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Bad driving and your calls · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you can hear this Zach Kill
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  Speaker 1: that music one of these music videos that flipped through
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  Speaker 1: my social media during the break. I'm like, hey, she's
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  Speaker 1: not bad. Guess who that is? No idea jone Jet's daughter.
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  Speaker 1: You would expect, Yes, he said, doing my mom's song.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna get out of here because I thought that's
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  Speaker 1: that's pretty good. And it turns out it's Jon Jet's daughter.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Bluesy and rock.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I get it now, that's that's kind of nice,
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  Speaker 1: carrying on the old family tradition. I was a big
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  Speaker 1: jone Jet fan, but I was a black haired jone
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  Speaker 1: Jet fan. Not so much when she became Susan Powder.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not I know her.
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  Speaker 3: The one song she made that was super popular. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know much about other than that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, see, I love rock and roll. Was it
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  Speaker 1: was a great song when it came out. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: just she did. I'm like this with all the groups,
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  Speaker 1: especially the seventies and eighties. You get the hit stations
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  Speaker 1: that they play, you know, the hits of the Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we're playing your favorites from the sixties, seventies, eighties, not
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  Speaker 1: these two thousands and on into the future, and here's
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  Speaker 1: the problem. They played like one song from an artist
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  Speaker 1: that had you know, thirty really recognizable, right and uh
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  Speaker 1: and Jones jet I love rock and roll. It's all
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  Speaker 1: over the place. Her rendition of Tommy James and the
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  Speaker 1: Shondale's Crimson and Clover was awesome, very well done. She
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  Speaker 1: had one minor hit with Michael J. Fox, believe it
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  Speaker 1: or not, from a movie called night was it Light
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  Speaker 1: of Day? Just around the corner from that day? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: And Michael J. Fox actually sang on that one with her.
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  Speaker 1: I think you might have played guitar too. But she
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  Speaker 1: had several songs that could be played in at least
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  Speaker 1: a loose rotation. But you never hear anything except I
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  Speaker 1: love rock and roll. Kiss, I want a rock and
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  Speaker 1: roll all night and party every day. Do you understand
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  Speaker 1: how many songs Kiss had are recognizable? But that's all
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  Speaker 1: you ever hear. Occasionally, occasionally you'll hear Beth I'll here
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  Speaker 1: lick it up. Sometimes not where I would I would
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  Speaker 1: love is it one of our stations? See, there's the problem.
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  Speaker 1: There's a problem. I mean, Heaven's on Fire. I loved
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  Speaker 1: Heavens on Fire. They went through that makeup free stage
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  Speaker 1: with the you know, they became a hair band and
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  Speaker 1: Kiss rocked. I mean it was not it was not
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  Speaker 1: typical Kiss, but you know, neither was I was Made
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  Speaker 1: for Loving You, which was essentially disco. If you listened
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  Speaker 1: to I Was Made for Loving You, it is a
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  Speaker 1: disco song. It was their attempt to fit into the
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  Speaker 1: disco era.
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  Speaker 3: I mean they made a grunge album.
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  Speaker 1: Also, did they do a grunge Oh my.
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  Speaker 3: Gosh, it was called Carnival Souls.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to listen to it now just see
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  Speaker 1: how much I hate it.
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  Speaker 3: I can't remember if it was like that. I don't
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  Speaker 3: think the reviews were like terrible or anything. I think
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  Speaker 3: it's just so far under the radar. And at the
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  Speaker 3: time it was you know, Nirvana or whatever. Yeah, they
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  Speaker 3: were a little bit bigger than everybody for a brief
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  Speaker 3: moment in time.
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  Speaker 1: So the only reason I had any respect for the
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  Speaker 1: grunge movement is because I was able to get some
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  Speaker 1: really great deals on some plaid flannel shirts, and I
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  Speaker 1: love plaid flannel shirts.
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  Speaker 3: Where they showed that they sold a lot of those
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  Speaker 3: back then, I would imagine, yeah, and.
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  Speaker 1: I still have quite a few. I love them. I
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  Speaker 1: just I do too.
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  Speaker 3: I still wear flannel.
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  Speaker 1: So, as I pointed out on my Facebook posts before
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  Speaker 1: going on the air, today, the nicer weather, the warmer temperatures,
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  Speaker 1: more people are on the roads, and just again because
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  Speaker 1: of mathematics and human nature, this means more stupid people
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  Speaker 1: are on the road. You guys, seriously, I mean this.
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  Speaker 1: We don't need We've got enough problems on the road
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  Speaker 1: with construction, with traffic circles where they probably shouldn't be,
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  Speaker 1: and a bunch of people that have no idea how
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  Speaker 1: to use them. It's bad enough. It's difficult enough for
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  Speaker 1: people who are good at driving paying attention to their
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  Speaker 1: driving to do what they need to do. If you
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  Speaker 1: are bad at driving, be honest with yourself and don't drive. Please.
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  Speaker 1: I know that sounds crazy, but there are those who are.
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  Speaker 1: And I've been complaining about the speed thing for a
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  Speaker 1: long time, not people who are speeding, but people who
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  Speaker 1: refuse to even drive the speed limit. Here we go today.
