[upbeat music] [siren wailing] Oh, the cops are here. The cops, help! Help!
What's up?
Best thing that happened to you all day.
Pretty much. I mean, before you was Jade-
[laughs]
... so it's a slight improvement.
[laughs]
[laughs] It doesn't mean it's good. It's just the best thing that's happened today.
Not much going well in your life, is there?
Well, I'm t-
[laughs]
I just need an... I was trying to get Jade to let me take a nap, and he's like, "No, you need to work."
"I'm not covering for you, boy."
Yeah. I'm like, "Dude, come on. I need a nap, bro. Come on."
[laughs]
Here, let me monkey with that mic.
Yeah, I'm getting some feedback. I'm getting shocked every time.
It's thinking, "Oh, yeah, that's working."
Good work. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
We might have to use a different one.
[laughs]
See if that's still doing that.
Is that still doing that? Yep.
Yeah. Here, let's try this bad boy over here. [grunts]
Bringing it through the house. Yeah, this is gonna work great. [laughs]
[laughs] You might need to go around to this side. All right. I know this is good radio, everybody, so just hang on. We're trying to- trying to keep it as fun as possible here. All right. That one's not making any racket. Hey, Jade, come fix the mic. [laughs]
I'm glad you guys are professionals around here. [laughs]
[laughs] Oh, you know what? We got a caller, Lieutenant Crane. Let's go ahead and go to the phones and quickly chat with Crazy Jay. All right, Crazy Jay on the line. What's your question, Crazy Jay?
My question is has any officer tried to handcuff somebody and they get handcuffed themselves?
Oh.
Oh, that may have happened somewhere, sometime, but not with the bad boys of the Idaho State Police. [laughs]
[laughs]
Oh, that means it did happen. [laughs]
Jay, you know what's funny? We haven't heard from you from y- for years, but all of a sudden, you call and start trying to pick a fight with me immediately.
[laughs] How could I do that? [laughs]
Trying to make us look like pansies. [laughs]
No, there's all kinds of sleight of hand guys that can do that.
Sleight of hand guys, huh?
Yeah.
Yeah, don't try to arrest, uh, Criss Angel.
[laughs]
Yeah, exactly. [laughs]
I- I don't know if you know this or not, uh, Crazy Jay, but he has props. His handcuffs aren't quite the same as ours. [laughs]
[laughs]
Are you telling me magic isn't real? [laughs]
It's sleight of hand, baby.
Are you sure? [laughs]
Well, let's find out, Jay. You come on down here and let's put you in handc- handcuffs.
Well, I'm going to work right now. [laughs]
And we are impressed you have kept a job for a while. Thank you.
Yeah, good job-
[laughs]
... Jay. Good job, Jay.
Oh,
that makes me not happy. [laughs]
[laughs]
[laughs] Well, you have a good one, Jay. Good to hear from you, man.
All right, you guys too. Have a good one.
See you, man.
Bye.
Peace. All right. So as you can tell, we're kicking off Traffic School powered by the Advocates Injury Attorneys. Thanks to Crazy Jay for calling us.
Hey, I really like you've moved me over here on this mic. I feel like you in Peaches' chair. I can barely see over the computer. It's like my nose is barely over the computer.
Oh, yeah, and that chair-
I see... [laughs]
... it just keeps sinking down when you're in it. I don't know if you've heard me complain about our chairs in the studio before.
I've never heard you complain ever.
[laughs] But that one's p- I- I've tried every chair in this room. They're all crap.
[laughs]
Jay, we need new chairs. We need you to fix the microphone. And, uh, the- the phone system could probably use some work too.
I think your opinion is you guys could use new everything except professional talent.
Uh, yeah, no, I've... There's no one more talented than me.
[laughs]
We don't need anybody else around here. All right? I already have to put up with Peaches.
[laughs]
I don't need more staff. [laughs] All right, everybody. We're gonna take a very quick break. We'll be back in about two minutes and we'll officially kick off Traffic School powered by The Advocates. We would love you to call with your questions at 208-535-1015, so figure out what you wanna ask us and then call us. Dang it. [upbeat music] 208-535-1015 is the number to call for Traffic School powered by The Advocates. Go-
Out of all these years, I- I thought you wouldn't need that posted right in front of you to say that still.
Hey, don't tell people about my sticky notes. [laughs]
[laughs] You, like, are locked in, "535." [laughs]
Every once in a while, I'll throw out the old phone number from, like, you know, 15 years ago and I'm like, "What- what happened?"
Some lady's getting phone calls. [laughs]
[laughs]
"Let me hear some hard rock!"
Let's see if we, uh, had any questions posted online while we wait around on you people to call us at, again, 208-535-1015. All right, let's see here. I posted it in a, uh, different spot than usual.
Out of our listening area. [laughs]
Yeah. So let's see.
See this? I- I don't know if you're familiar with Facebook. It kinda sucks.
I don't have it.
It's a garbage platform, and for some reason, if you post from a page, like the KBAR page, they don't push your- your posts out to people nearly as well as if you just post it on a personal page. So, I don't think anyone's even seen this post. They're too busy showing a bunch of stupid garbage that nobody wants to see.
[laughs]
All right? If your Facebook feed looks like mine... So, callers, we really need you to call since nobody has commented on that post, and usually there's a bunch of them, uh, when I post it the other way. That's what I get.
