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Big Adult Energy: PSA Traffic Etiquette For Grown Adults · Let's Get Naked

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  SPEAKER_00: Hey everyone, I'm Anne.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, welcome back to another mini episode of Let's Get Naked podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, today I am doing an episode called uh PSA, Traffic Etiquette for Grown Adults.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right, quick community meeting.
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  SPEAKER_00: We need to discuss traffic because some of y'all out here driving like this is a contact sport.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's review a few things we should collectively be able to agree on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number one, the zipper merge.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's called a zipper for a reason.
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  SPEAKER_00: One car, then one car, then one car.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is not a moral debate.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is not a personality test.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is not a challenge to your dominance.
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  SPEAKER_00: You do not win by blocking someone out.
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  SPEAKER_00: You look ridiculous.
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  SPEAKER_00: Merge like a zipper, keep it moving, no drama.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is not rocket science.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number two, horn etiquette.
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  SPEAKER_00: A quick beep or two quick beeps means, hey friend, light's green, let's go.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is not an attack on your bloodline.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is not grounds for a middle finger.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is your cue to look alive.
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  SPEAKER_00: You give the my bad wave, you proceed forward, we all survive.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, a long aggressive, leaning on it like you're scoring a horror film horn, uh, that means you're being a complete menace.
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  SPEAKER_00: At that point, fine, the rage is mutual.
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  SPEAKER_00: Enjoy your cortisol spike.
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  SPEAKER_00: But learn the difference.
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  SPEAKER_00: Short beep equals a gentle nudge.
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  SPEAKER_00: Long blare, you've chosen violence.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh number three, thumbs up, thumbs down.
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  SPEAKER_00: We need a new system.
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  SPEAKER_00: Instead of flipping each other off like feral raccoons, let's introduce ratings.
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  SPEAKER_00: Smooth merge, thumbs up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let someone in, thumbs up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Camping in the left lane, going 12 miles an hour under, thumbs down.
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  SPEAKER_00: It releases the pressure valve, adds a little humor, reminds us we're all just humans trying to get somewhere without losing our minds.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's the real point: driving is not a personality contest, it is a shared agreement to not ruin each other's day.
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  SPEAKER_00: We can do better.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are not the main character, none of us are.
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  SPEAKER_00: Merge, beep responsibly, use your thumbs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's act like we've evolved past Caveman Road Rage.
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  SPEAKER_00: End of PSA.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's a good one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today I'm here with Casey, who has agreed to be tortured with the mini episodes, and we're on our fourth one, so we're pretty feral at this point.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know it's getting wild.
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  SPEAKER_00: So uh I don't know why this makes my heart so happy.
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  SPEAKER_00: But, you know, in the book we talk about traffic being low-hanging fruit and understanding that that's a huge waste of Skittles, which let's just plug the book really quickly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Life Hack playbook, get your copy, figure it out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um but yeah, it's a it's a really big thing, traffic.
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  SPEAKER_00: It really pisses people off.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's because they already run at an eight, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: On the on the I'm already charged up because my, you know, shit's crazy, things are happening, I'm running behind, like blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then we just act like terrorists out on the road.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's it's I I love that you're Casey is literally, for those not watching but listening, caving in on herself right now because she probably did something on the way to the studio this morning.
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  SPEAKER_01: Tell me so well.
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  SPEAKER_01: Tell me what happened.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I had to lay.
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  SPEAKER_01: I felt the need to lay on my horn because this woman, she was in the slow lane, but no one cares.
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  SPEAKER_01: I know.
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  SPEAKER_01: She was going so slow in the slow lane.
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  SPEAKER_01: It doesn't matter.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's you, not her.
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  SPEAKER_01: I know.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know what?
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  SPEAKER_01: And then I stared her down and it really give her a thumbs up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Really told her that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Give her a thumbs down.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will thumbs down is way more fun.
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  SPEAKER_00: Roll the window down, give a full thumbs down, make sure that they don't think you're flipping them off because nobody fucking needs that, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't need road rage in Arizona.
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  SPEAKER_00: If this is where you're living, a lot of people carry guns.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't need all of that shit, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the wild west out here.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's true.
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  SPEAKER_00: Go ahead and just do a thumbs up, thumbs down based on how somebody is driving.
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  SPEAKER_00: It'll relieve a little bit of the pressure.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everybody has a good time.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think that's good.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everybody gets their safe.
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  SPEAKER_01: I definitely am going to start implementing that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And also just don't drive on Lincoln.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_00: Here's the deal: your life isn't going to magically fix itself.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nobody's coming to save you.
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  SPEAKER_00: But you can learn how to save yourself.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what this book is.
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_00: It's a no BS guide to stop outsourcing your happiness, stop making excuses, and start living with purpose.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you're tired of waiting for someday, consider this your wake-up call.
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  SPEAKER_00: Someday is today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Get your copy of the Life Hack Playbook on Amazon or on the podcast website, let's get nakedpodcast.com.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just don't drive on Lincoln.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you have if you have anger issues, it's not the right place for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Guaranteed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Very true.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you're the asshole in the left-hand lane driving 12 miles an hour, pull over to send that important text, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: You don't need to be doing it in the left lane.
