1 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:06,240 Speaker 1: Hey, I'm welcome to the short stuff. I'm Josh, and 2 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:08,879 Speaker 1: there's Chuck, and Jerry's even here. Dave's not no, and 3 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:11,440 Speaker 1: even knows where Dave is right now. But Jerry's here 4 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:15,120 Speaker 1: and that's good. And this is short stuff about jaywalking. 5 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:19,759 Speaker 1: J Yeah, I think I want to start this out 6 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:22,640 Speaker 1: by saying that our mutual friend who shot stuff you 7 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:26,800 Speaker 1: know TV shows the DP, Scott Ippolito, when we lived 8 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:29,200 Speaker 1: in l A together, he got a j walking ticket 9 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:32,800 Speaker 1: one day. Man, that is so Scott. And I was like, 10 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:35,319 Speaker 1: what they do that? And he said they do that. 11 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:38,360 Speaker 1: I could see Scott's face when he actually got a ticket, 12 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:40,080 Speaker 1: and it was sinking in that he was getting a 13 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:43,559 Speaker 1: ticket for jaywalking. It. It's great, great stuff, man. And 14 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:47,200 Speaker 1: I think it wasn't even like crossing against the crosswalk sign. 15 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:49,920 Speaker 1: I think he literally just crossed the street where he 16 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:52,200 Speaker 1: shouldn't have that. Cops like, I don't like I don't 17 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:55,680 Speaker 1: like your face. Yeah, he's got a great face too. 18 00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:58,680 Speaker 1: Supposedly That's the thing too that we'll we'll talk about later, 19 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:02,240 Speaker 1: that jaywalking is not um equitably doled out among the 20 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:06,000 Speaker 1: different different types of people in the United States, which 21 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:10,120 Speaker 1: is sucky, but at the same time, Chuck Um, we 22 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:13,640 Speaker 1: should probably start at the beginning of jaywalking because jaywalking 23 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:17,160 Speaker 1: hasn't always been around, because cars haven't always been around, 24 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:23,000 Speaker 1: and jaywalking doesn't really exist without the context of cars. 25 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:28,200 Speaker 1: Because thanks to a really interesting Vox article that we found, um, 26 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:32,400 Speaker 1: it turns out the automobile industry is behind the creation 27 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:35,920 Speaker 1: and criminalization of the concept of jaywalking. Before it was 28 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:39,120 Speaker 1: just here's the street, ere a pedestrian, which means you 29 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:42,360 Speaker 1: basically on the street, go ahead and cross wherever you want. Yeah. 30 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:44,520 Speaker 1: So shout out to Box and our old pals from 31 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:48,080 Speaker 1: how Stuff Works dot com for this stuff. What I 32 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:52,760 Speaker 1: couldn't derive from the Vox article, Well, let's just go 33 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:55,600 Speaker 1: ahead and say this. The term jay back then was 34 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:58,080 Speaker 1: a name if you were like a rube or a 35 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 1: nudge or a hick. You be called a j A 36 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:02,920 Speaker 1: lot of times. It was a name for somebody like that. 37 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:10,200 Speaker 1: It was very derogatory. You also wanted jay, I like that, 38 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:15,440 Speaker 1: but people were called ja drivers or they were known 39 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:21,400 Speaker 1: as jay driving. But it seemed like Vox had it 40 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 1: the other way around, and that jay driving came about 41 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:26,919 Speaker 1: after the term jaywalking, and I couldn't figure out which 42 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:30,359 Speaker 1: it was. I couldn't either, but they were so very 43 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:34,960 Speaker 1: close that they were um pretty much created almost at 44 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:37,640 Speaker 1: the same time, but they were both born. It seems 45 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:43,239 Speaker 1: like out of this conflict between automotive drivers car drivers 46 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:46,840 Speaker 1: we might call them today, and pedestrians, people who are 47 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:49,320 Speaker 1: just walking around because, like I was saying before, the 48 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:51,959 Speaker 1: street belonged to everybody and they were like corse drawn 49 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,280 Speaker 1: carriages and all that stuff. But for the most part, 50 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:56,760 Speaker 1: people were on foot and the first people who were 51 00:02:56,840 --> 00:03:03,080 Speaker 1: driving cars were super rich um uh gad flies basically 52 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:06,400 