Or we shut her down early and you take a nap.
... don't tell anybody.
[laughs]
[laughs] I can't even think of any stupid questions I had for you today.
Well, you have plenty. [laughs]
I usually do. I usually do. Let's go the phones here. Kay Bear, you're live on Traffic School powered by The Advocates. Who's this?
Justin.
Justin, what's up? What do you wanna know?
Well, I actually had a qu- uh, question about, uh, the DOT regulations in-
Uh...
[laughs]
... Idaho's, uh, participating in. [laughs] Anything to stop, uh, some of these illegal drivers and the commercial vehicle issue, if Idaho's participating in that and pulling in truck drivers.
So, e- we're talking about if they speak English or not?
Yes. That, and having actual valid driver's license, and being qualified to drive a motor vehi- commercial motor vehicle.
Yeah. So we're not, you know... We, we'll communicate with them any way we have to. Uh, with that being said though, we are requiring them- We do work under federal guidelines with our commercial vehicle specialists, and now follow those guidelines and laws. And so, if they get stopped for some kind of violation, we will go through and fi- uh, enforce any law that pertains at that point.
Okay. Now, what if- would somebody was to report somebody that doesn't... You have actual proof that they don't have a- a valid license, and they have a fake CDL. Is there anything you can do to turn them in?
Uh, yeah. There's things you can do. You can report that. We would talk to the owner of the trucking company, and maybe go through the process that way. The other thing we would do... Hey, did you like that?
Yeah, I'm like, uh, you got a camera going off there?
[laughs]
You spying on me?
[laughs]
I knew you hid a camera in here!
That's- that's big brother right there, buddy. [laughs]
[laughs] Always watching, Lieutenant Crane. Keeping an eye on things.
Yeah.
[laughs]
So, uh, yeah. There- there's some investigative things that we could do, and techniques that we could do if we knew of something like that, yes.
Okay. I appreciate it. Thank you very much.
Hey, thanks for the call, man. Have a good one.
You too. Thank you.
Peace. 208-535-1015. The number to call for Traffic School powered by The Advocates. Now, are people with fake CDL, is that a problem? Well, it, uh... We don't see it a lot, but we do see it, right?
Okay.
Uh, like man, I had a guy stop me here a few weeks ago. He was all kinds of upset because, uh, he would... He had lost his CDL privileges due to high volume speeding tickets in his commercial vehicle. [laughs]
[laughs]
And he's upset at me for that. I'm like, "I'm not the guy pushing the gas." Right? [laughs]
[laughs]
So yeah [laughs], I think there might be some culpability on your part here somewhere.
Th- yeah, there you go. You want to keep your license? Obey the law.
Yeah. Yeah. Uh, crazy thing, maybe one ticket I can understand. But three, and all of 'em at extremely high speeds in a semi., uh, that may be you, a you problem, right?
Yeah, and that- that's pretty dangerous.
And so then, uh, he ended up few months later was in a truck again. I'm like, "Wait a minute. I know that you don't have a CDL." [laughs]
Oh, jeez. [laughs]
So I had our boys go check him out, and he got a fake one to try to go back to work, so...
Oh, wow.
And guess what they got probable cause to stop him on?
Speeding? [laughs]
Speeding. [laughs]
[laughs] Some people never learn, you know?
Jeez.
After that one time I got that talking to from the Pocatello-
[laughs]
... police about going too fast on the freeway, I made sure that I went ahead and, uh, went nice and slow every time I go through Pocatello. All right. Kay Bear, you're live on Traffic School powered by The Advocates. Who's this?
This is Brandon.
Brandon, what's up man? What do you wanna know?
I actually got two questions. I'll make 'em quick. One's a gag question.
Oh, great. Well, nobody else is calling-
And one's a serious question
... so take your time.
Take it. [laughs] Yeah.
Okay.
The first one's a what question?
There's like a gag question.
Oh, a gag. Okay.
Maybe make, uh, some of the audience laugh here. All right. So I have a friend in Portland-
Now we set the, uh, stage. [laughs]
[laughs]
Yeah. It better be funny.
Hey, when you're giving one-liners, don't set the stage, all right? Just say it and hope for the best.
[laughs] Uh, so I have a friend in Portland and he, uh, argues that, uh, while you're driving, if you're listening to Pink Floyd, you will never get pulled over ever, no matter how fast you're driving. Is there any truth to that?
Well, there is up there. Now, the other side of that coin is this. If you're listening to Pink Floyd in Idaho, that is probable cause to be pulled over. [laughs]
[laughs] That's right.
Oh my God. Oh my God.
Hey, you pulled that off great. [laughs]
Nice. [laughs] All right. So the serious question is, um... So I do this delivery route out in the country around Blackfoot, Firth and Shelly, zigzag all over the country. And I find that 90% of these roads do not have any-
Hold on. Hold on. Blackfoot, Shelly and Firth is all over the country. [laughs] You-
Yeah.
You have had your-
Like, he- I think he's talking about the country.
The country.
Like where you live.
Yeah. Out there in the country. Yep.
The- the country.
Not like the United States of America as a big map.
No, just the country.
Yeah. Okay. [laughs] I was gonna say you need to get out more.
