What the Business Is?

Views and opinions of this program do not reflect that of the staff and management of Milwaukee Black Media, but are the sole responsibility of the hosts and guests of this particular show.

Steps to the mic with a boom-ping-ping Wisdom sharper than the beast's fierce sting Words like fireflies that light the night He turns the dark into blazing bright Boom-ping-ping, the truth takes wing Milwaukee's voice, let the city sing Boom-ping-ping, hear the freedom ring

Ping, ping.

Welcome to the program.

You made it to Friday, September 18th, 2026.

So glad you are choosing to spend the least part of your Friday morning with us here on the truth with Sherwin Hughes.

As I think about the many different topics that we discuss and we cover a variety, there is one in particular that I think that.

We may evade and this is not good I think that we need to have more public discussion and more public discourse on these radio airwaves that are monitored by the FCC About topics that I believe can bring the most value to the people that listen to this program Talk a lot about crime.

We talk about punishment and criminal justice and

what we should do to have a much safer city.

Oh, we throw around all sorts of ideas.

We wonder what we should do with the youth.

Whose fault is it?

Is it the parents fault?

Is it the the environment's fault?

We wonder is it the education system's fault because some of the kids can't read so very good.

And we have all of these questions and all of this speculation and maybe just maybe somewhere in there we come up with a solution.

When it's all said and done We want a community a city Full of law abiding citizens don't we because when everybody's following the law then things just are a little bit smoother now There's still gonna be some bumps in the road.

There's still gonna be some Unintended consequences, but for the most part of people are following the rules and following the law Cardinal rule number one should be just to mind your own business.

I have a sneaking suspicion

Call me crazy because well you already do 90% of some of the stuff that we see in the arguments and the disagreements and the fightings and the shootings Oh, by the way, every time there's a shooting I tally it up and I post it in the Hughes views Facebook groups So every time there's a non fatal shooting I add to the price tag of $644,000 because I want y'all to see how much this is costing us

So when we come up with our great ideas and our plans that we want the mayor to implement and the common council to implement because we may come up with a solution to the issues and the problems and the plagues and we'll have a great series of Solutions, but we don't have the money for them because when somebody gets shot it costs too much money

the police response, the EMT response, the unpaid hospital bills, the prosecutor, the defense attorney, the cost of the entire system, the entire process is very expensive.

So the ideas that we come up with, and we wonder, well, where's all the money?

Why don't we have money the city of Milwaukee has better than a one billion maybe two billion dollar budget How come we can't fund all of these things because people keep getting shot stop shooting Why don't you guys just break dance You know back in the day Yeah, look at that sucker crew over there bunch of suckers I'll show them and then you just some break dancing music starts playing

And then you guys just watch me spin on my back.

I'll show him and then you spin on your back and then the rival crew was like, oh, he spun on his back.

We're going to go back to 27th Street because we saw back spin.

Why can't we return to that?

Let's just try it next summer.

Instead of doing all of the fighting and all of the punching in the face and all of the shooting, let's just have a break off.

We don't know the law But we want everybody to follow it There are some laws that are on the books ladies and gentlemen that most of us are completely unaware of and you know this is on us Ignorance is no excuse you could be doing something that has been normal your family does it you see it happen all over the time

It might even be a part of your developmental environment, maybe even a part of your culture.

But if it's illegal, that law very well could be enforced.

So here's what I want to do because we all need to be law abiding citizens.

It doesn't sound very fun, though.

It sounds kind of dorky, nerdy and square.

I'm a law abiding citizen.

It almost sounds like you can't really have any fun.

But we want people in our society to follow the law and mind their business.

Stop all the fighting in the shooting.

Okay, but I don't believe that we know the law many many years ago When Derek Mosley was a Milwaukee municipal court judge He was very public facing as far as municipal judges go and since he left the bench You probably don't even know who our branch one branch two

Branch three city of Milwaukee judges municipal judges now we have 46 47 Circuit Court judges those are the judges at the courthouse if you're going to see one of those judges at the courthouse That's probably your ass because they're enforcing state law and they can send you to the jails in the prisons you see But our municipal court judges right here in the city of Milwaukee.

They're not very public-facing I know that Val Hill many years ago.

She used to offer

these driver's license recovery things and I think they also used to do court in the evening time and if you couldn't go to court in the daytime because most people are working they would offer court in the community they would do all sorts of creative things but you don't really hear from them or see from here or see our municipal judges that often in fact I gotta look it up I don't even think I know who's on the municipal bench because they tend to just be quiet in the background but when Derek Mosley was on the bench he would come on my program this is many years ago

many years long before one on one seven truth one on one seven the truth hadn't even been spawned

yet

he would make time to come on my program every so often maybe every couple of months to tell listeners about new laws that the legislature passed that most people were completely and totally unaware of and the reason why he would come on my program and do these segments

is because he, Derek Mosley, when he was on the municipal court, would see all sorts of people in his courtroom for these violations that people had no idea were violations in the first place because the legislature can pass laws.

And every law that they pass, they don't exactly send us an email.

They don't have a news story.

Most people are not actively searching for the legislation that is coming out of the legislature.

until you get caught violating one of these laws and you ended up in his courtroom so there was one in particular that I found very interesting and it was driving too fast for conditions which is totally and completely subjective a cop can say oh I think you're driving too fast

It's raining very hard.

Maybe it's very foggy.

Maybe there's a little bit of snow on the ground and a police officer just witnessing you driving can make a determination.

No, I think you're going a little bit too fast, even though you might be going at or even under the posted speed limit.

And that was catching a lot of people up.

You people that have the four-wheel drive and the SUVs and the big trucks with the big tires.

You don't have to go 72 miles an hour in the snow.

You don't have to.

We get it.

You got four-wheel drive.

We understand.

You're not going to get stuck in a snow bank.

Why do you have to drive like you're an idiot?

Please be aware of the first snow because of Wisconsin drivers.

As long as you have been driving and some of you have been driving since the Model T, that first snowfall trips everybody up.

People sliding off into the ditch.

All you got to do is not go fast.

Well, the other thing is from one snowfall to the next or from one season to the next, your tires have probably worn down a little bit more, assuming you did not get new tires.

And I look at your tires when I'm stopped next to you with a red light.

Some of y'all have bald tires.

That's embarrassing.

Got to get the tires.

That's the only part of your vehicle that touches the ground.

What are you guys doing?

Now, I also know this.

Tires are really expensive, painfully expensive, but safety first.

So the tires that you have on your vehicle have less tread and less traction now Than they did last winter and you probably got used to how your vehicle stops corners Accelerates in certain amounts of snow you remember that from last year this year It is completely and totally different because your tires are a little bit more worn down And I think that first snow really catches people off guard Also keeping in mind if a police officer witnesses you driving too fast for conditions you will get a ticket

And so the reason why Derek Mosley would come on the program and talk about these laws is because a lot of African Americans in particular, and it was mostly aimed at us, would say these police are racist.

