BONUS - CYCLING: THE DEADLIEST SPORT (PART 2)
This week, James and Jimmie continue talking about how deadly cycling is!
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How do you get 100 dead babies in to a garbage bag? A blender. Follow up: how do you get 100 dead babies out of a garbage bag? Tortilla chips 😳😂
How’s the dog 😂
Jimmie struggle-whispering "Don't do this" will live forever in my head
Since this is Crime In Sports, John 'Johnny Hockey' Gaudreau and his brother (both pro hockey players) while cycling were hit from behind by a drunk driver.
Xx 😀
Having watched the Tour De France I'm surprised there haven't been more deaths from crashes on the descents of larger mountains considering they regularly ride up and down the tall mountains of the Alps and Pyrenees. Also the one at the 2016 Paralympics reminded me that there was a terrible crash during the women's road race in the regular Olympics where the leader at the time crashed on a descent of a hill and ended up with 3 fractured lumbar vertebrae and and severe concussion then was back competing like a month or so later.
Carla was my friend from college. Wonderful person, such a loss for the world and professional cycling.
Laws don’t make cyclists have any insurance even though they can go just as fast as vehicles in some areas. They always run red lights and stop signs.
Bike helmets work. I was broadsided by an SUV, was thrown 10 feet into the air and landed on my head and handlebars and had no head or neck injuries. I did have multiple broken ribs, a broken leg, screwed up knee, two separated shoulders, and was black and blue from my armpit to ankle on the side she hit me on, bu the helmet saved my lice. Other places helmets have saved me, rock and ice climbing, whitewater kayaking. Each helmet is designed differently for the sport.
What was Helen Keller's favorite color? Corduroy.
The lorry is what we call a flatbed truck.
What is worse than a pile of 100 dead babies? The live one at the bottom trying to eat its way out.
The flip side of all this is what happens when a bike race route lands in the middle of your plans for the day, as it did for us in Kranj, Slovenia Labor Day Weekend 2024. Worst traffic we’d been stuck in for years - the entire city centre was shut down - and we live in N. NJ so traffic jams are a feature of our daily lives. 🤷🏻♀️
Of all the places for James to get stranded! I'm picturing him barricaded in his room, pillows crushed against each side of his head, his eye twitching, screaming "MAKE IT STOP!!"
I adore Jimmies “ahh” laugh when he finds something particularly funny, this was a great episode.
If I saw jimmie in Lycra wearing a bike helmet, I would hit him with my car to get get his number.
"His skin finished 3rd place" killed me 😂
The helmets in WW2 and today are designed to stop shrapnel, not bullets.
I have distinct memories of my dad leaning out the bedroom window at 2am to shoot at raccoons getting in the garbage, so I could see doing it for squirrels I guess. 😂😂
Listening to the episodes on Cycling reminds me of the classic movie RollerBall with Jimmy Caan.
Omg I just remembered a story about a guy riding his bike all dressed in that cyclist clothing knocked on my door all bloody because he plowed into the back of my parked car on the side of the street. They were wide streets in a neighborhood also. lol
These are insane!
What worse than 10 dead babies in a garbage can? 1 dead baby in 10 garbage cans,
I heard a similar one, except it was what's worse than 10 dead babies nailed to a tree? 1 dead baby nailed to 10 trees. Why were these funny?? Lol
My mother in law gave her corgi 2 shots of insulin everyday for years 🤣
I did that too for my Chesapeake Bay retriever. She eventually developed cataracts that she adapted really well.
James! You should have hoped in the back of a pickup truck and rode down to AL. We could have listened to Wu Tang and shot shotguns 😂
What's the difference between a Ferrari and a dead baby? The Jimmies didn't lose their virginity in a Ferrari...
A guy in Colorado was arrested because he kept driving by cyclists and smacking their asses with a wooden paddle. A local hero.
As a diabetic, two shots a day sounds like a dream lmao that’s just one meal and my long acting insulin
Not a professional race but the wish a mile crash from a few years back when an individual crashed through a few cyclists while they were trying to raise money for make a wish
Jimmie: A flash-bang grenade would be COMPLETELY ineffective on Helen Keller. James: Why, because she's blind and deaf? Jimmie: No, because she's dead!