[laughs]
So all these roads, I'd say about 90% of 'em do not have speed limit signs of any kind. I typically do about, I don't know, 50 miles an hour on them. Am I in any danger of getting pulled over for speeding?
Uh, so the way that works out in the rural area is if it's not marked, it's 55 unless marked otherwise.
Oh, good. Good to know. [laughs]
Yes. So... Yep.
That helps me out a lot. [laughs]
And yeah, get- get out. Visit some other new places. Maybe go to Portland, dude.
[laughs]
Rock the Pink Floyd, man.
If you go up there, don't let them-
Yeah. [laughs]
Don't let 'em ask you to haul some other items down for you. [laughs]
[laughs]
You're a delivery guy, but stay away from that kind of delivery.
And I talked about it earlier. Be careful there. Portland's scary. [laughs]
[laughs]
I would love to go to Portland with you.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Have you been to Portland?
Uh, I have years ago.
I have.
Yeah. We- were you frightened?
... not years go- but I've been to a lot of places I have been frightened that you may have been.
[laughs] I, I, hey, like I talked about earlier, that we were looking at some, uh, dangerous cities. And I went to Tijuana. I'm wandering around by myself. There's, you know, the military out with machine guns. And I'm like, "Uh, uh, I'm gonna go get a burger."
[laughs]
I wasn't scared at all.
Yeah, you're, you're pretty intimidating though. Nobody's messing with you.
That's right. People see me, they back off. [laughs]
[laughs] They're like, "Hey," especially down in Tijuana, they're like, "Were you in shorts?"
Uh, oh, I'm sure I was.
Yeah, yeah.
'Cause it's hot down there.
I'm sure you were too. You probably had the cowboy hat on and shorts. And they were probably like, "Hey, look at the cowboy riding the chicken." [laughs]
Oh, jeez.
[laughs]
A regular old pig!
Pig! Pig! [laughs]
[laughs]
Well, appreciate the call, man. And, uh, hope you have a great weekend.
You bet.
Right on. See you.
That's why they weren't scare- that, that's why they weren't scared of you. They're like, "That ki- that's a special guy right there." [laughs]
[laughs] Probably. We'll leave him alone.
[laughs]
K-Bear, you're live on Traffic School, powered by The Advocates. Who's this?
Chantel.
Chantel, what's up?
Hey, so I've got just a random question. So-
Is it a one-liner? 'Cause you gotta set it up-
No-
... if it's a one-liner. [laughs]
No, no. So, I have a bunch of family that have CDLs. I'm just curious why, like, you can drive, like, a, a RV without actually having to have a CDL when you have to have a CDL to even be a bus driver?
Isn't that a great question? Because that comes in the same category as Victor and why do the kids not have to wear seatbelts on the school bus.
Yeah. There's a lot of stupid laws around here, all right?
[laughs]
There is. I mean, you'd think you'd have to have a CDL. Because, I mean, you get some people behind the, uh, wheel of an RV that shouldn't even be in a car alone by themselves. And with a CDL, y- I mean, at least they'd have some basic knowledge how to drive the such a big operate, operate a big vehicle.
Hey, Chantel, do you have a free moment today?
I do.
I, I would love to get you and Victor together, get you guys talking, get you wound up, and then just walk away. [laughs]
[laughs]
Be like those old spin tops. Just spin you up and then leave.
Well, I remember when I bought a, uh-
Oh, I remember
... a camper. You know, I was very surprised. You didn't just roll on in, no training, buy a camper, and hit the road.
And then the first stop right after you bought it was the auto body shop. [laughs]
[laughs] Exactly. Next thing I know, it jackknifes in the cul-de-sac, busts my taillight out.
[laughs]
Like, they need to make people train for this.
Hey, they don't give you a manual on having a child.
They should.
That's true. But they should. [laughs]
[laughs]
[laughs] I got, I know plenty of people that could use a manual when it comes to that.
And you're the guy that doesn't like government overreach. [laughs]
[laughs]
Okay, all right, you know, that's fair. [laughs]
[laughs] So, yeah, let us know when you can swing by. I'll get you and Victor wound up and I'll head home.
[laughs]
Yeah, contact your state legislature. Uh, they'll get nothing done on the issue.
[laughs]
Too busy banning truck nuts.
[laughs]
Ugh. Well, good to hear from you, Chantel. I hope you have a great day today.
You too. Bye.
208-535-1015, the number to call for Traffic School, powered by The Advocates.
Did you ever think anything would ever happen in your broadcasting career that you'd be saying truck nuts on a regular basis? [laughs]
Nope. [laughs]
[laughs]
I did not, but it's just funny to point out, you know?
Didn't see that coming, did ya? [laughs]
Yeah, no I didn't.
[laughs]
I, I should've. I should've, but I didn't realize how wacky our legislature was gonna get during the last 10 months, you know?
[laughs]
Remember to vote next month, everybody. Remember to vote. [laughs] You, I, I, I think a good law would be if they didn't put, I talked about this the other day, the letters next to people's names on the ballot so people had to actually research the candidates. Wouldn't that be nice?
That'd be interesting, wouldn't it?
It would.
You had, you had to do some homework before you went.
'Cause nobody does. [laughs]
[laughs]
That's how we end up with truck nuts getting banned. [laughs]
[laughs]
Gotta keep the wackos out. [laughs]
[laughs]
Don't worry, they ain't listening to my show. That's for sure.
