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Driving Profile: Elisha Hall
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ELISHA: What in the world is going on? Somebody clearly went off the side of the road. And the car turned over and it was on it’s side. We’re the first ones to get there. There’s nobody else around and we start looking into the window. And I remember when I approached the car the first thing that came to my mind was, my God. I hope I don’t see a dead body.
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BHAVNEET: Welcome back to Drive With Us, a podcast where we bring on a new guest each episode to talk about the crazy things they’ve experienced on the road, who they are as drivers, and how they became the driver they are today. I’m Bhavneet.
TARANJIT: And I’m Taranjit. And today’s driver is Elisha Hall, a father, business owner, a divergent lover of life, studier of human behavior, and a philanthropist. Wow. I said that weird. Philanthropist.
BHAVNEET: Philanthropist.
TARANJIT: His purpose is to liberate people from mental, financial, social, and societal bonds all through teaching people to love each other, elevate their habits, and how to obtain their passions. And today he shared with us how driving can help do that one, but also his crazy driving stories of racing in chariots in San Diego and losing his phone on the freeway.
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BHAVNEET: Welcome Elisha to Drive With Us. We’re so excited to have you.
ELISHA: Thank you for having me.
TARANJIT: So we love starting off with this question because it’s a great way to get into the show. What would you say is one of the craziest things you have experienced while on the road?
ELISHA: You know that’s an interesting question because there have been so many.
I remember. Okay. So it’s it’s funny that this one just popped in my mind and I didnt even tell you about this one before.But my family and I my dad was in the marines growing up. We used to travel around the United States all the time and several times we drove cross-country.
And remember one time, we were driving from the east coast to the West Coast. It was winter time and we were all in a minivan. Something happened where we hit some black ice on the road. It was nighttime and our car skid across the lane and did like a circle spin in the road. And then hit an embankment out on the side. And I remember thinking you know for me, I’m an adrenaline junkie. So it was fine with me. It just was what it was and nobody was hurt.
But that was good. My brother slept through the whole thing. And it was interesting how there’s so many nice drivers that drove by who were like, oh are you okay? We’ll call a tow truck for you. Oh. You’re okay. We’ll call a tow truck. And then finally a guy came by who actually had a winch on his truck and pulled us out. And it’s just situations like that that shows you know, the awesomeness of humanity. But then it also shows you got to be on your p’s and q’s driving in the middle of the night in the snow. But it was that was one of the craziest but it was definitely an interesting experience.
TARANJIT: Yeah. Having one, driving in the night in the snow is a thing of itself, and then hitting black ice in the dark, I feel like that’s more scarier. And you don’t know what you’re in less control I feel like cuz you can’t see where you’re going.
ELISHA: Exactly. And then you just the good thing was that the snow was soft. So it didn’t damage the car or anything. But it was it was really interesting. I had another situation I was driving where It was me driving and we were driving down the 110 freeway out here in Los Angeles, and it was raining. And I’m just driving. It’s like 50 miles an hour, not the speed limit which is 65-70 and our car just starts to spin. Like literally out of nowhere. So I’m driving straight in the rain. It’s daytime and then the car slowly like slow-motion starts to spin. I’m just like oh my God. What’s happening right now?
BHAVNEET: Wait, what?
ELISHA: Yeah. It literally just starts to do a circle in the middle. Everything I’m in slow motion spinning around all the other cars. I can see the driver staring like what is about to happen right now? And then we finally get all the way around to the 360 where we’re facing forward again. It just starts going straight. I was like, this is the weirdest thing. And I literally had to pull off the freeway just to get my mind straight as to what just happened.
BHAVNEET: That is so weird. Your car is just like, alright. Time to have some fun. Alright. I’m good.
ELISHA: Yeah. Exactly. Just one slow spin and then I’m good.
BHAVNEET: That is so weird.
ELISHA: But I told you that I have a ton of stories. I’ve got a ton.
TARANJIT: I never heard that happen before where your car is just like, alright. Time to spin.
ELISHA: Right. And I didn’t turn to wheel or anything. Just driving straight down the freeway with my hands on the steering wheel. It was crazy. Man.
TARANJIT: What would you say is your least favorite weather to drive in?
ELISHA: Least favorite to drive in. it would have to be back to be the first rain, right? So I’ve driven in snow, driving up to the mountains with snow chains, a 4 x 4, driven in rain. Driven my motorcycle in the rain. I think that’s the scariest is when it first rains because that’s when it’s like the new rain mixes with the oils on the on the freeway and the street and it makes things more slippery than normal. So I would have to say that would have to be it. That’s the scariest.
TARANJIT: Yeah. I would agree. And I feel like that I think you said that you’ve been to Maryland before. So here a lot of people as soon as it just starts sprinkling just can’t drive and they just slow down so much that you’re like okay, come on. It’s just a couple of drops.
ELISHA: Exactly. And it’s a funny thing that it happens everywhere. But they say that out here they’re like, oh Californians don’t know how to drive in the rain right? We either drive super fast or we drive super slow. But that happens everywhere. Like you just said, in Maryland it’s like, we don’t know what to do. So we’re going to drive super slow. It’s just crazy.
TARANJIT: Speaking of your motorcycle, I know you mentioned earlier an interesting experience you had when you were riding it.
ELISHA: Let’s see. I’ve had a few. I don’t even remember what we talked about before that I sent to you guys. Oh man. So there’s this like if you know anything about riding motorcycles like people that are listening that ride motorcycles, they’ll know what I’m talking about. But you can control the front and the rear brakes right. Separately. And I remember I’m driving on the freeway and this car like it is kind of rush hour so I’m not going to fast but I’m able to go in between the lanes no problem. And this car changes lanes in front of me. The thing about when you hit your brakes is if you hit the just the rear brakes then think of like a bicycle, it’ll lock up and your bicycle skids right. But the thing on a motorcycle is like it’s 800 pounds, so it’s going to skid, but it’s going to keep going right. The thing about if you hit the front brakes then the force of just the front brakes locking up will actually caused the the entire motorcycle to flip forward like up onto the front wheels, or the motorcyclist themselves will flip over the handlebar. So I try to hit both brakes, but I end up hitting more of the front brakes than the rear. And so I can go up on just my front tire and I’m just kind of up there a little bit getting forward. I didn’t hit hard enough to lock it and fly forward, but I hit it enough that my motorcycle is now up standing on one wheel. And then I’m able to just like, you know, I’m releasing the brake a little bit and then it comes back down on the back wheel and I didn’t hit the car. And that was probably one of the scariests because it’s on the freeway and there’s so many cars around. But yeah, it’s you have to be a very offensive driver when you’re riding a motorcycle.
