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Hammer Lane Legends

BACK IT UP | 78: I Drove Off A Bridge | Call-In Show

Hammer Lane Legends

Merkel Media

Leisure, Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Automotive, Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.7611 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 78: I Drove Off A Bridge | Call-In Show, Brian and Tony make their way through their voicemail box and play the call-in messages left by listeners and fellow truckers. Buckle up and listen in on some wild, funny stories from HLL callers. 

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And she was a few months pregnant at the time with our third child

0:47.3

and she freaked out right away

0:51.3

and she's like, what's wrong?

0:52.3

I was like, well, don't freak out, but I just drove off a bridge.

0:56.0

He put it in park through over the driver's door, ran out the side of the car,

1:05.0

crossed the front of it, and jumped right off the side of the bridge in front of you.

1:08.0

The only people are really pulled over were truckers.

1:14.8

He said, we're going hodge, and he didn't slow down.

1:18.7

He went across the median onto the oncoming traffic,

1:22.2

but where they could see him come and they just got out of the way.

1:26.1

I noticed his plane was really low.

1:30.3

He went right in front of us, hit the fence, and it sput around. You know, 30 seconds more he could have hit us.

1:33.3

I went around that truck and a guy, stepped out from behind the truck

1:38.3

and threw a piece of wood and shot through my window just like a spear

1:42.3

and stuck in the back of the cab at my truck.

1:46.3

That's probably one of the stranger things I've seen.

1:54.8

Welcome to the show, everybody. You're listening to Hammer Lane Legends. I'm your host, Tony Merkel.

1:59.1

And I am Brian Merkel. And we're really glad you're here. This is a voicemail show. Before we get into the voicemails, let's get down to the business. If you've a crazy and wild experience, you want to share with us from the road, go ahead and shoot us an email. Our email address is HLLL Podcast at Protonmail.com. That's HLLL Podcast at Protonmail.com. Or go to the website, hammerlainlegest.com. Hit

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