[laughs]
They are. They're laughing.
I hope they are. [laughs] 208-535-1015, the number to call for Traffic School, powered by The Advocates. I guess while we, while we wait for callers, we can do the FCC mandated legal ID. Don't wanna mess with them, you know?
[laughs]
'Cause it's very serious business that we play this next thing, people. This is, this is federal law. All right, did my legal duty.
D- do they monitor that?
I think they do. I think they check to make sure those things are getting played from time to time. We also have to, you know, keep information on file that shows we're serving the community. Um, you know, like Traffic School.
Yes.
That's a part of the, the things I report.
So, remember that commercial that comes out and it says, "Most boring job in the world," and it's a Verizon commercial where the guy's like, "Can you hear me now?" And the guy-
[laughs]
... [laughs] in the office is like, "Yes."
[laughs]
The only worse job would be the FCC checking that.
Oh, yeah.
[laughs]
Well, they're probably not working right now, so-
[laughs]
... they got a day off.
They're working. They're not getting paid.
Oh, yeah, that's true. Just like the military.
[laughs]
Way to go, government. Way to go.
[laughs]
Uh, hi, caller. You're live on the air. Traffic School, powered by The Advocates. Who's this?
Sunny, Sunny, Sunny. How you guys doing?
Hey.
There he is.
Crazy Carl.
Yeah! Hey, Carl, man, I've, I've really tried to think of every way possible to go, "Man, that Carl's gotta be a good guy." He really does. Deep down, there's gotta be something special about him.
[laughs]
And guess what? I seen an article in the Eastern Idaho News. And you are a great guy. Thank you.
Yeah. Uh, Carl, tell us about the, is it tomorrow, the event?
Uh, that's actually next weekend. Uh, we're doing a Trunk or Treat, uh, Toys for Tots toy drive. Uh, we did it three years ago. They raised $2,700-
[laughs] We're not gonna do it every year. [laughs]
Take a few years off.
Those kids, once every three years, that's plenty, that's plenty of Christmas for the needy.
[laughs]
[laughs] Don't, don't go spreading rumors 'cause I'm, I got a bad reputation to upkeep, you know?
[laughs]
[laughs] We're all in with this. Every three years we're gonna help the needy children. [laughs]
We don't need to do it every year. Uh, it's... And actually that's, that's Thomas Meadows. He's an incredible asset to the community. Uh, he does the Toys for Tots toy drive every single year. And, uh, I mean, he's, he's just an incredible guy. Uh, does it out of his own time. Uh, he's got a few volunteers and stuff. And, uh, I mean, it's just really incredible what he's doing for these kids. Yeah, yep. Pretty neat.
And so that's, uh, next Saturday and it's ba- in the KeyBank parking lot in Pocatello?
Uh, Sunday. Yeah, next-
Sunday. [laughs]
... next Sunday. Following Sunday from, uh, 10:00 to noon.
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday. Sunday from 10:00 to noon?
Yeah. Yep, yep. And I'll probably go past that even, uh, uh, the first year we did it, I was figuring we'd get maybe 100, 150 kids. We had 1,200 kids show up, uh, behind the First National railroad parking lot there. And I, I looked down at my wife, said, "We're gonna need more candy." I think you guys-
Hey, I, I know why. [laughs] Because they're like, hey, the old rich guys with fancy cars are getting together.
[laughs]
You're needy today, kid. [laughs] Go get at Grandpa's will. [laughs]
[laughs] No doubt.
[laughs]
It's an awesome deal. Yeah, yeah. No, I'm, I'm expecting... I'm, I'm, I'm cross fingers it's not gonna be cold, rainy, snowing. I mean, uh, hoping for at least 65 degree weather. That would be the-
I could see it now, Victor. They go by and they tell their kids, "Hey, smile at the old man." [laughs]
Yeah. [laughs] Oh, no doubt. Yeah.
So you're giving away, uh, quality candy, right?
Oh, these are... Yeah. No, we don't go chea- Yeah, we're not handing out the green Tootsie Rolls or anything.
[laughs]
They're giving out the, uh, what's the, uh, the really cheap stuff you get at parades? The-
Oh, the-
Oh.
I mean, Tootsie Rolls are pretty bad.
No, the white ones that are in the little plastic wrapper.
Oh, taffy.
Ta- yeah, they're giving out taffy and a six pack of Bud.
[laughs]
[laughs] I mean, that that will get an old man beat up. Man, he got one buck up.
[laughs]
No doubt. Hey, so I, I had a quick question. So, uh, last weekend we did a barbecue for the, uh, car club, and I borrowed my coworker's, uh, '52 Studebaker to haul barbecue grills with. And, uh, the truck was empty and my wife wanted to run out to the store. And I'm like, "Hey, just pile the kids in back of the truck." You know, she had a friend over with her kid. And, uh, and my wife was going, "Well, that's illegal. You can't do that." And it's only two blocks, I mean, but she was freaking out that we were gonna get pulled over. It's a residential neighborhood. Is it illegal to put your wife and kids in back of the truck?
Your wife too, huh? [laughs]
You've got a great response for this every time this question comes up.
Yes, I do. Uh, and at first I wanna, I wanna recognize this. I hear this a lot, "It's only two blocks. It's only 15 minutes."