Speaker 1: like f Scott Fitzgerald types. We're the ones who were 53 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:10,799 Speaker 1: driving automotives at the at first. And so there was 54 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:13,520 Speaker 1: certainly class resentment out of the out of the gate, 55 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:15,760 Speaker 1: but there was also more than anything, resentment for people 56 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:18,960 Speaker 1: who were just zipping through, um the streets that were 57 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:22,200 Speaker 1: crowded with people, including children playing in the street, because 58 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:24,560 Speaker 1: that was a normal thing to do um. And so 59 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:26,960 Speaker 1: there was a tension almost out of the gate between 60 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:31,280 Speaker 1: drivers and pedestrians. Yeah. I mean the drivers essentially, we're like, 61 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:34,520 Speaker 1: get off the road, and the walkers were like, wait 62 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:37,400 Speaker 1: a minute, the roads belonged to us, and they said no, 63 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:40,880 Speaker 1: that's why we started building sidewalks and the walkers were like, 64 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:43,120 Speaker 1: what you want us to walk over there on that 65 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 1: little four foot span When we lived our whole life 66 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:50,040 Speaker 1: in the streets, there's cracks there that I can't step on. 67 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 1: The term ja driving I think it may have been 68 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:58,360 Speaker 1: first though, because this was like the nineteen twenties when 69 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:01,240 Speaker 1: the automobile really started to come on the scene and 70 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:05,280 Speaker 1: started like making a legit claim to the streets. Uh. 71 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:08,280 Speaker 1: And it looks like jay driving was in an actual 72 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:12,680 Speaker 1: newspaper in nineteen o five and the Kansas Junction City 73 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:15,920 Speaker 1: Union and the Kansas City Star talked about jay driving, 74 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:17,840 Speaker 1: So I think that may have been first. And this 75 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:20,320 Speaker 1: was driving on the wrong side of the road. And 76 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:24,039 Speaker 1: then initially jay walking met just being rude on the 77 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:26,440 Speaker 1: sidewalk and like not I don't know if it was 78 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:29,720 Speaker 1: right or left base, but basically walking in a way 79 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:32,599 Speaker 1: that wasn't appropriate on the sidewalk. Yeah, that's the house 80 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 1: stuff works spiel. If you read that Vox article, it's 81 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:39,560 Speaker 1: basically saying that, um, jay walkers were called that for 82 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:42,040 Speaker 1: getting in the way of cars. It was derogatory term 83 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:43,960 Speaker 1: for people who didn't know better stay out of these 84 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:49,880 Speaker 1: new awesome um cars way, and then in response people 85 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:53,680 Speaker 1: called jay like people driving cars jay drivers because they 86 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:57,360 Speaker 1: didn't they it was just a retaliatory term from what 87 00:04:57,400 --> 00:04:59,880 Speaker 1: I could tell. So this shall be known henceforth as 88 00:04:59,880 --> 00:05:05,080 Speaker 1: the Great House Stuff Works Fox. Yeah, exactly between Jay 89 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:09,240 Speaker 1: how Stuff Works and jay vox. But the long and 90 00:05:09,279 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 1: the short of it is that once this started to 91 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:15,479 Speaker 1: be a thing, the automobile industry got involved, and their 92 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:19,000 Speaker 1: lobby and their money got involved, and they got together 93 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:23,560 Speaker 1: with local police forces and they started initially like a 94 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:26,880 Speaker 1: shame campaign. Yeah, didn't they to like shame people that 95 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:30,640 Speaker 1: were jaywalking. Yeah. There's apparently the National Automobile Chamber of 96 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:34,880 Speaker 1: Commerce who had the bright idea of creating a free 97 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:38,560 Speaker 1: wire service for local journalists where the journalist would send 98 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 1: in the details of like a of a of a 99 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:45,239 Speaker 1: like a car accidentally a pedestrian hit by a car, 100 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:48,880 Speaker 1: and the the um wire service would send them back 101 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:50,960 Speaker 1: a full article. Go ahead and run it. You can 102 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:53,080 Speaker 1: put your name on it if you want, but it 103 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:55,760 Speaker 1: would put the onus on the pedestrians. It would talk 104 