Radio Blogs: Fred Vs. The Cyclist

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
A pie.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Yeah, they talk better than these are the radio blogs
on the Fresh Show. I like for running in our diaries,
except we save them aloud. We call them blogs. I'm
gonna take this one deer blog. First of all, this
is really about to cyclists, and I don't even mean
cyclists cyclists, I mean people riding their bikes in urban areas,
but pedestrians too. I got flipped off yesterday by a guy,

(00:26):
and it was one of the first times I felt
very aggressive in that moment. It was one of the
first times I almost like stopped my car and got
out and like wanted to get in the guy's face.
But you argument, well, I know, but I try and
control my emotions, I really do. But it was one
of those situations where I was trying to make a
left turn and I had an what happened? Oh, it

(00:48):
was I was making a left turn, like there's traffic coming,
and I was trying to cross the traffic, but there
was a ton of cars coming. So I wind up
stuck in the middle of the intersection with now a
red light. Got it, and I'm making the left turn
now in the process of that light turning red. Immediately,
of course, the people going parallel to me, have a
have a l The walking sign comes on, but yet

(01:13):
I'm still in the middle of the intersection. I have
to turn to get out of the middle of the threat.
And so and this all happened literally within like thirty seconds.
And so I go to turn, and there's one pedestrian
and the guy starts to walk, and like realizes that
I need to get out of the middle of traffic,
but then just keeps walking and flips me off, like

(01:35):
I really had no choice, Like I'm in a car, Like,
and I realized that I realized the little stupid walking
sign says that you can walk, but like, let's use
our brains and our eyes and realize that like just
because it says walk doesn't mean that someone's not going
to run the red light, or doesn't mean that there
still aren't cars. Like I love it when in a
big city when there's like a traffic jam and there
are people that pull two forward into the inner like

(01:57):
too far into the intersection, thinking the traffic of them
is going to move, And then the crosswalk changes, and
the pedestrians just insist they got to walk in front
of the car. So now you're just sitting in the
middle of an intersection, so those people can't go so
that these people can walk. I'm like, if you could
only wait like five seconds and just be like kind
and realize that, Okay, I know that it says walkie walkie,

(02:21):
but like we could wait one second so that this
dude doesn't block everyone's way. Correct. And then also yesterday,
I'm at a car dealership and the car dealership is
in an urban area and they park their cars, like
if you're going to look at a car, they pull
it up and they put it for the dealership. Well,
right next to where they park it, adjacent to that
is a bike lane and then like a normal lane,

(02:43):
but in order to look at the car and get
in the car, you have to stand in the bike lane, right.
And it's like no, there's like no bitches lines in
the street, right, yes, And so I'm going to get
in the driver's side of this car, and I'm in
the bike lane and a guy on a bike. It's
just one guy. There's no other cars on the road. Goes.
You're standing in a bike lane and he's riding like

(03:04):
a shwin with a basket. He has like a fedora on.
You know, it's it's like, you know, like this is
you know, he's wearing like a corduroy, you know what
I mean. And I'm just gonna and even if the
sales guy goes, yeah, we know, but it's like you
he very easily could have just literally like moved his
body slightly and the bike just goes right around. But

(03:25):
I don't know where else I was supposed to stand,
Like there was only one way into the car, and
it was through the the you know, uh, heavily guarded
bike lane.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
I guess, well, maybe the man's just jealous because he's
on a bike and you're getting into a brand new
like Kia Sorrento.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
This Keiya Sorrento. It's afa by the way, it's a
Kia Sephia. Never see anything like and it wasn't. It's
not brand new, it's a twenty twenty. But it doesn't matter.
The point is it's new to me, okay, and I'm
very excited about it. And the bottom line is, this
dude is just screaming, and I'm like that, First of all,
that takes so much energy. Second of all, flipping somebody

(04:03):
off in a major city is a really bad idea
because I'm not an aggressive person, but I know people
who would have actually stopped the car in the middle
of the intersection. And not to say you should do this,
it's it's assault, but you also shouldn't necessarily engage people
with fu And I understand that this guy was trying
to cross the street and like the don't want to
get hit by a car. I get it, but like

