No gloss, no filter, just stories, spoken without fear. Varsan, who is not generous, cannot be an artist. The world will be at peace only when it is ruled by poets and philosophers. Listen to my weekly podcast, the Pooja Bhachio on the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Come for the honesty, stay for the fire. I'm a left-lane camping. Never had a moving violation. Never. Isn't it... maybe this is a technicality, but isn't a camera... a camera is not considered a moving violation. Correct. Yes, I've never had one. Right, yeah, no. Where you physically get pulled over for, well, whatever it is, speeding, illegal turn, any of those things. You haven't gotten one for driving too slow in the right lane? No. I see what you did there. It took me a second. I have none. What are there... are there... are there... do we have left-lane camping laws? I think so, but it's something that... Do we know what left-lane camping is? It has to be enforced, you know. Left-lane camping? You're not supposed to drive in the left lane, you're only supposed to pass in the left lane, correct? Well, it depends on where you are. Like, for example, if you're on the Beltway and it is 4 o'clock in the afternoon, you're going to use all lanes. Like, that is... you'd be stupid not to. So, when they start talking about left-lane camping, it's like when you are out of either, like, crunch time where it's packed, or you're just, like, out on the freeway. You're on 95 and you're going. You're making your way. And even though, like, the speed limit could say it's 65 and you're doing 70, if you're not passing somebody, you would still get a ticket. I've never gotten pulled for that. And I'm in the left lane a ton. Yes, you are. Whenever we're headed back and we've all driven separate cars from, say, like Richmond. Right. No, I do. I live in the left lane. And not on purpose. Well, yeah, I guess it is on purpose. Yes, absolutely. But I've never gotten pulled for it. I've never gotten pulled for it. I don't know anyone who has. I've got to be honest. I also don't think I knew it's against the law. I feel like it has come up in the past, not a long-form discussion about it, but where there's just been some news story where it's a reminder that in many jurisdictions, you can, if in force, get nailed for it. Now, like, I know that they'll, like, they'll preach, like, left lane is for passing and stuff. And if I'm in the left lane and somebody's up my ass and I'll move to let them or I'll let them go around me to the right, let them pass on the right. But I didn't know that it was like, if you're doing the speed limit, you're doing the speed limit. I didn't know that you can't drive in the left lane. Sometimes you see signs that remind you what the left lane is there for. I don't know that I've ever seen one of those signs. Oh, you're not supposed to pass on the right either. The, okay. Sometimes there's no choice. I passed on the right today on the way into work. Sometimes there's no choice. If you're in the middle lane and you're behind somebody going slow and there's a bunch of fast cars coming by on the left, even though you want to just shoot the gap and get in, you got to go around on the right. I'm not going to stay behind them. Yeah, I would never do that. Oh, sometimes they run overhead sign campaigns. Oh, like, click it or take it? Left lane is for passing and not cruising. I've never seen that. And that is in Virginia. No way. Yes, it is. Never seen it. Don't be a left lane loafer. But is it ever enforced? Kristen, will you do me a favor? Can you find me somebody who's got a ticket for left lane camping, please? You know in Louisiana, you can go to jail for it? What? One time? No, like, so I think it's either the second or third offense that in Louisiana, that's how I ended up stumbling on it. I didn't even know it was against the law in some places. In Louisiana, if you get busted, I think it's twice. The first time is a fine. The second time is a fine and potential 30 days in jail for just driving in the left lane. Is that something that's been on the books for so long? Is that like a blue law, like no alcohol on Sundays and no oral sex? They've got bigger fish to fry in New Orleans. Bigger fish to fry everywhere. But glass half full, we're going to get to try the street car. We have no choice. Yeah, so Kristen, will you do me a favor? Will you find me somebody who's been pulled for left lane camping, please? 866 to Elliott. 