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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So I want to ask a question because it's happened
to me yesterday. And I don't think it's just limited
to living in like a big city environment. I feel
like this might be everywhere, and people listen to us
all over the places, listen to us in different cities
on the iHeart.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Radio app all over the world. And this is my thing.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
What happens to people when they get on a bicycle
that turns them into a total gangster? I want to
know because I've noticed that, Like yesterday, for example, I'm
standing on a street corner and a guy like, there's
a crosswalk, and I'm on the cross I'm on the
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street side of the curb, so there's a crosswalk straight
ahead of me, and at a ninety degree angle there's
a bike lane. So I'm at an intersection and out
of nowhere, this dude comes screaming around the corner on
his rented bike and he's going about fifty miles an hour.
I mean, the guy's just screaming, big overweight guy with
the backpack. You know, not that that matters, but he's
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just screaming, and he goes, that's a bike lane, buddy.
Because I was like, I guess I was kind of
in his way of making a clean turn into his
bike lane, right, you know, and I sort of just
looked at him and he just goes zooming by of
course he's going eight hundred miles an hour, So like,
you know, I guess you're big. You're big time when
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you're on your rented bike screaming at people. But like
if you go biking on the lake shore, it's the
same deal, like god forbid, you're too slow or you
pull over on your left. I've had people scream at
me like they're in the Tour de France. I'm like, dude,
it's a Tuesday afternoon on the lake shore, like there's
nothing going on here.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Broke for a minute.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I haven't I own a bike, But I honestly, it
wasn't enjoyable. I wasn't relaxed because I go out there
and I realize you've got like real people training for
like actual triathlons and races or whatever. But those people
don't tend to be the one screaming. It's it's the
guy who's like somewhere between me and the Tour de France.
That's like, you know, I don't know, It's like what
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if I had a flat tire, what if I was injured?
What if i'm what if I'm heard? What if I'm
And by the way, why are we so aggressive? But
what is it with bikers? Bicyclists, cycless cyclists byclists.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Are very aggressive?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
They forget all the rules of the road because they
think it's all theirs. They don't stop at red lights,
they don't stop at stop signs, They just roll through anything,
and they think it's your fault.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
But like what I just I'm wondering what happens when
you strap on that helmet that makes you that you've
now determined that you are the king of the of
the road.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Is it because you know if somebody hits you?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I mean, by the way, I don't pedestrians have right
of way over every moving vehicle. Yes, so technically if
I'm standing in your bike lane, that's a you problem
and I didn't even mean to. But it's like, why
are you so aggressive? Is it because you feel out
of balance? Is it because you feel vulnerable on a bike?
Is it because you're going fast so you can yell
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at people and they really can't catch you because I'm
not going to run after you with my little coffee,
you know, or whatever. I don't understand, like why are
people so aggressive on bicycles. I mean, I'll be honest
with you. I don't enjoy riding the bicycle for this race.
I just want to take my little bicycle and go
out to like a nice rural area and just ride
my little bike around it. I don't want anybody yelling
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at me. I don't want to have to go too
fast or too slow.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I don't want to. I don't want to. I don't wanna.
I will be honest with you.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
When I moved to the city, I had I had
a bicycle, and you do get aggressive with it because
like there's so many people that they kind of don't understand,
like I don't know, like they they are kind of
in your way sometimes, so it just builds up, like
you just.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
In your way.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
You're on a bike, right, go around like I'm a
whole car, Like I will kill you, and you you
think you want to battle with me. I will, Yeah, yeah,
it took me.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I was not on a bike.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I don't say it wouldn't be my fault if you would.
You know, if you would hit me.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Who cares? It is your dad?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
But I'm just saying, like you just get there's so
many like especially if there's bike lanes, like dedicated bike
lanes for people, there's cars that park in there.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
They don't care. That's me, yeah right, and that's what
that's you're the problem, Like you're in my you're in
my lane, that's my area.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
But here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
If I'm in a car and you're on your bike, like, okay,
I got to share the road with I understand that.
I understand much. I really don't like yelling at other people,
yelling at pedestrians, Like why are we yelling? You're on
a bike. First of all, you're on a bike, okay,
and you're on a rented bike. You're on one of
those like sun cruiser, like you know, like beach cruiser whatever. Right,
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I'm like, so you're not you're not even like you're
not even wearing the bike at attire and you're not
wearing those clicking shoes and all the other things. So like,
don't talk to me, like honestly, you're you you you're
not you don't even own that bike, Like just stop,
you know, I mean, like you're not a gangster, you're
not at all. Can we also talk about something else
that's talking about etiquette. Just it's overall like sort of
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sharing the world etigim. If you are walking on the sidewalk,
the rules of the road apply to the sidewalk. Yes,
you have to walk on the right side of the sidewalk.
You cannot. Your entire extended family cannot extend parallel along
the sidewalk perpendicular rather along the sidewalk.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
You need to organize your family to be on the right,
the proper side of the sidewalk. Also, if you're turning
a corner on a sidewalk, a blind corner, you have
an obligation to swing out to the right, Yes, the
same way that you do when you're driving a car.
You don't get to cut the corner and then look
at me like I'm the a hole for walking on
the proper side of the sidewalk, and I'm the one goes, oh, sorry,
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because I'm just trying to make the corner. I can't
see what something the other side, and you decide to
cut the corner. No, you got to swing out, You
go around because somebody might be there, the same way
you would in your car. Why and then why are
you looking at me like I'm the idiot. I'm just
mine on my own business, following the rules of the sidewalk.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yes you are.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
If you're going to walk slowly, you gotta walk on
the far side. I know what, like what don't what
came up?
Speaker 5 (06:13):
No?