I got racially profiled.

These cops pulled me over.

I wasn't doing anything wrong.

Part of that is if we are unfamiliar with the law and a cop pulls us over for a law that we've never heard of before, it's very easy to assume.

that that police officer pulled you over because you were black.

Here's the unfortunate thing about that.

Far too many black people do not know the law.

So what I want to do is I want to bring back a classic segment.

Back before there was a truth with Sherwin Hughes, back before all of the 1017, the truth back when my radio show was called The Forum, which aired on WNOV for many, many years.

We are now going to reinvigorate these segments.

Know the law because I want you all to be very well informed and I'm not doing my job Effectively if those of you that listen to me do not know the law.

So here's what I'm gonna do.

We're not fun today.

Oh Xavier Happy birthday you stallion you.

Oh, thank you very much Not gonna ask you about your plans cuz I don't even want to go down that road And you're probably just gonna give us the same answer anyway.

You're gonna make it all cryptic

Xavier what are you doing for your birthday?

Oh, you know Just gonna go out go out with a friend No, no, no, she's just She's just my friend.

Yes.

She lives in River West.

Yes, her feet are a little bit dirty, but she's just

Well, whatever it is that you do.

I hope you have a really good time and Again, happy birthday.

Enjoy your day.

I hope all of your wishes and dreams come true

Actually, not all of them because some of your wishes and dreams are probably probably illegal.

They're probably on this list of things.

That's actually illegal.

But no, we do hope you have a great birthday and no better day to have a birthday than on a Friday at the at the start of the weekend at the Genesis of the weekend.

So you've got all of today and this is your birthday weekend.

But don't do a birthday month because that's toxic.

I don't do that.

Just celebrate today.

Yeah, fair enough.

That's what women do because they believe That the day in which they were born is so goddamn important the entire month is dedicated to the day that their mother birthed them no one It's not that important because to us We don't care at all We don't care that it's your birthday and so you want to make us care

So you will deem the whole month of let's say your birthday is in October It's my birthday month.

No, it's not Halloween is dramatically more important than your birthday Now we don't call it Columbus Day anymore, but indigenous people's day is dramatically more important Than your birthday unless you're a Scorpio I suppose if there is

A zodiac sign that I will give some grace to That is allowed and or entitled to celebrate their birthday for more than just the actual day in which they were born It's the Scorpio.

So I know Scorpio women Scorpio men go away.

We don't need you here, sir Scorpio women.

Absolutely.

I will allow them a little bit more grace.

You be careful if you find you a Scorpio I got stung by one once.

I'm still bleeding

That woman ain't healing.

Y'all know who I'm talking about?

I nicknamed her Scorpion.

Some of y'all know her.

You know who knows her?

Denise Thomas.

Not only does Denise Thomas know her, Denise did a program with me.

I don't, I don't even know where Denise is.

Is Denise even still in what's, I don't know where she is.

I asked Dr. Kim.

Dr. Kim and Denise, they don't still do a show.

No, no, but I'm sure they're friends.

What are you trying to insinuate insinuating that they're friends and they probably keep up with each other.

Fair enough.

I won't speculate any further.

But Denise did a couple of segments with me and then she went right when she left here.

She went to the place where the Scorpio works at.

And I wanted to tell Denise so bad, but I would have broke her little light-skinned at heart.

Here's what we're going to do.

We're going to take a break.

Gonna come back.

I'm gonna share with you laws that are on the books.

I got a couple of different types of laws.

Okay traffic laws We're gonna start there I need you to know some of these traffic laws because I see you all routinely Violate these laws every single day now whether the Milwaukee Police Department chooses to enforce these laws That's irrelevant because you never know what cop on what day is going to decide to enforce one of these laws my job

To make sure that you know and you are informed of what these traffic laws are so that you don't get pulled over because nobody likes getting pulled over it makes you feel very small Not a lot you can do I mean you can try to flee I Wouldn't recommend it But let's mitigate the likelihood That we get pulled over because we're going to be asking for more police in the upcoming city budget in which they're going to start talking about that I don't know probably this fall

A lot of you are going to want more police on the streets and we need more police because of Act 12.

Okay.

And if we get more police because that, I don't know, maybe that makes our community safer.

The likelihood that regular average law abiding citizens who might just be violating a small traffic infraction here or there, it increases the likelihood that you're going to get pulled over.

So when we ask for more police, those of us that are making that request have to be more vigilant.

Knowing the laws because they'll pull us over to let's talk about all of the things on the other side.

You can join us if you have a phone Assuming you paid your bill at a 3 3 2 1 2 1 0 1 7 a 3 3 2 1 2 1 0 1 7 You also can text that number can't guarantee where that text message is gonna go But you can text it you also can join us on the YouTubes by searching 101 7 the truth on the YouTubes

Hitting subscribe you'll be able to view the live in the studio camera and also participate in the sometimes salacious oftentimes x-rated YouTube chat Got good news.

We made contact with with Mamie.

We made contact with her We're we're working out a day and a time next week Mamie's gonna be in studio Don't y'all tell her I called her ghetto.

Don't do that.

Don't bust me out like that I'm so happy she shout out to

Who sent me the inbox?

Somebody's like, Sherwin, I got in touch with Mamie for you.

She said, hit her up.

Was it Jasmine Jazz West?

Somebody, they made the connection.

So we're going to have Mamie listen to me.

When we get, listen, listen, when we have her in the studio next week, I'm going to need y'all to be on your best behavior.

Don't be over here snitching on me.

Don't be telling her what I said about her.

She's cute and ghetto.

She's probably listening right now.

Damn it.

I hope not.

She's probably somewhere eating a chicken wing in her car, because that's what she does.

All right, let me take a break.

The truth with Sherwin Hughes will be right back.

Don't touch that dial.

The truth with Sherwin Hughes will be right back on 1017 The Truth, the Truth app, and 1017TheTruth.com.

You are listening to The Truth with Sherwin Hughes on 1017 The Truth, the Truth app, and 1017TheTruth.com.

I want

you all to be informed because what's the point of listening to the talking of the radio?

I don't know how some of y'all do it.

I don't know how I Don't think I could listen to myself for three hours.

I Get sick of myself after 20 minutes sometimes, but I appreciate each and every one of you

That is why I try to put together programs that are informative, educational, entertaining with varying degrees of success and provide, you know, information that has some kind of utility because otherwise what

the

hell, you know, why even listen?

You could be listening to music.

You can be cited for following another vehicle too closely.

There's nothing I hate more.

Than a tailgater and I don't want to bring gender into this.

I don't why are you making me bring gender into this?

I really don't want to have to do that But every time someone is right up on my bumper if if I look in my rear view mirror and I can see that you have a piece of

Broccoli stuck in your teeth because you are so close to my rear bumper.