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  Speaker 1: I'm coming in here, beautiful clear weather, warm temperatures, dry roads,
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  Speaker 1: daylight temperatures fifty. You're going thirty five. If you cannot
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  Speaker 1: at least go the speed limit, you are the problem.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm saying this in all seriousness. I know it
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  Speaker 1: sounds like I'm being flippant, but before summer gets here,
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  Speaker 1: you need to reassess your ability and the safety of
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  Speaker 1: others when it comes to your driving.
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  Speaker 3: At least, don't if you're on the interstate, don't get
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  Speaker 3: in the left lane. You have a responsibility in the
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  Speaker 3: left lane not to drive.
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  Speaker 1: You have a responsibility on a freeway not to be
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  Speaker 1: going through thirty miles an hour, thirty five miles an hour.
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  Speaker 1: Don't get on the freeway this. Don't even get like
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  Speaker 1: I say, McKinley Avenue, I here is fifty miles an hour. Rarely,
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  Speaker 1: rarely do I get over thirty five miles an hour
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  Speaker 1: coming down to Kinley Avenue.
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  Speaker 3: To get stuck on McKinley behind somebody going twenty eight.
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  Speaker 1: And this is dan. This going that slow is as
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  Speaker 1: dangerous as speeding in a lot of cases. Now, when
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  Speaker 1: we exit this building, and they've upgraded Fifth Avenue out
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  Speaker 1: here in front of the building over the past few years,
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  Speaker 1: it used to be much tighter and much more difficult
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  Speaker 1: to see down to Dublin Road. When you were pulling
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  Speaker 1: out of here. It's twenty five miles an hour. It
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  Speaker 1: probably should be thirty five, but it is twenty five
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  Speaker 1: miles per hour through there. However, used to be you
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  Speaker 1: would pull out of the parking lot here and somebody
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  Speaker 1: coming from Dublin Road going sixty as was common, would
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  Speaker 1: come around that corner. You don't even see them until
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  Speaker 1: they're right up on you. And if you pull out
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  Speaker 1: in front of somebody going that fast in a twenty
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  Speaker 1: five mile an hour zone and they hit you, you're
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  Speaker 1: at fault. You pulled out into traffic.
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  Speaker 3: In front of them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, even though they were going way too fast. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if if anybody gets a ticket for going
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  Speaker 1: way too slow and causing an accident or not. I
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  Speaker 1: know that you can get a ticket for that. I
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  Speaker 1: know that that is a thing. You can't get an
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  Speaker 1: impeding the flow of traffic ticket. Yes, but I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you can get an at fault in an
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  Speaker 1: accident if they can verify that you were driving too slow,
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  Speaker 1: And if you can't, we should probably make it so. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: I also have to mention, because there're all this topic,
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  Speaker 3: how many people do you think that drive when they're
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  Speaker 3: getting on the interstate don't know that they're supposed to
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  Speaker 3: be going the speed limit. Y.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, you don't get on at twenty and then wait
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  Speaker 1: for an opening, right, you enter at the speed limit
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  Speaker 1: and let me bring this up. Oh Dot especially you
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  Speaker 1: need to be listening Bruning. Sorry, I love you. But
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  Speaker 1: those ramps where you put the red green flash you know,
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  Speaker 1: go on, those are the most useless traffic control devices ever.
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  Speaker 1: By the time you push your accelerator, it's back to red.
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  Speaker 1: It it goes red. Yes, yeah, the timing on those
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  Speaker 1: is ridiculous. Nobody is adhering to those things. All we
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  Speaker 1: did was waste taxpayer dollars buying them and installing them
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  Speaker 1: and spinning the electricity to run them. They are dumb.
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  Speaker 1: They shouldn't be there. Here's the problem. I realize that
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  Speaker 1: Zach realizes that neither one of us are gonna stop
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  Speaker 1: on the ramp because the light is red for that
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  Speaker 1: half a second that it's red. But somebody in an
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  Speaker 1: eighty seven chavette in front of us will stop, and
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  Speaker 1: that's gonna clog up everything. That's gonna cause somebody to
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  Speaker 1: rear in somebody. Because you put up an absolutely useless,
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  Speaker 1: pointless and in fact an interfering traffic control device, you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna cause problems more so than help problems.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, honestly, it feels like somebody's sitting there with
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  Speaker 3: a camera watching people come up to that light and
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  Speaker 3: are like green red, ha ha haa green. It just
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  Speaker 3: feels like somebody's messing with you.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, psych psych, this like a psych light.
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  Speaker 3: Like Charlie was controlling it. It'd be like red green,
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  Speaker 3: red green, red green.
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  Speaker 1: But I am begging, I mean, I'm serious about this.
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  Speaker 1: I am begging you folks. If you don't, if your
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  Speaker 1: friends and family go, man, you're just not driving very good.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to what they're saying. Listen to what they are saying,
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  Speaker 1: because as the weather continues to improve, we have more
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  Speaker 1: and more people in this city, in this metro, many
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  Speaker 1: of whom you know, are not necessarily familiar with driving
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  Speaker 1: on paved roads or within marked lines or anything else.
