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Driving and TV · Chuck Douglas

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Speaker 1: Okay, so it's twenty eight bouncing back and forth here
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Speaker 1: twenty seven and twenty eight at the year severe weather
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Speaker 1: station News Radio six to ten, double UTV, and that
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Speaker 1: means that everything that melted off this afternoon is now
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Speaker 1: icing over. Be careful if you are scared. I'm going
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Speaker 1: to reiterate what I did at the beginning the Blazer Show.
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Speaker 1: If you are scared to be out when there is
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Speaker 1: any kind of weather, please stay home. I do not
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Speaker 1: say that with anger, with malice of any kind. I
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Speaker 1: say that out of practicality. If you are scared of weather,
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Speaker 1: if you cannot bring yourself to drive more than fifteen
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Speaker 1: or twenty miles per hour because there has been snow,
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Speaker 1: because there might be a patch of ice up ahead,
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Speaker 1: don't go out. It's just that simple. You're putting yourself
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Speaker 1: in jeopardy, you are putting people around you in jeopardy,
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Speaker 1: and frankly, you're making an inconvenient for those of us
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Speaker 1: that are not scared of the weather. Does that sound harsh.
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Speaker 1: I'm not trying to sound harsh. I am.
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Speaker 2: If you can't drive, stay home.
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Speaker 1: You have a beer wheel drive too, don't you.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I know how to drive.
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Speaker 1: There you go. You did okay coming in today?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, no big deal.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I just coming down McKinley. I just I was
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Speaker 1: so frustrated trying to get in here this afternoon, and
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Speaker 1: you know, the kids were all off from school, so
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Speaker 1: that made it even even more hectic getting in here
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Speaker 1: this afternoon. And the road was clear, McKinley Avenue, clear dry,
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Speaker 1: no snow, no ice, know nothing. The speed limit is
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Speaker 1: fifty miles per hour and this car in front of
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Speaker 1: me was literally doing between twenty and twenty five. Just
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Speaker 1: so bitterly frustrating. And then that puts me in a
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Speaker 1: funky state of mind because you know, I got to
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Speaker 1: deal with that. I've either got to stay behind you
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Speaker 1: or I've got to be illegal and go around you. Right,
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Speaker 1: you're giving me no option for happiness.
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Speaker 3: Did you say what kind of was it not to
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Speaker 3: be roote? Was it an elderly person or was it no?
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Speaker 1: No, don't no. I passed them so fast I couldn't tell. Uh, yes,
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Speaker 1: there was just there was no reason to be slow
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Speaker 1: on McKinley. Right. But there are people who they just
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Speaker 1: they freak out the minute they see a snowflake. It's
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Speaker 1: oh no, wait, I don't want to and they turn
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Speaker 1: on their emergency flight. You're not supposed to be driving
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Speaker 1: with your emergency flashers. Oh, by the way, Uh, they
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Speaker 1: get out there with the emergency flashers and they want
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Speaker 1: to they want to drive real slow. They get on
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Speaker 1: the freeway and they're going thirty five miles an hour
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Speaker 1: on a freeway. Just stay home.
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Speaker 3: That's one of the worst that even in good weather,
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Speaker 3: when people get on the interstate going forty. But you're
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Speaker 3: supposed to get on the interstate when you're By the
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Speaker 3: time you're on the interstate, you're supposed to be going
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Speaker 3: the speed of the flow of traffic.
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Speaker 2: Yes, not forty or fifty.
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Speaker 1: Don't get to the bottom of the ramp and then
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Speaker 1: hit your brakes and then wait for an opening. Get
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Speaker 1: up to speed. And the same can be said for
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Speaker 1: those of you who are on the freeway already. There's
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Speaker 1: an entrance ramp coming up on your right. If you
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Speaker 1: can get over into the next lane, do so. Don't
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Speaker 1: torture the people, go I own the road, your morons,
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Speaker 1: get over. Let the traffic continue to flow. Nice. It's
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Speaker 1: just the self centeredness of people makes driving difficult. Yes,
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Speaker 1: whether it's because you won't let somebody over, or because
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Speaker 1: you uh, you know you see the flashing lights of it.
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Speaker 1: You know somebody's pulled over on the the burb of ahead.
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Speaker 1: You know that in the state of Ohio. You know
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Speaker 1: you have to pull over. Now, you got to get
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Speaker 1: over into the next lane. You see those flashing lights.
