WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.440 --> 00:00:01.159 It's nice. 2 00:00:04.200 --> 00:00:06.280 Boston's news radio boy. 3 00:00:06.280 --> 00:00:08.640 I want to thank my guest last hour, a former Boston, 4 00:00:08.759 --> 00:00:13.000 New York and Los Angeles. In Los Angeles chief of police, 5 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:19.280 but a remarkable law enforcement career heading departments in three 6 00:00:19.519 --> 00:00:24.399 major cities here in America. And now is someone who 7 00:00:25.280 --> 00:00:28.960 really understands what it's going to take for us to 8 00:00:29.000 --> 00:00:32.640 get our country back at some point where we strike 9 00:00:32.679 --> 00:00:35.880 that balance between again the rights of individuals. 10 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:36.560 I get it. 11 00:00:37.840 --> 00:00:42.640 I'm a big advocate of personal privacy and all of that. 12 00:00:42.719 --> 00:00:47.600 At the same time, we cannot allow the security of 13 00:00:47.640 --> 00:00:52.679 the country to be sacrificed. I just think the big 14 00:00:52.719 --> 00:00:55.000 takeaway I had from that article was I did not 15 00:00:55.200 --> 00:00:58.119 realize that. And some of you are going to say, 16 00:00:58.119 --> 00:00:59.920 what you should have known it, but I will be 17 00:01:00.600 --> 00:01:02.960 big enough to admit that I did not realize that 18 00:01:04.079 --> 00:01:09.719 some of these smartphones don't even have a back door 19 00:01:10.799 --> 00:01:14.560 to access. And as they say in terms of the 20 00:01:14.760 --> 00:01:18.560 kid out in Butler, Pennsylvania, he's dead or it would 21 00:01:18.560 --> 00:01:22.760 seem to me that his privacy rights are over. Now 22 00:01:22.760 --> 00:01:25.000 I go my friends in the Aco. You would probably 23 00:01:25.040 --> 00:01:27.799 disagree with me on that, but I would love to 24 00:01:27.879 --> 00:01:32.280 know who he was in contact with. And these encrypted messages, 25 00:01:32.799 --> 00:01:35.799 why were they encrypted? Who was he talking to? And 26 00:01:36.040 --> 00:01:40.879 you know, sometimes literally you talk about an active war, 27 00:01:40.879 --> 00:01:43.079 it can be an active war if a country were 28 00:01:43.120 --> 00:01:46.719 to attempt to assassinate any of our political leaders of 29 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:52.319 either party. So again I thought the best call of 30 00:01:52.400 --> 00:01:56.159 the last hour was Chris in Manchester, New Hampshire. And 31 00:01:57.000 --> 00:02:02.799 I am again, folks, when I have guests of his caliber, 32 00:02:02.879 --> 00:02:04.680 just try to keep on the topic. I mean, if 33 00:02:04.760 --> 00:02:06.319 you call up and ask him who he thought was 34 00:02:06.319 --> 00:02:09.639 going to win the World Series, that's not the topic. 35 00:02:09.639 --> 00:02:12.560 We were talking about a serious topic, and I was 36 00:02:12.639 --> 00:02:15.919 I tried to encourage everyone to focus on what his 37 00:02:16.159 --> 00:02:22.159 area of expertise is. Anyway, nuf set. It is the 38 00:02:22.199 --> 00:02:25.319 twentieth hour. Now we can kind of kick back and relax. 39 00:02:25.360 --> 00:02:29.560 What I want to talk about this hour is traffic etiquette. 40 00:02:31.080 --> 00:02:34.439 Before so if you would like to join the conversation 41 00:02:34.719 --> 00:02:37.360 and get on early six one, seven, two, five, four, 42 00:02:37.520 --> 00:02:40.159 ten thirty. What I'm trying to find out is what 43 00:02:40.319 --> 00:02:45.719 is it about other drivers that bother you. I suspect 44 00:02:45.840 --> 00:02:48.039 each and every one of us think that we comport 45 00:02:48.080 --> 00:02:53.159 ourselves on the road perfectly, but there are a lot 46 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:57.159 of drivers out there who we all see who don't 47 00:02:57.360 --> 00:03:00.039 comport themselves perfectly. And there are a lot of ways 48 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:03.960 in which we've you know, we've seen it. I want 49 00:03:03.960 --> 00:03:06.199 to call it out. And this is a twenty eighth 50 00:03:06.199 --> 00:03:10.400 hour topic. We talked a couple of weeks ago about 51 00:03:12.120 --> 00:03:16.319 you know, traffic that we did an hour on distracted 52 00:03:16.400 --> 00:03:21.639 driving a week ago Friday night, and distract the driving. 