(04:24):
it is our and I understand pedestrians have the right
of way legally, but like I notice it all the time,
even when there's a green light, people will just walk
across the street and like you know, perpendicular to you.
And you're going down the street at forty miles an
hour and you have a green light, and they just
look at you like hit me, And you're like what, Like,
I realize I can't hit you. I don't want to

(04:46):
hit you. I don't want to hurt you. But I
also I am driving like it's a large metal object.
And if you haven't noticed, most people are not paying
attention to what's happening outside, if they're even driving their
own car, you know what I'm saying. So it's like,
you know, I don't know why you would take that risk.
My opinion, you just wait, Like we're talking about five seconds.
But the bikes man so aggressive, very even if you

(05:08):
go out on the lake front, like the guys are
out there in the middle. You got people in the
summer who rented bikes. You got people who don't know
what they're doing. You got people who are there to
like look at the buildings and say, oh, it's beautiful
and whatever else. And then you got the guy who
you think she's you know, Lance Armstrong here and he's
you know, he's trying to set a pr on the
lake front. Yeah, yeah, like shut the hell. And I'm

(05:32):
just going I get it. I understand like as someone
who's like starting to run, it is annoying to go
on a trail like on like people don't care, like
a family will walk seven across the sidewalk. I was
just gonna say, I do want to flip them on.
We do have like and if you if you see
me running towards you and you're on the right side,
like then just smoove over onto your side of the side.

(05:53):
What don't make me go into the grass around you?
You know, I get that, Like we got to share
or you know, we live in a society that's crazy.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
The other one, it's like when you're it's if you're
walking on the street, you kind of walk the direction
of the traffic. You know what I'm saying, Like this way, Yeah,
you're going the same direction. Don't walk, don't walk the
opposite direction on my side of this one, trying to
excuse me, I've got to get through, right, I'm like, bro,
you're you're walking.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
The wrong direction, and don't turn a corner tight. And
it's supposed to be on the other side and I'm
turning a corner tight on my right side. It's like,
we got we gotta share, guys. And I understand what
the law says, and I understand when little Walkie Walkie
says that you should be able to I get it,
but like not everything works perfectly. Yeah, and we need
to look and we need to share, and when need
not scream at people, and we really shouldn't flip people up.

(06:39):
I was talking to my mom on the phone when
it happened, and I, of course, of course I did
have something to do. I wrote the window down, and
of course the guy starts running when I started talking
to him. I rolled the window down. I go, was
that necessary a hole? Because it wasn't. It was very
aggressive and then he starts running like the guy is
a total who was? But anyway, if you're gonna flip
people off, you also should be ready for whatever happens

(06:59):
next to don't. I've never actually flipped anybody off because
I don't know if the next move they make is
to be So.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
The last time I flipped someone off, he stopped and
got out of the car.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
And came up to my window, which I know you
can't do that, and I didn't do that, but actually,
don't do that. It's so inflammatory, like it's just not necessary.
But I but I stood on business too. I was scared.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
I mean I wouldn't want to get out of my
kids right till either.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
You know. Well, I was afraid that if I got
out of it because I saw people look at they
were eyeing it. It is your mom, like are you okay?
It's a custom color. It's going to wrap on it.
It's like an eggplant color. It is. It is so beautiful,
and I was afraid that I got out of it,
somebody might immediately try and steal it. I don't just
leave your lambeau, you know, running in front of the

(07:41):
Starbucks you just don't do that. I thought you had that,
Sabrina Carpenter a CUV.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
You don't have that anymore.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
Which one is that? The one wrapped in?

Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (07:50):
I mean I have multiple vehicles, all right, your forerunners wrap?
Who do you think you're dealing with here?

Speaker 1 (07:55):
Did your mom like? Was your mom like? Put me
on speaker, son.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
Let me tell you. If she'd been, she would have
been half out of the car. She would have tackled Foredora. Man,
it would have been it would have been bad. More
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