[laughs]
Never in the code book have I ever seen, "If you only do it for a little, little while." [laughs]
[laughs] But let's throw in a but.
[laughs] Yeah. But if you don't love your children, you can put them in the bed of that truck and you can drive wherever you want. Uh, there's, it's not illegal in Idaho to ride in the bed.
As long as you don't have truck nuts on the back of it.
[laughs]
Okay? If you put truck nuts back there, it's a serious problem. But if you want to barrel down the freeway with your kids in the back at 80, go for it.
I'm gonna tell-
Well, uh-
Carl, I'm gonna tell on the Idaho State Police. This happened years and years ago. The gentleman doesn't work for us anymore, but he went up to Stanley. And Stanley, as you know, is a two-lane road, gets pretty busy-
Yeah
... during the summertime, right?
Yeah.
They're having, uh, a marathon race. And so they have all these teams up there. And on the vehicles they have, "Go, do well, you're awesome," written all over the cars. And their, their support team following them around while they're racing, right?
Yeah.
Right.
Well, our trooper gets up there, hundreds of these cars. And he stops one, "Hey, you can't have that writing on the side [laughs] of your car."
What?
Which legally, by law, you can't, right? But let's use some judgment here.
Now, wait a minute. You can't have writing on, uh, uh, like-
Stuff like that to block it, right?
On the windows?
Yeah, on the windows. And so-
Oh. Nice.
So he, he's stopping him. The whole time he's talking to him, there's some young kids that have their bikes and they're not participating in this, but they're just riding, like, figure eights in the roadway, stopping traffic, and cars are honking at them trying to go by. [laughs]
[laughs]
And the person calls, uh, complaining to me, he says, "Uh, wouldn't it be more important to keep our children safe than worry about this writing on my windows?"
[laughs]
And I'm like, "Oh, y- you know, I'm, I'm sure that didn't happen, but I'll look into it." I pull it up. Sure enough, he's talking to him about writing on the window.
[laughs]
These kids are riding out front of cars at 60 miles an hour. [laughs]
Oh my gosh.
I'm like, "We've gotta, we've gotta refocus here." [laughs]
Yep. Uh, we've talked a little bit about stupid laws-
[laughs]
... on this show today, Carl, so you brought up another. Thanks, buddy.
Right on. [laughs] Always, I'm here to help. [laughs]
So-
Right on.
Well, appreciate you calling, man. And good luck with the event next weekend. Make sure to call in next week so we can remind everybody about that.
Will do. Will do. Absolutely. Absolutely.
Carl, what a great opportunity it was for me to realize how, what a great guy you are. [laughs]
W- well, it's not that bad. I don't know my wife wants to go for-
[laughs]
[laughs] Um, thank you.
Well, enjoy the weekend, my friend.
Okay. All right. You guys have a good one, man. We'll talk to you soon. See ya! We'll see ya. [phone clicks] Hmm. KBear, you're live on Traffic School, powered by The Advocates. Who's this?
This is Chad. How are you doing this morning, gentlemen?
Doing pretty good. What you wanna know, man?
Uh, so, uh, uh, hypothetical here. We're go- we're on a 45-
If my cousin... [laughs]
... and the sign says... [laughs] Right?
[laughs]
If me and my cousin were together. [laughs]
[laughs]
Well, when we're together, we're not cousins.
Oh! [laughs]. [laughs]
All right, let's get to the question.
[laughs]
Don't, don't make me make you bleep me, Victor.
[laughs]
I know- Or I'll do it ... I had to just censor myself, okay?
[laughs]
I had the response, but I, I didn't say it. He started saying, "Oh, yeah that one cousin." [laughs] Like, "Which town do you live in?"
[laughs]
"I might be able to guess." [laughs]
"Give me three chances." [laughs]
[laughs]
Oh, boy. Okay, anyways. We're going 45, right, and there's a speed limit sign coming up that says 35.
Is this a, is this a math-
I have to be going...
... question? [laughs]
No.
Negative 10. [laughs]
[laughs]
So, when I, when I-
[laughs]
... when I pass the 35, I have to be going 35 miles an hour, right?
At the point that the 35 mile an hour sign is posted, you have to be doing 35.
Oh. Okay, so now in reverse, I'm going 45 and there's a 55, so at the point the sign is posted 55, I have to be going 55, right?
No, that's when you can start picking up your speed to get to 55. So it's 45 til you reach the 55, and once you reach the 55, you can start accelerating to 55.
That doesn't seem fair, sir.
[laughs]
Oh, the math doesn't work. [laughs]
[laughs] And I agree with you, caller, it is annoying. [laughs]
[laughs] But thanks for giving me a math test, test this morning. That was excellent.
I'm glad you could do 55 minus 45.
Yeah. Yeah.
It was pretty good.
The only reason I ask is because, like, I drive, I drive a, a, a bigger truck with a trailer on it, and when I'm coming across Grandview, like the speed steps are so rapid right there. Um, it goes like 35, 45, 55 in like a mile, it seems. And if I don't just stay on it, there's no way I'm getting to 55. Like, I'll be stuck at 35 by the time I'm hitting the 70s zone.