TARANJIT: Well at least you didn’t spin out like in your car.
ELISHA: Right. That would have been all bad.
TARANJIT: Do you prefer driving your motorcycle over your car or the other way around?
ELISHA: So 1000% prefer riding the motorcycle when I have to be somewhere, but obviously it’s one of those things I got to take the car if I need to put anything in the truck. If I need to carry anything with me that I can’t fit in a backpack, I have to take a car. But I would 1,000% rather ride the motorcycle everywhere. Like whether I’m going to downtown Los Angeles or if I’m going to the beach, you know, or if I’m going to like Palos Verdes or meeting someone at a really nice restaurant or really nice resort, I can get there so much faster on a motorcycle and traffic is not an issue. But you know, you can only carry so much. It’s the limitation that that decides what I end up driving.
TARANJIT: Do you feel safe when you’re riding the motorcycle like when other cars around? Cuz I know like there’s a lot of motorcycle and car accidents cuz half the time cars don’t see them.
ELISHA: Right. So I wouldn’t say I feel safe. I would say I feel confident in my own abilities, but I wouldn’t say I feel safe. And here here’s the right so I was in another situation where I was actually in an accident on my motorcycle where I’m just driving down the street just driving straight down the street and I’m probably going maybe 35-40 miles an hour maybe even 30 miles per hour. It wasn’t that fast. And as I’m driving straight this car coming in the opposite direction just literally makes a left turn into me. Like they turned their car into my motorcycle. And I was thinking well what happened was when they turned into me, I ended up basically flipping over their car. So now I’m laying on the street, my motorcycle does a bunch of flips and its over on the sidewalk, and a bunch of people rushed over and helped. I wasn’t injured or anything. They called the paramedics just to make sure I was all good. And then the driver left, right? They just they they left. And nobody knew where they were. And that’s the crazy part is my my dad and some family members came while the ambulance was there and somebody from my family was like, Hey. This car like a block down has damage on their front. Was that the car that hit you? And I was thinking like I have no idea. So, you know we end up going over there and come to find out it was the car. They ended up turning into a business and kind of hiding out in the business. They wanted to make sure I was okay, but didn’t want to get involved with the police cuz their insurance was crazy or something. Yeah, that was a weird experience, but people just don’t see motorcycles I guess cuz it’s they’re smaller. So I wouldn’t say I feel safe, but I definitely am comfortable enough riding it without any issue. I would never be the kind of person that falls off a horse and doesn’t get back on.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. Well that’s good to hear. But that’s so much worse that the person drove not even that far away and then just hid.
ELISHA: Right. Right.
BHAVNEET: What was going through their mind?
ELISHA: No idea.
TARANJIT: Well they did at least wait and check on you right? Before they just ran away. They didn’t just like drive off?
ELISHA: No. They never got out of the car to check on me. It was a bunch of other people that were around that stopped. It was a busy street with foot traffic and things. There weren’t a ton of cars in the street. But it was just the people around walking on the street came over. Oh. Are you okay? Let me let me pray for you. Is everything okay? So I got a lot of that. And they called the police. I even had an ambulance chaser just like he had my back
like he was just there for me. He had my back. He called my parents and all these different things. You know. Do you need anything? And then it wasn’t until I wasn’t interested in suing anybody that he was like he disappeared.
TARANJIT: Well I’m glad to hear that you were okay after that.
ELISHA: Yeah. The ambulance people cut up my nice shirt. You know,they had to do all that stuff, but it worked out. I was I was sad that the cop there was a police officer who came to take the police report and when she was there and I was sitting it with the ambulance the paramedics people and she was there and I was like, hey. Can I take a selfie with you? My shirt is all cut up and I got bruises and scrapes and stuff, and I’m like, hey. Let me take a selfie. And the cop was like, no. I’m okay. I was like, aw. Come on. You’re supposed to feel bad for me.
TARANJIT: They are probably like, what is wrong with this person?
BHAVNEET: Do you have a concussion?
ELISHA: I was like, come on. This is going to be great for police and humanitarian relations right? Why not? I’m not asking for you to play basketball with me. We’re not going to end up on Instagram or TikTok.
BHAVNEET: So, you the story that you mentioned previously, it kind of made me laugh. I don’t know if you thought it was funny at the time, but it was you driving your motorcycle, and while you were listening to music on your phone.
ELISHA: Oh. That one. Yes. I thought it was hilarious until cuz this is actually a situation where I was going downtown going to downtown Los Angeles to a meeting. And I was so I’m riding my motorcycle and I’m just Im flying down the freeway and I’m just having a great time because I’m playing music in my headphones. And my phone my headphones are connected to my phone which is in my jacket pocket. Now I’m wearing full suit right. So I’m wearing a full black suit with a white dress shirt and a white skinny tie and I feel like I’m like Neo from The Matrix just flying down the freeway with this music playing. Like if you ever, you know there’s this dramatic music that plays in action movies?
TARANJIT: Yeah.
ELISHA: And so I felt like that. Like I’m in an action movie right now. And I’m just having a great time. And then all the sudden the music just stops playing. And I don’t know why. My jacket is flapping in the wind behind and I don’t know why but my music just stopped playing. And so I’m just like, oh okay. And so once I finally get to the hotel I’m going to downtown, I’m checking my pockets looking for my phone and I’m like, my phone is gone. And I couldn’t find my phone, but the cord to my headphones is still in my ears. So you know, it’s the cord is not connected to my phone. I was like man my my my cell phone must of flew out of my pocket and it’s laying on the side of the freeway somewhere. I thought that was I thought it was hilarious. But you know, I don’t think spending the money that I got to spend on a new phone is hilarious. But it was it was it was definitely a lesson to learn. But it was fun. I had a great time.
