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Looking through content on the internet here was reading through a post about things that you wish people would stop romanticizing. Yeah. There have been a lot of things over over time that people have romanticized and glorified, like, you know, the mob or black metal fans that think the black metal bands are so cool with the dumb behaviors they engage in. No. They're just a bunch of nerdy losers.

You know? Come on. I mean, they put out some good music, but, some of the behaviors. Gotta frown upon that. Speaking of those who frown upon bad behavior, we've got lieutenant Crane in the studio.

How's it going, buddy? That's why I'm so disappointed in you. I know. Nothing but bad behavior out of this guy. That's why they got you in here.

You're just keeping an eye on me. What Bill pays is amazing. I know. You know, he's he's got his spies and so does the government. All you guys teaming up against me to keep an eye and make sure I'm behaving myself.

That's just how important you really are. I know. I know. Everybody's always watching. Always watching me.

So, I guess I'll get to that topic here in a bit because now it's time for us to prepare for traffic school powered by the advocates injury attorneys. Your opportunity to ask an officer of the law questions about the law. Well, maybe not. He's leaving. I guess he's, he's gotta go outside or something.

He'll be right back. Okay. Well, maybe I will get into the topic I was going to get into. Alright. So things you wish people would stop romanticizing.

Sorry to the black metal fans. I didn't mean to call you, nerdy losers. It's mainly the guys in the bands that I find to be nerdy losers, but I like those a lot of those bands. Some of them are terrible people, but, Yeah. You know, they're they're like, oh, we're so scary.

We get out there, engage in, you know, again, arson, murder. And it's like, dudes, dudes, that's pretty pathetic. Just go back to your recording cave, you know, because I don't know if you've ever listened to a lot of black metal. The most popular black metal tends to sound like it was recorded in a cave. Tons of reverb.

Yeah, guys. Just, make music. Don't engage in crime. Alright. Speaking of things that people romanticize relating to people engaging in crime, thug or gangsta lifestyles?

You know, you gotta thank the early nineties hip hop scene for that one. I I believe that's where that romanticization came from. Alright. Cops are back. You had to go confer with them, find out what's the plan for dragging me out of here today?

I've seen if the backup was coming. Okay. Yeah. You're gonna need it. I'm gonna fight.

If I'm going down, I ain't going down without a fight. I I don't know. I I I think you'd probably, take me down pretty easy. You're you're in pretty good shape, so I think this, fight would last probably about, well, I don't know, 7 seconds. Probably.

Sounds about accurate. Accurate. I know I was out using my heavy duty leaf blower the other day. It's it's the best, man. It's so great.

But you kinda have to fight with it because it's got so much power. It's pushing back. Yeah. It's pushing back, so my arms are kinda sore. It's like, I really need to exercise more if I can't use a leaf blower without getting a little bit of pain.

So how was your week, buddy? That's beautiful. It's been a great fall, hasn't it? It has so far. I mean, today, it's a little bit nasty out there, kinda chilly.

You know, there was some frost on vehicles this morning, and that wind chill yesterday sucked. But, yeah, it's been pretty nice, and it's looking like the weekend should be pretty good. So, you know, everybody out there listening always be aware that conditions can change in the blink of an eye. You know, as we enter this time of year, drive with a little bit more caution, you know. And it's funny you bring that up because guess what's happening this year?

What's happening this year? We're gonna teach people how to drive. You're gonna teach people how to drive. We talk about it. We talk about it.

What happens? Nothing. Right? But there is gonna be a class this year. It's gonna be on November 7th at 7 PM.

How to use a roundabout? All topics. Right? You can go. You can study.

They're gonna teach you, and our Mustang will be there. So you can walk around, slobber on it, touch it. What about drive it? What if you're me? Can I can I cruise it and pretend to be a cop?

I wish that was the case. But Me too. That's gonna be at the Rocky Mountain Junior High in Bonneville Okay. County on Thursday, November 7th at 7 PM. K?

So we're gonna have some folks there from the auto transportation department and different things, and they're just gonna put on the first of many driving classes throughout the winter. Alright. I I gotta tell you. Haven't lived here my entire life. Year after year, I think classes relating to winter driving right before winter hits is a terrific idea.

Well, you know, if you're new to the area, maybe you've moved in from somewhere and, need to learn how to drive on ice. Be a great opportunity for that. Maybe you have a young person in your family that's gonna be getting their driver's license. Great opportunity for that. Maybe you have somebody in your family that's keeping the auto body industry going.

