hey everybody how's it going pretty good pretty good how are you so good
this is going to be an interesting conversation today guys we're talking about
road rage which i think is fascinating i talk about friends with this we've had everyone has a
story so i'm really excited for this conversation and for you guys listeners to hear such a native
natural conversation we might be interrupting each other talking over each other because everyone has
heightened emotions about a topic like this oh yeah well if a phrase has the word rage
in it i mean that's like the most extreme aggressive angry emotion rage so we'll try we'll
try to keep it civil you guys and not get rageful with each other is rage full a word no and rape
and rage adjectives not to get engaged with each other right because we probably do all have very
strong feelings about this or have experienced or maybe feel it ourselves yeah i think it's funny
i laugh at people that get road rage do you guys want to throw out some examples first like when is
the last time you guys saw someone or experienced uh road rage oh definitely in boston i saw it
a lot more than i do out here in colorado people are just way more chill out here i remember once i
used to live on kind of a busy street in cambridge mass and i remember once i was working and i heard
someone it was like a friday rainy friday at rush hour worst time for road rage right yeah someone
laid on their horn probably for three minutes and i was thinking oh my gosh why is that necessary
it's those bostonians they will do it they will get they oh yeah new yorkers too there are signs
now that's like it's illegal to honk because they will like you said lay on your horn just like push
it forever and it's okay they lay on it it's okay like just a little beep beep come on like i'm here
right but laying on your horn is completely different yeah
you know it's funny i get excited when i get to honk at someone because i never do and it's
always exciting like if somebody like cuts me off or like does something that's worthy of a
hunk yeah i'm always like i get excited you're funny it's about i feel like a little sense of
fear like to honk actually like i mean that's a ha not like a well not really but like i i'm
not a big hunker like are you worried about repercussions or do you just feel kind of mean
yeah sometimes you don't i don't know like no no it's not about feeling mean um
but you're worried someone will maybe get out of their car and come yell at you or well yeah like
i mean i have been in instances where with people who have some road rage in the car who seem like
they could you know no not not that sorry no no no no that sounded wrong not that they would do
anything but they are like beep happy like so you know so it's not that they would do anything but
almost like they would like go too far with the honking and then you're like oh you don't
know what the other person i don't know i get what you're saying you never know you never it is scary
though because in america i mean people have guns i mean this isn't just like you know a no like a
consequential you know like occurrence or whatever with road rage it's this uncontrollable passion
where there is it is your animal brain that takes over right like you're not being rational at that
point and if somebody has a deadly weapon with them like they're not gonna they're not
thinking they'll just jump out with their gun or whatever i think there was a case where that
happened recently was there where was that okay so it happens a lot i was looking up some stats
for this and i guess road rage is a factor in more than half more than 50 of car crashes it
accounts for 30 deaths a year 1800 injuries and what's interesting too i didn't realize this
kind of have to define terms according to like the united states motor vehicle division there's a big
difference between aggressive driving which is really what we're talking about honking
and maybe getting mad and actual road rage it's defined by the mbd as causing an accident with
your car because you were angry like an actual assault with a motor vehicle is okay that makes
road rage what we're actually talking about is more aggressive driving right i would never i
cannot imagine that's true hitting someone with my car but yeah i get real mad if someone's like
stopped at a right turn you know the red light on the right and i want to go right and they're going
straight in front of me i get you know i would say oh i have road rage no i'm not gonna hit them with
my car there's a difference you guys like do you feel emotional when you're driving i mean i guess
i guess like i'm laughing you're like and i'm like like if i'm in a hurry i guess but usually
i'm just like i don't know it's just like three seconds difference like it actually doesn't
make that huge of a difference if somebody's going too slow or they don't really depends on
where you are like i said before it's all about your location if other people are getting heated
you may get treated it just depends on where you're driving yeah people in portland don't
care everybody here drives so slowly and that does annoy me but i don't get mad about it but
it people are so slow here yeah for sure yeah most of the time i feel that way but sometimes i do
get heated and i feel silly i realize it's silly maybe later i feel silly but i'll get really mad
i understand why people get and it's coming from somewhere else like you're mad about something
else you're frustrated about something else yeah you're like taking it out on other drivers and
i like yell at someone and my kids are they're like mom it's like stress it's all buttoned up
