May 10, 2024 • 10 mins
Our very own Jack Armstrong crashed his motorcycle yesterday. YES, he's okay but also YES, he's in a lot of pain. Huge shoutout to the angel that was doubling as an Uber driver who helped him out and let him bleed all over the car.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So I'd like to shout out to the Uber driver
who I bled all over inside his car yesterday. Oh boy,
I appreciate him giving me a ride after my motorcycle wreck.
I got lucky with the Uber driver that I decided
to call after I wrecked my motorcycle because I could
have been a different person, and I don't think that
it picked me up.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Wow. So I've always wondered.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I've been riding motorcycles since I was a little, tiny kid.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I hadn't had a wreck in gladys It's not a
specific memory, it's just a reference to the past.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Stand down.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
I hadn't had a wreck in forty years wow, forty
one years wow, since I had a wreck and.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I was due, I guess. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I've always seen these videos or seen on the news
or wherever where somebody wrecks on a freeway and they're
either sliding or rolling along the freeway at high speed.
I've always wondered what that must be like, and I
got to find out yesterday.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Oh boy.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
But so I completely operator area error, which I'm horrified
and embarrassed, and it hurts my ego and my pride
so much to say, but it's just as true. It
was completely my fault. Your biggest worry is a motorcycle
rider should be. Your biggest worry is somebody else always is.
You can't control that, Yeah, but I just direct on
my own for some reason. I was daydreaming. Just you
(01:20):
can't be daydreaming on a motorcycle, oh boy. And I
hit the Uh it wasn't the text I sent you wasn't. No, Okay,
Luckily I don't read texts while I'm riding my motorzi.
I just didn't know if you had like an ear
thinger anyway. But I hit the on ramp fast, and
I was just daydreaming or whatever. They had the metered
lights on, and somebody was stopped at the metered light,
and I just I looked up and I was going
(01:40):
to smash into the back of them, which would have
been worse, and I locked up the brakes and it
was sand all over the on ramp. Oh god, I'm
going I don't know, thirty forty miles an hour. I
don't know how fast I was going. Anyway, this all
happened so fast. I'm not exactly sure. But the motorcycle
it hit the sand and it turned sideway and it
slammed down on the pavement and slammed me down. And
(02:03):
then I started sliding down the on ramp and just
started spinning so fast.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
And I was just I was just the one thought
in my mind, because I always thought this when I've
seen the videos of people spinning down the is. You
got to be thinking, uh, this is bad. If I
don't hit a pole. Oh but if there's a.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Pole anywhere along air, that's.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Going to stop my progress, this is going to be
really bad. That's what I was thinking as I was spinning.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Which polls all of them?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Oh, you know, it's it's the number of it's It's
amazing the way the.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Human brain works, the number of thoughts you can have
in which had to be a total of.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Two seconds from the oh my god, I'm going to
wreck until I stop spinning.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Anything but a pole. No poles, please, No pole or
a wall or whatever.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Yeah, or And then my first thought was I hope
I don't get run over from behind. Right Luckily the
person behind saw me go down and stop their car
and as like this twenty year old, like college dude,
and he was horrified because I got up and I'm
staggering around, and I looked down and I got I'm
bleeding everywhere. Oh, and I couldn't tell how hurt I was.
(03:12):
You might relate to this, Katie. What might be the
worst part of this whole thing is I ruined my
favorite pair of jeans. You know how hard it is
to find a really good pair of jeans that just
fit perfect. They're the ones that I wore with everything tragic.