53 00:03:21.719 --> 00:03:23.879 We know what that is. I'm talking about traffic etiquette. 54 00:03:23.879 --> 00:03:28.840 I'm talking about the people who who menace other people. 55 00:03:28.879 --> 00:03:31.319 I'm talking about the people who drive in the left 56 00:03:31.319 --> 00:03:35.639 hand lane and for some reason, you're going seventy five 57 00:03:36.280 --> 00:03:38.919 in a seventy mile an hour zone or a sixty 58 00:03:38.919 --> 00:03:41.199 five mile hour zone and someone behind you has to 59 00:03:41.199 --> 00:03:43.759 come up and flash their lights to push you over. 60 00:03:43.879 --> 00:03:45.400 Now again, if you're going. 61 00:03:45.520 --> 00:03:47.960 Forty five in a sixty that's a little bit of 62 00:03:47.960 --> 00:03:52.520 a different story. So your gripe about other drivers and 63 00:03:52.560 --> 00:03:55.120 what you would like to see other drivers stop doing. 64 00:03:55.280 --> 00:04:00.360 So that's that's traffic etiquette as I define it. We've 65 00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:04.800 had another interesting week here on Nightside. We cover a 66 00:04:04.840 --> 00:04:07.400 broad variety of topics, as I think you know, and 67 00:04:07.439 --> 00:04:09.240 I take some pride in that. So I liked him 68 00:04:09.280 --> 00:04:12.400 when I finished the week, just hit upon some of 69 00:04:12.400 --> 00:04:15.000 the items that we've talked about this week, particularly some 70 00:04:15.039 --> 00:04:19.399 of those that we talk about in the eight o'clock hours. 71 00:04:19.399 --> 00:04:21.319 So in the eight o'clock hour and Monday night, we 72 00:04:21.399 --> 00:04:25.879 talked with a group called Best Friends Animals. We talked 73 00:04:25.879 --> 00:04:34.839 with doctor Tricia Perricia about certain limits that I guess 74 00:04:35.399 --> 00:04:40.040 the social media needs to impose or at least control. 75 00:04:40.399 --> 00:04:43.000 Talk with Dan Shaughnessy about the performance of the New 76 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:45.800 England Patriots new quarterback Drake May, which of course will 77 00:04:45.839 --> 00:04:49.120 be tested again this weekend. Talked about the twenty twenty 78 00:04:49.120 --> 00:04:52.120 four Special Olympics New Hampshire golf tournament. We talked about 79 00:04:52.959 --> 00:04:56.720 the double holiday on Monday, the official holiday Columbus Day, 80 00:04:56.759 --> 00:04:59.720 and there are others who wanted to remove Columbus Day 81 00:04:59.720 --> 00:05:03.160 and Indigenous People's Day. We talked with state Representative Jeff 82 00:05:03.199 --> 00:05:06.800 Trucoll who said keep Columbus Day and add another holiday 83 00:05:06.839 --> 00:05:10.680 he suggested in August for Indigenous People's Day. We talked 84 00:05:10.680 --> 00:05:14.160 about Isaac Smith klwar about the Boston hotel strike. Wasn't 85 00:05:14.199 --> 00:05:16.600 the most forthcoming guests that I've ever had on the show, 86 00:05:16.639 --> 00:05:18.759 and I think he could have helped himself in his 87 00:05:18.839 --> 00:05:21.439 cause a little bit more off. He answered questions directly, 88 00:05:21.839 --> 00:05:23.920 but that's that was his decision, and a lot of 89 00:05:23.920 --> 00:05:28.360 times when you get people, they choose to avoid certain questions. 90 00:05:28.360 --> 00:05:33.839 Talked about Martha Raddits's disastrous interview with J. D. Vance 91 00:05:34.680 --> 00:05:37.639 over the activity which Bill Bratton just talked about of 92 00:05:37.720 --> 00:05:41.360 some of these Venezuelan gangs literally taking over. 93 00:05:42.680 --> 00:05:49.279 Apartment buildings in Aurora, Colorado, and Martha, unfortunately was a 94 00:05:49.319 --> 00:05:52.560 friend and a good reporter, said well, it was only 95 00:05:52.600 --> 00:05:56.480 several apartment buildings, and Vance came back with a killer reaction, 96 00:05:56.639 --> 00:05:58.800 killer comment, which was, think about what you're. 97 00:05:58.600 --> 00:06:00.959 Saying, It's only several apartment buildings. 