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  SPEAKER_00: We realize that's where you're most comfortable.
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  SPEAKER_00: You just kind of hitch in there and just go.
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  SPEAKER_00: There are some of us that have places to go, people to see, things to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Get the fuck off the road, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, isn't that such a lovely thing?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's great.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you love those people who are merging and it's like they're gonna be the asshole and like get out in front of somebody so that people don't merge where there's actually merging that's supposed to happen?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like if they wanted you to merge a mile back, that's where they would have put the cones.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I don't know who hurt you, the fucked up people that do that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm so sorry.
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  SPEAKER_00: Figure your shit out.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fix your shit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fix your shit.
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  SPEAKER_00: I should just find people like that and give them copies of the book.
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  SPEAKER_00: When they just stop like that and like want to block traffic, I don't know who you think you are.
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  SPEAKER_00: What kind of dad did you have?
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  SPEAKER_00: What kind of daddy issues do you have that bring out that guy?
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  SPEAKER_00: Just out of curiosity.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right.
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  SPEAKER_00: I understand the people that lose their shit.
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  SPEAKER_00: I understand the people that you know are throwing Skittles out the window with like Marty Grabis, which is what that looks like when you're doing that, just so everyone understands that when you're losing your shit in traffic, because traffic happens every single day.
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  SPEAKER_00: It isn't a whole life event.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's why I shut you down.
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  SPEAKER_00: You tried to explain about your girl, it doesn't fucking matter.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like it's not a newsworthy event at all.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm so sorry.
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  SPEAKER_00: Going really slow.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know, but here's the whole thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're doing you're doing that sometimes too.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's the thing that people don't understand.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like sometimes you're the asshole.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's why when someone beeps at you, you don't have to flip them off.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can just be like, My bad, my bad, I wasn't paying attention.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because when I'm sitting behind somebody and they're sitting at the light and it turns green, and I give a little beep and they flip me off.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love that so much.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because it doesn't make me mad.
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  SPEAKER_00: You look like a ding dong.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're the one that fucking is in the wrong.
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  SPEAKER_00: What you should have been doing is like, oh, my bad.
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  SPEAKER_00: When someone honks at me, my bad, have a nice day.
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  SPEAKER_00: I wasn't paying attention.
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  SPEAKER_00: That happens.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoopsie doodle, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't need to get angry.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um I'm not sitting in traffic on an eight waiting for someone just to fucking piss me off.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's outrageous.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the person that doesn't understand the zipper merge always gets me.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like, who hurt you?
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  SPEAKER_00: Is that like sexual trauma?
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  SPEAKER_00: Is that, is that like, did you get your ass beat by your dad when you were younger?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, where who made that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Where, what is that quality?
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  SPEAKER_00: Someone please DM me.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you know what that quality is, if you're that person, if you're that person that gets over and blocks both lanes a mile back from where we're supposed to be merging, someone please fucking tell me what that comes from.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've actually been trying to figure it out.
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  SPEAKER_00: People are just completely unaware.
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  SPEAKER_00: Completely no, no, no, they're not completely unaware.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those people, you don't you don't know who I'm talking about?
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  SPEAKER_00: The merge is a half a mile up and they get out and they block the lane so that people can't get all the way up to the merge point.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because the reason why they put the cones that way is so that when both cars get to the merge point, we go every other, like a zipper.
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  SPEAKER_00: Isn't that lovely?
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  SPEAKER_00: And you know where to merge because that's where the cones are, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: But then you have that one fucktard that, and I'm gonna use that word fucking strongly.
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  SPEAKER_00: That fucktard that one half of a mile back decides that he's not gonna let anybody else get in front of him.
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  SPEAKER_00: No fucking way is he gonna let anybody else get all the way up to that merge point.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's gotta be first, he's gotta be first.
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  SPEAKER_00: Who is that guy?
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  SPEAKER_00: Did your dad beat you?
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  SPEAKER_00: Did your uncle touch you?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, tell me who that fucking guy is.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to know.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_01: He was the loser in school, he didn't have any friends, which is okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: And now he's trying to, in my opinion, make himself feel Yeah.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_00: Someone, please DM me the answer.
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  SPEAKER_00: This this is I you can't just ask Google that, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, what trauma happened?
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  SPEAKER_00: Who hurt that dickhead?
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_00: You know?
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh I can't find that answer with Chat GPT.
• 7:59
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm gonna need the the public, I'm gonna need our audience to send in, just DM me some different options of who that guy is, like what he is that is so fucked up that has the community together.
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_00: Bring bring the community together.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then we'll do a post with everybody's answers of who that guy is so that we can really evaluate.
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_00: And then also when we see Bill at the water cooler, be like, hey, Bill, remember that time your uncle touched you?
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_00: Let's talk about that so we can get that fucking weight off of your shoulders so that our society can start fucking cohabitating in such a beautiful way.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, please.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's all we're gonna say about that.