Maybe it's a good opportunity for that. So what are you guys gonna do? Get get the hose out? You know, just a coat at parking lot nice. I'm like, alright.

Here we go. Here's the cones. Let's see what you got. Sounds pretty fun. You should make them wear the drunk goggles at the same time.

Make it really interesting. Unfortunately, I think this is all gonna be classroom, but it's gonna be valuable information. Teach you the cautions on how to keep your medal from being bent. Alright. And that was again, what date and time?

November 7th, 7 PM at the middle school, Rocky Mountain Middle School. Oh, dang it. I'm gonna be out of town. You're always out of town when important things happen. I know.

I I told you about it. I'm going to Las Vegas. Yeah. Sounds like everybody else's too. I know.

Talk about picking the worst time ever to go to Las Vegas. The the same show was in Phoenix, like, a month ago. Could've gone to that one. And it didn't occur to me at the time, but would've had a place to stay for free. My daughter's house.

A lot cheaper. Yeah. Those Vegas hotels. I'm like, right. There and there is no solution.

You can't even stay at our outside of Vegas for a reasonable price. You didn't call him up and say, I'm Victor Wilt. Maybe maybe I should give that a try. Do you know who I am? Do you know who I am?

That one might work pretty good. Now we'll give you the friends and family discount double. Yeah. No kidding. Alright.

Well, let's see if, caller wants to ask a question for Traffic School before we take a quick break and officially kick it off. K Bear, you're live on Traffic School powered by the advocates. Who's this? Hey. This is Jonathan.

Jonathan, what's up? Hey. So I finally remember what I was gonna ask for traffic control traffic school. From last year? No.

Jonathan called me earlier and was like, I can't ever remember my questions. I'm like, I know how that goes. See, Jonathan, you gotta prep me a little more because I don't listen to Victor. No. He's he's listening to, you know, some kind of terrible country music or something.

These, you know, rural guys. Where's your cowboy hat, buddy? Not here. Oh, the 2 nights ago, I was on the road. If you're in Rigby, you take that back road, right This is a country song.

Train track. Small town Hop over country road train. Alright. You're only missing your mama. Now tell me about mom.

What what about the heartbreak? Did your did your girl, Laveya? Where's where's your dog? Crying into a bottle of whiskey. So I was driving home on that road, and right before the train tracks, there was this white Ram that pulled out in front of me.

And I didn't see him because he didn't have his lights on, and it was almost nighttime, you know, twilight. And so I gave him a beep, you know, because I didn't see him. I'm like, hey. Woah. So I gave him a beep, and he brake checked me.

And then I gave him a quick flash, and then he brake checked me. This sounds like it's going really well. So after that, he just kept on going. But what is the proper etiquette if something like that happens? You know, somebody pulls out in front of you, can't quite see him, you know, like, am I supposed to honk and, you know, flash him, like, hey.

You know, I need your lights on. I think, 90% of the time, people realize they make a mistake. Right? And, we all drive like we've never done it. I've never made a mistake behind the wheel.

No. I can tell you. I hate to fall on the sword, but this was years ago. I'm driving down the road. I'm trying to get Moni Moni to play on the radio.

I know that's hard to believe. Right? Rocking the Billy Idol. Oh, yeah. Very nice.

Back in the early nineties. It was like 92. Oh, come on. It was your 8 track. Can you get it?

And, man, I'm trying to get it back to the beginning, and I look up, and I I'm high I'm on highway 20 coming towards that old Oh, I was like, what? Yeah. And I look up, and I've went across out of my lane into the passing lane and almost into the median. And I look up, and there's a gentleman in the median and grass is flying. And he's got the deaf look on his eyes, which he should have.

Yeah. And, Yeah. There was no question in my mind I'd screwed up. Right? And he come up, honked his horn at me, told me I was number 1 with him, and I was just going, I am sorry.

We do need the universal I'm sorry gesture. I mean, to me, it's kinda like this. You don't wanna take both hands off the wheel, but and then they might then they might think you're raging too. So you just can't win. But in that situation, I was definitely at fault and I was definitely sorry that I put him in that situation, but there was no way he was gonna listen to that.

What about peace sign? If he threw up a peace sign, do you think that would work with an aggressive, driver? Yeah. So when you ask what what you would do, hey. Yeah.