I had to have him cut off of me. So
unless I get the legs sown back on, those jeans
are gone.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Can jeans be cloned?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I don't know if I can get all the blood out,
but anyway, so I'm like limping, and I was that
kind of like I should have just been worried about
myself at that point.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
But you're stunned and you don't.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
It's like the famous video of Mike Tyson where he's
crawling around looking for his mouthpiece.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
That is not your problem, dude. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
So I was like, I was like, I gotta get
my motorcycle up. I gotta give the guy saying to me,
are you okay, I'm fine. We got to get this
motorcycle out of here. Help me lift it up, because
I couldn't I could tell I couldn't use my shoulder
and my knee.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
My leg was really messed up and so bloody.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Oh and I didn't want to see. I didn't want
to look and see how bad it was. I didn't
know if like my kneecap was hanging off or what.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Oh boy, I.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Just had a conversation about that the other day, the
self revealing of a wound.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yes, when you just don't know right.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
You're gonna see right, You like, you cut yourself and
you covered up, and then at some point you gotta look.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
It's like either it's still attached or it's hanging off
back right.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
People are driving off the road right now, and there
are more accidents and more wounds.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
You two settle down. So I finally stopped spinning on
my own. I get up.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I'm staggering around. This guy comes over and helps me
lift up my motorcycle. I can't move it because it's
in gear. There's traffic everywhere. I want to get it
off of the dang out of the dangway, and I'm
just sweating and I'm bleeding and I don't know how
hurt I am. And the gear shift got shaved off,
so there's no way to put it in neutral, oh sho.
So I'm trying to use my hand to like move
this lever to get it into neutral so I can
(04:59):
get it out of there. In the end, engines hot.
I burnt my fingers. Anyway, this was this was quite
the panic situation there for a while.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I finally got it in neutral, And is this just
before you got attacked by bees?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Job of the Bible getting tired? So and then I
got in neutral. I get it off to the side,
and then and then I wander over to the side,
and I've got it like a second to grab, you know,
try to collect my thoughts of what's happening here. My
next first thought was because one of the reasons I
was hurrying home is Henry gets out of school. Sam
Joe and I had a long day cutting tease TV
(05:32):
commercials and stuff like that, and I was barely going
to get home in time for Henry to get home from.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
School and let him in the house and everything like that.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
So I got to get home and I'm bleeding all
over the place, and I'm limping, and I don't want
to look at my.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Knee because I don't know how bad it is.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I'm so sweaty, so I take my helmet off ninety degrees,
son beating down on my head. I'm feeling light headed,
and this is Joe Boyke just stupidity. But my phone
is on like five percent, and I'm it would be
a long dry my leg to a convenience store or
anything like that on this on ramp. So I dial
(06:04):
up an uber and I try to figure out how
to explain to the uber guy where I am, and
I go through that whole thing because they're not allowed
to pick up people on off ramps. And but lucky,
I got lucky. I got a good guy. So finally
he finds me and picks me up. I probably waited
there five minutes, just bleeding and breathing hard and.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Feeling sick to my stomach. I get in his car.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Dude, I'm gonna get blood in your car, and he
didn't care. I luckily I got this big old boy,
bearded guy.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
If I had gotten like the college girls, she would
have like passed out and not picked me up because
I looked like a crazy person.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yeah, I get in there with my helmet. The side
of my helmet is just shaved down. My luck just block.
I wore my motorcycle jacket because I was hot yesterday
and I wasn't gonna wear it because it's warm outside.
I don't need it, but I was afraid to get
stolen at the radio station, so I went and wore it.
It just is shredded on one side, my motorcycle jacket.
(06:58):
So if I hadn't worn that, that would have been
a life changing experience.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
It's like super heavy duty kevlar reinforce. That's sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
It's a real motorcycle jacket. And if I hadn't been
wearing that, I like a Fonsie jacket. Now i'd have
been I'd have been getting like skin graft surgery or whatever.
So thank god I was wearing my jacket and jeans. Anyway,
I get in this guy's car and I'm believing. He
said no, no, no, don't worry about it, and Babama, he said,
shouldn't you go to a hospital or something like that.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I said, I gotta get home.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
So, uh, now I'm sitting in the car and I
have a time to like try to collect like what
are how bad are my wounds here? And and uh
and my shoulder hurts really bad. I can't use my
left arm much. I still can't, but I try to
go to like peeling my jeans away to see off
(07:42):
the road how bad my knee is, and I can't.
It's just so like glued to my whole knee area
that I can't really look. But that weird other thing
is so the weird. The way time slows down and
you can have a million thoughts in a second is interesting.
And then the way your body protects you from pain.