98 00:06:01.920 --> 00:06:06.079 On Tuesday night, we focused on the debate between Elizabeth Warren, 99 00:06:06.439 --> 00:06:10.319 Senator Elizabeth Warren and a Republican challenger, John Deaton. We 100 00:06:10.399 --> 00:06:13.319 previewed the debate, we dealt with the debate, and we 101 00:06:13.399 --> 00:06:16.360 had call a reaction to the debate. On Wednesday night, 102 00:06:16.439 --> 00:06:20.319 we talked about I safety with a doctor whose name 103 00:06:20.360 --> 00:06:26.160 is chi he Kwan. Talked with doctor Ivan Messner Meisner 104 00:06:26.279 --> 00:06:27.959 about mental health at work. 105 00:06:28.040 --> 00:06:31.959 Greg Merset, CEO of a group called Busy Kid. 106 00:06:31.480 --> 00:06:34.519 Talked about the Consumer Price Index with him. Talk with 107 00:06:34.560 --> 00:06:39.399 Sandy Sternbach about She's a concierge matchmaker. Talk with state auditor. 108 00:06:39.680 --> 00:06:43.519 An hour with State Auditor Diana Desauglio about Question one 109 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:46.399 on the ballot here in Massachusetts about she wants to 110 00:06:46.439 --> 00:06:49.560 audit the state legislature of the State House of Representatives 111 00:06:49.600 --> 00:06:52.920 and the State Senate. I support that totally. Talked about 112 00:06:52.920 --> 00:06:56.240 the UMass Amherst Pole which says forty one percent of 113 00:06:56.279 --> 00:06:59.199 our fellow citizens here in Massachusetts believe we as a 114 00:06:59.199 --> 00:07:01.800 state around the wrong track last night. Talked about the 115 00:07:01.879 --> 00:07:05.920 Lung Force Walk tomorrow in Hopkinton with Ashley Carrier. Talked 116 00:07:05.959 --> 00:07:09.360 with kimber Lee Samarra about cybersecurity, Joe gold about the 117 00:07:09.399 --> 00:07:12.879 Titanic artifact exhibit, which is going to be great down 118 00:07:12.920 --> 00:07:18.160 at the Castle the Boston in Boston Park Square the Castle, 119 00:07:18.959 --> 00:07:21.360 and then we talked with Scott Curser of The Boston 120 00:07:21.360 --> 00:07:24.879 Globe about twenty Things Still Made in Massachusetts. Talked last 121 00:07:24.920 --> 00:07:29.680 night with Dr Nassair Gummy about Question four, the legalization 122 00:07:29.720 --> 00:07:33.079 of psychedelics. He is very much opposed to that. Talk 123 00:07:33.160 --> 00:07:39.959 with Jeff Robbins about the IDF successful elimination of the 124 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:46.480 head of hamas yah Yaha Sinoa, and talked last night 125 00:07:46.600 --> 00:07:50.519 at eleven about Vice President Harris's I thought less than 126 00:07:50.600 --> 00:07:54.920 successful interview with Fox News late yesterday afternoon and tonight 127 00:07:54.959 --> 00:07:58.319 we talked with doctor Lee Richardson about election and anxiety. 128 00:07:58.399 --> 00:08:01.519 Talked with Mark shield Rop about then the increasing number 129 00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:03.040 of deer strikes at this time when you're out in 130 00:08:03.040 --> 00:08:04.959 the major roads, be a little careful. A deer strike 131 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:06.839 can do a lot of harm to you or your car. 132 00:08:07.279 --> 00:08:13.079 Talked also with Brian Thompson from ACI weather about this 133 00:08:13.199 --> 00:08:17.399 beautiful weekend coming up. Talk with doctor Kelly Bulkeley about 134 00:08:17.480 --> 00:08:20.040 He's a dream researcher, and last hour talk with Bill 135 00:08:20.079 --> 00:08:24.319 Bratton about security and election twenty twenty four. So some 136 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:26.480 of the topics we talked about this week. We cover 137 00:08:26.639 --> 00:08:29.360 a lot of ground here on Nights side, and I'm 138 00:08:29.399 --> 00:08:33.679 always looking for new ideas and new thoughts. So now 139 00:08:34.120 --> 00:08:35.639 we're going to take quick break and we're going to 140 00:08:35.679 --> 00:08:38.639 come back and to talk about traffic etiquette. We are 141 00:08:38.679 --> 00:08:42.440 aggressive drivers in Massachusetts, there's no doubt about that, but 142 00:08:42.600 --> 00:08:46.840 traffic etiquette, and it can be bad etiquette if it's 143 00:08:47.960 --> 00:08:51.759 driving where people are too aggressive. Again, that person who 144 00:08:51.759 --> 00:08:54.000 pulls up behind you with the flat with the high 145 00:08:54.000 --> 00:08:57.039 beams on when you're out on Route one twenty eight 146 00:08:57.360 --> 00:08:58.679 or four ninety five or. 147 00:08:58.600 --> 00:08:59.600 Of the mass Turnpike. 