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Motorcyclist Are Out of Control Says Kev
In this episode, Kevin expresses his frustration with motorcyclists, particularly those on crotch rockets, who weave through traffic recklessly. The discussion highlights the need for designated motor...
Motorcyclist Are Out of Control Says Kev
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Mojah on the morning show.
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Today's not one of those days where I think people are going to be out on motorcycles
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riding around, but
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Kevin,
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Kevin would like to do a
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Kevin nose minute.
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It's not even going to take a minute, though, bro.
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No, it's going to be right.
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Listen, yeah, we have H O V lanes, which I feel like our new, at least
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new to me in Michigan.
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We got bike lanes.
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We need MF and motorcycle lanes.
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MF and motorcycle.
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There is nothing.
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I don't even want to say scares me more.
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I would say annoys me more.
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And not because they have the ability to go and I don't.
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It just feels like they're reckless as hell when they're driving on the freeway.
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I can be in a traffic jam.
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Create a lot.
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Nobody's moving.
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It's like one of those traffic jams where you don't even expect to move.
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So you cock your seat back a little bit.
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Maybe your hands aren't even on the wheel because you know, there's no point
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because you're not going to move.
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And all of a sudden,
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they're driving not in a lane, but in between the cars that are in traffic.
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That's a video game.
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It's a day of video game.
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It's like they play in GTA.
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It is not fair.
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It's dangerous as hell.
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And they need to just sit there like everybody else or get their own lane
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because it's not right.
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You know, this is all very good point.
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And it's going longer than a minute.
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So I want to keep it going.
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No, no, I think I'm good.
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Finn motorcycle.
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People on motorcycles.
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First off, you got a death wish because the idea that you're on one of those things.
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I always say that you know, you know, person that's riding a motorcycle,
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either they've crashed it or they're going to crash it.
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Like they're it's given that it's going to happen.
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Well, let me say this.
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Crotch rockets because the Harley people I'm cool with them.
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Yeah.
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When they sit back and they don't do that.
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They don't read the current.
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They wear helmets.
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The crotch.
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Well, not not not not.
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Not the Harley.
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See, I feel like it's the crotch rocket people that don't wear the helmet and the Harley
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people wear all the right stuff.
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I don't know.
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The majority.
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The worst is the crotch rockets.
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Usually it's two or three guys and they bust their ass like going like a hundred miles
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an hour in and out and in and out.
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And I know this sounds really, really like bad to say.
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But there are some of these.
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Oh, did I not do a winner yet?
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I got to do a winner.
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Yeah, I was just pre taking it.
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Hold on.
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Let me just grab.
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I'll take them real quick so everybody can stop calling.
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Anthony, you're a winner.
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Congratulations.
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You got.
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Congrats to you.
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Congrats.
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You got tickets to go to our jingle ball.
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Who you excited to see, Anthony?
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Nelly and Cheyenne down for sure.
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And whoever else is playing is fine with me.
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I love it.
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Have a great time, man.
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You're going to have a great time there.
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This is getting added out anyway.
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So congratulations to enjoy.
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Have a great time at jingle ball.
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Where are you from?
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Finally Ohio.
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Love it.
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Appreciate you.
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I love it.
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All right.
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All right.
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Let me swell.
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One more.
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All right.
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So go back to crotch rockets.
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The crotch rocket people is usually like two or three of the guys to
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and they all of a sudden start racing each other.
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And they're going crazy.
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And I know I'm not supposed to say this, but I'm going to say this.
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I sit in my car going.
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Can they fall?
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You say say that, bro.
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But that's what scares me is I think not that my car is going to hit them
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necessarily like with them driving.
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I'm scared that they are going to fall over and then I'm going to run them over.
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I get out of the lane that they're in.
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I moved completely away from.
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They're not.
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I know that they're.
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I know that something's going to happen to them.
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They're in all the lanes.
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Yeah.
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There's like a group of them that just ride around downtown.
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Actually, there's ATVs too.
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It's one of my favorite things to get videos up, but it is truly like it seems so dangerous.
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You can ride ATVs in the city.
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I mean, I don't know if you can't.