TARANJIT: So I’m guessing you didn’t find that phone. You just had to buy a replacement?
ELISHA: Right. Definitely didn’t find it. Yeah. I think I rode that down there one time just to see. But I remember that even if I find it, it’s going to be so smashed up. You know, it’s like, ehh. So it didn’t work out and I ended up having to get a new phone
TARANJIT: I wonder how many people that ride motorcycles lose stuff. Like what kind of like how much stuff they tend to lose. Or is this like the first time you ever lost something while riding a motorcycle?
ELISHA: That’s the first time. I think I’ve only lost things twice. Like one time cuz the way the motorcycles work is you can lock with a key you can lock in a rear seat. Sometimes I don’t have a rear seat on, you can have like an aerodynamic cover on it. But you can lock in the actual rear seat itself so you can have passengers. And I remember one time I guess I didn’t lock it correctly and somehow it flew off in the wind. So I did lose that one time. But those are the only two things I’ve ever lost right. I saw a YouTube video where this lady lost her phone. Actually no. It was her GoPro camera and she was recording. So you actually see the camera fly off and then they end up going back and they found it. So that’s how they’re able to upload the footage. But it does happen. It definitely does happen.
TARANJIT: It seems like your life is already an action movie with all the car spins and like all that you’ve been through already.
ELISHA: Oh. I have no doubt. No doubt. So I mean I have this thing that I established probably about I want to say 6 years ago where I my goal is to create memorable moments. And so whether I’m doesn’t matter what’s going on in my life, I want to I want to interact with things intentionally live an intentional life where I create happiness, right? I manifest my own happiness and fulfillment, right? I don’t like the idea of pursuing happiness because we all know how to be there cuz we’ve all been there at some point in our life. Now it’s just how do we recreate it in the same situation and in other situations. Just like I could ride down the freeway normally in a car or motorcycle, but if I have this dramatic music playing and I have a suit on, you dont ever see anyone in a dress suit on a motorcycle, right? And if I do that then it’s like it creates something different in me. That makes me feel amazing. And so even when I work with my clients doing a lot of coaching and stuff for business and that sort of thing, I’m sure there’s a way that you for yourself and for your employees, you can create these memorable moments within your business within your company within your life that just take things to a whole nother level. So I guess in that sense my life really would be a movie.
TARANJIT: That’s a really great way to think of it. Even in whether it is driving or in your life, just to make those memorable moments. Never really thought of it that way.
ELISHA: Yes. 1000%. I think I learned how much I love going fast and creating those moments and I didn’t recognize it at the time cuz I was in high school. But for my high school field trip, actually I was out on the east coast at that time. So I’m in Los Angeles now, but I was out near the Boston area. And we ended up going to what was it we ended up going white-water rafting for my senior trip and it was so much fun. I had so much fun. It was a camping trip, a bicycling trip, and white-water rafting. And the adrenaline that goes with that going through the rapids and you know, how you have to move your body all these different things, it was a beautiful experience. Now that I look back on its moments like that I had a lot of joy, fulfillment, I was happy. And my goal is to recreate those things not just for myself, but also with other people because I can do it for myself and do with myself. I could also create these amazing situations that involve other people because that tends to make the best impact when there’s when it is a shared experience.
TARANJIT: Since you like adrenaline so much, I feel like this is probably what contributed to this next story that you mentioned of paying someone to race in chariots.
ELISHA: Yeah. That was a good one. That was a good one. And again, that was a shared experience. You know, a bunch of us there, creating a memorable moment. And it was so we were down in San Diego. Myself and a bunch of people from this company that I used to work for. And at one point we went our own way and it’s probably I want to say 6 of us. And so what we did was we went ahead and we saw these guys that are you know, San Diego has the Gaslamp district and it’s kind of like the downtown area where all the restaurants and clubs and things like that are. And these guys that that are on these these bicycles pedaling and it’s got the seats in the back with this covered seating for 2. And so I don’t know what they’re called, but I called them chariots. Bicycle chariots.So we actually grabbed like 3 of these guys cuz we had 6 people. So we were like we need 3. We need to get somewhere. So we grab 3 of them. And you know, we could of just said, hey. We need to go to this location. But instead of doing that because that’s boring. That’s normal right? Who wants to be normal?
BHAVNEET: Exactly.
ELISHA: So we said, okay. Alright guys. We are going to make this interesting. We want you guys to race from where we are now. We want to go around this. Like there is this big fountain. We want to go around that. We like put plotted the course. We want to go over here and we want to end at this spot we want to go to. And whoever wins, we are going to give you 200 bucks. At first they’re thinking about it, but they’re like, you know, I got it. I got it. You know, they’re like a little little competitive. I can take you. So they all know each other, right.
And so we get in. There’s 2 people in each one and these guys are working man. They are just peddling so hard. They are sweating. Like drenched in sweat. And they’re riding and riding. They’re cutting each other off and we are just kind of like hanging on, you know. It didn’t get to the point that anybody is tipping over cuz we were just having a great time. And then I don’t know who won, but I just remembered we just had a great time getting there. It was just the experience and then once it was over we ended up giving the guy that won like 200 bucks and the other guys giving them like 75 bucks for just being great sports. And that is a moment that myself and everybody there continues to talk about to this day. And that was like 7-8 years ago and it’s something I will always remember. And I love being able to create moments like that because it it just will never go away. It is like literally engra chiseled into my brain
TARANJIT: The fact that they were so willing to participate in this. And I can only imagine what people who were driving by or passing by thought was going on.
ELISHA: That’s funny. You’re right. You’re right. And the funny thing is if they had not wanted to do it or if maybe one or two had not wanted to do it, we would have found somebody else. Like okay, you clearly don’t want you don’t want the money bad enough or you just think you’re going to lose. So we just need to find somebody else. That is something we don’t do or I actually don’t do is I’m not a fan of giving up. Especially on the first or second try. If I want to create a moment it’s going to happen.