Honk your horn. Let them know that maybe in case they don't. Right? But this driving up and honking, honking, flipping them off. Tell them, pull that.

Hit me over. Yeah. It sounded like he handled it fairly well with the honk and the lights. Yeah. It only went off for, like, 20 minutes.

That's not Just over and over. Me. Me. Me. Flash in him.

When he got to his driveway, that's when I said, okay. So Yeah. Because, yeah, I didn't see him. So I was like, you know what? I'm gonna honk, do one beep, and then he break checked me.

I gave him a flash, and he break checked me again and stopped for a good, you know, 5 seconds. So I just waited there, you know, because I don't have my personal protection on me at the time. And so And we don't ever wanna get to that point over somebody not having the headlights. I tell you what, somebody stops on the road in front of me. I I'll tell you this.

I'm out of there. My brother-in-law actually had a good friend he went to high school with exactly this story. He got into a road rage situation, followed the guy, got out, went out, was gonna give him the business, guy shot and killed him. Yeah. So there's there's Yeah.

You know? That happens. Unhinged people out there. So Yeah. So, yeah, man.

Next time, I wouldn't stop. I would just have, passed him and kept going, but dang, I'm glad I didn't hit him, even though it would've been his fault and move on. And then if you're followed by an aggressive, aggressive driver drive to the police station, you know? For sure. Awesome.

Well, I appreciate it. Hey, Jonathan. Thanks for the call, man. Glad you remembered your question and hope you have a good weekend. Oh, yeah.

Y'all too. Thanks, man. Peace. See, what was my question? I had something to do with about my anger being out of control.

Somebody made me real mad, which time was it. But I can't remember which one dealt with traffic lock. Traffic school. Yes. Powered by the advocates injury attorneys.

And that number to call if you wanna join the show live, 208-535-1015. We'd love to have you on just like we had Jonathan a couple minutes ago asking a great question about aggressive drivers on the roadway. So lieutenant Craner earlier, I read a story about the guy who worked at a okay. I guess we got a caller. I'll get I'll get to this in a bit.

I always gotta have something as backup in case the callers are letting us down. K Bear, you are live on Traffic School powered by the advocates. Who's this? This is Jessica Hunter. Hey, Jessica.

What's up? What do you wanna know? I oftentimes, I have young children, and their driving age. I will take them to an empty parking lot during the winter. They when that anxiety comes, there are doctors that can prescribe medication.

Teenagers. Oh. Exactly. Is that illegal, or should I not let them practice, like, spinning out in an empty parking lot? There's never anybody in there.

It's usually, you know, 9 or 10 o'clock at night, and we'll do a couple of rounds on the ice. Can I get in trouble for that? Well, it's definitely not something that's promoted by whoever owns the property, 1st and foremost. 2nd of all second off, any good parent has done it. Go give their kids some kind of experience on driving on slick roads, but there's a big difference between common sense doing it and going out and just ripping it up like you're a teenager that just got a free vehicle.

Teaching them how to spin cookies on the ice. You know, if you're just in there going slow and saying, hey. You're gonna turn into this. If your backside's at, you're gonna turn into your back end. You're gonna do this.

You're gonna do that slow and controlled. Nobody's really gonna say anything, but if you're getting at one end and just getting after it and doing 3 and 4 and coming back, you're gonna have a problem. Right. Okay. Great.

Thank you. Remember when you're a freshman in high school and you'd all pile 13 people in a sedan? That's what they're worried about. That kind of I get, unfortunately. The good old days.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. When you could put 13 people in a sedan. When you were excited to drive.

Exactly. 1st guy got his driver's license, and the other 13 just jumped in. Yes. Thank you, guys. Hey.

Thank you as well, Jessica. Have a great weekend. You too. Bye bye. Bye.

208-535-1015. Again, the number to call for traffic school powered by the advocates injury attorneys. Okay. So the story I read earlier was regarding a guy who worked at a hockey arena, like the Mountain America Center, for example. They put hockey there?

Yeah. Yeah. We got the spud Kings. Oh, yeah. Which is oh, okay.

My story's interrupted again. K Bear, you're live on traffic school. From talking, folks. K. We're talking.

Maybe this is it. I need to always have something, just ready to go that's stupid, and, people will call right in. You're live on traffic school. Who's this? Hey, crazy Carl.

How you guys doing, man? We're doing great crazy Carl. Sunday. Sunday. Sunday.