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And they do.
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ATVs like the three wheel ones that you see.
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No, like four wheels, like four wheelers.
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They're driving four wheelers down the street and motorcycles and moped and there's probably like 50 of them.
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And they're doing wheelies.
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It's the craziest thing.
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I'll send Bianca a video.
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I love taking videos of it, but I always think what if someone fell off and half of them don't have helmets on?
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I'm seeing them on a freeway.
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That's nuts.
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Justin, what's up?
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Justin.
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Hey, it's completely legal for car trackers to do that.
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I know everybody hates it, but it's illegal.
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How is that legal that they don't have to wait and traffic?
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I don't.
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I didn't know the law.
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I can't explain it to you.
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I'm not.
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I'm not the 30.
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I'm not the 30, but I don't believe it.
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It's motorcycles and I just did up.
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I looked it up before it's legal.
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I a police officer to call.
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I don't believe it's legal that they can just make their own traffic lanes and just to go past everybody.
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You know, that they don't have to sit there and wait in a line of traffic.
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Like they fear.
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Yeah, somebody.
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Somebody needs to, let me know of what the law is to that.
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What's up?
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Ben is a guy that rides.
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Ben, you're not one of these guys on a crotch rocket, are you?
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Yeah.
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Well, I do have the cross rocket, but I'm not the guy that goes crazy on it.
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But I think it's back to what Kevin was saying.
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The difference between lane filtering and when splitting the guys is splitting up in traffic.
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That more dangerous, but lane filtering is actually a lot safer than sitting in traffic.
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Just in case like that traffic jam comes up, you got someone flying up behind you.
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That's how a lot of those accidents happen.
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So wait a second.
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There's a difference between it.
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It's called what?
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So lane filtering is basically it's not legal and like taxes, Florida, like all the other ones where you're sprouting.
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It's totally up in between the guys.
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They're just being crazy and flying through traffic.
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That beat.
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So lane splitting.
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So filtering is actually a lot safer.
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I don't think it's fair.
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I think you guys should have to wait like us.
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Your vehicle is the same as our vehicle.
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It just has two wheels compared to R7 4.
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That is valid, but I did say you can prevent a rear end and safer in a car.
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All right.
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Well, then, you know, what then give yourself enough space in between.
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I know you can get rear-ended driving.
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What makes you think you're special driving through stop traffic?
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What's up, Mar?
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Hey, man.
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Well, lane splitting is illegal in Michigan.
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I get it.
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Well, filtering is all right.
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We don't want to die.
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Imagine being stuck behind a car and somebody is right up your behind.
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Okay.
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Let's say they press the gas by accident.
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You're gone.
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You're dead.
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But let's say we split through the traffic.
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We're not hurting nobody.
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Everybody's going to get home.
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The same time they are going to get home.
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We're just trying to make our way to the front of the line.
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So we won't get hit by a car.
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My heart.
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Plus, not another only thing about it.
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You're giving me anxiety, though.
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You give me anxiety when you drive like a maniac pass my car.
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I get it.
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I get it.
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I get it.
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We do that.
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We do that.
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We are at the blame.
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But imagine the bike.
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The bike is running at 200 turn high.
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And we're getting stuck in traffic.
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Yeah.
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Staying in traffic at a 70 degree weather on a hot bike.
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Oh, we're burning ourselves.
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We're going to be barbecue by the time we get home.
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Come on.
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You're not getting barbecued.
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It's not that hot.
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It is.
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It really is.
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How are you going to come on?
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I know.
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No, it's not.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Kevin.
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I love you, man.
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You can't be against it.
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You got to be with us, man.
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Kevin's not with you.
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He's never going to be with you.
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Slow down, Mark.
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He drives.
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Let me take you on a ride, man.
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He'll know.
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I'm going to get my high.
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Are you holding your waist?
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Are you worried about?
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Yeah.
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No, no, no, no.
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The only way.
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I know you guys.
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I'm going to motorcycle is if there's a side car.
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I'm not riding a motorcycle.
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What's up, William?
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Hi.
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How you doing?
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What's going on?
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Not much.
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Yeah, it's a safety thing.