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:57,919 Speaker 1: about how the pedestrian was a dummy for not getting 105 00:05:57,920 --> 00:05:59,120 Speaker 1: out of the way of the car. It was the 106 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:02,000 Speaker 1: pedestrians fall and they were like, that was the level 107 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:07,240 Speaker 1: of like underhandedness that this campaign was taking. Yeah, And 108 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:09,800 Speaker 1: as far as the shame campaign, it was literally on 109 00:06:09,839 --> 00:06:12,920 Speaker 1: the streets, like they would advise police officers to shout 110 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:15,440 Speaker 1: them down, to blow their whistles at them, and like 111 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 1: call attention to them. There were like legit, you know, 112 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:23,880 Speaker 1: nineteen forties fifties style propaganda posters about jaywalking that they 113 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:26,240 Speaker 1: would put up, and all of a sudden, the pedestrian 114 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:31,280 Speaker 1: was was, you know, persona non grata in the United States. Yeah, 115 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:34,680 Speaker 1: and then in very short order they started making crosswalks, 116 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:37,200 Speaker 1: and then in very short order after that, there were 117 00:06:37,279 --> 00:06:39,640 Speaker 1: laws that were past that said this is where the 118 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:42,280 Speaker 1: only place you can cross the street and be within 119 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:45,400 Speaker 1: the letter of the law. And as a result, cars 120 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:49,000 Speaker 1: came to dominate streets for the first time ever pretty 121 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 1: quickly after they were invented and introduced. And I say 122 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:55,600 Speaker 1: we take a break and then talk about those laws 123 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:57,800 Speaker 1: that kind of came up as a result of that 124 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:02,960 Speaker 1: automotive industry lobbying. Let's do it. Well, now we're on 125 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:06,359 Speaker 1: the road, driving in your truck. Want to learn a 126 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 1: thing or two from Josh can Chuck stuff you should know, 127 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 1: all right, all right, So back in Herbert Hoover apparently, 128 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:32,360 Speaker 1: who was the Commerce secretary at the time before he 129 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:37,000 Speaker 1: was president, he wrote up a uniform law that that 130 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:42,440 Speaker 1: guided pedestrian um behavior in the hopes that everybody would 131 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:44,360 Speaker 1: just adopt this law and it would make sense. But 132 00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:48,400 Speaker 1: instead a patchwork of not just state laws but municipal 133 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:52,840 Speaker 1: laws arose. So depending on where you are in the country, 134 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:56,720 Speaker 1: the law is going to be radically different from somewhere 135 00:07:56,760 --> 00:07:59,600 Speaker 1: else in the country about whether you're in the writer 136 00:07:59,680 --> 00:08:03,280 Speaker 1: or the long for getting hit by that car. Yeah, 137 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:06,120 Speaker 1: I mean that's still this thing today, Like it depends 138 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:08,800 Speaker 1: on what city you're in, and this is you know, 139 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:12,480 Speaker 1: like you said, even sometimes small towns and municipalities, I'll 140 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:15,640 Speaker 1: do it up to big cities there are like in 141 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:18,800 Speaker 1: New York, it's people jaywalk. That's the only way you 142 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 1: can get anywhere in New York is if you just 143 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:23,240 Speaker 1: kind of do your own thing. And I've never seen 144 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:25,440 Speaker 1: anyone get busted for it. It seems like that it's 145 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:29,840 Speaker 1: acceptable to do there. Um. In Los Angeles, it's weird, 146 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:33,800 Speaker 1: like people will will stop and if there's no cars coming, 147 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:36,160 Speaker 1: they will sit there. They will stand there and wait 148 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:40,679 Speaker 1: at a crosswalk crosswalk until it turns. Um. It's much 149 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:45,559 Speaker 1: less pedestrian friendly than New York is, obviously, But depending 150 00:08:45,559 --> 00:08:47,400 Speaker 1: on where you are, it's either a faux pot to 151 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:50,720 Speaker 1: do it or it's downright illegal. Uh. If you're talking 152 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:55,280 Speaker 1: right of way, it's anybody's guests sometimes who technically legally 153 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:58,040 Speaker 1: has the right of way. Uh. There's an old saying 154 00:08:58,040 --> 00:08:59,920 Speaker 1: that the right of way is something you give, not take. 155 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:02,680 Speaker 1: Especially when you're in a car and someone's walking. I 156 00:09:02,679 --> 00:09:05,360 Speaker 1: think you should always sort of be nice and defer 157 