Look out for oncoming estrogen 🤣
Omg, you guys unlocked a core memory I had totally forgotten about - Helen Keller and dead baby jokes 🤣
Hey, is CIS doing the Scummies this year - I'm so fond of those... (I hope I remembered the award name correctly)
This topic reminded me of this insane mountain bike race my older cousin raced in back in 2016. It starts on one coast of Costa Rica and ends on the other. Idk how many miles total, but it does climb 3000' in elevation! My cousin placed 11th in his 40-49 age group. He's fucking nuts and I don't think he's slowing down much, despite being almost 60... https://racelaruta.com/en/events/la-ruta-en/
Nuts for sure, but I'm damn impressed! Sheesh, a reminder I need to get back in shape...
Raced road bikes for years. Have been hit by a car and have crashed, broken bones etc. Cyclists run reds and I hate that, but motorists are the most entitled dickheads on planet earth. Especially American motorists. Put your truck away and drive a car where you can see the front of it
A Ford laser is a little hatchback. Not tray behind.
I forgot about the Helen Keller jokes. Pretty popular in the 80s as well. This whole episode was excellent! Had me rolling. Cyclist 🚴 accidents rival amusement park episodes.
99% of bicycle riders give the rest a bad name.
Cars are dumb af. The least efficient way to get a person from A to B
Yall just recovered a long buried memory with the dead baby jokes
I'm from Belgium, loved the pronunciation of Belgian cyclists and towns 😅✌️ love you guys 💪🙏✌️
The dead baby joke is… What’s the difference between a truckload of bowling balls and a truckload of dead babies? You can unload the babies with a pitchfork.
The crazy thing is that we're not actually *that* delicate, compared to other animals. We can eat poison (caffiene and capcasin), dislocate limbs without dying (many animals go into shock), handle prolonged stress that would give many other animals a heart attack, etc. What humans *do* have is the the Hey Y'all Watch This Impulse where we do stupid and dangerous shit for no reason. Most animals have the good sense not to do that regularly. We do it so often we get organized and sell tickets
Why have you not done a Lance Armstrong bonus yet? I can't wait for it. It's gonna be good. Let's put that to the top of the list please.
They need to do pantani too
the "squirrel shooting" story makes me want an episode of the dumbest excuses that were bought by law enforcement
This story is the spiritual opposite of the lawyer that shot himself proving the man his client was accused of killing could have shot himself. The lawyer lost his life and won his case
I learned my grandpa was one of those crazy bicyclists from Germany in the late 1910’s / 1920’s!
Please don't be another woman, please don't be another woman, please don't be OH GODDAMNIT! Me through this while episode 😆 🤣
Can we get a bonus episode on all the baseball players that have died from brain cancer after playing on turf?
The “ladies” at the end made me spit out my coffee. It was so unexpected 😂
Um, I actually do I have to give one of my cats insulin twice a day lol
As you mentioned LeVeon Bell, have you seen Chandler Jones' social media posts? He's basically at Antonio Brown levels at this point.
Check out Ragbrai…yearly bike tour across Iowa in JULY!! Hotter than balls, 95 degrees in the shade. The corn fields sweat because it’s so humid. Love it !!
Been riding it for years, and most sleep in tents at night.
We shoot all kinds of animals including squirrels from the bedroom/living room windows. Never slipped and shoot someone though!
Also-in slight defense of the coroner-in certain states/counties/etc a coroner is an elected position and doesn’t require a medical background. I live/lived in one of those areas.
Wow tough day being a licensed woman driver lmao
Why helmets are needed
Took a bit of digging but I needed to know what happened with the driver who killed Luke Harrop. She got a super short sentence and then deported. https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/cyclist-killer-deported/news-story/ac7eeb238ec23ac77aa89bff433f6a95
lol at her saying she was having a hard time in custody. Smh. https://www.bikeforums.net/advocacy-safety/33413-hard-time-jail.html
Wooooooooooooooooo
Jimmie's "Don't do this" to the dead baby joke took me out.
I absolutely lost it
Avid cyclist here and listening to the bafflement in their voices when they talk about racing is friggin hilarious. And yeah, I've been bumped by a car so they're not wrong...
Yaaaaaaay!!!
Looking forward to this one
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