You're following too close.

Why do you do that?

Because if I slam one my brakes, you're going to hit me in the bumper in the rear and you're probably going to fly through your windshield and you're going to be in the passenger seat with me.

Why would you do that?

You're supposed to follow a vehicle two seconds behind.

Do you know how to do that?

You know how to follow a vehicle two seconds behind?

Every time I get in the car with somebody and they are tailgating, I make sure that they understand the two second rule.

Somebody all didn't go to driver's ed.

How did you people learn how to drive?

Did you just trial and error?

No, I'm very serious.

Like, did everybody who's listening to this program that has a valid Wisconsin driver's license, did you go to driver's education?

Did you have it in your high school?

Did you have private drivers?

Where did you all learn how to drive?

Because driving is technical.

I mean, just knowing and understanding the rules of the road.

But then there's, like, courtesy things that you need to know.

You got to know signs.

You got to know signals.

And you need to know the dynamics of the automobile in which you are commandeering.

Where do you all learn that?

My mother tried to teach me how to drive, but Emma's extremely impatient and she would freak out a lot.

She screamed a lot.

I, you know, I failed my driver's test the first time I took it.

I had no business being on the road.

I would have killed many of you.

I failed my driver's test.

I was.

I was scared to go on a freeway, but then after a while, I got the hang of it.

Eventually got my driver's license.

You can be cited for following another vehicle too closely, even if you don't hit anyone.

Wisconsin law says you cannot follow another vehicle more closely than is, and this is up to the police officer, quote, reasonable and prudence given its speed, traffic and road conditions.

So if a police officer.

sees you following another vehicle too close and you may not think you're following them that close you can get cited for that now here's another thing that we're not going to do we've got to stop doing some of the things that we're doing I'm going to try and cut back and cut down on the reckless driving because some of you might be otherwise good drivers but you don't understand or know the rules of the road and the laws and I want to cut down on the reckless driving it leaves for the people that listen to this program don't tailgate someone in an attempt to get them to speed up don't do that

You can't do that.

I know it's very frustrating.

I know you have to get to a job that you hate.

to work for a manager that you can't stand and to be around co-workers who you want to punch in the face.

But why are you riding someone's bumper because you want them to go faster?

And if that person is me, oh, no, I'm under no obligation to meet your time constraint.

If you're going to be late for the meeting and you're speeding to try and get to the meeting on time and you're tailgating me, well, dammit, we both going to be late.

We're going to be late.

I'm gonna slow down to three miles an hour Don't try and get me to speed up.

I don't know you Why are you telling me what to do?

And it's always somebody in a Nissan.

I wish Nissan would stop selling your cars.

I Wish they would you know, there was a lawsuit filed against Nissan because they were They were allowing dealers I was in the lawsuit.

I told you guys about this about

A couple of weeks ago, they would allow dealers to charge additional fees and finance fees to black and Latino car buyers.

And there was a lawsuit that was filed, a class action lawsuit.

And then what Nissan did to settle the class action lawsuit, like we didn't get any money back.

I told you guys how much I paid for my first new vehicle that I leased.

This was in the year 2000.

I bought a 2001 Nissan Pathfinder when they first came out they came out the new models the 2001 models came out in the fall of the year 2000 I Paid $571 a month for at least that is ass and I that is more money.

I've never been that was 20

Six years ago, I was paying $571 per month, but I was right out of college.

Shortly out of college.

I was making what I thought was good money.

I could afford it.

That was stupid, but also was being overcharged.

And so here's what Nissan did.

So to settle the lawsuit that said black and Latino buyers, if you were to purchase another Nissan, they would give you like a lower interest rate.

And I think that a lot of African Americans may have taken advantage of that.

because I see so many of y'all driving the Nissan Ultimus.

If I'm a cop and please thank God, I didn't decide to go that professional route in my life.

Oh, y'all need to be happy.

And when you think it's bad, you think these police are terrible.

Be happy that I'm not one because I would love pulling some of y'all over and I'm searching your vehicle.

I'm searching.

Hey, do you know why I pulled you over?

Because you got to talk like that when you're a cop.

And the part, no, I don't know.

Yeah, I don't really know either.

Can I have you step on out of the vehicle, please?

I want to take a look.

But officer, I don't consent to any searches of my vehicle, you would say to me.

And then I would look you dead in your face.

I don't care what you consent to.

I need to find the dope in the guns.

And if there's not in here, I very well may plant it.

Well, that's not a nice thing to do.

But I would pull over every Nissan.

Because there's something in them.

There's you got guns There's something there's some forensic evidence in every Nissan Altima Sentra and then the luxury arm of Nissan, you know the luxury arm of Nissan is the Infinity Probably responsible for as many traffic accidents and fatalities

as Budweiser beer and white tank tops are responsible for domestic violence.

And if you happen to be drinking Budweiser beer and you're wearing a white tank top and you know the nickname for white tank top is and you're driving an infinity, I'm sending you immediately to jail with no trial because you are a walking talking felony.

Budweiser beer, a white tank top.

In an infinity G 35 I'm gonna arrest your children.

I'm taking the whole Take a break come back Talk about more of these things that are illegal because I want you all to be informed drivers if we do in fact get more police on our roads on our streets and our neighborhoods

I want you to be vigilant and understand what the traffic laws are because I don't want you, the good people, the innocent people, to get pulled over for violating a law that you didn't know was a law in the first place.

The

truth with Sherwin Hughes will be right back.

You are listening to the truth with Sherwin Hughes on 1017 the truth the truth app and 1017 the

truth.com

Hanging something from your rear view mirror can technically be illegal.

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation says, objects hanging from the mirror can constitute an obstruction of the driver's view.

That includes your low air freshener.

Now I'm not necessarily enforced all of the time, but if they want to,

They can pull you over.

Now, if you're old enough, you all remember that ornamental decoration that absolutely everybody used to hang from the rear view mirror.

It's very cliche.

It's super corny.

It's very cheesy.

And thank God nobody does it anymore.

You know what I'm talking about.

The thing that people used to hang from the rear view mirror.

There was actually there's a pair of them.

Do you know what it is?

Tell me in the YouTube chat if you know what it is.

That technically is illegal.

The car air freshener hanging from your rear view mirror.

It can somewhat ever so slightly obstruct your view.

So I never did the car air fresheners because I don't like the way they smell.

I'm just a little pine trees.

I don't.

I want my car to smell like car.

Love the new car smell and try and maintain and preserve it There's even like these interior cleaners that you can use and you got to clean the interior of your vehicle They keep that new car smell even though the new car smell is actually poison It's like uncured plastic like it was really really bad for you the new car smell Which I don't even know if it smells particularly good.

It's just associated with that feeling of getting a new vehicle ain't nothing like it

Y'all ever pull something brand new?