866-235-5468. I think I would be dumbfounded. To get pulled over in the first place? If I got pulled over, yeah. I would think like I have no idea what I did wrong. I would have no clue. So, what do we find out though with your example of Louisiana and who else? Colorado's really strict. Oh, I was going to say who else may be like this. You may find that some of these people have been pulled over in the same state and it's not one around us. I've never heard of anybody getting pulled over for it. No, I'm just saying, are there these states like Louisiana and Colorado where it is enforced heavily and natives? No, you can't do it. Right. Oh, you're just driving through? Oh, I would fight that all day. On what grounds? I didn't know. Hey, there's not a difference. So, Virginia has signs, but you don't think these places that actually do something about it have signs? Of course they do. But when you phrase it that way of like, now I'm driving through Colorado, right? I'm going from Denver to Colorado Springs. Are they doing the jail thing also? No, but they had a high amount of tickets that were written last year for left lane camping. And so if I'm driving from, what freeway is that? Is that 70 that goes from Denver to Colorado Springs? I don't know. Whatever. If I'm on that freeway and I'm in the left lane and I got pulled over, number one, I would have no idea that what I had done wrong. And if I got a ticket for it, I would still be like, I've never heard of such a thing. But doesn't that make you think if you're from out of town and you're there, that has to be a uniform law across the country? Because why would it be as soon as I cross the state line, I have to get to the middle lane? That happens with hands free. The, okay, but that's not even a violation. That's a secondary offense. That's not in some places. That's secondary. Like, you were speeding and you were on the phone. Isn't DC, isn't that primary? The, I'm not exactly sure. I know that if there's a copy, I just set my phone down on the seat. So this side in Colorado. Hold on, Sam, hold on. Speak louder than that, because I know your window's down. Well, I'm smoking, of course. This overhead sign reads, Camp in a State Park, not in the left lane. Wow. Colorado. That's good, but that's on the overhead? Yeah, that's actually a billboard. Oh, okay. I was going to say, I'll at least credit Virginia. We're more, we are more interested in silver alerts and finding people than we are about camping in the left lane. Okay. Florida has a very similar one involving state parks. Camp in a State Park, not in the left lane. Oh, here's Camp in the Mountains, not the left lane. That's funny. Camp in the Ozarks, not the left lane. Very popular, I guess. Is it possible this is national and we just don't know? It has to be, because again, if I crossed the state line and I had no idea, they would go, oh, well, I understand. You're from a state where it doesn't exist. So that's where it has to be everywhere. There are also speed limits that are unique to states. But that gets posted. I can see that. Do you cross a state line and it says in Colorado, we don't park, no driving in the left lane. How many camp jokes do I need to read for you to hear that there are signs or accept that there are signs? But is it up when you cross the state line? Like where it says welcome to Colorado, by the way, don't drive in the left lane. Don't get in the left lane. I mean, so you want the welcoming signs and to see what's near there. Okay, I'll search that next. Yeah, no, because if they put up a speed limit sign, I understand speed limits change. I understand that. Where am I going? Kristen, line two. Hi, Elliott in the morning. Hey, good morning. This is Ryan. Yes, Ryan. What can I do for you? I got a ticket for camping in Texas. So I camped in the left lane in Texas about 2009. Are you serious? Yeah, it surprised me because I was speeding. I was hauling, but cop pulled me over, asked me if I knew I didn't admit to anything and that's what he wrote me the ticket for. And that's the other thing. I don't like the trivia question when I get pulled over. I really don't. No, because it's entrapment, because if you get pulled over and the officer says, do you know why I pulled you over? I always say, I have no idea. I could be doing 120. I'd be like, no clue, but you don't know what to answer because if you go, oh, I was speeding, he goes, no, but you are now. So that's why I don't like to answer that. But did you tell him I have no idea why I'm getting pulled over? I did. I mean, I was young and dumb, didn't even think about it. Nowadays, it kills me to see people camping in the left lane. Does it really? Oh, it kills me. Oh, don't drive by me. Don't drive by me. Why do you care? Because I'm usually traveling faster than they are. If I'm riding your butt, that means you are slower than me. You need to get out of the left lane. And I completely agree with you. And that's where that person has one of two responsibilities, either A, increase their speed, or B, get over into the center lane and let you pass. Yeah, the amount of people, though, that