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Speaker 1: Police have somebody pulled over, tow trucks getting said, you
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Speaker 1: have to pull over, But you know you're in the
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Speaker 1: middle lane, and you want to be a moron and
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Speaker 1: keep that person in the right lane from getting over.
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Speaker 1: What's it going to cost you to let off the
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Speaker 1: accelerator for two point one seconds so they can get
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Speaker 1: in front of you, or to hit your accelerator and
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Speaker 1: let them get in behind you. Nothing, you see it,
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Speaker 1: They see it, but you won't let them over, So
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Speaker 1: they have no choice but to slow down even more
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Speaker 1: as they go by in an attempt to be cautious
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Speaker 1: going around those lines. We just we don't put enough
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Speaker 1: effort into teaching driving anymore. And and and people are
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Speaker 1: just not bright enough to be on the roads. They're
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Speaker 1: not ready. Far too often and this recently, the governor
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Speaker 1: of the Great State of Ohio, Michael Dowaine, he decided
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Speaker 1: to put forth this idea, and it was this that
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Speaker 1: did it go through the legislature. Was an executive order.
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Speaker 1: I can't remember. But if you are over eighteen, you
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Speaker 1: still have to go through drivers training as of next year, right.
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Speaker 2: I remember that. I don't know exactly how how that went.
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Speaker 1: Which to this point, if you turn eighteen, you didn't
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Speaker 1: have to go through any kind of driver's training. Should
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Speaker 1: now you should have to go through it? Yes, and
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Speaker 1: it should be real drivers training. And uh, you know
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Speaker 1: if you can't if you can't speak the language well
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Speaker 1: enough to communicate with an officer of the law when
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Speaker 1: you're pulled over, I don't know that you need a
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Speaker 1: driver's license. If you cannot read the digital signs from
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Speaker 1: O dot to telling you that there's a crash two
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Speaker 1: miles ahead to get to the right, I don't know
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Speaker 1: that you should be driving if you cannot comprehend the
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Speaker 1: rules of the road. I don't think you should be driving.
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Speaker 1: But we just you know, you come here from somewhere else.
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Speaker 1: You have no idea, man, They just when's your birthday?
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Speaker 1: July or January first? Everybody was January first, and they
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Speaker 1: just guess their age and game of driver's license We've
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Speaker 1: got too many people on the roads now that came
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Speaker 1: from places where there were no roads, or if they
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Speaker 1: were there, they were dirt, no lines, no rules, nobody
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Speaker 1: to pull you over for bad driving, and we have
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Speaker 1: integrated them into our society, and those of us who
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Speaker 1: actually know what we are doing behind the wheel are
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Speaker 1: expected to deal with them. It's incumbent upon us to
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Speaker 1: deal with their limitations. And that's ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous. So, yes,
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Speaker 1: this started all as a weather rant, but it is.
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Speaker 1: It's an all inclusive y'all need to learn how to
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Speaker 1: drive your car or get off the road rand then
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Speaker 1: I think I speak for all of us who have
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Speaker 1: any sense just or maybe that's just me.
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Speaker 3: No, it's just incredibly frustrated because it's not driving. Being
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Speaker 3: a good driver is not difficult. It's not a hard
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Speaker 3: task to accomplish.
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Speaker 1: I don't think so.
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Speaker 3: But most people, I don't see how you cause so
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Speaker 3: many problems.
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Speaker 1: How many people don't want to drive? Now? Though? How
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Speaker 1: many youngsters come up? They don't, they're twenty years old,
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Speaker 1: they have no interest in getting a car.
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Speaker 3: That must be a difference in generations. Because I couldn't
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Speaker 3: wait to drive.
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Speaker 1: Oh that's it. Yeah, that's all I wanted for my
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Speaker 1: sixteenth birthday was take me down there to get my
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Speaker 1: driver's license.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 2: I failed the test twice, but I a written test.
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Speaker 1: I failed twice, but it wasn't because I failed. It
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Speaker 1: was because I was using somebody else's car, a smaller
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Speaker 1: car that my parents thought would be easier for me
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Speaker 1: to take the test in. And both times it didn't start.
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Speaker 1: We went, yeah, we went out to start the test
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Speaker 1: and it did not start. That a failure, Yes it did.