in there stressing like bottled up in your mind and heart and it just comes out at that driver
but it's about all other things and i actually get really frustrated if i'm a passenger and the
driver if someone cuts them off or something and they don't honk then i get mad and i'll reach over
and honk and they of course get really upset aubry understandable i would be with michelle
gestures towards people yeah oh you're a gesture oh gesture
we won't tell you but just just look up flip the bird because that is a wonderful
idiom just look it up you guys and you'll know what we're talking about yeah because there are
cultural gestures that have the same meaning in that like every country right you know what i'm
more likely to do though i'll give someone a thumbs up with like a mean face like nice job
you know i think that's so much more condescending and mean
that's so funny but they might just see the thumb and be like oh she can do it baby good
job and i have i have flipped a bird a time or two i'm not gonna i would see that i would be too
scared like a honk i can do but like no flipping of anything for me kind of confrontational i guess
i don't know that makes me feel bad i'm too sensitive like if somebody else flips me
off or if you know because people i don't know people get angry and i even whatever
even if i did something wrong it was an accident and somebody especially if
james is in the car and somebody drives past me like yelling like bad words and like you know
flipping me off or whatever like it i get sad for like a couple hours it makes me oh so gross
i get that walking because i'm mostly walking everywhere so if somebody like honks at me or
like says something while i'm walking if i you know maybe wasn't look you know like something
um i can it does it does kind of like shock you but like yeah i don't i don't drive i i probably
only i probably only drive maybe once every few weeks maybe once a month like because i'm in
a city environment right but like if i'm walking and like i get a dirty look or i do you know you
know then it does i know what you mean jessica it does kind of like shock you for like yeah so bad
and i've had that where you like feel so bad you know you're like
like i'll um be mad at someone and then you see them and that's like a cute little grandma
or something you're like i feel so much regret i'm like a mother with two kids in the bathroom
yeah sometimes they do deserve it it'll be some punk kid who's just terrible but sometimes not
yeah well okay this is kind of interesting do you ever feel like people always talk about the
the person driving as like this guy or like i feel like it's always like uh oh like this guy cut me
off you assume it's like an aggressive guy maybe exactly so like i feel you know and that's kind of
right like that kind of goes goes with uh what you were saying aubrey is like then you look and it's
like and like they'll be in the car with somebody and it's like oh that guy over there did this and
i'm like oh it's actually a woman but just to play the counterpoint just to play the counterpoint
it that is the most expensive insurance category guys in their 20s therefore they definitely do
have the most interesting otherwise insurance wouldn't be as expensive for them as it is
oh just to play the counter side there michelle no but that's i mean that's that's a fair point
like for sure it's just funny it just always makes me laugh when like it's just basically
what aubrey said yeah i wonder if um if there's like a generational aspect to it to some extent
besides like location-based differences because i know like my mom and step-dad
they're they're such they're way more they're angrier drivers yeah for sure i agree and i am
like it drives me bonkers driving with my mom like it makes me so nervous because whenever
she's driving she's like oh sure guy get over here oh yeah what are you doing and she's like
always yelling at everybody else is driving around her james and i are always like what
is her problem but do you think that's la jessica because she's in la right your mom do you think
that's the freeway she hasn't lived there for very long like she's lived in nevada and idaho and
yeah that's my question yeah i don't know i think she's just an angry little lady if she's driving
the rest of the time she's like the sweetest person maybe it goes back to that's how she says
she's me there's other angry things and it just that's her safe space well and
my guess is she would not because what's really dangerous and scary and i don't do this at all
is when people take it to like tailgate where they're like following too closely
like i might yell and i might be mad but i've never ever like followed too close or
cut someone off that's so dangerous and i there's a very distinct difference in my mind right okay
so there's i think there's also this difference between like okay it kind of reminds me of social
media like we're in a way you're like anonymous so like um what i'm what i'm thinking of is like when
i'm in the car and like when i say like oh i won't beep that doesn't mean i'm not saying things like
in my car with the closed windows where nobody can hear me it's like safe yeah yeah that doesn't
mean i'm not using an appropriate language person or i just like criticize that you know
like that doesn't mean that i don't do that but i do it like you know so nobody can hear me whereas
like on social media people also like this channel you know you like can say more i don't know
i i'd be very curious uh listeners if this exists in your country if road rage is a thing um if you
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