Off of the lot, there's no feeling like it.

You can't tell me nothing.

Brand new car.

You don't even know how everything works.

You don't know how to turn on the radio.

You don't even know how to turn on the climate control.

You just ride.

You just got a whole bunch of buttons.

You don't know what's happening.

You got your arm off the window.

You might want to take your shirt off.

I highly encourage that.

Take it off.

I've driven with my shirt off before what you're gonna do tell me put my shirt on you will do no such thing at least I got on pants Driving barefoot is not illegal by the way.

I'm gonna get to that some people might believe that driving without any shoes on It's illegal.

I'm driven with no shoes on before not entirely sure why but I've been driving for so long Any potential scenario you could ever imagine I probably have done behind the wheel of a car pause

Here's what I like about driving barefoot not that I do it very often And I'm not even sure why my shoes would be off because that's doesn't sound like something a man would do but here's Some of y'all can relate I want to be able to describe this in a way where the visual imagery is striking So you have your shoes off Driving in the vehicle.

Let's go ahead and assume that it's summertime.

Okay, let's assume.

There's no snow on the ground and you're driving with your shoes off

do this thing where I kind of hook like my big toe like hooks around the accelerator like I have the accelerator between my big toe and the next toe I like I just hold it there it's in between my toes and I have supreme control over my acceleration because that toe was a little gripper

You know what I mean?

You know, I'm talking about Xavier where you have your toe just like between the accelerator pedal is between your big toe and your next toe and you just you grip that hole.

You just you grip it real nice.

Yeah, after a wedding, you know, say it's a 10 hour wedding, right?

Your feet my feet get hot sometimes and sometimes I forget my slides.

I'll drive home barefoot.

It feels good.

You can grip it.

You can grip the, you know, the break the accelerator with your feet.

It actually feels quite interesting.

Number three, you can legally drive barefoot in the state of Wisconsin.

There is no Wisconsin law prohibiting driving without shoes.

Quote, Wisconsin says you can drive barefoot, but apparently your shoes aren't the problem your driving is.

So as long as it does not impair your ability to control the vehicle, now you probably can apply more pressure to the brake pedal if you have a shoe on.

I'd imagine that could potentially interfere if you need to make an emergency stop, but it is perfectly legal and legitimate to drive barefoot and every now and again, it's a bit of a luxury.

Driving with a cast isn't automatically illegal.

This one doesn't make any sense.

You've got a damn cast on your leg or on your foot.

You still can technically drive according to Wisconsin law.

A cast by itself doesn't prohibit you from operating a vehicle.

The underlying issue would be whether you can safely control the vehicle.

Let's go ahead and dispel this next myth right now.

I have heard this myth my whole life.

I have done this thing in a vehicle whether I'm the driver or the passenger and I have been yelled at by individuals that are in my vehicle that

firmly and thoroughly believe even though they've never been told this they've never read it before and I highly doubt it was a unit in driver's ed but everybody just knows and understands this one thing that you do in a vehicle which which sometimes you have to do you have to do it you got to turn the dome light on sometimes even though I don't even think they make dome lights anymore lights are like push a little button it's not a dome anymore your interior dome light

Can legally be on while driving at night.

Where did that come from where people?

Thought that driving with your dome light on is illegal now Here's what probably happened because you know a lot of times these myths start and they never get dispel Somebody had their dome light on in the vehicle driving at night and They had the dome light on or let's call it the interior light they had the interior light on because they were rolling the back

joint because they needed to see because you can't have the marijuana spill that's a travesty because then it's in the carpet and then you got to pick it up off the carpet and then you're gonna get little carpet fibers and little rocks and pebbles you don't want that and so what happened once someone probably turned on the interior like

of the vehicles and maybe roll a fat joint or a fat blunt.

Maybe you do a little cocaine and the police officer saw you rolling the joint, rolling the blunt and taking a fat line of cocaine.

And that's why you got pulled over.

So someone probably thought, oh, we had the dome light on and that's why the cops pulled us over.

Yet you also had an eight ball of coke.

So, but they don't tell you that part.

Your interior dome light can legally be on while driving at night.

Contrary to the classic parental warning, Wisconsin doesn't have a law saying turn the dome light or interior lights off.

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation specifically says it is in fact legal.

Although it can interfere with night vision and potentially contribute to inattentive driving.

So there you go.

You need to turn on your interior light and you see John Q law.

Don't worry.

I'm not going to pull you over for having the light on.

They're going to pull you over for smoking meth because they can see you more clearly when the interior light is on.

Public service announcement.

Try not to smoke meth.

It really does a wonder on your teeth.

It does.

It just makes your teeth

fall out You can flash your high beams at an oncoming vehicle not really sure why this is on the list because if somebody has their brights on there's nothing worse than that turn your brights off What are you doing?

We can't see why why do you have your brights on in the city?

There's other vehicles that are lighting up the road.

There should be street lights that are on why why would you do that?

If you need that much light To see you shouldn't be driving now

Sometimes if one of do headlights blow out anymore remember when you have to get a headlight replaced don't headlights kind of last forever now if You had one headlight that was they'll pull you over for that Having one headlight out You all have a bunch of slang terms For when your headlight is Xavier does your generation have a term for when someone has one headlight out?

There was something that we used to call it and I'm almost embarrassed to mention it because I have a feeling people won't know what it is, but we had a term

For a vehicle that only had one headlight.

Did you have a term for it?

Not to my knowledge.

We called it a puddle Never heard of that never heard of a puddle Yeah, I knew you well you you're way young you're turning 35 When was I 35 what year was that?

2010 good Jesus Christ no way is that right?

I was born in 1975.

In the year 2000, I was 25.

I guess the end of the year 2010, I was 35 years old.

And this is 2026.

Me and you ain't the same, sir.

Yeah, I was graduating high school then.

I was going through a midlife crisis.

That was right about when I thought I needed a sports car.

Right about nothing.

You know, it'll make my life better.

Cuz black men we have our midlife crises a little earlier cuz well We ain't around forever my dad lived to be 82 though, which is a blessing So here's what I'm doing I'm counting I'm counting his death age So I got hell 31 more years.

I could do some damage to the next 31.

You know I mean this first 51 I wreck shop I wreck shop this first 51.

I hope boy.

I hope but I ain't gonna let y'all kill me

Know that's right.

I need to take a day.

I'm due for a day off.

