Me. Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart oh, you know.

Oh, and do you.

Oh, oh, oh, one go for a ride

for a ride let me go for a ride let me go let me get this let's go for a ride okay well actually you'll go for a ride

I'll go for a drive person who drives the car they're the one who goes for a drive the

other people they go for a ride people don't know that tell them when they're in your car

Say you assholes are going for a ride

I'm going for a drive because I'm making the payments on this

This is legendary stand-up comedian because I'm making the payments on this.

This is legendary stand-up comedian George Carlin doing his car routine in his 1984 HBO special,

Carlin on campus.

Right now he's grabbing a chair so he can sit down and pantomime a few bits about the weird stuff we think and do and don't talk about when it comes to cars. Like many stand-up comedians, Carlin often wandered into philosophical and

psychological territory and though he said a thousand true and amazing things

about human behavior, there's this one short joke from this special that I would like you to consider. First a philosophical question.

Have you ever noticed when you're driving that anyone who's driving slower than you is a maniac!

See, look at this idiot here, will you just look at this idiot here.

Will you just look at this idiot just creeping along?

Whoa, look at that maniac!

Go!

I mean, it's a one do we ever get anywhere at all with all the idiots and maniacs there are

because there's certainly no one driving at my speed.

In that joke, George Carlin makes an observation that psychologist had been making for a few decades

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