BHAVNEET: Well it’s good that you are persevering.
ELISHA: You have to. You have to work hard or I should say persevere for your happiness
for those things that you want to create that are going to be amazing. Whether it’s see here’s the thing that I’ve learned about life there are so many that will work that will plan it out. They’ll work really hard. They’ll do strategy sessions and all these things to make their business great or to do an online course, or do like this podcast. Like all the stuff that you had me in a way you had me connect with you guys for the podcast was so organized and planned out. It was beautiful, but we rarely go to that same extreme for things like these memorable moments. We rarely go to the same extreme for I’m in this relationship and it’s rocky right now. How do I make it work? And if we do that it would be so much more amazing. Because the intentional way that we can move through those situations is the exact same intentional way that we can move your business that we want to create a monetary result.
BHAVNEET: That is so well said. And yeah I agree. I don’t think many people think about it that way. It’s all about the business or the money.
ELISHA: Exactly.
BHAVNEET: Like growing that and not personally growing.
ELISHA: Exactly.
BHAVNEET: So you did mention that you have been on both the east and west coast. So our next question I’m really interested to hear your opinion. So since you’ve been on both sides, you’ve experienced drivers on both sides and they’re probably very different. So are there any stereotypes of drivers that you’ve noticed in the different areas that you’ve been? Whether it’s like Boston or LA. Differences?
ELISHA: Oh. That’s tough. Because even here in LA, LA is well Boston is too. But LA is such a melting pot where you have different demographics, different groups, different states. You know where you may have Asian Americans in one area and African Americans in another area. You might have more Caucasian in another area. And even within those, you can have different types of drivers. Like when you go to Palos Verdes. Right by the beach. Very expensive area. One of the most expensive areas in the country and most of your people there are older drivers. And so and then out in Boston, most people don’t have cars. It’s a public transportation thing. So it’s really hard to see how they drive cuz everybody’s driving, you know 2 miles an hour. But then when you get in the outskirts like Worcester, Auburn, you know some of those other smaller cities outside, you can really see. And I don’t know. I find that drivers out there are so the drivers out here that I see drive faster. Because we have more space. There’s more distance and the freeways are mostly straight. Drivers out there can be more reckless. I remember the first time I ever did donuts in a friend’s car, well they did the donuts in their car and it was out there right. It was just in some mud and just hit the gas hard as possible and turn the wheel. And I remember I used to see a lot of drivers out in the east coast that when the when the when you’re at a stoplight and you want to turn left as soon as it stops as soon as the light changes they they go in front of the other traffic that is coming the opposite way. They just go. I’ve seen that happen so many times out on the east coast. I rarely ever see that here on the west coast.
BHAVNEET: That’s really surprising.
ELISHA: Yeah. Yeah. So I don’t know. I can’t really characterize it as one being better than the other. I remember one time I was driving with I was it was me and my friend and their mom and we were riding it was the middle of the night and we were coming from my friend’s house, and we were it was snow on the ground, right. So we’re driving and all the sudden we see these lights. We see these lights coming through the trees and it’s one of these things where there’s a road, there’s an embankment and then there’s like almost like a forest.
But there is a bunch of trees on the right side and we see these lights coming to the trees. So we drive up a little further and there’s a car laying on it’s side with the lights just like beaming through the trees. And we’re like, what in the world is going on? Somebody clearly went off the road and their car turned over and they’re it’s on it’s side. We’re the first ones to get there. There’s nobody else around. Just some houses off to the left and we see somebody start to come out of their house, but we just instinctively we just run over to the car and we start looking into the window. And I remember when I approached the car the first thing that came to my mind was my God. I hope I don’t see a dead body. I mean that was literally the first thing that came to my mind. And so were looking through the windows. I think I climbed on top of the car to look through this one of the passenger windows and there was no one in the car. It was completely empty. And we were just like, wow. This is crazy. And so we called the police. I think the fire department was coming. I don’t know if the car was stolen, the person was drunk, but there was nobody there. It was a it was weird. It was very weird.
TARANJIT: So either they got scared and were like, oh. I gotta get out. Or they drove off the road and were like, oh no. And ran.
ELISHA: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We have no idea to this day. We’re just like that was just a crazy experience. I remember my heart was pounding so hard when I was about to look in that window. But yeah, that was a that was a really interesting one.
TARANJIT: Well hopefully whoever the driver was is okay and didn’t get injured.
ELISHA: Yes. Definitely. Hopefully. Hopefully they’re good.
TARANJIT: So now that we’ve heard a lot of your crazy driving stories and experiences, let’s dive into the type of driver you are. If you were given the option, would you choose to be the driver or the passenger?
ELISHA: That’s a good one. So if I’m given he option…So I don’t like road trips. I don’t like long road trips. So I would rather be the passenger, but I’ve also been in the car with people that I can’t stand their driving. Like have you ever been in the car where you’re in the passenger seat and someone is driving and it’s like they get too close to the parked cars on the right side, so you actually lift your legs. Like cringe. Like, oh my God.
BHAVNEET: Yes.
ELISHA: I people I can’t stand driving with people like that. So if I know that’s that kind of person, I’m like, I’m driving. Like I’ll just do it. And I’ve made many 8 hours 6 hour drives up north or Grand Canyon. Different places. I don’t want to do it, but I will do it cuz I know how I drive. I know I might drive fast sometimes but I know I’m a very safe driver. Yeah. It really just depends on who I’m going with, but I would absolutely prefer to be chauffeured.
BHAVNEET: Well, I guess that’s where we differ. I totally enjoy driving. I will drive all the time And I have been a like you said in a car with someone and this was in Baltimore City and they were like weaving in and out of traffic. And I’m just like, we’re going to die. Were going to die. Oh my gosh. I was in the passenger seat and I was literally like pushing the fake brakes and I was just like, stop the car.