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:08,839 Speaker 1: to the person walking right, don't you think? Yeah, of course, 158 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:12,120 Speaker 1: I mean. And the overall the overall points of this 159 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:15,760 Speaker 1: is that if you're driving a car, you're not really 160 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:19,600 Speaker 1: in any sort of danger of being harmed yourself if 161 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:22,040 Speaker 1: you get in an accident with the pedestrian. But a 162 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:24,920 Speaker 1: pedestrian is in a lot of danger for getting hit 163 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:28,240 Speaker 1: by a car. And so you, as the operator of 164 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:31,280 Speaker 1: the car, have a responsibility to look out for pedestrians. 165 00:09:31,679 --> 00:09:36,120 Speaker 1: And then conversely, you as a pedestrian, just for out 166 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:38,840 Speaker 1: of a sense of self preservation, have a responsibility not 167 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:40,920 Speaker 1: just walk in front of cars and presume they're going 168 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:45,360 Speaker 1: to stop. Yeah, because here's a stat three percent of 169 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:50,600 Speaker 1: traffic incidents involved pedestrians, but fourteen percent of traffic deaths 170 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:55,840 Speaker 1: are pedestrians, and I think seventy of those fatalities are 171 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:59,240 Speaker 1: outside of intersections, just people crossing the street or whatever 172 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:03,479 Speaker 1: wherever they want. Yeah, so that the National Highway Transportation 173 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:09,000 Speaker 1: Safety Administration put together a publication called Pedestrians Safety Enforcement 174 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:12,880 Speaker 1: Operations and You Colan and how to Guide. I added 175 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:16,959 Speaker 1: the and you part, okay, and um. They basically it's 176 00:10:17,080 --> 00:10:21,239 Speaker 1: instructs cops to just go ahead and cite um, everybody, 177 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:23,679 Speaker 1: cite the driver and the pedestrian if there's any kind 178 00:10:23,679 --> 00:10:27,439 Speaker 1: of accident. But they recommend um really bringing the hammer 179 00:10:27,480 --> 00:10:30,280 Speaker 1: down on drivers because they're the ones who who are 180 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:33,520 Speaker 1: going to cause the most damage. So they really need 181 00:10:33,559 --> 00:10:36,120 Speaker 1: to be taught to be on the lookout for pedestrians, 182 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:39,640 Speaker 1: even if the car has the right of way. The 183 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:42,760 Speaker 1: This House Stuff Works article makes a really great point, Um, 184 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:45,800 Speaker 1: regardless of any local laws of who's right or who's wrong, 185 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:48,880 Speaker 1: if you're a driver and you hit a pedestrian, it 186 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:50,760 Speaker 1: doesn't matter whether you're in the right or wrong. You 187 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:54,360 Speaker 1: just hit somebody and maybe seriously injured or maybe even 188 00:10:54,440 --> 00:10:57,440 Speaker 1: killed them, and that's a life changing event. So forget 189 00:10:57,480 --> 00:11:00,640 Speaker 1: the laws. Just look out for pedestrians at all times. 190 00:11:00,679 --> 00:11:02,719 Speaker 1: Maybe if you actually do hit somebody, you can look 191 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:04,760 Speaker 1: into local laws to see what the deal is or 192 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:07,040 Speaker 1: have your lawyer do it. But up to that point, 193 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:09,400 Speaker 1: you should be looking out for pedestrians. And if you're 194 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:12,800 Speaker 1: a pedestrians, you should never, ever, in a million years, 195 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:15,480 Speaker 1: ever be looking at your cell phone when you stop 196 00:11:15,559 --> 00:11:18,160 Speaker 1: off of a curb and cross the street. It is 197 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:21,120 Speaker 1: one of the dumbest, most easily avoidable things that you 198 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:25,360 Speaker 1: can do, and yet it happens everywhere. Yeah there, I 199 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:27,760 Speaker 1: mean there are towns that have and cities have I 200 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:31,679 Speaker 1: think distracted pedestrian laws on the books for stuff just 201 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:33,920 Speaker 1: like that, right, Yeah, And I also want to put 202 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:39,120 Speaker 1: in two cents for um enforcing distracted driver's laws. Like 203 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:42,000 Speaker 1: just seeing people driving around looking at their phone is 204 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:44,920 Speaker 1: it makes me crazy. It makes my my blood boil, 205 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:47,920 Speaker 1: Like if blood could boil, I would say it literally 206 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:50,640 Speaker 1: makes my blood boil. Speeding down the highway just staring 207 00:11:50,679 --> 00:11:55,199 Speaker 1: into their lap, Oh my god, unbelievable. Yeah, or like 208 00:11:55,240 --> 00:11:57,680 Speaker 1: they'll drop down all of a sudden from eighty to 209 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:00,360 Speaker 1: like sixty because they're checking