I've been here with y'all every single day on a streak I need I need to chill now got a little bit of a reprieve on the Labor Day I think I need another one Y'all are not gonna murder me Driving me up the wall doing all this damn radioing and talking and trying to handle all of the issues and the problems and explaining everything

dealing with people like Bob that called in and then Millison comes in who wants to execute all over the black people and then one-legged Lisa calls in y'all are not killing me and then Linda called in yesterday laughed and cried several times in a three-minute conversation y'all are not gonna stress me out no way take a break come back give you a few more things that you should know about the law as it

relates to operating a motor vehicle in the state of Wisconsin some of these laws might be very obvious others not so much and then I have a whole another set of laws antiquated laws old laws ridiculous laws silly laws that most of us have no idea that they exist but they're still on the books in Wisconsin and some of these you might find Ridiculous, but we'll talk about those two because I want you to know the law

And you only learn about the law on the truth with Sherwin Hughes exclusively on one on one seven the truth Monday through Friday from 9 a.m.

Until noon replay is available on one on one seven the truth calm and on YouTube don't go anywhere I'll be right back

Don't touch that dial the truth with Sherwin Hughes will be right back on one oh one seven the truth the truth app and one oh one seven the truth calm

This is the truth with Sherwin Hughes on 1017 the truth the truth app and 1017 the truth.com

Not really a city girl via the YouTube chat says I absolutely hate that some of the newer newer cars Regular lights are just as bright I Absolutely hate that some of the newer cars regular headlights are just as bright as the high beams Cadillac.

He says yes headlamps still go out

an LED headlamp runs about $1,500 when they do go out.

I've never had it happen, or maybe I just, I don't keep cars long enough to where they go out.

I mean, unless you get hit or something.

They gotta last at least 10 years, I'm assuming.

I haven't replaced a headlight on a vehicle since I had a cutlass, and I got rid of that car in,

98 But I had those seal beam headlights, you know them square headlights when you just go to the auto supply store Tell them the making model of your vehicle and you would just unscrew you open up the hood You unscrew the headlight from the bracketing you put the new one in you do the little connector and there you go You got two headlights.

Do y'all really not have a name for a carbon one headlight?

You didn't call it a pediddle.

I To this day, I still call it a pediddle look at that person with that pediddle Don't know where it came from, but that's just what it was

Like a hooptie?

Hoopties, I still use hooptie.

There was a song about a hooptie.

So anytime I see a raggedy car, I call it a hooptie.

And there's plenty of hoopties on the road.

It's amazing what some hoopties are or not.

Now hoopties are like, I see people with rusty Cadillac escalates.

I remember when that was top of the line.

pristine the best SUV that you can buy now they're Den it up and all rust it's sad because like back in my day a hoopty was like a 78 Chevy Nova a Dodge Duster a Plymouth Horizon those were hoopsies any kind of a Datsun a Datsun the floor would rust out of a Datsun

And if you lifted up the floor mat of a Datsun, you would see the ground.

Exhaust fumes would come all up into the cabin.

You had to have a window rolled down or you would die.

That's what Hoopties were.

Hoopties, not really any kind of Nissan.

Anything made by Nissan is an absolute terrible Hooptie.

Awful.

You hate Nissan.

because they're responsible for all sorts of traffic fatalities.

Even a Pathfinder.

There's some Hooptie Pathfinders.

Absolutely.

But you don't really see very many Pathfinders because a Pathfinder is like upstream upscale.

These people, they're not going that far upstream.

They're limited to the Ultimas.

And if they're really fancy, they'll get the Ultima with a 3.5 liter.

V6 or the Nissan Sentra.

Oh, you're talking about the mid 2000s black.

Always black.

Several car seats.

You know, my neighbor has one and you know, he's not a good guy.

I can't believe you people like your vehicle represents you.

You know what I'm saying?

That's an extension of who you are.

Now there's some cars that I I'm unfair.

Can you believe that that I can sometimes be unfair and I judge a person?

By the vehicle that they drive and I don't want to offend anybody because I know that one of the vehicles that I mentioned other than Nissan drivers I don't care if I offend you But I also used to be a Nissan driver myself, but I had a Pathfinder so I'm above all of you other peasants BMWs a man

a man driving a BMW three series or four series or a one series.

The BMW SUV is a little bit different than X5.

I'll give somebody an X5.

I'll allow it.

I'll allow an X5.

My mother drives a BMW.

But you know, that's Emma.

Emma can do whatever she wants.

But a man driving a BMW sports car and they're great vehicles, but there's a

a douchebagginess.

Okay, ladies, if the man you're involved with, the man you're seeing, God, I hope you're not married to him.

If he drives a BMW, so he's a cheater.

He's gonna cheat.

He's gonna cheat with anything he can.

Anything.

Maybe another man.

Okay, so that's men that drive BMW sports cars.

It's almost as bad as a talk radio hosted where sunglasses during their broadcast.

Almost.

That's not.

That's not acceptable behavior either but no men that drive BMWs and I know this is gonna hit a lot of people very hard especially you blacks Dodge Sorry Challengers Chargers stop it stop it black people black men that drive a Dodge charger or a Challenger

And the challenger is a dope vehicle.

Love them.

Love them.

Love the body style.

I love the retro styling of the original challengers that came out in the early 1970s.

Very powerful engines.

Just a big brawny muscular vehicle with way more horsepower than anybody needs.

But because of the people that buy them and drive them, it's just you can't do it.

You, sir, I can already look at you and tell that you're behind on your child support.

You have a bunch of misdemeanors, maybe even a felony or two.

I can just look at you and tell, oh, if I was a cop and I saw a Dodge Challenger or a Charger, everybody, get out of the vehicle, get out.

But officers, shut up, get on the ground.

Taser, taser, taser.

Officer Hughes, why did you deploy your taser oil because there was four black guys in a Dodge Challenger will allow that?

Jeff Norman like that's that's perfectly acceptable.

I'm sorry.

I know some of y'all drop.

I apologize for any of you that drive Dodge Chargers or Challengers I Can't do it with you people.

You're the worst BMWs

What do you drive right now Xavier?

Want to tell the people what you drive?

I just drive a hoop-dee around.

Oh, you do?

Yeah.

What kind of hoop-dee is is the Nissan?

No, not a Nissan.

I'm not that

low class.

All right, let's take a break come back.

I got more laws I want to share with you.

I want you guys to know what the law is so that you can follow these laws and hopefully hopefully hopefully avoid getting pulled over by Officer Jones.

The truth with Sherwin Hughes will be back for hour

two.

You are listening to the truth with Sherwin Hughes on 1017 the truth the truth app and 1017 the

truth.com

Welcome

to our two of the truth with Sherwin Hughes.

We are talking about traffic laws and moving violations and things you can and cannot do behind the wheel of a vehicle in the state of Wisconsin.

It is legal and permissible to drive with your dome light on.

Some people think they're driving with the interior light on.

not legal that is not true you absolutely positively can it's legal to drive barefoot it's legal to drive if you're if your leg is in a cast it is in fact legal to flash your high beams at an oncoming vehicle I've even come to find out for those of you who are

A little more country than you are rock and roll.

A person can legally ride in the back of a pickup truck.