We have a Pine Ridge Mall. We get TNA cars every weekend, Pocatello. Pocatello, Idaho. Every week. So what's Every weekend.

Car capital, Idaho. Ladies and gentlemen, if you have no life, please come to the Pocatello Pine Ridge Mall. Yeah. I gotta tell you gotta tell you, crazy Carl. I'm, very upset with car shows right now.

Costing me a lot of money. Crazy Carl will probably be in Vegas at the same time as me. Yeah. If you're a car guy, you have to be in Vegas that weekend. Oh, SEMA.

It's huge. Yeah. Oh. Yeah. So you should stop by there.

That's a once in a lifetime. Stop by. It's like 5 casinos casinos and convention centers. Yeah. And what's it cost?

Like, $50 to get in? I think it's more than that. Yeah. I mean, I'm already trying to find a place to sleep. Go there.

Sleep in the back of 1 of the cars. Hey. Yeah. Do they have any nice vans on-site? Just just bring a tent.

Park on the strip. You're dead. There are a lot of tents depending on the area you're in. Maybe I should do that. Well, just join in just being homeless.

You're gonna be in a few months anyway. Probably, man. I can only make the bosses mad so many times. Right. Hey.

There's some pretty cool homeless people in Vegas. Yeah. Dude, I will admit that, I I'm the guy who if I'm at a concert, I I do enjoy, like, wandering around talking to people. And I have talked to a lot of homeless people in Vegas. At concerts.

Just out on the strip, there's, you know, very interesting, crazy people you can meet in Vegas. Afford to come to this concert. Mortgage. Okay. So, speaking of Vegas, when I racked up a bunch of tickets, I could go take a traffic school and, reduce the points that are on my record.

Does Idaho have anything any kind of classes like that to reduce your your traffic, points on your record? There are some, and it's breaking it's broke down by county. So depending on which county you're in, you can call them and ask them, hey, do you guys offer up traffic school, which we are called traffic school? Our name. This is a lawsuit.

And yeah. So by individual county, sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. You can call and ask. One thing, if you're a habitual violator, probably not gonna happen for you. Yeah.

I need all the help I can get. I'll tell you. Oh, man. No doubt. Right on.

Yeah. I'll give him a call. Find out. Alright. Sounds like somebody's found out about the system recently.

Exactly. Exactly. Go and have fun in Vegas, man. Lived there for oh, I grew up there as a kid. Lived there in my twenties.

Awesome town. Absolutely fun. Yep. It can be a good time. I usually last, like, 3 days max, and I'm like, get me out of this dump.

Just playing crazy. Just playing. Alright, man. Well, you have a good weekend, crazy Carl. Alright.

See you then. Alright. We'll see you guys. Have a good one. Bye.

Later. 208-535-1015, the number to call for traffic school powered by the advocates. So got the guy working at the hockey arena. He's the Zamboni driver. Woah.

Alright? Which is Best job in the world. Seems like it'd be great. Creeping along like 2 miles an hour. Everybody in the stadium loves you?

Yeah. Like, yeah. Put that water on that ice. Paint my beer and cheer. Awesome.

Look at him laying down that ice. So this guy, he was also engaged in a little bit of the drink, and he was all hammered. He, smashed into the wall. Is this here? No.

This wasn't here. It I I don't remember where it was. Okay. England. I I I wanna say it was in Canada because I was wondering if in the US or at least here, is it illegal to drive a Zamboni while drunk?

So the way the code reads is open to the public and motorized. So I'd say yes. Well, I mean, it's I don't think anybody can just go drive around on the hockey track True. Or hockey rink. But the the arena itself is open to the public.

I I don't know. I guess it's I think that would be an in house disciplinary action. He's probably looking for a new job, homeless in Vegas, going to concerts. K Bear, you are live on Traffic School powered by the Advocates Injury Attorneys. Who's this?

This is Micah. Micah, what's up, man? I got a trespassing question. If I have posted on my property, and I do live in town, so I don't even think it has to be posted. I think it's implied.

But it is posted no trespassing. If I have a neighbor, for whatever reason I don't know, coming up and taking pictures of my property. Is there a way or can she be trespassed? What you need to do is bake a fresh pie and take it out to her and say, let's be friends, not enemies. Well, she's had problems with her dog getting out, and we have a dog that looks similar to her dog, and she's tried to play to blame her dog on our dog type deal.