So I didn't have hardly any pain until I got
into the uber and then we drove away in like
(08:02):
a couple of minutes in then the pain hit and
it was like, oh, my freaking god, Yes, this is horrible,
this is horrible. I've done something really horrible. And that's
when all the pain started to uh to soak in. Anyway,
I got home, Henry saw me all bloody. I was
hoping to get home in time to try to clean up.
He saw me all bloody. He started crying. I remember
(08:23):
the only time I ever saw my dad get injured.
There's something about seeing your dad injured. It is really horrifying. Yeah,
yeah it is. I saw my dad injured and bloody
one time in his Lord and Henry started crying so
that I was just I went to the emergency and
blah blah blah. Nothing's broken, lots of tissue damage and
ligament this and that and everything.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
But I got really, really like the uber driver got.
I got so lucky with this suber driver.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I gave him a really big tip for bleeding all
over the inside of his Toyota camera.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Fair nothing counts so much as blood.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
But he made the point because I was just like,
I can't believe I did this. I'm so stupid. I
hurt myself. He said, Yeah, a motorcycle wreckon. You're not dead,
You're not in a coma. Amen, is a decent point.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Wow, some might see the hand of God in sending
that gentleman to your side. Man, I get lucky with him.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
I felt like I was in the twilight zone yesterday
because I'm relatively a nube. So you riding motorcycles didn't
I didn't know much about this, and so you sent
me a picture yesterday morning at seven thirty one of
the world's fastest motorcycles from my ride today, and then it.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Is a cool motorcycle.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Less than twelve hours later, Well, guys, yeah, I crashed.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Complete operator mess up. I mean, just stupid, stupid thing.
I tell my son all the time, you got to
pay attention all the time, you got to learn how
to use your brakes, blah blah blah, and I.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Just just completely screwed up.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
But you know, I could have hit my head in
a different way. There could have been a pole there
instead of just rolling down the freeway.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Oh you said your shifter got shaved off. That could
have been your leg.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Yeah. Or I could have hit that car head on
and my head into it. So yeah, I guess I
should just say I'm lucky. I only am walking around
wincing in pain today.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
I think it's great, Katie that we're still getting to
know each other. For instance, i'd be delighted if you
were to come to one of my polo matches
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Armstrong and Geddy
So I'd like to shout out to the Uber driver
who I bled all over inside his car yesterday. Oh boy,
I appreciate him giving me a ride after my motorcycle wreck.
I got lucky with the Uber driver that I decided
to call after I wrecked my motorcycle because I could
have been a different person, and I don't think that
it picked me up.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Wow. So I've always wondered.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I've been riding motorcycles since I was a little, tiny kid.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I hadn't had a wreck in gladys It's not a
specific memory, it's just a reference to the past.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Stand down.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
I hadn't had a wreck in forty years wow, forty
one years wow, since I had a wreck and.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I was due, I guess. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I've always seen these videos or seen on the news
or wherever where somebody wrecks on a freeway and they're
either sliding or rolling along the freeway at high speed.
I've always wondered what that must be like, and I
got to find out yesterday.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Oh boy.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
But so I completely operator area error, which I'm horrified
and embarrassed, and it hurts my ego and my pride
so much to say, but it's just as true. It
was completely my fault. Your biggest worry is a motorcycle
rider should be. Your biggest worry is somebody else always is.
You can't control that, Yeah, but I just direct on
my own for some reason. I was daydreaming. Just you
(01:20):
can't be daydreaming on a motorcycle, oh boy. And I
hit the Uh it wasn't the text I sent you wasn't. No, Okay,
Luckily I don't read texts while I'm riding my motorzi.