148 00:09:01.559 --> 00:09:05.759 Or the person who is asleep when the light goes green, 149 00:09:06.879 --> 00:09:09.399 or they're talking on their phone, or they're distracted and 150 00:09:09.720 --> 00:09:11.679 they get through the light. When it turns yellow, you 151 00:09:11.720 --> 00:09:15.000 sit there for thirty seconds the light's green, nobody moves. 152 00:09:15.639 --> 00:09:19.840 It's very frustrating, so bad traffic etiquette. I'm sure many 153 00:09:19.879 --> 00:09:24.519 of you have different thoughts and ideas on that. The 154 00:09:24.559 --> 00:09:29.519 only lines that are open right now are six, one, seven, nine, 155 00:09:29.720 --> 00:09:32.399 ten thirty. If you want to tell us a horror story, 156 00:09:32.440 --> 00:09:35.159 that's fine if you as they say, I think this 157 00:09:35.360 --> 00:09:38.720 bad traffic etiquette. People who are too aggressive, and people 158 00:09:38.759 --> 00:09:41.679 who frankly are driving and they're When I say they 159 00:09:41.679 --> 00:09:46.039 were asleep, I don't mean they're unconscious, but their mind 160 00:09:46.200 --> 00:09:48.480 just is not on what they're doing, so they're sitting 161 00:09:48.559 --> 00:09:51.519 in a traffic light, or as I've talked about before, 162 00:09:51.639 --> 00:09:53.919 the you're to traffic light summer and Route nine. It 163 00:09:53.960 --> 00:09:57.519 happens often and there's an ambulance coming behind you, and 164 00:09:57.600 --> 00:10:00.320 someone's life is perhaps in jeopardy and the ambulance is 165 00:10:00.399 --> 00:10:02.120 trying to get through traffic. 166 00:10:02.159 --> 00:10:04.000 And people freeze. They don't know where to go. 167 00:10:04.240 --> 00:10:06.159 You take a right, Maybe you've got to drive around 168 00:10:06.159 --> 00:10:08.320 the block a little bit, but maybe that will allow 169 00:10:08.360 --> 00:10:10.879 someone to get to the hospital on time to have 170 00:10:10.919 --> 00:10:11.559 their life saved. 171 00:10:11.639 --> 00:10:13.360 It could be you and that ambulance, or could be 172 00:10:13.360 --> 00:10:15.440 a relative. Anyway, we're taking a break. 173 00:10:15.679 --> 00:10:18.519 Only lines open six one, seven, nine, three, one, ten thirty. 174 00:10:18.960 --> 00:10:21.399 Now I'll get you to the same place as six one, seven, two, five, 175 00:10:21.480 --> 00:10:24.440 four to ten thirty. Traffic etiquette, the good, the bad, 176 00:10:24.440 --> 00:10:26.679 and the ugly. Let's have at it, have a little 177 00:10:26.679 --> 00:10:28.840 bit of fun as we head toward the weekend. My 178 00:10:28.919 --> 00:10:31.480 name is Dan Rady, listening to the Nightside on WBZ, 179 00:10:31.639 --> 00:10:34.679 Boston's news radio ten thirty and AM Dial, and we 180 00:10:34.759 --> 00:10:38.360 always encourage you to pull down the iHeartRadio app. If 181 00:10:38.360 --> 00:10:42.320 you're listening to us tonight anywhere. It's not a bad 182 00:10:42.320 --> 00:10:44.200 idea to have the app as well, because you can 183 00:10:44.279 --> 00:10:46.200 listen to us on the app at home. You can 184 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:48.480 listen to us some on the radio at home, or 185 00:10:48.480 --> 00:10:50.159 the radio in the car, or the app in the car, 186 00:10:50.279 --> 00:10:52.679 whatever whatever way you can get us. 187 00:10:52.799 --> 00:10:54.799 We appreciate it. We'll be back on nights side right 188 00:10:54.799 --> 00:10:55.159 after this. 189 00:10:56.600 --> 00:10:59.559 Now back to Dan Way live from the Window World, 190 00:10:59.679 --> 00:11:06.080 Nice News Radio. Let's go to the calls. Brent is 191 00:11:06.159 --> 00:11:08.519 up in Maine. Haven't heard from Brent in a while. Brent, 192 00:11:08.639 --> 00:11:10.440 welcome back to night said, how are you, sir? 193 00:11:11.639 --> 00:11:15.120 I am doing just great. There there are two little 194 00:11:15.159 --> 00:11:17.759 pet peeves that I have about people on the road. 195 00:11:17.799 --> 00:11:23.440 The minor one is when you're you're driving down a street, 196 00:11:23.600 --> 00:11:25.840 you don't know where you're going and looking for an address. 