ELISHA: Right. Yeah. In that situation you almost want to be like, let me sit in the back so I don’t have to see all the crazy stuff happening.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. And the funny thing is I was going to sit in the back. And he was like, no no. Sit in the front. I was like, oh. Okay.
ELISHA: Yeah. Too much. Too much.
BHAVNEET: So you did mention that you think that you’re a very safe driver even if you drive fast sometimes. Would you say that your family and friends would describe your driving in the same way?
ELISHA: 1000%. Absolutely. I remember so in my family, right? We’ve got myself. So it’s really interesting right. So my parents adopted 5 kids after raising myself, my brother, and my sister. So my parents have humongous hearts. They adopted 5 kids. They’ve done foster care for like 20 different kids over the years. My aunt my aunt and my uncle they also adopted 5 kids. My sister is going through the foster care process right now of adopting. So it’s always like and I have this thing about being able to give out of our abundance. And I do this where I speak at young groups where I tell him like I think we all have cuz we’re all good people. And as a good person, you almost have an obligation to be successful to an extent financially because as a good person one of the things that you are going to do is give back. You’re going to help other people. You’re going to pay it forward. And so I bring that up because over the years, we’ve been teaching some of the younger ones to drive. So as they’re learning you see who’s going to pay attention more who’s doing their own thing who doesn’t really care, you know, they just want control. And it’s really interesting teaching them how to drive versus, you know when you’re learning yourself. And it just makes my mom she said the other day it like just an appreciation for you know when I’m able to drive her around. She she wont drive with with other people. Like some other people like whether it’s my grandmother whether it’s my brother or certain people she’s like nah, I’m going to drive. But with me, she’s like I taught you how to drive and you’re a great driver so I can trust that. So yes, we have a great time talking about it. She’s like you. She actually likes to drive, but because she drives so much she likes to be chauffeured. And when she is, she likes me to do it.
TARANJIT: When you’re around, she’s like ,okay. I’ve got a good driver right here..
ELISHA: Exactly. I always drive when she’s in the car.
BHAVNEET: That’s a big compliment to your driving skills.
ELISHA: I do my best.
TARANJIT: Have you ever been in a situation where you had to honk at someone or would you consider yourself a honker?
ELISHA: I I will definitely use the horn because it’s there to use. That’s like saying the emergency brake is something you only use in an emergency. It’s like, if I’m parked on a hill, I want to use the emergency brake. You know, it’s not an emergency. So it’s the same thing with the horn. Now. I won’t lay on the horn. I think that messed up. But it’s also so here’s the thing, I like to use the horn first instead of curse. I’m a tooter. I’ll just do the toot toot. Or like toot. Cuz I want if if something is happening and someone is getting into my lane or they’re doing something that is even if they’re about to get in an accident with someone else, I want to do a quick toot to let people know, hey, pay attention. Something is about to happen. And there’s no other function in the car that can do that. So I know people that don’t honk, and I’m just like, okay great. But that’s more about you than it is about other people. Like I have a pastor friend that he will sit at a light if a car in front of him isn’t moving and he won’t honk. And they can be on the phone, they could just not be paying attention, he won’t honk. He’ll just sit there. And I’m like, that’s cool and all. But it’s like I just do a little courtesy meep meep or something right. It’s like, okay. I get it. I’m not trying to be rude. I’m not going to lay on the horn and roll down my window and curse them out or flip them the bird. I’m not going to do any of that. That’s over the top. But I definitely will let people know that something is happening or pay attention or something like that. I think it’s a safety thing.
TARANJIT: Yeah. I agree. If it’s like a warning situation like politely like letting the other person know like, hey like pay attention or something.But like those drivers that hold their hand on the horn just for no reason like there’s no need for that.
ELISHA: Yeah. That’s an emotional move. The only reason you would lay on the horn is emotion. Because somebody is already not moving or there’s some issue going on and you’ve already like did a quick toot or courtesy honk or whatever and there still a situation happening, laying on your horn is going to make it better.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. Like you said, there’s no other function in the car to communicate with other drivers. Which I feel like with all the technology that there is in today’s day and age, I feel like there should be some better method to communicate like, oh. There’s a deer. Be careful. I don’t know if you have that situation on the west coast, but like that’s something I see all the time. And it’s like you try to warn people there’s deer, but like how do you tell them that there’s deer?
ELISHA: Right.
BHAVNEET: Even if you flash your lights, how do they how do they know that’s what you’re doing?
ELISHA: Exactly. The only thing that I’ve seen a certain app, I don’t know if I don’t want to give anybody a plug that is not paying you or me. So there’s a certain driving and map app that is like if you see a hazard in the road, you can put it in there. And then other people that use that same app can also see, oh. There’s a hazard in the road or, oh. There’s police hiding in the bushes over there. So there’s that. But again, it’s not like it’s one of those things that you have to take the time to put that in there and then others that are approaching can see that if they’re using that. But the vehicles themselves that are immediately around you like you said, can’t communicate. I think Elon is working on that. Elon is working on that. So once we get to the point of all these cars on the road being either electric cars or something that’s where it has mostly a computer function. The thing is like my car right now, it’ll drive itself. I can get on the freeway and I can just you know, put it in automatic mode, it’ll drive itself.
I’m good. But obviously other cars around me, they don’t have that function. So once other cars also have the automatic kind of driving situation there’s going to be some sort of a smart technology because it’s already sensor-based, but there’s going to be communication base. Where like, we can communicate through some sort of a app or computer program where our computers are connected and we can talk and we can do this we can do that It’s going to be the same thing for cars. There going to be able to communicate with each other. Like, oh. There’s we are 2 feet from each other, let’s not get any closer. We don’t want a kiss or hey. There’s a hazard ahead, a hazard in the road ahead in my lane, right? Maybe its a tire maybe it’s a deer or whatever. It’s in my lane. The other car is saying that it to my car. Hey, there’s nothing in my lane. So my car automatically slows down and merges over into their lane into the right, goes around the hazards and comes back. That’s going to be a thing. But we our cars aren’t all to that level as far as computers yet. But once they get there it will absolutely happen and I can’t wait
BHAVNEET: You seem super excited about that. Would you be happy like would you trust your car to just drive itself for you and just like park and do all those things?