There's a few places in town that sells, sell new pickups. [laughs]
[laughs]
Yeah. [laughs]
This one ain't mine. I just drive it for work. [laughs]
Ah, tell your boss, like I do-
If you do a little better, he could maybe afford one. [laughs]
All you gotta do-
Well-
... is, you know, get on the, the intercom at work. You know, I do it on the radio and go, "Jayde, these chairs are crap! We need a new microphone!"
And he still doesn't have phones or chairs or microphones. [laughs]
Oh, yeah. Yeah, never mind. It doesn't work.
[laughs]
I mean, part of me thinks... I, I, I think it would work, but part of me, at the end of the day, when you're driving that heavy a truck, because it's a Class B pulling a trailer, it's a, it's an aerial lift truck, so they're pretty heavy. But, like, it just, it has a hard time getting there unless I just stay on it. And I'm like, I don't know if they'd be mad that I'm going 50 in between the 45 and the 50 signs, you know? But I don't... Otherwise, I won't ever make it.
There's no excuse to break the law.
That's what I-
[laughs]
... that's what I learned in Pocatello that one time.
[laughs]
"You make a habit out of breaking the law, boy."
[laughs] "Homeboy!"
There's always an ex- there's always a reason, it doesn't mean it's valid.
Did he tell you, "Look me in the eyes when I'm talking to you, son"?
[laughs] Pretty much. He was very cranky.
[laughs]
If... I wish I would have had some donuts. I would have been like, "Hey, are you hungry?"
"I promise I don't have your wife in the car." [laughs]
[laughs]
[laughs] Well, I'll, I'll, I'll end on, you know, remember what the Duke voice said, "There's nothing more fun than a room full or cousins."
[laughs]
All right, dude. [laughs] You enjoy your weekend.
[laughs]
[laughs] Thank you, these gentlemen.
[laughs] Uh, KBear, you're live on Traffic School, powered by The Advocates. Who's this?
This is Jim.
Jim, what's up, man?
Not too much. Hi, Victor. Hi, Crane. How you guys doing this morning?
Good, thank you.
Excellent.
Absolutely. All right, Crane, I've got a question for you. I drive a truck and I, I go to home people all the time and pick up materials. At one, at what point of any of my material sticking out the bed of my truck, whether my tailgate's up or down, typically it's up, um, ladders, material, it don't matter. Do
I have the risk of getting pulled over without a red flag?
Four feet.
Four feet?
Four feet. Now, if you have the bed down...
Still four feet.
Four feet from the edge of the, uh-
Of the bed
... of the bed?
Yeah.
Okay. Yep.
Okay, so if I've got my regular Dodge 1500 and I've got 12-footers back there, is there-
Once I said... Earlier I said, "There's other places that sell pickups." [laughs]
[laughs]
We can't tell you which ones.
No free plugs.
And she's not my cousin.
[laughs]
He, he liked that.
Well guys, guys, we gotta settle down a little bit. Jade's gonna burst in here any minute.
[laughs]
I know that some of y'all live out in small towns.
[laughs]
We don't need this kind of joking going on.
That's
[laughs] about that.
And you live in a very large town, don't you?
I do. I live in a big city.
[laughs] Yeah.
Big city.
Yeah, you're big time.
[laughs]
Hey. Hey, the gentleman with the badge across you is one that started it. [laughs]
[laughs] Oh, no! Man.
You started it, huh? Huh?
Quick to throw me under the bus.
[laughs]
He's, he's heard-
All right. Well-
Uh, first snitch gets the charges dropped. [laughs]
[laughs]
[laughs] And snitches get stitches, right?
Yes, sir.
Right.
Well, the reason why I was saying that is because I've gotten mixed, uh, mixed measurements from, um, clients and stuff that I've dealt with in the past that-
... are, are peace officers, and I've been told as low as two feet. I've been told three feet. Now, I've been told four feet, and so, I-
They're probably off fishermen, too. [laughs]
[laughs] That, that nine-inch trout looked like it was 18.
[laughs]
All right, gentlemen. I appreciate it, and you guys have a good weekend.
Hey, you too, man. Good to hear from you.
All right, buddy.
See you.
All right, bye, guys.
KBear, you're live on Traffic School, powered by The Advocates. Who's this?
This is Mike.
Mike, what's up, man?
Hey, what is the legal limit of laps I'm allowed to do in a roundabout?
All right. We've-
Oh, man
... we've had this come up before.
What kind of vehicle are you driving?
[laughs]
Uh, I'm on a bike. No. [laughs]
Well, a, a pedal bike till your legs get tired. [laughs]
[laughs]
Yeah. I mean, uh, you can-
Till you run out of gas.
Yeah, you can keep going. I mean, people are gonna get really mad at you, but you, you-
Oh, they do.
[laughs]
Oh, they do. [laughs]
[laughs]
A lot of them get confused. They're like, "I don't know how to do this. Do I just wait for him to finish?" [laughs] I'm like-
[laughs]
... "You'll be waiting a while."
[laughs]
I got a, I don't have a job. [laughs]
[laughs]
Yeah, basically. I got nothing but time.
Now, at some point, would you guys ever pull somebody over?
Oh, yeah. We go, "Hey, what's, what's the issue? We got a problem here?"
Yeah.
I would assume.
Yeah. That, "We're not gonna let you distract-" or, uh, "disturb the flow of traffic."
Well, I, I... Yeah, I was gonna say, it's gotta be, like, impeding traffic-
Yep
... or something like that, right?