197 00:11:25.960 --> 00:11:30.320 You're looking for the number, and someone's getting offset because 198 00:11:30.440 --> 00:11:32.279 you know you're driving a little slow. You're slowing up 199 00:11:32.279 --> 00:11:36.080 to look at a house, and they're sitting on their horns. 200 00:11:37.240 --> 00:11:39.360 And then the other thing is that I've been on 201 00:11:39.519 --> 00:11:44.480 both sides of this where you're in a funeral procession. 202 00:11:44.480 --> 00:11:48.039 You're supposed to be able to go through the red light, yes, 203 00:11:48.440 --> 00:11:52.879 and someone is honking their horn at you. They're annoyed 204 00:11:52.919 --> 00:11:55.240 because you're going through the red light yep. And then 205 00:11:55.279 --> 00:11:57.480 I've been on the opposite side where I've been the 206 00:11:57.519 --> 00:12:01.639 one stopped at a green light to let funeral procession 207 00:12:01.679 --> 00:12:03.759 home and the guy behind me sitting on his horn. 208 00:12:04.120 --> 00:12:09.000 Yeah, Well, those are the people who I would hope 209 00:12:09.159 --> 00:12:13.440 that they are simply oblivious, but not disrespect but not 210 00:12:13.519 --> 00:12:18.879 necessarily for disrespectful. I mean you anyone who's been in 211 00:12:18.879 --> 00:12:21.559 that situation. And if you live near a cemetery or 212 00:12:21.600 --> 00:12:24.559 if you drive near a cemetery, it's fairly frequent that 213 00:12:24.639 --> 00:12:28.240 there's a long funeral procession and people should be given 214 00:12:28.639 --> 00:12:33.080 the courtesy. And oftentimes there's there's police there that are 215 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:37.440 that are directing traffic, and that's people still don't realize 216 00:12:37.440 --> 00:12:39.600 what's going on, which is to be amazing. 217 00:12:39.679 --> 00:12:41.200 Bread. Those are two good ones. 218 00:12:41.240 --> 00:12:44.399 I had not thought of those, but but you're absolutely right, 219 00:12:44.440 --> 00:12:47.720 because someday it'll be one of our family members in 220 00:12:47.759 --> 00:12:49.919 the funeral, or who knows, it might be us in 221 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:52.399 the funeral, and you want your casket to get to 222 00:12:52.480 --> 00:12:54.159 the cemetery on time. 223 00:12:55.960 --> 00:12:59.440 And turns out on island, Well yeah, I think you know. 224 00:13:00.039 --> 00:13:03.480 As they spend my winters in Prince Edward Island. The 225 00:13:03.559 --> 00:13:07.440 protocol there is that both sides of the road stop 226 00:13:07.519 --> 00:13:08.679 for a funeral procession. 227 00:13:10.000 --> 00:13:11.639 Well that's good, that's good. 228 00:13:11.759 --> 00:13:15.120 Now why do you spend your winters in Prince Edward Island. 229 00:13:15.159 --> 00:13:18.720 Most people might spend a little bit of summertime up there, 230 00:13:18.759 --> 00:13:20.000 but by choice. 231 00:13:20.840 --> 00:13:24.159 I don't know. What do you have a place up there? 232 00:13:24.399 --> 00:13:24.480 Is? 233 00:13:24.600 --> 00:13:25.759 Do you summer in Maine? 234 00:13:25.840 --> 00:13:29.399 Is that what you do or what I have a 235 00:13:29.480 --> 00:13:34.240 house in Prince Edward Island and it's a very beautiful place. 236 00:13:34.720 --> 00:13:37.519 It's a little colder in the wintertime, a little well 237 00:13:37.639 --> 00:13:40.639 it's with climate change. It's not that much colder now, 238 00:13:40.639 --> 00:13:43.440 but it used to be a little colder in the wintertime. 239 00:13:43.480 --> 00:13:45.960 You get more snow in the wintertime. And I'm an 240 00:13:45.960 --> 00:13:47.320 avid cross country skiers. 241 00:13:47.879 --> 00:13:48.960 Good for you, Good for you? 242 00:13:48.960 --> 00:13:51.480 Can you can you listen to night Side up at 243 00:13:51.480 --> 00:13:53.279 Pei in the wintertime? 