ELISHA: Yes. It was a little nerve-wracking at first when I did it for my car now, and it’s not 100% automated in what it does. But it’s like anything you do that is brand-new you get a little nervous right? I remember my parents’ generation and their parents’ generation the last thing they want to do is buy anything on the internet. They’re like, I don’t want to put my credit card information there. Somebody might steal it. But now everybody does it. We are like doing here. We’re doing it there. It’s not a big deal. Privacy was a big issue for older generations. The younger generation is like, oh. Facebook, Instagram, Tik-tok. Oh, you want to you want to have access to what? Okay. Approved. We just do it. No issues. And so that’s one of those things that when we’re as we’re merging into the technology where we have we can have the fear. And I think right now the fear is justified because the technology isn’t 100%. So I’ve had situations driving in my car not on the freeway more on the street where its like it’s telling me to take over as a driver because there’s something it doesn’t read. There’s something happening. And so you really have to pay attention. But taking your hands off the steering wheel is a little nerve-wracking when you’re used to just doing all the driving. But I love one of the things that the founder of Google said where he was like, my daughter will never have a driver’s license because her car will drive itself. So I love that mindset. The Innovative just forward-thinking mindset. But I also like the the ability to do for do for myself. So I would love to get to the point at some point like like maybe I can hunt at maybe an animal and I can, you know, learn to use the resources of the animal to feed my body myself or fish or whatever. it is versus okay. I’m going to a restaurant or I’m going to the grocery store. Just to know that I can do it or just to know that I havent lost that ability. So I kind of look at it all the same way.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. It sounds like something of like a futuristic movie or something. But it’s not that far in the future like you said. It’s probably very soon that we will be like everyone will have self-driving cars and people won’t even need licenses anymore
ELISHA: Exactly.
BHAVNEET: Going back to honking and speaking of annoying drivers, what would you say is your biggest driving pet peeve?
ELISHA: Biggest driving pet peeve. Well I’d say if well when someone is driving my biggest driving pet peeve is when someone is in the carpool lane and they’re driving slow and there’s not much traffic on the freeway. That’s one of my biggest pet peeves. I’m like, why do you even need to be in the carpool lane? There’s no traffic on the freeway and you’re driving slow.
Like I can drive in the fast lane of the freeway and drive faster than where you are now. So that’s that’s I don’t know. It’s my own little quirk. But that’s my only thing where it’s like this is designated lane, but you get in this lane so that way you can go faster than the rest of the traffic when you have more passengers, but you’re not going faster than the rest of the traffic. So why are you here? That’s got to be one of my biggest pet peeves.
TARANJIT: So you like speed? That’s what it sounds like.
ELISHA: I do. I like to get where I want to go. Yeah, I definitely like to get where I want to go.
That’s one of the only reasons I would I considered at one point learning to fly. Learning to fly a plane because I like the idea of being able to go to the Burbank airport or one of the smaller Municipal airports and jump on a plane and take a quick trip and I can make it to Vegas in an hour and a half instead of four hours on the road. Yeah. 1000%. I would love to be able to do that.
TARANJIT: Well we might get driverless planes in the future, too. So you might be able to do that.
ELISHA: Now that I wouldn’t trust. Well no. Not driverless planes. I take that back.
I would trust driverless planes. There’s autopilot now anyways. I was thinking more of flying cars. Now that it wouldn’t trust.
TARANJIT: Yeah.
ELISHA: I hope they never come out with that
TARANJIT: You never know they might.
ELISHA: Yeah. There are too many people that already get into accidents and can’t function in a 2D environment where all you can do is go forward backwards left and right. Imagine adding up and down to that. Oh no.
TARANJIT: That would be a mess.
ELISHA: Exactly.
TARANJIT: So now that we know what type of driver you are, let’s go back to how it all started. How would you describe your very first driving experience and who was it with?
ELISHA: My mom is I wouldn’t say very strict, but just has certain rules, will always set those rules. So I remember being in high school and my mom had a rule that if depending on what our grades were would be like around 16, if our grades were good, then we could get our license. And I remember my grades weren’t as good as they should have been and so I had to wait till I was 18. So the whole time I’m being taught how to drive. So I remember being in out here in California being and on the East Coast. I even remember being even with extended family down south and we’d be in these swamped roads, and be like, okay. Come on. Let’s drive. So I learned how to drive and I knew how to drive, but I didn’t get the privilege to drive until I was 18. I remember when I got my license or when I went to get the license, I passed the test with flying colors. I even passed my motorcycle test with flying colors. The highest rate grade in the entire class. But I remember when I went to get the actual drivers license and I took the test for the driving test with a person in the in the car, as soon as we pulled out of the driveway, right making sure traffic clear at the DMV. Traffic’s clear. I’m making a right turn
all the sudden this car is flying down the street. So I still make my turn, but they come out of nowhere and they’re just going super fast. So they end up getting into a different lane, but then they honk their horn. And now it’s making me look bad. I’m turning in front of traffic and they’re honking their horn. And so as soon as I we get out into the street, the lady she goes, okay. Now make a right turn here at the next right. So I do that. Shes like, okay. Now make a right turn here at the next right. So I do that. And then make a right turn here into the driveway. And we went right back into the DMV. And she’s like, you failed the test.
BHAVNEET: Oh my God.
ELISHA: I was like, ah. You got to be kidding me. Really? But the cool thing was cuz I was 18, I was able to literally take it the next day and I passed with flying colors cuz I got a different driver person. But it was yeah. Yeah, that was that was my first experience getting my real license and just dealing with people is always interesting.
BHAVNEET: That must have been so frustrating. Like that was totally not your fault. That person was obviously speeding and driving recklessly and he cost you your license.