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Speaker 1: One was my sister's. She had a seventy three Mustang
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Speaker 1: that was the one that had the real long hood
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Speaker 1: on it. And uh, go out to take the test.
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Speaker 1: Trooper gets in and yeah, back then a state trooper
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Speaker 1: gave you your driver's test too. That was something else.
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Speaker 1: Not today. They just tire people, probably somebody they gave
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Speaker 1: a driver's license to what's your name, Bill, Come on in, Bill,
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Speaker 1: you're hired, and uh, yeah, it used to be a
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Speaker 1: trooper would come out and give you your driver's test.
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Speaker 1: And our driver's ed teacher at was high school, Bill Young.
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Speaker 1: He warned us there were a couple of tricks that
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Speaker 1: they will give you. For example, they would take you
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Speaker 1: around through Valley Vue. All on might be loved west Side.
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Speaker 1: Take you down Wilson Road, VALEEVUEW bring you back up Sylva.
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Speaker 1: And it used to be a United Dairy Farmer's store there,
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Speaker 1: and they would tell you as you were coming over
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Speaker 1: the railroad tracks on North Sylvan Avenue, they'd say, okay,
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Speaker 1: turn right up here at broad Street. There was an
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Speaker 1: alley back of the UDF and if you turned on
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Speaker 1: your turn signal before the alley, you got dinged. You
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Speaker 1: lost points for that. Oh okay, And apparently this was
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Speaker 1: something that was common that these troopers would do over
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Speaker 1: there to test you and make sure you did not
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Speaker 1: signal until you were coming up on the next available intersection. U.
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Speaker 1: And he was exactly right. Soon as we crossed the tracks,
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Speaker 1: trooper said, I want you to turn right up here
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Speaker 1: at broad Street. And when I got past the alley
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Speaker 1: before I turned on the turn signal, I saw him
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Speaker 1: kind of half grin. He's like, okay, he knew. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he knew that I knew, And I don't know. We
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Speaker 1: just we had to put more work into it. We
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Speaker 1: wanted it more. We trained before it harder. We had
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Speaker 1: it in school. We had a semester of drivers ed
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Speaker 1: those two nine week periods. The first nine weeks you
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Speaker 1: spent in the classroom or in the car, and then
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Speaker 1: the people who were in the car would come into
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Speaker 1: the classroom for the second nine weeks. The people who
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Speaker 1: were in the classroom won't go to the car for
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Speaker 1: the second nine weeks, and uh ed, and you would
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Speaker 1: have to go through nine more weeks of whatever you
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Speaker 1: weren't doing the first nine weeks, you really learned, and
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Speaker 1: the teachers really taught. Yeah, and now that's it's just
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Speaker 1: not the case anymore, and it shows now.
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Speaker 2: But I do remember what I took my driving test.
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Speaker 3: I did every the parallel park driver turn signals, this,
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Speaker 3: this and this and what I pulled back into the
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Speaker 3: place where we started the driver's test. I pulled in, uh,
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Speaker 3: right between two parking spots, like right in the middle
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Speaker 3: of two parking spots, right on the white line. Perfect, No,
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Speaker 3: like in the middle, like here's a spot, here's a spot,
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Speaker 3: and the white line between them.
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Speaker 1: Going on to it.
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Speaker 2: Because it was a lady and she goes, all right,
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Speaker 2: pull in here, no here, So I was just I
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Speaker 2: crashed out for a second.
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Speaker 1: Did you have the cones? Did you have to do
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Speaker 1: the cones.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, that's fault. I did everything perfect
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Speaker 2: except that, and I went, that was your fault.
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Speaker 1: Do you remember your written tests with your scores were
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Speaker 1: on the written test?
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Speaker 3: The first time I missed it, I don't know about
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Speaker 3: how much. The second time I missed it by like.
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Speaker 2: Very little.
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Speaker 3: And then the second time I passed it, but I
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Speaker 3: don't remember the third time I passed.
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Speaker 1: Who said it's it's lulls? And what's the other section
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Speaker 1: of the written test or what was it?
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Speaker 3: It was like if your cars pointed downhill, you put
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Speaker 3: it in break and then turn the tires this angle A, B,
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Speaker 3: C or D do you turn it?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know that kind of thing.