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  Speaker 1: We got enough out there to deal with without you
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  Speaker 1: being a terrible driver and causing problems. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, you don't have to completely stop at
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  Speaker 1: a railroad track. If the thing is down, of course
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  Speaker 1: you stop. But if there's no lights flashing and no
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  Speaker 1: gate down, I understand if you want to slow down
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  Speaker 1: a little bit before you go with it, but you
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  Speaker 1: don't have to completely stop. I had that twice.
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  Speaker 3: Today today, twice today, because you got to cross some
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  Speaker 3: trade tracks to get here.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I crossed two times to come into work. If
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  Speaker 1: I take the usual routes and you yes, they stop,
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  Speaker 1: which is just nuts. And then on my beloved west side,
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  Speaker 1: and I fought against this. I fought against this. I
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  Speaker 1: argued with the city, the Department of Development, traffic control people.
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  Speaker 1: I argued against it, but they wanted to take Sullivan
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  Speaker 1: Avenue to one lane in both directions, which you know,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, I said, all you're doing really is
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  Speaker 1: slowing down traffic so that the hookers and the beggars
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  Speaker 1: can go come out to your window because you're not
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  Speaker 1: going anywhere. But we just built a casino down here,
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  Speaker 1: half a billion dollar casino, and you're going to slow
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  Speaker 1: the route to get to them when you come off
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  Speaker 1: of seventy. That doesn't make sense. But the city disagreed
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  Speaker 1: and did what they wanted to do. Now now they
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  Speaker 1: have you got the eastbound lane, the westbound lane. Then
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  Speaker 1: you've got a center what used to be a center
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  Speaker 1: turn lane. However, when you're coming up to the street
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  Speaker 1: where you want to turn they've built the stupid little
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  Speaker 1: concrete islands so you can't turn from the center turn lane,
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  Speaker 1: which means you're turning from either the westbound or the
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  Speaker 1: eastbound lane, which means all the traffic behind you if
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  Speaker 1: you are eastbound headed towards downtown, they've all got to
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  Speaker 1: stop while the westbound traffic gets by until you have
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  Speaker 1: an opening where you can turn because they closed off
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  Speaker 1: the actual turn lane with a concrete island. How ridiculous,
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  Speaker 1: absolutely ridiculous. Then they spent like thirty eight billion dollars
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  Speaker 1: with psychedelic lights on the tunnel going into the bottoms
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  Speaker 1: out of the hilltop. Have you been through there? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it's like you're on an acid trip. I need Beatles
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  Speaker 1: music when I go through there. Picture your cellphone on
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  Speaker 1: a street in the hill target that it's Oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 1: it's crazy, absolutely crazy. So we've got enough hurdles, we
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  Speaker 1: got enough government sponsored stupidity out there. Please be the
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  Speaker 1: best driver you can be, or or consider having people
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  Speaker 1: take you places. This is for for my sanity and
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  Speaker 1: your safety. And I mean that with all possible love.
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  Speaker 1: That number Derek here on sixth n WUTV at height.
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  Speaker 2: It's actually Eric on there, that's all right. It's a
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  Speaker 2: common mistake.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: For Zach, I just want to say thanks for putting
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  Speaker 2: this out there, this conversation. I'm a truck driver. I'm
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  Speaker 2: currently in Missouri. I'm listening on iHeart and merging. Now.
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  Speaker 2: I know truck drivers get a bad wrap. Uh, And
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  Speaker 2: I will agree that there are some bad you know,
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  Speaker 2: some bad ones out there. But when it comes to merging,
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  Speaker 2: just imagine if you drive for eight to eleven hours
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  Speaker 2: every day, all day, and every single ramp on ramp
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  Speaker 2: you have to move over because somebody is on their
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  Speaker 2: phone or talking to the passenger or just staring off
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  Speaker 2: in space doing thirty miles an hour trying to merge
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  Speaker 2: on the seventy miles an hour trap.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, it's extremely dangerous and also frustrating, especially when you
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  Speaker 4: got eighty thousand pounds of televisions behind you on my back.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir, so, I wish there was some kind of
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  Speaker 2: public service announcement or something, because it's like an epidemic
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  Speaker 2: and every single and it's almost like they time it
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  Speaker 2: perfectly to where I'm confronted with them. Every time I see.
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  Speaker 5: Somebody getting you know, I'm like and I'm looking I could.
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  Speaker 5: I can look at him on the ramp, coming on
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  Speaker 5: the ramp, and I can look at him, you know,
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  Speaker 5: And it's gotten to the point where I do this.
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  Speaker 1: They almost slow They slowed down to make sure they're
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  Speaker 1: getting your way. I feel the same way.
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  Speaker 2: Eric.
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  Speaker 3: It'scy it is.
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  Speaker 1: And the trains always get me to Eric. The music's played,
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  Speaker 1: I gotta run plus your heart beat safe out there, man,
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  Speaker 1: thanks very much for listening on iHeartRadio. I got to
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  Speaker 1: get out of here.