Wisconsin allows people 16 or older to ride in the cargo box of a pickup truck.

but sitting on the sides of the bed of a pickup truck is in fact prohibited.

Children under 16 cannot ride in an open cargo area of a light truck.

So they'll cite you if you have someone that's 15, a sophomore in high school.

It's like it's a freshman in high school because you're a freshman in 15, a freshman in high school.

No, no, no, you can't ride in the bed of a pickup truck.

But when you're a sophomore, you can.

Wisconsin's rear seat belt rule isn't as simple as everyone must buckle up the requirements to pin partly on Whether the seating position has a three-point belt on the passenger side for example Certain two-point lap belts in rear seating positions are treated differently.

I don't know what the hell that means Oh, I don't like this law A front license plate is required on most Wisconsin passenger vehicles

Wisconsin is one of the states where passenger cars and light trucks generally must display both front and rear plates.

There are specified exceptions including certain municipal state and apportioned vehicles.

After buying a car, Wisconsin gives you a surprisingly short window to get a plate displayed.

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation says buyers of cars and small trucks weighing 8,000 pounds or less must display a permanent or temporary plate within two business days of purchase or face a citation.

You can get a traffic citation even if you have a perfect driving record.

Your previous clean record doesn't give you immunity from a citation.

Officers consider the circumstances of the particular violation.

Let me knock on wood.

I hate getting pulled over.

I haven't been pulled over in a long time.

But I have been pulled over and the cop said, oh, no, no, I'll let you go.

They're sometimes shocked.

You know, I ran your place.

You don't have any, any infractions.

And they'll say something like,

keep it that

way.

You slow down next time, Blackie.

Or whatever they say.

Oh, come on.

The cop lets you go.

Like you're going to complain if they call you Blackie.

What are you going to do?

Yell and scream at them.

They'll let you go.

Give them a slur.

Give them one slur.

But not two.

Alright Sherwin well, I'm gonna give you a warning this time blackie next Next time Your black ass hey You call me blackie once you don't get to say another one What are these uh-oh an open bottle doesn't have to be in your hand for Wisconsin's open container lot of matter a Passenger having an open alcoholic beverage on their person in a motor vehicle

on a public highway can violate Wisconsin's open container law.

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation says an open container of any type of alcohol generally must be transported in the trunk or another area not normally occupied by passengers if there is no trunk.

So here will be an example.

First of all, when you go to somebody's house,

Do people still follow this rule?

You don't show up at somebody's house empty-handed.

You bring something, okay?

If you're going to, I don't know why you making that face, Xavier.

This is just a common rule of courtesy.

You call the person, like you're going for like a little barbecue, a little gathering, a little get-together, maybe a little party, whatever it is.

You call the person, you ask the person, hey, what do you need?

And most of the time, oh, can you bring some chips or some napkins or bring, or just bring whatever you like, okay?

But even if they say no, we don't need anything, you still show up with something.

Alright, so here's what I'll do.

I'll ask the person, hey, what do you need?

I'll stop at the store if you need me to bring it.

They, no, no, no, sure.

When they'll say something like, just your presence is enough.

Just bring your smile.

I'm like, ah, you know, you want more than my damn smile.

I'm gonna bring something anyway.

So I'll see what I have.

I might have a bottle of Tito's.

There's maybe been an open, maybe a couple of drinks out of it.

Hell, it looks full.

And I might say let me bring this Tito's maybe somebody wants to make them a drink we go to the party plus Sherwin doesn't want to show up empty-handed because even if the person says no we don't need anything you don't need to bring anything but your smile and if I actually show up with only my smile and nothing else in hand They may talk about old Sherwin.

I can't believe Sherwin showed up here empty-handed That's what you get from a radio host to wear sunglasses during his broadcast so always bring something

If I bring this bottle of Tito's and it's been opened, the seal has been cracked.

I just have it just in a bag on a passenger seat.

That's illegal.

Even though I am not drinking it, that is considered an open container of alcohol.

So please be aware if the seal is broken, if it has been opened and you're transporting it.

Now you haven't drank any of it yet, but you're going to tear it up once you get to the party.

But you haven't had a sip of it, but because it is in fact an open container of alcohol you can get cited for that This one I didn't know you can technically have multiple adults in the front seat of a vehicle Wisconsin doesn't establish a simple numerical maximum for adults

Sitting in the front seat or cabin of a passenger vehicle the important limitations include not obstructing the driver's view or interfering with driving along with use of the vehicle's original seat bus Well, I don't make no damn sense because you got a front seat and we don't do bench seats anymore.

Remember vehicles had bent seats that big long seat

the long like older cars had a long and probably just only a lap belt for two people but had the long bent seat like you know in box Chevy's bring back the box Chevy for God's sake long bench seat you have four five seventeen people I remember I shouldn't tell you all this oh my what's the statute of limitations on stuff

what's the

crime

Just it wasn't illegal, but

if it resulted in a death, there's

no nobody died.

It just I Was much younger than at

least

20 years ago Damn close.

Oh, then you're gonna go.

All right So my Do I blame somebody else for this?

Well, I took part in it.

Well as well so Many many many years ago

I dated a member of the Marquette women's basketball team.

I know, I know Marquette.

I get it.

Many years ago, she's married now, lives in Ohio, got kids and all the other things.

She married a Hispanic guy.

Go figure.

So she played for Marquette women's team.

She called me up.

She's like, hey What are you doing tonight?

I was like, I'm me and my guy we're gonna head down to Milwaukee Street.

This is let me tell you how long ago this was The club was still it was called Eve first of the Tom Tom Club that opened up in the 90s and then they changed the Format then it became Eve

Then after Eve it became apartment 720.

I'm assuming that it's still apartment 720 even though I have not been there in years.

It's still open at 720 still open Xavier.

Do you know?

Is that a club or something?

Never mind asking the wrong one.

So it was it was called even so yeah me and my guy We're gonna go to Eve.

She was like hey Me and some of my girlfriends Want to go out can you guys come and pick us up?

I was like oh that absolutely is not gonna be a problem because these are all Marquette women, okay?

I don't know if you guys know About Marquette women they may not be getting a quality education, but damn do they look the part?

So we get to the apartment where almost said her name Where the woman I was talking to dating at the time lives and when I tell you seven

Scantily clad like back in the day.

Well, I guess I shouldn't even say back in the day the things that women wear to go out to a club is wholly offensive It's I blush and I'm black.

Okay, so imagine that Itty bitty tiny little dresses where you they got to keep pulling the dress down because every step you take the dress rides up it was seven of them Now my buddy drove he had a Cadillac He had a DeVille

And it was nine of us in a Cadillac DeVille.

And when we pulled up to Valet in front of Eve, because Eve used to have a really long line.

They tried to keep it exclusive and they pretended to have a list.

When you got to the front where the bouncer was with the

list,

he's like,

oh,

your name's not on

the

list.