She's been fine. It's it's been a whole big thing, and I don't know why she's taking pictures of either my dogs or my fences or whatever. So let me ask you this. Footage of it. Is she on the sidewalk?

No. She comes up into the grass. Okay. If she's up on the grass, that becomes a problem. If she's on the sidewalk, that's open to the public.

She can walk up and down the sidewalk, and this is a controversy all the time. But if you're on the sidewalk, you can take pictures. And we, as law enforcement had to kinda grow and learn about this. Right? There was officers saying, hey.

You can't take pictures of me. No. If they're out in the public, they can take pictures of you. So if she's coming onto your property into your grass, you can have the law enforcement come and trespass her off there. And then once she's been trespassed, if she does it again, she can be cited.

Okay. That's kinda what I thought, but I just wanted to verify and make sure I appreciate that. I can just tell you this. That's not gonna help with your relationship. Well, there really isn't one to begin with, so I'm not worried about it.

I just don't like I said, I've got video footage. I've got cameras in this post it, and I just I just rather not deal with her. She's been a problem since she moved in, and other neighbors have had problems with her. And in fact, my neighbor to my right was, she's the one that brought it to my attention that she was actually on my property taking pictures, so we had to pull up the video footage and verify. Yeah.

Man, you could really bother people by just wandering around neighborhoods taking pictures. That seems like the type of thing where you might get, an aggressive response from the wrong person. If you don't want a friend in the world run for public office or walk around neighborhoods and take pictures. Well, good luck with that, man. Sorry about your neighbor situation there.

Well, it happens. Well, I appreciate the call today as well, man. Hope you have a great weekend and, thanks for listening. Yeah, you guys as well. Appreciate you.

Keep doing good. Thanks, man. Peace. Alright. Bye.

208-535-1015, the number to call for Traffic School powered by the Advocates Injury Attorneys. If you're just tuning in, at the beginning of the show, lieutenant Crane was telling us about an upcoming, driving class. Yeah. ITD, Idaho State Police, putting on a driving class. It's gonna be November 7th, and, it's gonna be at the Rocky Mountain Middle School at 7 PM.

And they're gonna go over ways to drive that will protect you, protect your cars. So once again, if you have several tickets on your record like this last gentleman that called in, maybe a good class to go to. Won't get you any reductions off your last citations, or you have a child that's getting, their driver's license soon, might not be a bad idea to take them, or you have somebody in your family that's keeping the auto body shops in business, this would be a great class to send them to. Yeah. Is there a moron in your life who just can't drive year after year during the winter months?

You have a great way to put it. Drag them out there and insist that they attend this class. Yeah. It's great you guys are doing that for the community because year after year, I do see especially with that first snowfall or first icy freeze, it's always just chaos. And it's always slick, folks.

One thing I would say this year we haven't talked about in the past. We always say, hey, build time into your travels. Right? So you can slow down, not be in a hurry. Well, how do we do that?

Because the 1st year or the 1st snowstorm of the year comes and a lot of people don't know it's there. They wake up at the regular time. They get ready at the regular pace. They go out and they're like, oh my gosh. I'm gonna be late.

I've been late 3 times last week. I can't be late again today. They get themselves in a problem because they're in a hurry. Might not hurt to take a look at the weather and see what the weather's gonna do overnight before you get up the next day. And if it looks like it possibly gonna snow or have slick roads, get up just 5, 10 minutes earlier.

Do you know what time I wake up? It's impossible to wake up in the air. Like, you're an idiot. The whole time I was given that that little speech, you're like, idiot. I I just blame the weather.

I'm like, listen. Listen. Yeah. I got that 4 wheel drive trucks, though. So they For a reason.

They don't buy it. They're like, dude, you we know you can get out of your neighborhood. Don't give us this this sob tale. Show up to work on time. It's weird how they require that.

I know. Like, I thought that this was a salary job. I'm Victor Wilt, man. I'm gonna show up rolling whenever I want to. Without me, this program's done.

That's right. 208-535-1015. People, the number to call for traffic school powered by the Advocates Injury Attorneys. And the stupid Zamboni story is the only one that I had, prepared because I I figured, you know, so Friday, a week before a holiday, I figured people are all excited and ready to call the show. So to add on to your story about the Zamboni, when it comes to people getting DUIs like you're asking about that.

Oh, let's go to this and then I'll alright. K Bear, you are live on Traffic School powered by the advocates. Who's this? This is Craig out in Firth. Craig and Firth, what's up?