are just ignorant to it in their own world in the left lane blows my mind. But that's why I'm, that's a thank you, sir. Hey, how bad was the ticket? I want to say it was like 60 bucks. It wasn't anything too bad. All right, that's not horrible. All right, very good. Thank you, sir. But then it would be like if you can't use the left lane to drive in. So now, now I've got congestion. So you're going to discuss like the layout of the roads with the officer? Well, no, but just how slow is everybody in the middle lane going? Yes, you are going to discuss it. From Instagram, I got pulled over in Missouri for left lane cruising, but my wife flirted real hard with the officer. That a girl. He let me go LOL. Right on. No, that's great. Hi, Elliot, the morning. Hey, is this me? Yeah, hi, who's this? Hey, this is Carson. Yeah, what can I do for you, sir? No gloss, no filter, just stories, spoken without fear. 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Hey, so I grew up in Colorado and I have to tell you the reason that you can't camp in the left lane is specifically for mountain driving because you need people to be out of the way or people will ride their brakes the whole way down the mountain, especially people from out of town will ride their brakes the whole way down the hill. They will burn their brakes up and then they end up crashing. They go through the guardrails. They end up using the runaway truck ramps and it turns into a whole mess. So wait a minute, so if they're coming down a mountain, they ride the brakes, oh because they feel like the car is going to get away from them? Well, because you go down some of the, I mean, when you're going up through like I-70 is the east to west highway from Denver across and then I-25 is the one that you were talking about that goes from Denver. Oh, Colorado's brakes, right, my bad. Yeah, so when you're on 70 and you're going up and over the mountain passes and you're coming back down at a 15% grade, if you don't do something to slow yourself down, you'll end up flying 90 miles an hour straight down the hill. That is where I feel like the obvious answer there is just pop it in neutral and just coast. Well, you want to downshift. Yeah, if you want to go slow, but if not... Well, if you don't want to go too fast also, but what a lot of people will do because they didn't grow up driving in the mountains, they don't know how to control their speed like that. They won't downshift. They'll just ride their brakes the whole way down. Right. Yeah, no, that is very dangerous. If you don't go clogging up the left lane, then you get people stacked up behind them and then you end up with, you know, a line of 10, 15 cars sometimes all just on their brakes the whole way down from a mountain pass. Two things. How slow are... and listen, it's not their fault. How slow is an 18-wheeler going up the mountain pass? They're very slow. Yeah, that's a pain in the ass. And it's not their fault. It's not their fault. It's only a two-lane highway too. Oh, come on. But you know what would be a thank you, sir? Oh, is it well known in Colorado though that you can't camp? Like, is that like a big campaign? Yes. It is. If you're doing under the speed limit or five under the speed limit on a highway in Colorado, then you should not. I think it's a minimum $90 ticket or once before I moved out here. Colorado does not jack around. All right. Very good. Thank you. You know what would scare me? And you see them all the time. If I was driving an 18-wheeler and I had to use like that runaway ramp where like your brakes fail and you got to just go up the dirt road on the side, that's got to be terrifying. How about just driving one of those? That's my next job when I get fired. You told you're not patient enough. That's probably true. But I smoke enough. But even if I saw a truck have to use like one of those runaway ramps, that would terrify me. So if the officer were to explain to you... Oh, I just flurred heavy. Yeah, just like that guy did. You'd be in trouble. But this DM says, honestly, I would think that camping in the left lane sounds like going too slow in the left lane. Oh, it's not. It's not. It's just using the left lane. But they said even if you were doing the maximum speed limit, you'll still get popped. But I think he's got a point. I agree with you. It could be some misinterpretation of that word on all these signs. Yeah, because camping is like, well, we're not doing anything. We're just camping here. We're camping out. We're camping out. Exactly. Exactly. No. And that's what I would think it is. I would be like, I'm doing the speed limit. Hell, I'm speeding. Like, why am I getting pulled over? Oh, and now you got a speeding ticket on top of it. Well, thank God you didn't look at the weed in the trunk. But