There was no names on that damn list.

They just did that to try and be exclusive.

But when we pulled up and it was like a clown car with these seven women

that hopped out of that burgundy Cadillac.

The bouncer was like, right this way, we got a VIP

table

for y'all.

Man, we had a time.

Oh my goodness gracious.

A long time ago, though.

A long, long time ago.

And plus, I told you it was called Eve.

That was back when LaTrel Spreewell was a fixture at Eve.

He's still a fixture.

I just saw LaTrel Spreewell out like two weeks ago.

Well,

he lives on

Brady Street.

You're kidding.

He just won't give up.

What hang on at the harp he still goes he's from Milwaukee He is but The stories you would think that he would just I saw him at Taylor's.

What was I at Taylor's?

I met Taylor's a lot.

I shouldn't say a lot.

I'm there enough.

Yeah, he was there Had a white girl with him surprise surprise.

Oh, I thought you liked the milk Ain't nothing wrong with that

Love I love women a lot.

I can't live without them.

I gotta

have

them if I don't see one At least once a day of my brain gets screwy.

I gotta see him,

but I thought you extra love the milk ladies

I Love women that grew up with their fathers Whatever race that is Whatever ray I just they're they're different

You heard Linda yesterday she said she respects the relationship that men have with one another and you only get that when you grow up With men and dads and uncles and you see how men bond because a lot of times You had no daddy around you might be a little misguided about Male relationships because far too many black women is we're just gay to them if she is unmarried and unlikable and unloved for whatever the reason

Every black man that does not want her as a homosexual gay man I'm single you you're gay Sherwin how come you haven't bought me a wedding ring ma'am because I don't know who you are That's why I haven't bought you a wedding ring.

Oh, or maybe you didn't buy me a wedding ring because you're gay

You

know, you know black women love light-skinned men.

Oh, they do tell us more

Xavier.

I just have a affinity for me.

I Didn't know that y'all came back in style in the 1980s y'all was taking all the wool

Y'all was pulling so much wool back when elder Bard was making music when I'll be sure Came out with night and day you light-skinned fellas were chess.

We couldn't get a break Drake helped us out.

I Drake might have brought it back But then Drake kind of fell off for a little while.

He's back in full effect now.

I think he is yeah He is he's came out like three albums in the last six months.

Yeah, and they all went like

one two and three

Okay, well, you know you had one of our listeners come up here

To get a glimpse of you.

She ain't care nothing about me She wanted to look because you're hard to see from the Third Street market all through this window.

They got to like Look around a corner.

They're gonna bend their eyeball to be able to get a glimpse of you, but she came up here just to see you

Oh

chocolate milk lady Chocolate milk lady not really a city

girl.

I don't know that is no solicitor

Yeah, I told you when she was up here.

Yeah,

she was wearing them

wearing the hell out them leggings

I don't know.

I've seen her write in the chat.

She says she has no no, but I'm

confused.

I must know she's lying.

She's 100% lying.

She says she has a pain.

She's rocking pancakes.

Well, then she must have been

sometimes ladies have a tire that artificially accentuates certain parts of their body.

I'm just I'm just go ahead and say I'm gonna say it.

Like they have good ass jeans.

Where your ass looks good in them jeans,

but they don't normally look good.

But in those jeans, she was wearing her good ass leggings.

Yeah, I guess.

I mean, a black chick with no junk in the trunk.

I mean, that's very sad.

But she was.

I thought it looked fantastic.

You got tricked, I guess, according to her.

Maybe I did.

Maybe I had too much caffeine that day, but I'll tell you what, when I.

I was like, oh, that she's a nice lady.

Hope she comes back and visits once again.

Maybe she will.

Yeah, to see you.

She can make it.

I'll just.

Oh, it's your birthday too.

Ooh, she might bring you a slice of that cake for your birthday.

You know what I mean?

I ain't talking about.

I got plenty of slices coming today.

See, there you go.

There you go.

Tell her to bring you some of that birthday cake.

And we ain't talking about the kind that's got frosting

on

it.

Well, maybe.

Maybe she'll.

So we take a break.

What is this show doing today?

We're talking about the laws that people should know.

Indeed we are.

I got a whole bunch of serious stuff too, but screw that.

We're not going to be serious.

We're

serious all week.

Is twerking while driving illegal?

No,

not in my mind.

As long as it doesn't interfere with your ability to properly operate a motor vehicle, and as long as you are wearing your seatbelt, then I don't think that that's illegal.

Why do you ask?

I'm just wondering.

You're wondering if twerking.

How does one twerk while driving?

Well, it's a

little bit too graphic for there

Are you making this

up?

What's wrong with you?

I'm not making this up

You might need to come out with us tonight we are A bunch of us is getting it.

No, I actually know what don't because I don't want to see what you do

Yeah, I already have some plans.

I want to

be witness to it

Yeah, you know, I keep my my work life and my private life separate.

Like I'm completely different when I leave here.

I'm censored by 1000.

I believe that the only

person that I so I've hung out with that we all went to shows together when Savannah was here is me Savannah.

I think Benjamin Kerry went to the show with the rape.

We went to what do we go to?

Oh, I don't.

I went to something, but I don't make it a habit, but Zach and I have hung out socially.

I'll kick it with that.

But Zach and I got the same birthday.

Zach is 100% a younger, slightly more emotional version of myself.

So Zach and I are, and we can kick it.

So I think he might be stepping out with us tonight.

We got a little something we gon' do tonight, so.

All right, take a break, come back.

I want you to know the law.

I got a list of laws that are still on the books.

These are not related to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation or traffic, but these are old antiquated laws that were passed a long time ago.

Some of them might even go back to when Wisconsin was a territory before Wisconsin was a state.

These are laws that are still on the books.

They have not been removed.

Now, are these laws being enforced?

Not necessarily, but because they are still on the books, maybe just maybe they could be enforced.

Let's talk about some of these old, some of them are just silly.

antiquated laws that are still on the books in the state of Wisconsin because we want you to know the law and you learn about the law only on the truth with Sherwin Hughes exclusively on 101.7 FM.

I'll be right back.

The truth with Sherwin Hughes returns after this on 1017 the truth the truth app and 1017 the truth.com

This is the truth with Sherwin Hughes on one oh one seven the truth the truth app and one oh one seven the

truth.com

Not really a city girl says Yes, my D and Many other trucks and SUVs.

I think the design is to help The field of optometry because I'm sure it's messing up people's eyes.

The headlights are way too bright now.

You got to have good visibility I Remember when headlights were like a suggestion now, they're very bright

Well, they're also LED and Xenon that mimic actual sunlight and daylight so it's much easier to see obstacles in the road Xavier lady B says happy birthday

to you

Thank you sincere Ronnie Ray Rio says not the maxima or the center the Nissan maxima used to be a really really nice car it started to get weird in

2010s, but if you had an early 90s like a 1991 Nissan max like that was a car that like rappers drove.