Yeah.
Yep. Eventually.
Eventually? Well, how long to eventually? [laughs]
Well, we-
[laughs]
... I mean, I can't go and then the second time you go around, come stop you and say, "Hey!" [laughs]
[laughs]
I'm lost.
Probably once the phone calls start rolling in.
Yeah. Yeah. Uh, and-
Like, "I'm sorry. I'm not from here." [laughs]
I know it won't surprise you, but we do get those phone calls about people in the roundabout, and we go find out that many are intoxicated and struggle with those. [laughs]
[laughs]
I think that's the worst place to drive, drunk circles in a roundabout.
The problem is, if they're in town, there's hardly any way to get out of town without getting through one. [laughs]
Exactly. [laughs]
That's true. They're just trapped in it. It's like, "I don't know how to get out." [laughs]
[laughs]
[laughs] "I'm here till I sober up!" [laughs]
"Two more laps, I'll be good, Officer."
[laughs]
Oh, man. Well, appreciate the call as always, man, and hope you have a good one, Mike.
You too, man.
See you.
Peace.
KBear, you're live on Traffic School, powered by The Advocates. Who's this?
Hayeson.
Hayeson, what's up, man?
Hey. So, I got two short questions real quick. My first one is, um, I got a skid steer that I load hay with on a flat bed, and I'm wondering, like, will I get pulled over for not strapping down my skid steer from going from field to field if I'm on a road?
You definitely can, yes.
All right. Okay.
Now, the, the thing is, you can get stopped for failure to secure your load, but you wouldn't-
Okay
... be in commerce or need a CDL because you're working on the farm and within 100... 100-mile radius. 150-mile radius.
Okay, okay. Okay.
Yup.
And then my second question is, I got a stock trailer that I keep blowing tires on, and it blows off my, uh, fender over top of the tires. Is that also an infraction? Like, am I gonna get in trouble for not having a fender over top of there if I drive down the highway
Or 300 hours?
It is an infraction for failure to have wheel covers. Um, and the other thing, I don't know, are you here in Idaho Falls?
I am, yes.
It's hard to go anywhere that there- there's not a tire store. [laughs]
[laughs]
They'll sell those to you happily. And then not only-
All right. I got, I got good tires, I got bad fenders.
What you got is an overload problem. [laughs]
[laughs]
Hey, don't put on the two-plys. Go ahead and get, uh, livestock rated. [laughs]
I will remember that.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Don't go in and say, "I need the cheapest tires possible to put on this trailer." [laughs]
[laughs]
"I only haul bunnies." [laughs]
[laughs]
Big black bunnies. [laughs]
[laughs]
And if you're hauling Angus, man, you really need to have the good tires, 'cause those guys, they'll waller around in there. They're not, they're not, uh, lazy or docile. They, they move around.
They kill people. [laughs]
[laughs] All right. Thanks, guys.
Thanks, man. Peace.
Bye.
Yeah, did you know cows, I think, kill more people than any other animal?
Did you know, you can have, like, a Hereford, and they're pretty docile and easy to work with. And then if you really want to test your abilities to raise cattle, buy Angus. [laughs]
Okay. Well, I- I don't plan on, uh, raising cattle anytime soon. Leave that up to the experts.
[laughs]
You know? Too much work. Too much food.
Those guys with those things on the back of their trucks. [laughs]
That's right. KBear, you're live on Traffic School, powered by The Advocates Injury Attorneys. Who's this?
Uh, my name is Rich, and I live out here in Saint Anthony.
Oh, I'm sorry, man.
Oh. [laughs]
I know this one guy who lives out in that area, huh.
[laughs]
Yeah. There's a lot of us out here.
[laughs]
You know, it's a little, it's a little
local town, and I mean local by more of local than Spanish words.
Like, you know most of your neighbors, like... Right, Rich?
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I do.
[laughs]
So, I have a question that isn't so much, so much, uh, uh, traffic-related, but more civil-related.
Don't ask about your first cousin because Victor's had it. [laughs]
Oh man.
[laughs]
'Cause I was hoping the first cousin, everything was okay as long as it wasn't a half sister.
[Laughs] Guys! Guys!
[laughs]
Half sister or brother, or, or whatever you're into, you know?
Oh my God.
But-
Anyways, so m- m- my, um,
my-
You typing? [laughs]
[laughs] type button.
[laughs]
... question for Officer Crane-
You typing your resignation? [laughs]
Yeah. My, my question-
No, Victor's over here typing his resignation. I'm, I'm just looking up some, I'm looking up some information here.
Oh man. Oh man. [laughs]
Whether you're getting fired or not. [laughs]
Okay. Okay. So, here's the deal.
Oh, go ahead, Rich.
So, I was on a, on a job site, a friend of mine's house. He was rebuilding-
Hey, we appreciate you working.
Yeah. Thank you, sir.
[laughs]
And I was invol- he, uh, had threatened my life, and I- I made an aggressive move towards him. And I got hit with the stick a couple of times, and I got in trouble. Officer Crane, if it's the same Officer Crane, might've been involved in this scenario. So, I- I don't know what my rights are in that direction. Like, if somebody threatens my life, what am I able to do to protect myself?
Whatever it takes up to the point of not being overly aggressive, right? You can do anything to control the situation, but no further. So, same thing when we're arresting somebody, right? Uh-
Yes, sir.