ELISHA: Right. Yeah. Those are those things where so I look at driving a lot like it just correlates to so many other areas in life. And I remember I people tell me all the time stories about let’s say if they have road rage or if somethings happening where someone cuts them off right? I mean, I’ve had it happen where if I am driving and maybe I cut somebody off and then I got to close their car and now all of a sudden they’re following me really close. They’re revving their engine. They’re mad. And I’ve always looked at it I’ve heard well I shouldn’t say always. I had someone say it one time where they said it might of been a book I’ve read. But they said imagine you’re driving down the freeway and someone cuts you off and you are *beep* at this person because they almost hit you. You got your family in the car. You could have been in an accident. Somebody could have gotten hurt. So now you’re upset. This person is flying down down down the road. Now imagine you get to where you need to go and you see that person and you want to say something to them. It’s dangerous. It’s reckless. It’s something that could have hurt other people, but then you look in their eyes and see tears in their eyes. Then all the sudden you pull back a little bit and be like, what’s going on with them? And they look frantic. And they’re getting something out of the trunk. And they are about to go into the building and their like and then now all the sudden when you walk up to them, instead of confronting them in an angry way, you say hey, what’s going on? Are you okay? And they say, you know, my kid just got into an accident and I’m trying to get this handled so I can go see him in the hospital and I just I just don’t know how to deal with it. Trying to figure some things out and so it’s just frustrating right. Now you would have a different level of empathy for that person because you know their situation and you also know their intention wasn’t to hurt you. They have all this craziness going on in their life. Someone that they really love and care about is is injured. And because of that because I never know what’s going on in someone else’s life or in their head or in their mind or whatever else happened. I don’t get angry at other drivers or upset at them. That’s also why I don’t lean on the horn. I don’t know what their situation is. Sometimes they could just be a jerk. I mean, it exists. It’s a thing. But then there’s sometimes where it’s way more deeper than what we know. And often times we’re so much better at giving space to ourselves to be angry or to cut someone off or whatever because we know our intentions. We know our own hearts. We also know what we’re doing, but we’re not in the heads of other people, so we are left empathetic sometimes with others. And I think that that allowed me to like even in situations like that where the guy is driving acting driving reckless and it cost me my license for a day, and it’s like, well. It is what it is. Even getting upset doesn’t I might be a upset, a little irritated, but at this point there is nothing I can do about it. Getting upset isn’t going to hurt anybody but me. It’s like stress, right? Stress is one of the biggest things that lead lead to like depression and and illness and other things, and it’s all mental. So I like to connect that with with driving and so many other areas of life where people treat us certain ways and we want to take it personally, but often times I found that people treat me in a way based on how they’re feeling and it usually has nothing to do with me. It’s something going on in their life.
TARANJIT: Yeah. That’s a really great way to look at it. Driving can be a great metaphor for a lot of things in life.
ELISHA: Yes. 1000%.
TARANJIT: So going back to the actual driver’s test, when you got your motorcycle license, did you have to take in like an additional on the road test or is it because you already have your car license you just take the written portion?
ELISHA: So you have an option to take a so you have an option well at least out here in California. You have an option to take the written and then you can learn on your own and then you just take the driving course at the DMV, right? It’s just like they have cones set up and you drive a certain way. They want to make sure you know what you’re doing. But what I did because I didn’t know I’d never ridden a motorcycle before and I didn’t know what I was doing. I just knew I wanted to drive a motorcycle. So I went ahead and took the the actual course There’s a course that you can take that is sponsored by I don’t know some motorcycle manufacturer. And it’s like a multi-day course where they even have motorcycles there that you can ride. And they teach you everything from the basics to everything to once you pass that course, you now are able to take that written proof to DMV and they give your license. So that’s what I did because I just wanted to make sure I knew all the nuances. I want to I wanted to learn the right way versus you know learning from a friend and then it’s like, I get pulled over and something happens. And I’m like, oh. I didn’t know that.
TARANJIT: Yeah. Exactly.
ELISHA: Right. The I didn’t know excuse has never worked for me on a ticket.
TARANJIT: So when you were taking your actual car license test, were you required to parallel park?
ELISHA: I don’t think I was. That’s an interesting question. I don’t remember. But I don’t think I was. I know I practiced it a lot. I’ve seen people now take there test they don’t I they don’t do parallel parking anymore. So I don’t remember if I did or not.
BHAVNEET: Well then, let’s put it this way. Do you think that it should be required on the test?
ELISHA: Oh, yeah, I think it should. I don’t think it should be like a make-or-break kind of thing. I don’t think the points should be super high, but I think it should be on there just because there’s so many people that don’t know how to do it or they’re really bad at it. Or it takes like 25 different times for them to go park reverse park reverse to figure it out. So I think it’s good to do because we as drivers we all do it at some point but I don’t think it should make or break the test.
TARANJIT: It’s just surprising to hear we’ve asked all our guests this question. So many people have said that they didn’t have to do parallel parking on the test and I’m like, we had to do it. Like are we the only ones?
ELISHA: Yeah, I don’t know. Must be Maryland. Maybe they’re just super strict out there.
TARANJIT: Not anymore. They removed it now.
ELISHA: Oh. Okay. Interesting. Yeah. That’s fascinating to me. Yeah. I don’t understand it.
BHAVNEET: Bonus question time! Are you ready?
ELISHA: Bonus question?
BHAVNEET: Yes.
ELISHA: Okay. Let me prep myself. A little woosah. You know rub the earlobes real quick. Okay, go for it.
BHAVNEET: If you could make one new driving law, what would it be?
ELISHA: Wow. One new driving law. Okay, so I would say okay. Alright. So I would say that if you have a vehicle that has like an automatic autopilot kind of situation mode on it that it can drive itself. Not just cruise control, but something that you know. It’s forward and backwards. All that stuff right? Then there would be a like a separate lane for those people and the speed limit is a 100 miles an hour.
BHAVNEET: What makes you choose 100?
ELISHA: Well because when it’s controlled by a computer like literally you can have drivers that are 1 foot that are maybe 6 inches from each other. All the cars are 6 inches from each other driving a 100 miles an hour and because the computers controlling it, there’s no mistakes, no accidents whatsoever and there’s no issue. So I would say faster, but you know 100’s a round number. I like it. So that’s what I would do.