Hey. I got a question for the officer. There's this little thing on the left hand side of steering wheel. I think it's called a Blinker. No.

Turn signal device. What is what is the the footage that you're supposed to turn it on before you turn? Because, in this town, the people are already breaking. They're practically halfway into their turn, and then they turn their turns. They go on.

That helps a lot. Well, in Firth, the the distance, if they follow the requirements, they'd already be through town. Okay. So they're falling right in line. I get it.

Alright. No. So gotta be, like, psychic to know when they're gonna occur. The code is a 100 feet or 5 seconds. Okay.

Well, you know, a 100 feet even at at 40 miles an hour, you know, I mean, that's especially in the conditions that you're getting ready to come up in this town. Now let me tell you this. If you guys can solve that mathematical equation that he just give you, 40 miles an hour, how soon would you have to turn your blinker on to have a blank for a 100 feet? If you can pass that, we're hiring at the Idaho State Police. Please apply.

Idaho State Police Math. No. No. ISP dot Idaho dot gov. We're hiring right now.

If you can solve that equation, we want you. I'm getting ready to turn right now. There's a Shelley police officer off to the right. Yep. Look.

A 100 feet. Look at me. I'm turning. See this And I'm talking on myself. Hey.

Hands free. Oh, alright. Alright. I follow the law most of the time. Hey.

What's a Shelley police officer doing in Firth? Well, I just crossed into Shelley. That's yeah. You roll up on get out of my territory. Hey.

That's another that's another question. I mean, I know that can they I don't know if it's by county or or or what, but, like, say if, a Shelley officer is on my tail and he's following me when we get into Idaho Falls, I mean, they could still pull me over. And say I haven't done anything wrong in Shelley, but they noticed I didn't turn my turn signal on in time as soon as I got into Idaho. Oh, that's an ISP felony right there. Don't you dare, boy.

Don't you dare. So it depends on if they're dual sworn. Right? That would be one thing. But if they're just a, officer in one agency, and you're crossing over to the other boundaries to go ahead and make that stop, they've had to see that violation and be a fresh pursuit.

Okay. Well, good good deal. Knowledge for my for my driving. Thank you very much, sir. Absolutely, man.

Hope you have a great weekend. And when you talk to the next officer that stops you, please be kind and have a nice conversation, peaceful conversation back and forth. Yes. Be cordial. Hey.

You know what? I got more respect for the officers in blue than than the average person. Well, thank you very much. You have a wonderful weekend. You as well, man.

See you. Alright. Bye. The other folks that we're calling, feel free to call us back. 208-535-1015.

And We wanna answer your lead questions. We do. And, before that call, I believe you were gonna get into something relating to, like, what you're driving. Yeah. So, DUI?

DUI. Guy, just an experienced guy that I had arrested for DUI lost his driving privileges. Well, in Idaho, you don't have to have a valid driver's license to drive and implement a tractor. Mhmm. So he was using that to go back and forth into town.

So it was about 4 weeks later, I rested him off his tractor. I've never DUI. He was drunk in the tractor? On the tractor. Dude, if you've figured out a way to circumvent your problem so you can get to and from where you need to be, Don't ruin it by getting drunk inside the tractor.

Mister Smith, you said you never want to see me again. Oh, jeez. Man, there's some real real bright people out there, aren't there? Truly, they are. It's just trying to you know, once you come up with a good idea, stick with it.

Don't keep going. Yeah. That that booze, man, it's it's a a vicious monster. If you're out there and you got some drinking, issues going on, there's help out there. People wanna always remind you, better to get help than reach the rock bottom.

You know? Wow. Most people wait to get the help till they hit the rock bottom. You know? You can do it before that.

Yeah. You can be a self starter. Yeah. Be like, looking kinda rock bottom y around here. Wait a minute.

I started drinking this morning at 6 AM. Maybe I should, you know, before something real bad happens, get a little bit of help here because, you know, addictive substances can be, a very difficult challenge. Right. So don't feel like you're alone. I mean, that's not a laughing matter.

There's those No. Absolutely. Of us at times need help. Absolutely. And there's a lot of different places to get help.

So, you know, do so. You'll you could save your own life, other people's lives. Mine is coming in here and being with you on Fridays. And when I leave, I'm like, man, I'm doing pretty good. When I see you walk out the door and I'm not getting dragged along with you, I'm like, alright.

Alright. This is a good start to the weekend. I'm not gonna help. Another week. Alright.

