should be tailgating you. The only time that I think it
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might be OK is if they're sitting their ass in the left
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lane, which is the everybody, the fast lane.
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Anybody that doesn't know this, anybody that's doing that,
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that's sitting in the left lane unaware, going 62 and a 55 or
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excuse me, 62 and a 65 with people lined up behind them.
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One of two things. Either they don't know, they're
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just oblivious and they shouldn't be driving, or they
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don't care and they're assholes. Most of them are probably the
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latter, although I wouldn't doubt there were some of the
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former as well. Get out of the left lane.
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This may be one of the things that drives me the most crazy.
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It's just common courtesy. It holds everybody up.
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Then people are trying to just get out of the left lane.
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You know who you are, you know who you are.
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A little fun fact, and I knew this, but nobody carries it out.
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Being in the left lane and going slow and not using it just to
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pass and a lot of states is actually illegal.
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Karen with the emotional support dog doesn't seem to care and
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until it's enforced people aren't going to give a shit.
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Speaking of dogs, let's talk about unrestrained dogs in the
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car. Is it cute?
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No, maybe debatable depending on the dog.
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Most little dogs to me, are not cute.
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What's not debatable is that this little fluffy fuck can be a
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furry projectile if you hit something.
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A 10 LB dog in a 30 mile per hour crash becomes £300.
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Force cannonball. But sure, let little Max sit on
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your lap while you're driving 70 miles an hour.
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Nothing bad could ever happen in that situation.
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It's not adorable, it's not hilarious, it's insanely
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dangerous and I've seen it a lot.
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And the biggest one I saw recently was I was driving
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behind a car and it was, it was fortunately it was a road that
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was about 40 miles an hour speed limit.
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That's not that slow. And I'll give you a statistic on
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that in a minute. It's not that slow and it was
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going through and it's the three lane on each side.
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This is Dallas, TX. Our roads, we have lots of lanes
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and the roads are big because there's lots of people, three
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lanes on each side. And the car was going across and
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back and forth and whatever. And I'm, I'm just kind of like,
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you know, anybody that knows me, what the hell is going on?
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Finally I got around to the left to try and pass this person.
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And I look over and this old guy, older guy is fucking with
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this dog and it's in his arms and it's jumping up on the
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window and he's driving the car with his legs and with his
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elbows and he's trying to control this dog.
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Meanwhile, his big old girlfriend or whoever in the
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passenger seat is just laughing, not trying to help him or
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thinking it's fine for him to to mess around with this dog while
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she sits there. She had some food, so perhaps
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that was priority. Come on again.
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A kid runs across the street of, of people jogging people this
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the light changes and you're messing with the dog.
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Don't bring your dog in the car. And if you have to, then find a
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way to restrain it. It's it's, it's beyond me.
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I'm going to do a little bit of this show called Ryan's Rant and
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Ryan's Rage Corner. You might have thought I already
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did it with these other ones, but let's talk about, let's talk
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about this. Unless you don't have any arms
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and then you likely wouldn't be driving.
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But let's just say you found a way to drive with no arms.
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That is the only way you're excused from not using your turn
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signal. It's not difficult.
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I literally just did what it takes to turn on a turn signal.
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Your blinker if you will. There is no reason to not use it
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yet. There are many reasons to use
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it. It's so easy.
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I can't tell you how many times I've almost run into a car
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because I look over for two seconds to check this way and I
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turn back and this car is just turning.
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It's not hard to use your signal.
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That's a big one. And that to me, you know, I had
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a statistic and I and I lost it, but it was something like turns.
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Not using your turn signal actually costs a lot of lives as
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well each year. And you people kind of chuckle
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at that. Well, how could that happen?
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Well, it just does, especially in the winter time when, when
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it, when the roads are slick and all of a sudden somebody's
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trying to turn. And it's very simple.
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Just use it occasionally if nobody's around, then maybe use
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it. Don't use it if you switch lanes
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or something. But but why?
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Why not just do it and you'll you'll say, oh, what does the
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guy 80 yards backing to see it? Sure, why not?
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Maybe he goes into the other lane and just to make sure that
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he doesn't have any kind of a tragedy.
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Just use your just use your turn signal people.
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Here's one of my personal favorites and a lot of people
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won't maybe be as angry as I do about this.
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But to me, it's it's just about consideration and I'll get to
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that. But you're driving in the right
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lane, at least a two or three lane Rd. and you're driving the
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right lane and you're about to turn right at this light.
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Well, everybody knows in the United States and other
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countries, you can turn right on red.
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OK, we know that. And you got some asshole in the
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center lane who doesn't want to be behind any other car.
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The right lane is open, and he's going to go there and sit there
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and not turn right. He's going to wait to go
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straight. So guess who has to sit and wait
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when he otherwise could have turned right?
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To me, it's just about, again, you look back and you see no car
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insight anywhere. All right, fine.
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If you must be the first one off the line against the big truck,
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by all means go do it. But just be aware if there's a
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car kind of coming up on the right side, he or she may want
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to turn right. Don't be a Dick.