That was a really really nice car Nissan used to make great cars It's me as he says I was just about to say you better put some respect on Nissan Pathfinder's name

I owned a Mercury Mountaineer before that.

A woman driving a Mercury Mountaineer screams, I don't need a man.

There's nothing wrong with that.

There's nothing wrong with you driving that vehicle, sir.

I mean, ma'am.

Nothing wrong.

It's just too... What is it with itty-bitty tiny women driving big-ass SUVs?

That's ridiculous.

And they drive all close to the steering wheel?

It looks silly.

Little petite four foot eleven five foot five foot one women weigh 95 pounds driving a suburban or a Yukon XL.

It's insane.

You can't even park the thing for what

it's kind of like the little guys that drive the big pickup trucks

or Big dudes that drive tiny cars.

That's awful when your big ass gets out of a little itty bitty Ford Fiesta Big bastard.

Why are you driving?

Why would you do that?

What's wrong with you?

There's literally a vehicle in every single price range Big-ass driving a Ford Escort don't even make Ford Escorts no more do weigh in 392 pounds

So when you like you like my Ford Fiesta, I just got it yesterday.

How are you sitting in the driver's side and the passenger side at the same time?

How are you so big that you took the driver's seat out and you actually sit in the backseat to drive your vehicle?

How is that?

Why would you do that?

I'm no small fella.

You know what I mean?

But I'd like to believe that I've always driven vehicles that were appropriate for a man of my size You ain't gonna catch me driving no Dodge neon which they don't make those anymore either.

I'm

really dating

myself You can't show up at a woman's house

Picking her up on an unacceptable vehicle and for those of you that say oh vehicles don't matter Oh, yes, they do the only people that say vehicles don't matter are people that have crappy vehicles Cars very important.

It's like how you you know, it's this it's self expression That's why if you're man and you drive a BMW sports coupe You are either The 20-something year old son

of a Middle Eastern gas station owner or You're just a mass and gill summer's Eve.

You're just a douchebag.

You're like you look at a BMW.

Yeah, that's the one I want I'm gonna pull a lot of tail when I get that.

I'm yeah, the girls are gonna love it They do this thing in Wisconsin Dells, I think it's called auto motion where

Weird car culture people get together.

I think once a year in Wisconsin Delta like that is just the display of dudes that put their whole identity into their vehicle and I get it the whole car Customizing thing.

It's a real big deal and we've got you know car shows all the time and it can be a productive hobby, especially if he keeps

People involved in something positive as some of these vehicles are just horrible There's something about a beautifully designed and style car that you just don't need to touch You don't got to put 75 inch rims on every every car.

You don't have to do that Why would you do that?

And then they put these steering wheels on that match the rims of why are you doing that some of these cars are?

Absolutely beautiful the way they were designed and engineered sometimes the simplicity of the lines of certain vehicles

You don't need to modify everything.

Why would you paint your vehicle lime green?

Why, sir?

I can't understand it.

And maybe this is just me being more of a traditionalist.

Why do you paint these vehicles and these insane colors?

Pink with speckles on it.

Like what, sir?

Where do you work?

What do you do for a living when you spent $7,000 on a paint job for a $2,500 car?

Just Lisa Camry.

Get a good reliable vehicle and then they put these gigantic wheels I'm just not into that That's just not me, but more power to you.

I know I'm probably offending some of you people actually know I'm not because those people aren't listening to me 29 inch rims and the vehicles ride terrible and it messes up your suspension insane Laurent says because them itty-bitty women be driving all them itty-bitty kids the soccer and hockey practice

with their equipment and if you and if you can't carpool five or six kids or other, I'm not talking about the North Shore, not Nancy's.

They have a reason to drive those kind of vehicles because they are the other soccer moms and they're taking care of the kids.

I'm talking about women with no children whatsoever that have a vehicle that they can't even park it in their garage.

That's totally unnecessary.

Now, if you get a sport utility vehicle because you actually need the room, that's exactly what you buy them for.

I'm talking about somebody who never packs more than three grocery bags in a suburban.

You don't need a suburban.

Why would you need that?

It's too big.

Now they ride good.

They're very comfortable.

They're monsters on the highway.

You get a suburban on the road.

You can drive from here to California.

You're going to spend an arm and a leg on gasoline because they're not very fuel efficient with that big thirsty V8.

But why do you need something so large?

You know what I like.

I really enjoy this.

I enjoy people struggling to parallel park.

I'll stop what I'm doing.

I love it.

And you watch them like a hawk, like, uh-oh, you cut the wheel too soon.

And then if it's really bad, I'll actually get out and guide them.

I help them.

Like, no, no, no, cut the wheel.

Cut the wheel.

Nope.

Go on the reverse.

Go back.

Parallel parking, even if you're good at it, still a matter of chance.

Sometimes you get boom you got that angle There have been times where I was able to parallel park.

I'm talking an inch It was an inch bumper to bumper.

I didn't touch either vehicle I got in perfectly actually stupid because when the person in front of you or behind you pulls out They're probably gonna hit your bumper.

I Would have to say well, here's how I feel my driver says I Took my driver says in a 1985 Camaro

with those metal louvers.

This is my mom's car.

You guys remember what louvers are?

So in F-Body, so in F-Body would be a Firebird, Transam, or Camaro.

That's the code for that body style.

So in 1985, Camaro.

And louvers are like metal blinds.

That were the style at the time so my mother had a Camaro my dad was like I'm gonna customize this for your mother Which my mother didn't want anything to do with that so he put these louvers on The back of the Camaro you cannot see I'm 16 years old learning how to drive in a vehicle where you can't when you look through the rear view mirror You just see the slats of the blinds

You know how you peek through blinds and your vision is obstructed because you're looking through window blinds?

This was on a vehicle.

And so one of the things that I had to do when I pulled out of the Mill Road DMV, because that's where I took Montes, is they took you into a neighborhood that was just north of the DMV and like, okay, here's two cars, parallel park.

You gotta be able to see behind you in your parallel park.

It's really super important for a variety of reasons mostly because there's a car behind you So I couldn't see and I wasn't the best parallel park.

I grew up in the suburbs We didn't parallel park in the suburbs.

We parked in parking lots in garages and driveways There's nothing to parallel park.

So I was not a skilled parallel parker I think I parallel parked a couple of times and drivers said probably didn't do too well Whatever never really learn how to parallel park.

That's a city driving thing.

I didn't drive in a damn city

So the instructor's okay.

Here's two vehicles Parallel part All right, here we go No idea what I was doing cut the wheel cut it too soon Hit the curb and went up on the curb.

Okay, and then the instructor was like Let's move on and then I completed the test and went out in the traffic and then make you