Kay Bear, you are live on traffic school powered by the advocates. Who's this? This is Craig again from Firth. Craig from Firth. What's up?

Is this an LAPD's mute right now? You guys just started talking about a subject I am very involved with as far as, there's help out there, and all you gotta do is look online. I've got 17 years clean and sober. Awesome. And Nice.

I'm very, very involved in 12 step recovery programs that are out there. And if anybody is interested, you can look it up online. There's meetings all over Idaho Falls and the surrounding communities. Support groups and friends. I'm telling you, there's there's, there's a a big problem here, but there's a lot of, ways to solve that problem.

And, the the the people here that are involved in those 12 step recovery programs are some amazing people. So look it up on your phone. Ask ask people. They're out there, and they do wonders for your life. Right on.

Appreciate that, Craig. And, yeah, everybody, you know, really listen to this message. There is help available. I know it gets extra rough for people during the holiday season. You know, you deal with seasonal, effective stuff around here when we get covered by the endless gray cloud.

So, you know, reach out to people. There's a lot of different places to get help, even if you don't have a family locally, there are family locally, there are people who, who would be there for you. So appreciate it, Kirk. Yeah. You have a great weekend.

You too. So We got peaches joining us. Kay Bear, you're live on traffic school powered by the advocates. Who's this? It's Joe.

Hey, Victor. Hey, Joe. What's up? I had a question for lieutenant Crane and for you being a fellow pet owner about He don't own pets. He owns a cat.

I got the realest pets, man. I got the real pet. You have a cat too. I know it. Any tiger.

Jeez. That that stinking cat comes out, wants to be my friend every morning when they're late, wants to be my friend, and I'm just like, come on. That's kinda weird. We have related cats. Yeah.

I your cat is my cat's mom. Yes. That's Alright. See? We got a That's your baby now, Craig.

If we go through a divorce, we still gotta hang out and be around each other for years. You're the grandpa of my cat. I am old enough. Awesome. So I had a question about, like, driving through, I guess, mostly a neighborhood and sometimes, you know, their dogs get away, cats get away.

If there's somebody behind you and that, you know, that dog or that cat runs out in front of you and you hit the brakes and the person behind you hits you, is it your fault or is it their fault? This did this happen to a friend of yours that had a cousin that, No. I just I'm I'm just real big on, like, I'll I'll break for squirrels. Right. Like, you know, and then going down John Adams especially, it's 30, but people wanna go 35.

And, you know, I mean, there's cats and dogs and even kids. Right. So what's gonna happen on that is this. When you're driving, you're supposed to be following at a distance that's safe and relevant. Right?

So if you can't stop in time, you need to increase your following distance. You also need to be paying attention. So if the person in front of you just pulls out, cuts you off, and jams on his brakes and you hit them for no they jam on their brakes for no reason you hit them, that's gonna be their fault. Right? Aggressive driving and things like that.

But if you're traveling down the road and an emergency comes out in front of you, let's say it's a child or an animal, either one, or grandma in the walker, and you have to hit your brakes and the person behind you hit you, they're falling too close. Okay. Just checking. Like, I just like I said, I'll I'll break for squirrels, you know, and I did I've have I've had people honk at me. There was somebody on wood dressed the other day that was honked at me and gave me the the one finger salute because that dog looks like it has got out of this lady's yard and was getting ready to run-in the road.

So I slammed on my brakes and, the person behind me hit theirs and then went around me yelling, honking. But I'm just making sure. I'm like, yeah. You know, I I don't know. Some people say that you're supposed to hit the animal or No.

No. No. No. So what this let's clear that up. If we're driving at slower speeds, that's not a problem.

But where we become concerned about that is if there's a deer in the roadway, you're traveling, 65 to 80 miles an hour, and all of a sudden last minute you jerk the wheel to try to miss the deer, more than likely you're gonna lose control and, go off the road. So there's a lot of what ifs, and we could do that all the rest of the program, but that's the difference. Right? If you're driving at slower speeds, use your brakes, but if you're driving high speeds and you swerve aggressively to try to miss something, you're probably losing control. Yeah.

High speed, I think I just hit the brakes and try and soften the blow. I'm not gonna try and I'm not a good driver. Well, not a NASCAR driver. I'm not gonna try and evasive maneuvers. Yeah.

And, you know, with so many people on the roadways now, definitely best to not whip into the other lane because there could be somebody on the side of you for sure. Yeah. But can't check that quick enough. So Well, good question. Yeah.