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That's that's I've been told before, Trey and I used to do
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these. I've been told that that one's a
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little bit petty. OK, I'll take that.
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But you still need to know that you're a Dick in my eyes.
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Here's one that I'm going to be all serious about.
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This isn't. There's no nothing funny about
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this one to me at all. And that's school zones.
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If anybody doesn't think that it's important to obey school
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zone signs and school zone laws, check this out.
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If a pedestrian is hit at 20 miles an hour, they have a 90%
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chance of survival. It's pretty good.
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Still not great. I don't like that there's any
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chance of not surviving, but if you're going to school zone
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speed limit at least the chances are high that you won't kill
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somebody at 40. That drops to only 10% survival
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if you're hit by a car going 40 miles an hour.
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Well no shit that seems, you know, maybe.
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Again, 10% seem to seem to survive it, but I guarantee that
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my 5 year old wouldn't and I have a big issue with it.
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It's not just my 5 year old. I can't imagine anybody having
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to go through something like that if it happened.
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Just go the speed limit. The problem with a lot of these
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school zone speedsters, if you will, is that they just, they
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don't, they don't care. They don't look at the signs.
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They're flying through here and they just don't look.
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Sometimes you say, I admit you, you suck, and you go, oh shit, I
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didn't realize I was in a school zone.
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Fair enough. But be aware everybody around
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you is going 20 miles an hour, 25 miles an hour, whatever.
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Maybe maybe it's a school zone. Look at the sign.
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If the sign says 35 and it's time to end the school zone,
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then then go. I had people the other day
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stopping at that thinking that was the beginning of the school
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zone. Are you just, are you not?
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Are you not looking at the signs?
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Again, I'm trying to laugh this off but this one is hard.
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Look, I don't care if you hit a hit a dumb ass adult that jumps
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out in the street and they shouldn't be.
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But kids are innocent mostly, and if they jump into the
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street, chances are they weren't aware that they probably
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shouldn't do that. It's not hard on a school when
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it comes to school zones. Please people, please just it.
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It's not going to ruin your day, it's it's really not going to
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slow you down that much. Just do it.
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All I asked for when it comes to driving is for people to be
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considerate. I actually ask for that.
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Probably in most things in life, just be considerate.
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Just consider that other human beings live on this planet, not
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just us or not just yourself. I'm sorry.
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All of us do, and all it takes is a little little
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consideration. Be considerate of others and
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everything will flow a little bit better.
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A person won't get upset that you cut them off and then
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they'll treat somebody better and they'll treat somebody
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better. Everybody knows the butterfly
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fact, everybody knows the chain reaction, everybody knows these
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things. Just do it, be considerate.
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It's all I want. Am I the only one that going
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through this makes you lose your mind?
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Usually I attack these like one, one or two at a time, and I'm
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hitting them all right now and it's just building up.
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But I'm taking a deep breath and I'm trying to, I'm trying to
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believe that people out there aren't all stupid when it comes
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to driving. So I'm going to keep going with
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a little bit of the real talk. I'm going to kind of stay away
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from comedy. I'm sorry, I I hit pause on the
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comedy, but some of this shit's not funny.
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And you know, I see stories all the time about people that, that
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are dying in the in car crashes. We all know that it's more
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dangerous to ride in a car somewhere than it is to fly.
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That I think that's more testament to the airline
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industry and air travel being good perhaps than it is the the
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opposite. But there are way more car
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accidents and car tragedies that happened in this country.
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And I'm sure in the world that that needs to be if people would
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just kind of use their head a little bit.
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But you know, I just you hear all these high school kid was on
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his way home in the night and somebody comes across the
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highway and just head on and it's just like what is going on?
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And it happens a lot. And I guarantee you that if some
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of these things I'm talking about were considered, we could
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cut that number down. So again, the school zone's a
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big one. But speeding it on small roads
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and neighborhoods, that's not good crosswalks when people are
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there. I mean, a lot of times the
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pedestrians have the right of way.
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And if they start walking and you're not paying attention or
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you don't know that they have the right of way, then bad
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things are going to happen. You know, New York City doesn't.
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It's a mess in there. I've been there.
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It's crazy. You're on your own in New York
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City. Drivers and pedestrians just
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just do your thing, see what happens.
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Chicago is coming right up behind you there.
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But again, you know, that's your kid, your niece kid.
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You wave goodbye two in the mornings.
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And you need to be aware that other people unconditional love
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for these other people as well. I can't imagine having to live
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my whole life knowing that I unintentionally killed someone
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because of driving, much less a child.
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So think about it. If this reaches one person, then
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great. If you're entertained by some of
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the the funny ones, which there are getting into the right lane
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to piss Ryan off, that's not deadly.
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But I'm trying to think of all of them.
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They're all they're all they all could turn most of them.
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I mean, the dog and phone, everything could turn bad.
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Pausing for effect. I've made my point about the
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school zone, but I'm debating telling, you know, explaining it
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more and I won't. Bottom line is look at the
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signs. And I wish that this is the
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whole thing about police and I, and I wish I asked a police
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officer who happens to work at my child's school.