I just didn't know if you had like an ear
thinger anyway. But I hit the on ramp fast, and
I was just daydreaming or whatever. They had the metered
lights on, and somebody was stopped at the metered light,
and I just I looked up and I was going
(01:40):
to smash into the back of them, which would have
been worse, and I locked up the brakes and it
was sand all over the on ramp. Oh god, I'm
going I don't know, thirty forty miles an hour. I
don't know how fast I was going. Anyway, this all
happened so fast. I'm not exactly sure. But the motorcycle
it hit the sand and it turned sideway and it
slammed down on the pavement and slammed me down. And
(02:03):
then I started sliding down the on ramp and just
started spinning so fast.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Oh wow.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
And I was just I was just the one thought
in my mind, because I always thought this when I've
seen the videos of people spinning down the is. You
got to be thinking, uh, this is bad. If I
don't hit a pole. Oh but if there's a.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Pole anywhere along air, that's.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Going to stop my progress, this is going to be
really bad. That's what I was thinking as I was spinning.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Which polls all of them?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Oh, you know, it's it's the number of it's It's
amazing the way the.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Human brain works, the number of thoughts you can have
in which had to be a total of.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Two seconds from the oh my god, I'm going to
wreck until I stop spinning.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Anything but a pole. No poles, please, No pole or
a wall or whatever.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Yeah, or And then my first thought was I hope
I don't get run over from behind. Right Luckily the
person behind saw me go down and stop their car
and as like this twenty year old, like college dude,
and he was horrified because I got up and I'm
staggering around, and I looked down and I got I'm
bleeding everywhere. Oh, and I couldn't tell how hurt I was.
(03:12):
You might relate to this, Katie. What might be the
worst part of this whole thing is I ruined my
favorite pair of jeans. You know how hard it is
to find a really good pair of jeans that just
fit perfect. They're the ones that I wore with everything tragic.
I had to have him cut off of me. So
unless I get the legs sown back on, those jeans
are gone.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Can jeans be cloned?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I don't know if I can get all the blood out,
but anyway, so I'm like limping, and I was that
kind of like I should have just been worried about
myself at that point.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
But you're stunned and you don't.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
It's like the famous video of Mike Tyson where he's
crawling around looking for his mouthpiece.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
That is not your problem, dude. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
So I was like, I was like, I gotta get
my motorcycle up. I gotta give the guy saying to me,
are you okay, I'm fine. We got to get this
motorcycle out of here. Help me lift it up, because
I couldn't I could tell I couldn't use my shoulder
and my knee.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
My leg was really messed up and so bloody.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Oh and I didn't want to see. I didn't want
to look and see how bad it was. I didn't
know if like my kneecap was hanging off or what.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Oh boy, I.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Just had a conversation about that the other day, the
self revealing of a wound.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yes, when you just don't know right.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
You're gonna see right, You like, you cut yourself and
you covered up, and then at some point you gotta look.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
It's like either it's still attached or it's hanging off
back right.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
People are driving off the road right now, and there
are more accidents and more wounds.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
You two settle down. So I finally stopped spinning on
my own. I get up.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I'm staggering around. This guy comes over and helps me
lift up my motorcycle. I can't move it because it's
in gear. There's traffic everywhere. I want to get it
off of the dang out of the dangway, and I'm
just sweating and I'm bleeding and I don't know how
hurt I am. And the gear shift got shaved off,
so there's no way to put it in neutral, oh sho.
So I'm trying to use my hand to like move
this lever to get it into neutral so I can
(04:59):
get it out of there. In the end, engines hot.
I burnt my fingers. Anyway, this was this was quite
the panic situation there for a while.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I finally got it in neutral, And is this just
before you got attacked by bees?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Job of the Bible getting tired? So and then I
got in neutral. I get it off to the side,
and then and then I wander over to the side,
and I've got it like a second to grab, you know,
try to collect my thoughts of what's happening here. My
next first thought was because one of the reasons I
was hurrying home is Henry gets out of school. Sam
Joe and I had a long day cutting tease TV
(05:32):
commercials and stuff like that, and I was barely going
to get home in time for Henry to get home from.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
School and let him in the house and everything like that.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
So I got to get home and I'm bleeding all
over the place, and I'm limping, and I don't want
to look at my.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Knee because I don't know how bad it is.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I'm so sweaty, so I take my helmet off ninety degrees,
son beating down on my head. I'm feeling light headed,
and this is Joe Boyke just stupidity. But my phone
is on like five percent, and I'm it would be
a long dry my leg to a convenience store or
anything like that on this on ramp. So I dial
(06:04):
up an uber and I try to figure out how
to explain to the uber guy where I am, and
I go through that whole thing because they're not allowed
to pick up people on off ramps. And but lucky,
I got lucky. I got a good guy. So finally
he finds me and picks me up. I probably waited
there five minutes, just bleeding and breathing hard and.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Feeling sick to my stomach. I get in his car.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Dude, I'm gonna get blood in your car, and he
didn't care. I luckily I got this big old boy,
bearded guy.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
If I had gotten like the college girls, she would
have like passed out and not picked me up because
I looked like a crazy person.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yeah, I get in there with my helmet. The side
of my helmet is just shaved down. My luck just block.