I was just I was just wondering about that. So And do you know that could lead into we got Halloween coming up. Please be extra cautious this coming week, everybody. There's kids out running all over the place. You know, if you're if you're cruising around on Halloween, you know, be extra situationally aware.

Mhmm. And then pay attention to those early release days. I see some people going down John Adams. I'm like, it's Monday. Half the kids aren't in school today.

Absolutely, man. Yeah. So alright. Thank you, guys. Hey.

Thank you, man. Have a good one. Alright. You too. Peace.

Did you have a question, Peaches? Well, Emma and Melissa were waiting outside to you know, I think you said for them to just come walk right on in. Yeah. I told They they were just peeping around the corner. Hey.

You guys can come in the studio. It's fine. And you wonder why you don't have Fred. Did you know, hey. You guys are welcome.

Come on in. Oh, I can hear that. Sounds better. They might not hear me. Hey.

Get in here. If you're gonna hang out outside the door, you just come in the studio already. Dace, you quit peeping on me. Are they running away? I think they're running away like those ants.

Alright. One more call. You peeping on me, boy. I don't like people peeping. Hi.

You're live on Traffic School powered by the advocates. Welcome. Who's this? Victor, good morning. This is Jared.

How are you? Jared, great. What's up, man? You peeping on him, boy. Are we speaking of squirrels, are we allowed to shoot squirrels out of trees on our property?

Well, in town, you can't shoot firearms. What about BB? Gun? Yeah. BB gun?

Yeah. I'll tell you this. There's gonna be somebody that's gonna be concerned about that if you're shooting them. I can give you an example. Alright?

I have a lot of squirrels in my yard and anybody who follows me on social media knows that because sometimes the squirrels get very friendly, become friends with my cats, and then I'm feeding squirrels and cats and all this stuff. The neighbors behind me one day, you know, I come outside and I'm just hanging out out back and I start hearing this ting, ting, ting, like what's going on. And it was the neighbor kids shooting at squirrels in the trees in my yard and it's bouncing off of my house because they're bad shots. Hey, give me those kids' names. I wanna go give them a $10 bill, please.

No way. So I'm like, Hey. You know, I just kinda use the loud voice. Hey. I'm over 40 and I'm a grumpy old man.

I'm not gonna be shooting toward my house. No. You ring my doorbell and run boy. And it hasn't happened since because here's why you shouldn't shoot. This is funny that the caller mentioned this because I was gonna show you this video, lieutenant Crane.

This is why you shouldn't shoot at squirrels and trees. What if it's not a squirrel? This is just from the other day. That's not a squirrel. That's not a squirrel.

That's not a squirrel. She's hanging out with the squirrel that's in the other tree. She's waiting to eat the squirrel that's in the other tree. But she's kinda got the same color as a squirrel, and she loves it up in the trees. It scares me that she gets in the trees because of the neighbors shooting at squirrels on the trees.

Department's getting tired of coming to your house and getting her out. She's figured out how to get down now. So she she's all good. She learned after that first time. $300 bill.

Now she can do it. Cats. So, yeah, don't I would not shoot at squirrels in trees. They're look at them. They're look.

Little squirrels in trees. In town, when the bullet comes out of the barrel, it's gotta come down somewhere. Mhmm. You ever seen the movie A Christmas Story? Oh, he hung up on us.

Wow. I was gonna say you'll Shoot your eye out. Shoot your eye out. It was part of our conversation there. So, yeah, did you have a question, peaches?

No. That that was it. Made it. They just They were just in like, outside the cannonball studio peeking in, and I'm like, you guys can walk in there, and I just walked in there like, no peaches. No.

No. No. And I'm like, no. What are they so afraid of? What are Emma and Melissa, if you're listening, there's nothing to be afraid of.

Why do you think everybody in the studio only listens to your channel? I know they do. I know that everybody in this building is listening right now. Alright. We better we better wrap her up.

Traffic School powered by the advocates. Thank you again for stopping by as always, lieutenant. Great. And, good to see you as well, Peaches. Oh, thank you.

Thank you for trying to get them to listen to reason and come in here because it's not a problem. We'll be back next Friday morning, 8:45 AM, and I I got more show coming up here in a few. Peace. Traffic school is a production of Riverbend Media Group. To get more info on the show or to contact us, hit up our website, Riverbend medagroup.com.