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Road Rage on the Rise · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We got a question for American mamas. Dear mamas, why
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  Speaker 1: is road rage on the rise?
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  Speaker 2: You know what, Let's ask our American mamas. Mamma, she said,
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  Speaker 2: and joining us.
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  Speaker 1: Now our American mamas turn Ediville and Kimberly bur listen.
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  Speaker 1: I was not aware that road rage was on the rise.
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  Speaker 1: I I remember back in you know, in the nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighties and the shootings on the freeways in California and
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  Speaker 1: all this. There's a comedian named Jake Johansson who I
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  Speaker 1: thought really summed it up. He said, if you have
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  Speaker 1: to shoot somebody on the freeway, that's just poor gun handling,
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  Speaker 1: Like if you just show them the gun, they'll let
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  Speaker 1: you merge. I thought that was a funny take on it.
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  Speaker 1: But I w wasn't realized road rage is back up
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  Speaker 1: on the rise here in the US.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think that you probably aren't seeing it as
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  Speaker 3: much in Louisiana as we're seeing it in Texas. I
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  Speaker 3: live where our neighborhood backs up to I twenty, and
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  Speaker 3: it's insanity. It's just gotten worse and worse, just the blowout,
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  Speaker 3: the gunshots, the racing. I mean, you hear it all.
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  Speaker 3: But there's also been several shootings that have taken place
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  Speaker 3: right around where we live, one of them being my child,
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  Speaker 3: Stone's little league coach shot in a road rage incident
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  Speaker 3: like years ago. So the other day, so I'm just
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  Speaker 3: seeing an uptick because I happened to live right where
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  Speaker 3: so much is happening. I'm coming out of a neighborhood
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  Speaker 3: the other day in this ninety thousand dollars truck. I
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  Speaker 3: had the right away. I turn, but he's coming towards me,
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  Speaker 3: and I just throw my hands up, like wait. You know,
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  Speaker 3: in my head I'm saying wait, I'm not saying anything more.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not. He speeds up to get right next to me,
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  Speaker 3: almost bumping me, rolls this window down.
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  Speaker 2: Blips me off.
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  Speaker 3: He's screaming at me. And this is like a handsome
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  Speaker 3: young man like in his forties screaming at me. I
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  Speaker 3: was absolutely traumatized.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I went one way, he went the other. But I thought,
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  Speaker 3: how did that make him go from zero to one
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  Speaker 3: hundred in less than two seconds. It's like, I feel
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  Speaker 3: like people are just so ready to flip out all
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  Speaker 3: the time. And I'm always saying stuff to my kids,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like Mike, because Stone said that being in
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  Speaker 3: a vehicle gives you the same confidence as an anonymous
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  Speaker 3: social media person.
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  Speaker 2: You know, any I'm the only one in the car,
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  Speaker 2: nobody can see me.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody can see me. And so I think it's people
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  Speaker 3: are real quick to anger. They're quick to show their emotion,
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  Speaker 3: and the problem is you don't know who's on the
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  Speaker 3: other side, who where they are mentally.
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  Speaker 4: I had a.
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  Speaker 1: Director I was working with a long time ago, and
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  Speaker 1: he was telling me this story, said, the last time
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  Speaker 1: I ever got road ragie. He was on the freeway.
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  Speaker 1: A car cut him off, and he chased the car
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  Speaker 1: down to the exit. And when he pulls off in
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  Speaker 1: the exit comes with the stop sign, and he pulls
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  Speaker 1: up right next to the car that was at the
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  Speaker 1: stop sign, and he gives him the double barrel like
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  Speaker 1: you know, both hands, both middle fingers and looks. And
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  Speaker 1: the guy in the other car was the pastor at
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  Speaker 1: his church. Oh no way, he said, I could never
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  Speaker 1: go back to that church.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I never went back.
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  Speaker 1: I never talked to him again. But that was the
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  Speaker 1: last time he was ever a road rage.
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  Speaker 3: Ye.
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  Speaker 1: It was a lesson because he was out of control
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  Speaker 1: and it was So that's a good point.
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  Speaker 4: How many people would chill out if they knew if
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  Speaker 4: you know the person that the person in the other
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  Speaker 4: car is like your neighbor, your a good friend, your
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  Speaker 4: church member. That is so like, that's how people should
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  Speaker 4: think when they drive. I'm oblivious, so I don't know
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  Speaker 4: when people hate me on the road, you know, unless they,
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  Speaker 4: you know, just are out there.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just tending to just you know.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, when Kevin drives, sometimes he'll get so
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  Speaker 4: frustrated at other drivers and like if they come off
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  Speaker 4: or whatever, you know, And one time he got real close.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, what really, really, you know, they like
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  Speaker 4: teach him a lesson, like you can't do that. But
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  Speaker 4: I remember one time Kimberly when that guy did his
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  Speaker 4: hand like this.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he did like a gun.
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  Speaker 4: With like he's like he's gonna shoot her. And she
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  Speaker 4: said it just absolutely terrified her. And and I think
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  Speaker 4: in today's in our world right now, I think everybody's
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  Speaker 4: on edge. I think our country has gotten all of
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  Speaker 4: us on edge. I think we don't nobody knows what's
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  Speaker 4: gonna happen anymore. We don't trust anything, we don't trust
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  Speaker 4: those in power, and so I think people are just
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  Speaker 4: on edge and we need a reprieve. We need people
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  Speaker 4: to just be that calm, you know, drive like a
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  Speaker 4: bunch of grannies.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I will. It's because I do have
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  Speaker 3: some advice for drivers. If you want to keep people
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  Speaker 3: from hating you, do not drive in the passing lane.
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  Speaker 3: And what that will send people through the roof with resk.
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  Speaker 2: My sister.
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  Speaker 4: When we drive to Florida, it's just like, get in
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  Speaker 4: out of out of the passing lane. But I'm going fast.
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  Speaker 2: Yeadn't care.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't matter. It's not that you're going fast. You
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  Speaker 3: have to be passing somebody. It's not the flow of
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  Speaker 3: traffic doesn't pertain to the left side.
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  Speaker 4: But if I see a bunch on the right who
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  Speaker 4: are going slower, and I see like, okay, six cars ahead,
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to be behind these. I'm going to
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  Speaker 4: stay in my lane until I get in that Bruce, Yes,
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  Speaker 4: thank you, but I have to hear her get.
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  Speaker 1: Over a little, grace a little that might be your pastor.
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  Speaker 1: of Kimberly Brothers and thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you