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And I said, hey, you know, people are speeding around this
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all the time. Why is there not more
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enforcement of the law, especially back in, in, in the
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day with school zones. I mean, that's double the, the
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ticket fee, the penalty. And, and people were kind of
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afraid of that. People didn't.
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And now I just feel like nobody's worried about any
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repercussions. And he just said they don't,
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they just don't have enough manpower, not enough staff.
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They're too busy with other things, which is what you hear a
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lot of times. And, and rightfully so.
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I mean, if I had to choose between real crime and and
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somebody's speeding a little bit in the school zone, I suppose
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I'd have to go with the former. But until something bad happens
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and then all of a sudden it becomes a serious crime.
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So lastly, let's let's go through some other quick ones
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before we wrap it up. The rolling stops, AKA the
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California shrug. I don't know where that came
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from, but that's what I was told it's called.
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This one doesn't bother me as much unless it's obvious that I
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have the right of way and you jumped in front of me because
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you rolled through a stop sign. I don't feel like a lot of
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incidents happen because you rolled through a stop sign.
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There's a reason for that law, and I think you should obey it.
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We've all been known to roll through, especially if you're in
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a hurry. I get it.
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But just be aware. Be aware of people around you.
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That's my advice on that. All right, this one may be funny
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and people, some people don't care.
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People get on me. Turn your fucking music down.
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I don't need to hear what you're listening to.
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I I just don't care. No one cares.
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I'm trying to have a conversation with my three-year
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old son who looks away and Mumbles out the window.
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That's down. And a lot of people would say to
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roll it up, but you know what? But no, turn the music down.
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I can't understand the damn thing he's saying because you're
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sitting here thinking you got Kyle over here, Mr. 16 year old
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high school kid who thinks he's a badass because he's playing
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some gangsta rap. You're not doesn't make you
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cooler. It makes you more annoying when
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you get older, you'll understand.
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My my friend. Turn it down.
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This is another one parking. All right.
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This one we can go back to being light hearted about.
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Kind of like the music thing. Park like you understand
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symmetry park like you will have respect for other people.
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I get out of these, you know, the car get to the store and is
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assholes completely over the line parked at a diagonal 30°
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angle and he just it doesn't give a shit.
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Notice I say he mostly there's your guys.
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Just if you get out, you're going to be aware that you you
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did a shitty job parking and I think you should go in there
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real quickly back up and and straighten it out, especially if
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the store is crowded. Obviously, if there's nobody
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there, I still don't like it. Who do you think you are?
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Why do you get to bark there? You're not special.
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I promise you that park like a normal person and take the take
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the grocery store carts back to the the thing and don't leave
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them in the middle of the parking lot.
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Come on, people, Jesus Christ. Each of these, I view, is a
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small act of social collapse. I thought of one last one, and
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it was really funny when Trey and I used to talk about it,
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because Trey does this. All these big old trucks feel
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like they need to back into a space.
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They're going to make you wait. You're going to have to sit
00:24:41
there while they manoeuvre the truck back in.
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If you have to do that, don't buy truck to get a little bitty
00:24:48
car. If you can't figure out how to
00:24:50
work that big old truck, you don't need to have it because
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everybody else is having to wait and they're put out.
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You know, it's just a side note for all of you and a memory of
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Trey to bring him back to the show.
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So bottom line, driving is basically the biggest shared
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group activity that we have every single day with no
00:25:14
supervision. It's like Mario Kart, but with
00:25:20
real consequences in zero skill. I wish I could blue shell all of
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you, blow you off the road, but I won't.
00:25:30
Maybe just a banana peel or two. So that being said, how about
00:25:36
you check your awareness of self-awareness?
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I challenge you to be aware of these things.
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Now that you've listened when you're driving, I guarantee you
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that you'll think back to this mug and this frustration level
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and either you'll chuckle about how intense I am about little
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things like the music or turning right a sitting in the right
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lane on a red. But hopefully some of you will
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also look and go, man, I am rolling through a school.
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Look at this guy hauling ask going 40 through a school zone.
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And now you know the statistic. 10%, only 10% will survive if
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that car hit somebody. Just think about it.
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It's not just driving, it's not just control of the car, it's
00:26:24
control of whether people make it safely, including yourself.
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It's, it's just something that I feel needs to be drilled home
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and that's why I've done it. Be better.
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Please pay attention. Put your dog in a seat belt.
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That'll that'll be a good start. If I see somebody swerving
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because of a dog again I'm going to lose it.
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Just letting you know you'll hear about me on the news.
00:26:48
Man ran it himself into the river screaming.
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Get the dog off your lap. For the love of God use your
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turn signal. Just do it.
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Karma will be better for you. The universe will look more
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after you. Just use your turn signal
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please. So thanks for listening.
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If it made you laugh, I hope good.
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If it made you scream internally like me, good.
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I'm not alone. Or if you're considering
00:27:22
reporting somebody to the DMV, anonymously, of course you share
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it. Send it to your friends and
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definitely things. Redo that guys.
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Send it to your friends who definitely think the left lanes
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for chilling out. Till next time, stay alert.