Speaker 6 (06:14):
I had another grade, but you're saw on this one.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
No, I'm I'm ready to move on. But go ahead.
No you want yours? Go ahead? No, I'm I'll know.
I need it now, I need it, Okay.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
I was gonna say, and just stop going slow in
the left lane on the highway. I just it was
just like Tourette's coming out. I like, I can't. I
can't handle it anymore. If you drive a big truck,
don't be in the left lane, thank you.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
But yeah, where are the trucks supposed to be, because
I know all the right in every lane?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Where are you supposed to?
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Don't care anymore.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Trying to get around you.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
You're rocks flying off the side.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
You're going twenty miles an hour. I have somewhere to
be and I'm probably late, okay.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
And then you go around them, you think there's a
bunch of traffic in front of them, and.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
They don't have a care in the world.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
They have achieved peace and mental health because I look
at them like this and they're like right, like you
know where to be probably listening to this podcast. Yeah,
that's another thing.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
If you get passed, if you're in the left lane
and you get passed in the right lane, you need
to really assess what you're doing with your life in
that moment, Like you need to look down at your
speedometer and say, okay, now, I will say the other day,
I was going ninety in the left lane in a
seventy Hell yeah, hell, and I got passed on the right.
That's on you. That's on you. I don't have to
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go faster than twenty five over the speed limit or
I think I was probably thirty over that.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I don't know where I was. But now that's on you.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
If you want to pass if I'm already twenty over
and you want to pass me on the right, because
I'm not getting a ticket because you want to go
one hundred, okay, So if you want to pass me
on a right like that, that's on you.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Yeah, I'd agree with that.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
You however fast you go on my way, Jason, I
go eighty, okay, But like as soon as I start
the little things that it's going past eighty, I'm like, oh,
I've got to slow down.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yes, I don't trust my car. I'm pushing it in.
We're not going see this all the time.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I see, like the other day, I'm driving and this
dude's going like he's going to speed limit in the
left lane, and so I swing out and go around
him and then get in front of him. And it's
just like, at that point, don't you go, oh, you
know what? I'm actually like, I'm I'm in the zone
right now. I didn't realize I was driving too slowly
for the left lane.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Let me get over.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
Some people get off on it. They want to go
like that's the only time they can execute any sort
of power or control over somebody else.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
And I'll play that game.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Why Fred always mad about something other people do? Well,
he's about everyone else agrees with me. People stop, you
know what? Are you the Are you the guy in
the bike yesterday?
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Buddy pissed me off.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
I was just drinking my little coffee. And you know
what I could have taken. I could have taken one
step back onto the sidewalk. I could have, but it
was a crosswalk. Me to bike lane. It was a
gray area. And the point is it wasn't that big
a deal. Bike plane, buddy, Really, that's what you're that's
what you're going to stand on today. You go, say
in a business for a bike lane, like really.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I always just ask those people like are you okay?
Like are you having a bad day? Because why are
you screaming at a street right right?
Speaker 6 (09:11):
And then they always take a seat back like oh,
I'm like, yeah, we don't just yell at each other.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
We don't know each other. Why are we screaming? I
just I don't know why this.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I don't know how this uh this turned into a
just a rant about but we live in a society, guys,
and I just I just I didn't know if the
bike thing was universal. I didn't know if the bike
thing happened everywhere or if it was just, you know,
an urban environment thing.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
But I don't think it is.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Even when I go to Costco.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
There's rules at Costco too, like you can't The first
of all, the carts are are giants. They're huge, but
the soul are the lanes and the aisles are huge too.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
It's the same thing. You gotta be on one side.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
You can't be in the middle looking at both sides
trying to find what you're looking now, Like, you can't
raising looking around like in the middle and you just stop.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
A lot of people just stop their cart and then
walked down. I'm like, you just can't leave your cart there,
and it's.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
One side of the time you have to go up
and down.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Here is I think when all else fails, we follow
the rules of the road. When follow the rules of
the road, and if you don't know what those are,
and stay inside right, don't go outside right, like, just
stay in the house. Just let somebody else handle it
for you. Wow, you get a door dash situation going
or something like that, because I just I can't and
you're not a gangster on a bicycle.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Those more aggressive to the people that shop for you,
the instacart people when they go to when you see
my grocery stores, they are so aggressive.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Because they're probably grabbing a wrong stock the cat. I
think they're getting paid.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
I don't mind that they're busy.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
They're busy grabbing whatever I did in door.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
So yeah, and find you know what they're busy doing,
finding the absolute worst.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Proteos to get.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
You know what that's what I get.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
I can't complain too much about delivery services because I mean,
like food deliver reserve it. Like for I get a restaurant,
I mean, the restaurant's responsible. The driver should look and
see there's a few layers here, and I guess the
drivers can't really look in the bag anymore because they're sealed.
But like as far as as going to the grocery store,
if I'm too lazy to go to the grocery store
and you get me a bad banana, then that's on me,
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because honestly, I'm too lazy to go to the grocery store.
If I would just get off my fat ass and
go get my own bananas, then I would get exactly
the banana that I want. But if you give me
a bad looking banana, that's kind of on me, you know.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
What I mean. I think, so it's hard.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
I mean, it's kind of now you bring me Just
if you bring me a kumquat and I ordered a banana, No,
that's not what I asked for. But if I don't
like the quality of the produce, and then I should
get up and go get it myself.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
I agree, Yeah, get on one of the bikes like
the other.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Yeah, just get on the bike, ride down the wrong side, like,
get out of the way, scroam it everybody exactly.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
They brought me Coume quash So.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Bike Lane Buddy, top Quart buddy. I just I don't
know why. I've just been bothering me. It's better now,
Thank you for listening.