244 00:13:55.279 --> 00:13:55.399 Uh? 245 00:13:56.279 --> 00:13:58.240 Oh yeah, I can get Nightside in the winter time 246 00:13:58.320 --> 00:13:58.679 up there. 247 00:13:58.879 --> 00:13:59.120 Great. 248 00:13:59.159 --> 00:14:00.759 Well, that's always good to know. We have a lot 249 00:14:00.759 --> 00:14:03.399 of Canadian callers. So next call if. 250 00:14:03.799 --> 00:14:05.840 How long are you up there? You up there? 251 00:14:05.919 --> 00:14:09.399 Like December, January, February or is it the shortest day? 252 00:14:10.399 --> 00:14:14.600 Well, because the family issues, I've been saying in New 253 00:14:14.600 --> 00:14:17.799 Hampshire the last cup, you know, last winter. In this 254 00:14:17.919 --> 00:14:21.840 winter I will stay in New Hampshire, but typically I'll 255 00:14:21.840 --> 00:14:26.039 go to THEI in the middle of November and return 256 00:14:26.480 --> 00:14:30.200 the end of April or very early part of May. 257 00:14:30.720 --> 00:14:34.159 Excellent excellent well bred. Either way, feel free to listen, 258 00:14:34.200 --> 00:14:36.480 whether it's from Maine, New Hampshire, or Pei. Thanks so 259 00:14:36.559 --> 00:14:38.639 much for your call tonight, two good ones. 260 00:14:38.679 --> 00:14:39.240 You're welcome. 261 00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:40.960 Thank you much. Bye bye. 262 00:14:41.159 --> 00:14:45.159 Let's keep rolling here, Georgie and Bridgewater. George, traffic etiquette. 263 00:14:45.159 --> 00:14:47.759 What do you think are we polite or impolite? 264 00:14:48.679 --> 00:14:51.480 Well, we're in polite because you know, I lived in 265 00:14:51.480 --> 00:14:54.600 the Midwest for a year and they're the best drivers. 266 00:14:54.799 --> 00:14:57.559 And then I moved to California for ten years, and 267 00:14:58.879 --> 00:15:05.519 I brought my Massachusetts Tactics to California, the HP HP 268 00:15:05.759 --> 00:15:08.159 they're tough so well. 269 00:15:08.279 --> 00:15:13.440 Were pulled over for by by the chip. That's California. 270 00:15:14.559 --> 00:15:15.039 I'm glad you. 271 00:15:15.200 --> 00:15:17.159 I didn't want to go into it, but I'm glad 272 00:15:17.200 --> 00:15:20.120 you asked me that I came to a stop sign, 273 00:15:21.679 --> 00:15:26.080 a four way stop sign, and I stopped, of course, 274 00:15:26.720 --> 00:15:30.480 and I was moving like one half a mile an hour. 275 00:15:32.120 --> 00:15:33.440 Stop George, I know. 276 00:15:34.679 --> 00:15:37.759 No, I'm pretty sure I came to the police stop. 277 00:15:37.799 --> 00:15:39.519 But then you know, I had the roll out of 278 00:15:39.519 --> 00:15:40.200 a little. 279 00:15:40.559 --> 00:15:43.440 And and the guy pulled me over. Uh, and he 280 00:15:43.919 --> 00:15:47.759 gave me a warning, but that's you know, I learned 281 00:15:47.759 --> 00:15:51.600 that he better better not mess around here in California. 282 00:15:51.679 --> 00:15:53.120 I lived out there for ten years. 283 00:15:53.240 --> 00:15:55.240 I don't know if you remember when when I was 284 00:15:55.279 --> 00:15:57.279 in driving school and when you were in driving school 285 00:15:57.279 --> 00:15:58.799 back in the day, and you had to go to 286 00:15:58.919 --> 00:16:01.279 driving school so that you could get your license. 287 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:01.759 A little earlier. 288 00:16:02.720 --> 00:16:05.120 And they used to tell us when when you come 289 00:16:05.120 --> 00:16:09.279 who stop sign, you got to feel the car stopping, 290 00:16:09.559 --> 00:16:12.759 you know, basically stop and then kind of sit back 291 00:16:12.840 --> 00:16:16.240 on its haunches. I don't know if yeah, they do that, 292 00:16:16.440 --> 00:16:19.000 but that was what you were told. So, yeah, those 293 00:16:19.159 --> 00:16:21.039 that California Highway. 