We can use the amount of control needed to control the situation. The amount of force need-
Okay. And that happened to me too, because after this scenario, I was so... Um, my- my adrenaline was so advanced because I- or so up that I couldn't sit still and I got tackled by the officer. Now, I- I- I don't know where all that's gonna go.
[laughs]
I'm very confident because I got a great lawyer that it's gonna go my direction.
Excellent.
But- but, um, I
don't understand how, like you said, an officer can just tackle you for, like, walking away from a situation, if that makes sense.
Well, you gotta obey orders.
Okay. So what if I'm physically unable, like I'm falling down or something like that?
Yeah, I- I don't know about that. And- and it sounds like you got a good lawyer. I'd run those things through him, and those are things that can be done- discussed in the court of law.
Thank you, sir. I really appreciate your time.
You bet. Have a great day. Hey, appreciate the call.
And thanks, KBAR.
Hey, thanks for listening-
No problem
... man. Peace.
Yep. Bye.
208-535-1015, the number to call for Traffic School powered by The Advocates. Peaches, you got a question for the show?
Oh, there we go. Yeah. No, we talked about the question previously with, uh, the whole Walmart cart thing, the scooter thing.
Walmart cart scooter? [laughs]
If- if, uh-
Oh, if you- Oh, that's right. Go ahead.
So, I'm- I'm walking with a limp here, Lieutenant Crane- [laughs] 'cause I have back- back issues and such. And I was thinking, I'm like, "Would it be illegal to go to Walmart, get one of those scooters, and just start, like, charging at people?"
Yeah. What if you hit somebody at three miles per hour with a motorized cart?
Yeah, so that would be a battery, right?
That's what I thought.
So, the definition of a battery is any unwillful touching.
Yep.
If they don't want you touching, we can't touch them.
And if you just threaten to run them over with the cart, that's assault, right?
Yeah. Yeah.
There you go, Peaches.
There we go. Perfect.
All right.
But you gotta have the means that's backing up the assault, right? Like, if you say, "I'm gonna bash your brains in," and you're just standing there, that's really not gonna work, right?
Okay.
But if you say, "I'm gonna bash your brains in," and you're holding your bat up in an aggressive manner-
Then you got the assault.
Yeah. Yeah.
All right.
There we go.
Well, there you go, Peaches.
Got the answer. [laughs] I would like to see [laughs] you in a cart at Walmart. [laughs]
I would too.
I'll look like jigsaw.
[laughs]
[laughs] I hope you get feeling better, Peaches.
I got the heating pad. I'm feeling better now.
All right. Good. Good. Glad to hear it. Uh, just so everybody knows, um, as I was Googling during the last caller, all marriages between first cousins-
[laughs]
... are prohibited by Idaho law.
By the state of... I could have told you that.
But you know what's weird is this, uh, Boise, uh, Radio website. This is an article on their website. Why you would put this article on your radio station website? I don't know. But they're like, "But good news, if you're both 65 years of age or older and cannot reproduce, then you can." That's kinda messed up.
I would like to go through that test. [laughs]
Long as you don't have truck nuts on your pickup.
[laughs]
Hey, I think they're... When you talk about you want the legislator to do, uh, something about seat belts and buses-
Mm-hmm.
I would like to do the reproduction. I'd like there to be some screening-
Oh. [laughs]
... and testing done.
There should be.
And as hard as the message may be to deliver, say, "Sorry, you cannot reproduce." [laughs]
[laughs]
Think about people in small towns sending those letters-
You failed the test. [laughs]
... to their state legislature. "I demand this law be changed." Wah! [laughs] All right, everybody, that was, uh, that was the show. That was Traffic School. Are we getting ready for a photo shoot around here or what? [laughs] Um, I- I... Well, we've got guests coming in, actually very soon, as a matter of fact.
Oh.
Not in here. They- they can get out. Get.
Yeah.
They can get-
Yeah.
That's right.
It's in there, thanks to Victor's, uh, many beverages.
So people can come and just take whatever they want?
Yeah. Just take-
[laughs]
Just take the stuff, Maddie. Just go. [laughs]
Take whatever I see, I guess.
She shaked me down to see if I had any money in my pockets. [laughs]
[laughs]
Hand it over, bud.
[laughs]
Get!
Anything of value, she's taken.
Yep. Yeah. What else do you need? Any- anything else?
No, no. I think I've already took all the expensive stuff.
Okay. All right, she got all the expensive stuff. We're good to go and-
At least we got a decent marketplace.
[laughs] And that was a fine edition of Traffic S-... Is that Jade?
No.
No, that's, uh, Jeff.
Oh, it's Jeff. See, everybody just coming in.
I don't know if there's a distinct difference between the two. You want me to point them out? [laughs]
[laughs]
Between Jade and Jeff?
I couldn't see him yet. He was on... I just saw a shadow go past the window.
You got me and Jade mixed up.
[laughs] I haven't seen you yet, Jeff.
[laughs]
I need glasses.
I do need some glasses. Where- where did my cool pink glasses go?
That be like-
They must be in my office
... uh, making me... Making the mistake with me and Peaches.
Yeah. [laughs]
And Peaches coming around, "Hey, is that Marvin?" [laughs]
[laughs] All right, everybody, we better end this program.
[laughs]
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