their phone now and they're 210 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:02,920 Speaker 1: not really paying attention. But yeah, no matter how you're 211 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:05,360 Speaker 1: doing it, it's it's just wrong, wrong, wrong, You're wrong, 212 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:07,960 Speaker 1: You're wrong. Yeah. I used to give a nice little 213 00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:10,000 Speaker 1: friendly tap at someone in front of me at a 214 00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:13,200 Speaker 1: red light, head and gone yet on the horn, the horn. 215 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:16,719 Speaker 1: I say, you know, I'm not the bumper. But now 216 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:18,440 Speaker 1: when I see the head down and there on the phone, 217 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:20,600 Speaker 1: I just I lay on it. I don't care. Yeah, 218 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:23,520 Speaker 1: I'm with you. Uh. I got one more quick story, 219 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:27,080 Speaker 1: if I may to illustrate yielding to pedestrians. It was 220 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:30,520 Speaker 1: Christmas Eve this year and I was coming down McClendon 221 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:33,440 Speaker 1: through the neighborhoods of Atlanta toward Candler Park, and there's 222 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:36,480 Speaker 1: kind of a funky pedestrian crossing there that's a little 223 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:39,920 Speaker 1: it's not very intuitive, and there was a legit elderly couple, 224 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:42,880 Speaker 1: like maybe in their eighties, even sort of like should 225 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:44,839 Speaker 1: I go? Should I not? And they shouldn't have, but 226 00:12:45,120 --> 00:12:47,200 Speaker 1: I could tell that they were confused, so I stopped 227 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:50,240 Speaker 1: and they started to go, and a guy coming from 228 00:12:50,280 --> 00:12:54,000 Speaker 1: the other direction laid on his horn and was like 229 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:56,920 Speaker 1: screaming and pointing up at the sign saying they shouldn't 230 00:12:56,920 --> 00:13:00,679 Speaker 1: be walking. As he went by on Christmas Eve, this 231 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:04,320 Speaker 1: elderly couple, and he was like, it didn't look like 232 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:05,880 Speaker 1: some young jerk, he was like some middle aged guy. 233 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:08,640 Speaker 1: I think he had a normal middle aged passenger. Like 234 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:12,679 Speaker 1: you look out for them, Yeah, they're the worst. Actually, yeah, 235 00:13:12,679 --> 00:13:14,080 Speaker 1: those are the ones you have to look out for 236 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:16,079 Speaker 1: the most. Oh, it just made me so mad. I 237 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:18,520 Speaker 1: couldn't believe that this guy just blew through there, Like 238 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:21,080 Speaker 1: what it would have cost him to just let this 239 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:23,880 Speaker 1: whole couple pass. I know, and you see that so much. 240 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 1: Everybody's so keyed up these days, but it seems like 241 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:31,200 Speaker 1: middle are the most keyed up of all its stuff. 242 00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:33,319 Speaker 1: You know, it's a time to be keyed up, which 243 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:35,160 Speaker 1: also means it's a time to be kinder than ever. 244 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:38,560 Speaker 1: You know. Yeah, that's good advice. Ch alrighty, I'm done 245 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:41,559 Speaker 1: half the soapbox. I've got one more thing. Apparently there 246 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:45,000 Speaker 1: was a two twelve study um that looked at how 247 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:49,400 Speaker 1: jaywalking is enforced among races, and depending on the town 248 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:52,840 Speaker 1: you're in, Uh, you're much likelier to be cited for 249 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:56,640 Speaker 1: jaywalking if you're a person or color of color Champagne 250 00:13:56,720 --> 00:13:59,200 Speaker 1: or Band of Illinois is the one that's usually trotted 251 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:04,160 Speaker 1: out as a UM as the the shameful UM poster 252 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:09,439 Speaker 1: child for this. But the people back in two thousand 253 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:12,680 Speaker 1: twelve who were cited for jaywalking we're black, despite only 254 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:16,320 Speaker 1: twelve point four percent of the population of Champagne or Band, 255 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:20,440 Speaker 1: Illinois being black. And it's not just them. There's like 256 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:23,840 Speaker 1: this happens in towns all over the country. But it's um. 257 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:26,400 Speaker 1: It's like bad enough to get a ticket for jaywalking, 258 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:28,920 Speaker 1: but if if it's not being doled out evenly, then 259 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:32,640 Speaker 1: that is even worse. You know, agreed, be careful out there, 260 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:35,880 Speaker 1: be nice to people. That's all I got. I think 261 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:39,080 Speaker 1: that's good. 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