294 00:16:20.720 --> 00:16:25.120 Patrol, Oh, that's tough there there, tough. Yeah. 295 00:16:25.200 --> 00:16:25.840 Oh, I'll give it. 296 00:16:25.879 --> 00:16:26.559 I'll give you one. 297 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:30.960 I'm I'm heading, you know, from Escondido, California, to San 298 00:16:30.960 --> 00:16:35.080 Diego about thirty five miles and the CHP pulled over 299 00:16:35.200 --> 00:16:39.559 about fifty cars that one. They were all traveling in 300 00:16:39.600 --> 00:16:43.000 the breakdown lane. He lined every single one of them up, 301 00:16:43.679 --> 00:16:46.879 uh and made them. I'm sure I kept going. I 302 00:16:46.960 --> 00:16:49.759 wasn't in the breakdown lane, and I'm sure he made 303 00:16:49.799 --> 00:16:52.200 he gave the ticket to every one of them. And 304 00:16:52.320 --> 00:16:54.679 the next day and the next week and the next 305 00:16:54.720 --> 00:16:58.000 month we never did see anyone driving in the breakdown 306 00:16:58.120 --> 00:17:01.240 lane against the same would you. 307 00:17:01.200 --> 00:17:03.159 Know drive every day? 308 00:17:03.919 --> 00:17:04.160 Yeah? 309 00:17:04.279 --> 00:17:04.839 You know, so. 310 00:17:07.480 --> 00:17:09.160 I got a good laugh either of that one. 311 00:17:09.680 --> 00:17:13.559 Well, yeah, it's interesting because they think they're saving some time, 312 00:17:13.599 --> 00:17:15.200 but when they get when they get. 313 00:17:15.039 --> 00:17:19.720 Caught, well it's not only that one. Funny, Yeah, it doesn't. 314 00:17:20.160 --> 00:17:22.319 It costs you some money but also cost you a 315 00:17:22.319 --> 00:17:25.039 lot of time on that particular day. George, I I 316 00:17:25.119 --> 00:17:27.759 love those. Those those are good ones. Thank you so much. 317 00:17:27.880 --> 00:17:35.839 Appreciate it, hear. Absolutely. We were gonna go next. Rick 318 00:17:36.119 --> 00:17:38.720 is in Bill Rick, Rick, you were next on nice side. 319 00:17:38.839 --> 00:17:42.000 Tell us about your experience with traffic etiquette. I I 320 00:17:42.039 --> 00:17:44.039 think it's pretty poor generally. What do you say? 321 00:17:44.519 --> 00:17:46.240 First of all, I just want to say quickly, I 322 00:17:46.319 --> 00:17:48.720 hit a deer once and I shared a similar When 323 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:50.720 I heard your story, it was similar to mine. It 324 00:17:50.799 --> 00:17:55.160 was just awful. It was so sad. But anyway, it's frightening. 325 00:17:55.200 --> 00:17:58.319 It's sad, but it's also frightening because it's like hitting 326 00:17:58.359 --> 00:17:59.200 a brick wall. 327 00:18:00.359 --> 00:18:03.400 Shirt is in and you know the copple came was 328 00:18:03.400 --> 00:18:05.119 an old friend of mine that I hadn't seen in 329 00:18:05.160 --> 00:18:07.640 twenty years, and the first time I saw a gun 330 00:18:07.799 --> 00:18:09.640 go off right in front of me it was a 331 00:18:09.640 --> 00:18:11.079 mercy kill. And then there was a guy with a 332 00:18:11.160 --> 00:18:14.039 truck to grab the meat, and I thought to myself, 333 00:18:14.039 --> 00:18:17.240 well it's it shouldn't be wasted. But it was such 334 00:18:17.240 --> 00:18:19.400 a sad day. I said, I was sorry to it, 335 00:18:19.440 --> 00:18:21.680 and I patted it and I said, and it just 336 00:18:21.799 --> 00:18:23.799 it was just and it came out of nowhere. So 337 00:18:23.839 --> 00:18:26.720 it's a good it's a good way to segue into 338 00:18:27.119 --> 00:18:31.319 into etiquette on the road. This is an example of well, 339 00:18:31.359 --> 00:18:33.599 of course you should always pay attention when you're driving, 340 00:18:33.640 --> 00:18:37.000 but that there came out on nowhere. It just I 341 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:39.960 could not have I couldn't have stopped it unless I 342 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:42.960 was going like instead of twenty miles an hour that 343 00:18:43.000 --> 00:18:45.240 I was going to twenty five, I was going like ten. 344 00:18:46.079 --> 00:18:47.759 But then it would have ran out in front of 345 00:18:47.799 --> 00:18:49.680 it when I got to the point. I swear it 346 00:18:49.720 --> 00:18:53.680 was weird. But I think there are people seem to 347 00:18:53.759 --> 00:18:59.359 have not too much patience on the road anymore, and 348 00:18:59.519 --> 00:19:02.079 it's stiff. When the eighties, when I got my license, 349 00:19:02.400 --> 00:19:05.359 I know they've you know, we've people are people you 350 00:19:05.400 --> 00:19:08.680 know from hundreds and hundreds of years. We're going to 351 00:19:08.720 --> 00:19:11.200 be people. We're going to act as nice people and 352 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:14.440 and not so nice people in patient people and patient people. 