Post Game October 4, 2017

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Ana, Aida, & Brett share their thoughts on owning guns, gentrification, traffic playlists, & favorite podcasts.

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  1. I’m one of the weird people who actually likes driving, even in shitty traffic. I thave playlists that I turn up and have my own little dance parties, or listen to audiobooks, or laugh my ass of to the comedy stations on Sirius XM those comedians make everything in life better. I probably look like the craziest person on the road who everyone avoids or posts about on their Snapchats, but I don’t care.

  4. Read Atlantic’s article, “Why Do NPR Reporters Have Such Great Names?” where you get to see the names written out. And you finally see just what’s the what. Such as Sylvia Poggioli, Neda Ulaby, Ofeibea Quist-Arcton, Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson, Chana Joffe-Walt, Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, Dina Temple-Raston, Charlayne Hunter-Gault. Reporting from every corner of the world, even the names, Jim Zarroli, Doualy Xaykaothao, Quil Lawrence, anf Kai Ryssdal just remind you how limitless boundaries are. I just loved the article.

  6. I love Aida, she is so right about driving. I always leave early and enjoy my alone time in the car. It is a mind set.

  7. Man, I am so thankful for the post games, especially when there is such heavy news lately. It’s nice to lighten it up after all that. You guys usually always make me laugh. I miss John, but I enjoy Brett’s hilarious commentary.

    Ana, In response to your question “What is it about being in a car that brings out the worst in people?”

    I think Brett is more or less correct when he calls cars “shitty tanks” I believe that the glass and carbon fiber that separates you from everyone else on the road makes drivers feel brave. It’s kinda like how internet trolls hide behind a screen. I remember when I used to work at a movie theater when I was scheduled in the box office, if there was a pissed off customer, they would have no problem going off on us at the box office, but when they would walk up to guest services, where there wasn’t any glass separating them, they would calm it the fuck down and act like a decent human being. Humans are weird sometimes.

    1. I agree, though I would argue another factor is that, at least theoretically, you can 0-60 the fuck away from the other driver if things get too heated.

  11. Ana, you should move to Norway, it’s amazing but if you live in a well-functioning society, you don’t need guns for protection nor do you need to fear someone pulling a gun and shooting you in a road rage incident.
    Number of people killed by guns in Norway averages between 0-4 a year.

    1. BUT YOU GUYS HAVE A KING!!!!!! although Norway has been near the top of the Democracy Index for a while (currently 1st place, I believe) and the USA isn’t even considered a full democracy anymore. We’re tied with Italy for 21st. So yea, maybe monarchy has some pros.

        1. Thank you for sharing the article! I’ll take your king over Trump any day as well. It is nice to see a world leader explicitly discuss and advocate for diversity in all it’s forms. Here, one often hears BS about “preserving our culture” (White supremacy basically, whether people realize it or not) and rarely is it mentioned that diversity is not only moral but also is absolutely essential to the survival of our state, or any other.

  12. A podcast called Throwing Shade with two white people? Not surprising that Brett was the one to recommend listening to shit like that.

  13. I have thankfully not experienced much road rage here in Canada (which is not to say it doesn’t happen! I just haven’t experienced it)… the worst was actually driving through our neighbouring province of BC… Dude in a sports car was trying to merge into our lane on the highway, we could not courtesy switch lanes to give him a space because there was another car right beside us, passing us. So instead of him finding a space to enter, by either speeding up to get ahead of us, or slowing down to get behind us, he attempted to push us out of the lane and into the car beside us, laying on his horn and swearing at us… Didn’t work, and he ended up behind us, then he switched lanes (the car beside us had passed us now) and then zipped up in front of us, cutting us off and slammed on his breaks. Thankfully we anticipated it when we saw him coming up beside us, so we’d already slowed down and were ready to break, or take evasive action. Then he took off, and we carried on… Scared the snot out of us, I was pretty shaken. I was the passenger, and I have an anxiety disorder to begin with, so any extra adrenaline rush takes a lot for my system to return to normal, and since he almost slammed into my side of the vehicle when he tried to merge, I was done. Ruined that whole first day of vacation for me.
    And we even did our due diligence afterwards, and looked up the laws, because we were in another province, maybe it was different and we were required to give up the lane for merging traffic no matter what…. But Nope! We were right. It’s just a courtesy to switch lanes, it the merging driver’s responsibility to adjust his speed to find a clear opening.
    So that’s the closest I’ve come to road rage… a douchebag’s break-check and then it was over.

  14. Omg Aida!! My mom is a lane expert, she’s constantly changing lanes. I was wondering what you were going to say…. NAILED IT! She is pregnant with her seventh child!! 27 year gap! We begged her to use provalactics! I think she’s finally ready to concede!!! Totally reckless!!! Such a great panel, always excited to see Aida, Bret is so funny, Ana, you’re the best!

  15. Nice pipes Brett and Ana! What a good Post Game! Ana, I feel you on wanting a gun for protection. In college I’d just broken up with a guy I discovered was doing meth and on nights my male housemate wasn’t home, I’d wake up in the wee hours to someone trying the front door. Super scary! My housemate just didn’t understand why I wanted a gun.

    On a positive note, a friend who’s a retired driving instructor taught me a great way to deal with idiocy on the road. I carry a clown nose in the car and put it on, smile, and wave at the offending driver. It always gets a laugh and is a great way to defuse aggression on both sides.

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