it looked like... And again, my vision was off yesterday as people heard I did touch you inappropriately. Did you just pull up your right short leg? He's flirting. I was flirting with the officer. I was going to show as much ass as Macy Moore's. Is he a sumo wrestler? He's probably the short. He was explaining his flirtation. Showing a lot of thigh. I could tell if you were just demonstrating or if you actually had like, you were scratching something. No, I'm flirting. I'm trying to get out of my ticket. Hi, Elliott in the morning. Hey, good morning. I got that stupid ass ticket. Where did you... Where did you... Where did you get it? 95 South between like right up front William and Stafford. Did you really? Absolutely. Not only that, but he gave me a ticket for five over the season, which is contradiction because obviously I'm passing it for five over. And when I got... When he lit me up, I threw a cigarette out and he gave me a ticket for flirting too. That's the... By the way, that is... That's harsh. That's harsh. And I can't tell you how many times I've been in that situation. And you know they're behind you. There's nothing you can do. And that's why you always have to have a cup of coffee in the car because then you just got to put it out in there and then you drive the rest of the way to work drinking ashes out of the thing. But yeah, that's bad. I got busted for that once pulling into a parking lot. And I was like, well, if I turn quickly, it'll be before him and I flung and nope, I got caught. I got... And I had to go to get out, stomp on it and pick it up. Oh, yeah. Did you get a ticket too? For throwing it out? No, he let me off of that and said it's not good to do that in a church parking lot. D, how much was your... How much was your ticket? That's what I was gonna say. How much was your ticket? So I was such an idiot. I just wanted to be right in the situation because she knows that always works out. I went to court. I beat it with an exception. I had to take an online driver refresher class and pay the court cost, but no ticket, right? That ended up being more expensive than if I just paid the two $60 ticket because they just missed the cigarette line because I picked it up. Right, but no points. No points. I don't care. It cost me more. And I mean, you know what, Trooper Green, I remember you from 2017. Just kiss it. Wow. Very good. Thank you. Hi, Elliott. Good morning. Hi, good morning. Hey, who's this? Steve. Hey, what's going on, dude? I'm a police officer in Virginia and I'd never write people for sitting on the left lane, but I would stop them just because it impedes the flow of traffic and it gets dangerous. To camp? To camp in the left lane? Yeah, like I'm not going to write you for it. I'm going to just kind of sometimes I just flick my lights on. You move out of the way and then traffic closed. Because sometimes people have 20 cars behind them. Right. And then like I got to them and it's some older lady who has like no idea what's going on. She's driving like six in the morning and I'm like, I'm not going to write her a ticket. Right. So you'll just, you'll slash your lights. By the way, that you talk about giving somebody a heart attack. So the lights come on. You know what I would do? The lights would come on. First of all, I would panic and think, well, that's it. Here we go. I would pull over to the right. I would let you go by and then I got right back in behind you and use you like you're a lead blocker. No, just a quick like on and off and then I just get out of there, you know, like I'm not behind them and I just keep doing what I'm doing. Hey, is officer, you might know this is left lane. Is left lane camping a national law? So because of the way the US is, each state has different laws. So I don't think it is a national law, but I think every state has some sort of legislation that kind of governs the way you use the left lane. I got a traveling lane. Right. Allegedly. Especially in a dual lane road. Right. You got to get out the way. Gotcha. All right. Very good. Wait, were he getting trouble for break checking you? I mean, if you break checking anybody, if no, you're causing damage. Exactly. Thank you. Thank you. Depends on the creativity of the CA. You might get like a soul charge because you break check and this is weird. All right. Very good. I appreciate it. Thank you, sir. Thank you, my friend. And let me grab where am I going? Line three? Hi, Elliott. The morning. Hey, who's this? What's happening, man? I'm camping right now 95 South. Okay, dude. Gonna continue to campus. What's up for officer green? Officer green. I remember you. No gloss. No filter. Just stories. Spoken without fear. A person who is not generous cannot be an artist. 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