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It's called Wayne filtering.
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You're not supposed to do it at a high rate of speed.
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You're nervous.
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It's supposed to be a low speed,
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especially in sitting traffic,
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especially because it's a safety thing.
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Yeah.
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So someone's,
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someone's, if I'm by you really fast, that is illegal.
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But if they're doing it at a controlled speed of like 10, 15 miles an hour,
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that's completely legal.
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It's, yeah, it's a safety thing.
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When I see you guys race by me, though,
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like on the freeway,
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I feel like you guys just robbed a banker or a jewelry store.
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You know what I mean?
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Like with the two of you guys are together and you guys are kind of like acting like morons.
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You know what I mean?
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Yeah, I'm not one of those.
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I'm more respectful of the road.
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I mean, that's not how people die when they start driving reckless.
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Like when,
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Kev talks about the difference between somebody that drives crash rockets compared to
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hardly's. I mean, there's civility and non-civility.
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Like I feel, I feel like the guys that are on those crash rockets,
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they, you know, they don't care about what they're doing.
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You know, they're giving like old people heart attacks and their cars.
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Yeah, they have a death wish.
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People on crash rockets have a death wish.
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Is there beef in a motorcycle world?
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Cause I don't know where I heard this from.
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It could be fake or it could be real that people who drive
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Harleys or hogs or whatever they call them don't respect the crotch rocket riders.
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They don't consider them to be like real motorcycle riders.
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Real? Is that a real thing or?
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You got to see that depends on who you are.
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So the serious bikeer games, yeah, no they just have complete disrespect for the
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track trackets.
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And what is the disrespect they just don't consider them bikes or is it deeper?
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Right.
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More and more of a sport toy.
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Yeah, okay.
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Because the the serious bikeer games they have respect for roadblocks where the
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crash rockets they don't care.
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Gotcha.
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Thanks for the call, man.
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I appreciate it.
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Thanks for letting us ask you a bunch of questions.
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Devon is a truck driver.
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I can only imagine what you guys think about these people on these motorcycles.
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What's up, Devon?
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Devon wake up.
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Hey, Devon.
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See, Ermin?
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Yes, I got you.
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So I'm a truck driver and all the time when I'm driving on the road,
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I have motorcycles coming between me and two other and the truck next to me.
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Yeah.
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One time the truck driver actually like ran his steering wheel like his like.
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Handle bars.
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Yeah, handlebars.
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Yeah, handlebars didn't move the front of the truck next to me and the truck almost like
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size white, but he kind of like drifted off to the road.
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We beaved and then he just kept swarving in between me and the other trucks.
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They were like six of them.
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Geez.
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So I can't wait.
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They can either their own lane or like they need to be a little bit more careful.
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Well, good news is the weather's changing and they ain't riding motorcycles.
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People have have a total death wish at the riding motorcycles and the winter time.
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I don't think you ever see every motorcycle.
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Not as often.
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You're right.
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Can you imagine being a guy who's carb broke down in this way?
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You can get to work.
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I assume about that in the rain round of motorcycles.
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Crazy.
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Dallas would like to make the last comment.
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What's up, Dallas?
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What's up guys?
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I just want to tell you Kevin that you're just jealous because the riders
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would go right through the middle and we get to that light and we're out of there
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and you have to wait for it to be light before you can make it to your destination.
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You might be right a little bit of it.
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That is.
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Yeah.
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A model.
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Isn't it in those traffic situations?
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200 lights.
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Man, the balls get hot man.
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You can't just sit on that footer cycle for two or three lights.
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See?
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What's wrong?
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What's wrong?
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I don't know if that wind going.
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All these people are all talking about how hot the bike is.
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Is that really the case?
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But they got to get going so the balls can get some.
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The balls need some air.
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Hold on.
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Last call.
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I promise you is Kevin.
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Kevin, what did you want to say?
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Hi.
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Hey, I was just in my car sitting here imagining Mojo's big
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guy getting into a side car.
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With the bag.
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You need the goggles and the leather like bonnet.
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Get them out once you get in, buddy.
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Yeah.
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I want to scarf too.
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I want to scarf.