I wore my motorcycle jacket because I was hot yesterday
and I wasn't gonna wear it because it's warm outside.
I don't need it, but I was afraid to get
stolen at the radio station, so I went and wore it.
It just is shredded on one side, my motorcycle jacket.
(06:58):
So if I hadn't worn that, that would have been
a life changing experience.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
It's like super heavy duty kevlar reinforce. That's sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
It's a real motorcycle jacket. And if I hadn't been
wearing that, I like a Fonsie jacket. Now i'd have
been I'd have been getting like skin graft surgery or whatever.
So thank god I was wearing my jacket and jeans. Anyway,
I get in this guy's car and I'm believing. He
said no, no, no, don't worry about it, and Babama, he said,
shouldn't you go to a hospital or something like that.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
I said, I gotta get home.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
So, uh, now I'm sitting in the car and I
have a time to like try to collect like what
are how bad are my wounds here? And and uh
and my shoulder hurts really bad. I can't use my
left arm much. I still can't, but I try to
go to like peeling my jeans away to see off
(07:42):
the road how bad my knee is, and I can't.
It's just so like glued to my whole knee area
that I can't really look. But that weird other thing
is so the weird. The way time slows down and
you can have a million thoughts in a second is interesting.
And then the way your body protects you from pain.
So I didn't have hardly any pain until I got
into the uber and then we drove away in like
(08:02):
a couple of minutes in then the pain hit and
it was like, oh, my freaking god, Yes, this is horrible,
this is horrible. I've done something really horrible. And that's
when all the pain started to uh to soak in. Anyway,
I got home, Henry saw me all bloody. I was
hoping to get home in time to try to clean up.
He saw me all bloody. He started crying. I remember
(08:23):
the only time I ever saw my dad get injured.
There's something about seeing your dad injured. It is really horrifying. Yeah,
yeah it is. I saw my dad injured and bloody
one time in his Lord and Henry started crying so
that I was just I went to the emergency and
blah blah blah. Nothing's broken, lots of tissue damage and
ligament this and that and everything.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
But I got really, really like the uber driver got.
I got so lucky with this suber driver.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I gave him a really big tip for bleeding all
over the inside of his Toyota camera.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Fair nothing counts so much as blood.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
But he made the point because I was just like,
I can't believe I did this. I'm so stupid. I
hurt myself. He said, Yeah, a motorcycle wreckon. You're not dead,
You're not in a coma. Amen, is a decent point.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Wow, some might see the hand of God in sending
that gentleman to your side. Man, I get lucky with him.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
I felt like I was in the twilight zone yesterday
because I'm relatively a nube. So you riding motorcycles didn't
I didn't know much about this, and so you sent
me a picture yesterday morning at seven thirty one of
the world's fastest motorcycles from my ride today, and then it.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Is a cool motorcycle.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Less than twelve hours later, Well, guys, yeah, I crashed.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Complete operator mess up. I mean, just stupid, stupid thing.
I tell my son all the time, you got to
pay attention all the time, you got to learn how
to use your brakes, blah blah blah, and I.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Just just completely screwed up.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
But you know, I could have hit my head in
a different way. There could have been a pole there
instead of just rolling down the freeway.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Oh you said your shifter got shaved off. That could
have been your leg.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Yeah. Or I could have hit that car head on
and my head into it. So yeah, I guess I
should just say I'm lucky. I only am walking around
wincing in pain today.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
I think it's great, Katie that we're still getting to
know each other. For instance, i'd be delighted if you
were to come to one of my polo matches
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Armstrong and Geddy
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