353 00:19:14.480 --> 00:19:18.079 But it's different now. I don't know if it's the technology. 354 00:19:18.240 --> 00:19:20.839 People don't want to wait at a restaurant. McDonald says 355 00:19:20.839 --> 00:19:23.480 the burg is ready once you once you ask for it. 356 00:19:23.519 --> 00:19:26.319 Practically people don't, not that I go to McDonald's much, 357 00:19:26.359 --> 00:19:28.920 but there's there's no time where people have to wait, 358 00:19:28.920 --> 00:19:31.839 other than maybe a restaurant. But it just seems to 359 00:19:31.880 --> 00:19:35.759 me that someone will blow past on the left or 360 00:19:35.799 --> 00:19:38.920 on the right when they shouldn't, and then then there's 361 00:19:38.920 --> 00:19:41.160 a traffic light and now you're in back of them. 362 00:19:41.240 --> 00:19:44.119 And I'm not a jerk. I'm not going to terrorize them, 363 00:19:44.119 --> 00:19:48.000 but it's it's so dumb when they act like that, 364 00:19:48.079 --> 00:19:49.839 and we can all be like that, but it's just 365 00:19:49.920 --> 00:19:52.000 so foolish. I just also that they. 366 00:19:51.960 --> 00:19:54.759 Were all sort of like running faster in the rat race. 367 00:19:54.880 --> 00:19:57.640 That we're not as happy as we used to be. 368 00:19:59.480 --> 00:20:02.000 I think that more demands and as people are working 369 00:20:02.039 --> 00:20:06.359 two jobs, everybody's trying to accomplish everything. I just think 370 00:20:06.400 --> 00:20:12.640 it's I think driving, you know, it's it's it's not 371 00:20:12.759 --> 00:20:13.880 a fun experience. 372 00:20:14.079 --> 00:20:17.359 I mean driving not anymore. I used to like it 373 00:20:17.480 --> 00:20:20.000 A long time ago. It was fun, it was exciting. 374 00:20:20.119 --> 00:20:22.920 I don't like to drive. I'll take back roads to 375 00:20:22.960 --> 00:20:26.039 get to my house in bil Rica because it's easier. 376 00:20:26.160 --> 00:20:29.759 My eyes aren't great, I admit it, but at nighttime, 377 00:20:30.359 --> 00:20:32.799 when there's a glare on the road, I'm like, I'm 378 00:20:32.839 --> 00:20:35.319 taking the back roads. Or just even when it's a 379 00:20:35.359 --> 00:20:38.240 fine night, I just don't want to deal because the 380 00:20:38.359 --> 00:20:41.319 road narrows and and and if someone's behind me, they 381 00:20:41.400 --> 00:20:43.480 want to blow past me on the left or the right, 382 00:20:44.160 --> 00:20:46.519 and it gets narrow and it's and I just don't 383 00:20:46.519 --> 00:20:48.440 want to deal with it. So I take I take 384 00:20:48.680 --> 00:20:51.200 a back road to get to my house, and that's 385 00:20:51.240 --> 00:20:52.599 the way I want to do it. I feel a 386 00:20:52.599 --> 00:20:56.759 lot better rather than going down three A and Burlington 387 00:20:56.920 --> 00:20:59.200 and to bill Rica. It just gets a little crazy. 388 00:21:00.480 --> 00:21:03.119 But that's my take, and I agree it's just not 389 00:21:03.240 --> 00:21:03.839 fun to drive. 390 00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:07.680 I think we all have concluded that we alone are 391 00:21:07.720 --> 00:21:10.599 the most important person on the road, and. 392 00:21:10.480 --> 00:21:12.279 That's probably a bad attitude to have. 393 00:21:12.440 --> 00:21:14.319 I mean, you know, because I think you're going to 394 00:21:14.400 --> 00:21:17.880 end up in it's some sort of an unnecessary accident, 395 00:21:18.480 --> 00:21:21.039 or you're going to have somebody I tell my kids 396 00:21:21.039 --> 00:21:22.319 this in this day and age. 397 00:21:22.400 --> 00:21:26.319 You know, you get into it with somebody, they can 398 00:21:26.359 --> 00:21:28.960 put a gun at you, you know, going seventy. 399 00:21:30.319 --> 00:21:33.200 Again, and I'll just and I'll let you go after this. 400 00:21:33.319 --> 00:21:36.680 I caused an accident about fifteen years ago because I 401 00:21:36.759 --> 00:21:40.319