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Speaker 1: I can't remember what the other the other part was called.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, I got a ninety to ninety five on
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Speaker 1: the written so I was sure I was getting my
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Speaker 1: my license. And as I said, you can started. First
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Speaker 1: two times the car didn't start. It's just not even
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Speaker 1: your fault, though, But well, I'm thinking about driver's tests.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you noticed last night's CBS at
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Speaker 1: eight o'clock. I'm used to watching Cedric the Entertainer and
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Speaker 1: the Neighborhood, which is it its last season, And I
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Speaker 1: think that's a shame because it's a fine show, and
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Speaker 1: they deal with racial issues beautifully, and it's well written
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Speaker 1: and the plot lines are just they're strong. Everything about
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Speaker 1: the show I enjoy. So of course CBS is canceling
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Speaker 1: it now. But last night at eight o'clock, instead of
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Speaker 1: The Neighborhood, this new show DMV was on, which is
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Speaker 1: usually on at eight point thirty after the Neighborhood. It
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Speaker 1: replaced Big Papa's House. And I think, honestly, here's my thought.
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Speaker 1: I have no proof of this, just gut instinct. I
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Speaker 1: think the fact that nobody's watching DMV is why they
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Speaker 1: put it on eight o'clock. So you tuned in at
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Speaker 1: eight to watch the Neighborhood and that was odd, and
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Speaker 1: they figured out, you'll just leave it there. You can't
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Speaker 1: find the remote, it's under the dog. And so because
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Speaker 1: it's it's honestly, it's a pretty terrible show. It's just
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Speaker 1: it's not good. It's they they're trying to do the typical,
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Speaker 1: you know, like the nineties ensemble cast thing, and none
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Speaker 1: of the cast is strong enough to pull it off.
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Speaker 3: Is it supposed to be a satirical show at all,
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Speaker 3: or is it? Yeah, so it's like they're trying to
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Speaker 3: do an office.
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Speaker 1: Type of Yeah, it's exactly exactly, except it's a DMV.
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Speaker 3: That only works when you have certain chemistry and certain
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Speaker 3: characters to do that.
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Speaker 1: And there has to be that one central character that
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Speaker 1: everyone else kind of evolves around, whether that's Seinfeld or
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Speaker 1: whether that was Alex on Taxi or or Brian on
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Speaker 1: Wings or not Brian but was his brother's name?
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Speaker 2: I forget, I don't I haven't seen Wings and.
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Speaker 1: So, but Wings and Taxi were pretty much the same show,
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Speaker 1: except one was in a garage and one was in
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Speaker 1: an airport. But it was actually pretty much the same show.
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Speaker 1: The cast was all pretty much the same. And I
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Speaker 1: said the same thing about that new show, the Tim
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Speaker 1: Allen Show. What's it called again? Mark like said, I
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Speaker 1: can't stand it. The garage, No, the one he's his wife,
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Speaker 1: his wife died and his daughter's living with him. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: Shifting gears, Shifting gears. Yes, it is pretty much last
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Speaker 1: man standing. They've got the good hearted idiot guy, they've
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Speaker 1: got the cool no it all guy, they've got the
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Speaker 1: the ditsy female. They've got I mean it's it's formula television.
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Speaker 1: It really is.
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Speaker 2: Kat Dinnings is in it.
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Speaker 1: I don't Yeah, she does nothing for me.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's that says more about you.
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Speaker 1: And then the other the other broke girl is the
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Speaker 1: one who is on the neighborhood.
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Speaker 2: I've never I don't even know what the name, you've.
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Speaker 1: Never watched the neighborhood. Really Cedric the entertainer, and then
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Speaker 1: his wife, Gina is She was Chris Rock's mother and
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Speaker 1: everybody hates Chris and uh. They live in LA and
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Speaker 1: they get where the house next door has been sold,
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Speaker 1: and Cedric finds out he goes all on. They got
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Speaker 1: a son named Grover, and so they move in and
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Speaker 1: it's a white family and he goes, it's a white
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Speaker 1: boy named Grover Grover and so this this white guy, Dave,
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Speaker 1: wants to be Cedric's best friend. And he's a touchy
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Speaker 1: feely guy. And their chemistry is great. And the the
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Speaker 1: racial stuff that has come up, they have just they've
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Speaker 1: they've done it so beautifully. It's a good show. It
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Speaker 1: really is, And I'm sorry that it's it's going away.
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Speaker 1: D m V will probably be expanded to an hour