TARANJIT: I guess it would also depend which state you’re in because you know on the West you have the more open roads, but then if you do 100 here on the East, I don’t know how well that would work.
ELISHA: Right. So it would definitely depend on the curves in the freeways and things like that. But even if there’s other situations where there’s no curves or or let’s say, let’s say they found you can drive safely at I don’t know 50 miles an hour in Maryland, but the speed limit is 45. Or they say you can drive safely you can even drive safely at let’s say 70 or 80, but they don’t trust drivers. And when people get into accidents at higher speed there’s more injuries involved. So it’s usually more about the injuries at a higher speed versus it not being safe to drive at a certain speed. So if you take away the the driver interaction with the car, then you might be able to take a turn at 70 miles an hour or even at 60 miles an hour where the speed limit is less. So I look it even on the East Coast you can you can raise the speed limit at least 20 miles an hour more on most places then when you have no human interaction involved. So I would work towards that.
TARANJIT: Well maybe that law will come into effect when we have those cars in the future.
ELISHA: Yeah. I like it. I like it. Cuz the carpool thing is awesome, but it doesn’t work that well. I mean even the carpool lane be super packed sometimes. People driving in and out of the lane. It is what it is. But yeah, we can if we can create a way where people have the ability to and that would also encourage more people to buy those cars. Because now you have an extra perk or privilege that you wouldn’t have necessarily had. Which would also you know lower emission and get more people onto the whole going green kind of thing because now they get this extra perk. So I don’t know. I think it has a benefit to it, but that’s what I would do. But I also like to drive fast. So.
TARANJIT: It’s a win win.
ELISHA: Exactly.
TARANJIT: Do you have any final thoughts or any tips that you like to give other drivers?
ELISHA: So I have a client that is a therapist and we took in working with a therapist, we took her from working from from for someone else and in a government job in a facility to having her own private practice and then from that having one 100% privacy in her clients that she sees. At a young age, that’s rare that that happens. And I connect that to this because her her her her thought process around it of getting it, of doing it, of making it happen sooner than she thought it possible wasn’t in existence. It did it wasn’t there. And it took someone else to see something in her that she didn’t necessarily see in herself or that she didn’t know how to create, right? She might of seen it and had the confidence, but not know the how. And even when it comes to driving, I think it’s important that just like in business, just like in life, just like in other areas whether it’s relationships and it’s like somebody has been together for a really long time and I want to have a relationship where I’m together for a long time, I can learn something from someone else as opposed to making it about ego. And when it comes to driving it is the same thing where it is so many lives in your hands. Your own life. Other people’s lives. How you interact how you move through life and things like that. And if we all take a take a little step back and even connect with other people that are that are just amazing drivers we can learn something. Like I think everybody should take a racing course. They should go to a race track and take a racing course. I think everybody should take a like a stunt driving course where they learn how to make drift the car around a corner or they learn how to how do you know if if they’re driving a race car and the car spins and it’s headed towards the wall, how do you get it from from not hitting the wall? All these things. And you learn that not by taking your own car out of the street and just, hey. Let me turn it towards the tree and see if I can figure this out. No. That’s not going to work. Or it’s going to be a really expensive lesson. But if you go to a professional you go to a mentor you go to someone that’s got the experience, someone that knows how to do it. Just like the example of the business with the therapist. Those experiences can save your life and other people’s lives in ways that you might not even know. And you can also make driving in itself more enjoyable because know you’re less stressed because you know what, you know what to do. You know how to do things in a different way. And I think those are the things that would set people apart and make driving just more enjoyable, more fun, less stressful and it would just save a lot of lives. So I’m I’m there. I think everybody should take a racing course and a stunt driving course. Everybody.
TARANJIT: That would be very interesting. But then at the same time you would be able to control when you’re in situations where you like I don’t know what to do and you have that practice now and you can handle it.
ELISHA: Exactly. And people will say, well oh. If people start taking stunt driving courses then they might start driving recklessly on the street or doing donuts in the middle of the street. It’s like they’re are people who do that anyway. They have never taken a course, right?
And so this that’s like saying, oh. We should never teach somebody karate because they’re going to use and start beating up on people. No.It’s actually proven that if someone knows how to handle themselves, it’s not that they are going to go beating up people, they’re actually going to be less bullied because a bully doesn’t want to bully someone that knows how to fight.And you know it’s the same thing. It’s like we’re not going to use something that we have is knowledge in a reckless way just because we have it as knowledge. There’s ways that it could be used in a good way and in a positive way more so than in a negative way.
TARANJIT: Well, thank you so much for coming on today. We really enjoyed listening to all your stories. Where can everyone find you?
ELISHA: Well, if you want to find me, you can find me on my website at www.HallToSuccess.com. And so you can also find me on LinkedIn Elisha J Hall.
BHAVNEET: Thank you so much for coming on, you had some really crazy stories and I guess we’re going to all go sign up for a race course.
ELISHA: You should. You should. And you would be surprised, you can find some good ones on like Groupon and some other things. There’s some good ones out there.
BHAVNEET: You’ve already looked.
ELISHA: Yeah. There you go. I appreciate you guys and thank you for having me on. And thank you for allowing me to be open and transparent with these stories. I definitely got a lot of them.
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TARANJIT: His how did he say it. He likes to create moments or intentionally create moments or like memorable moments.
And when they were in San Diego and him and his coworkers were like we’re not going to just take a ride in a bike chariot. We’re going to race in these bike chariots. And the I was going to call them bikers.
BHAVNEET: The bike charioteers.
TARANJIT: The bike charioteers. The bike drivers. I don’t know.
BHAVNEET: It sounds fancy.
TARANJIT: Bikers.
BHAVNEET: Oh. Wow. The bikers. Now they sound like a gang. The gang of bikers.
TARANJIT: Well, he likes to ride a motorcycle, so, you know, motorcycle bikers. So they were like, yeah. We’re on board. And they like raced around San Diego.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. Speaking of adrenaline junkie his his rule his law that he would create that if you could if your car can self-drive you get to go in a separate land and go like a hundred.
TARANJIT: He likes speed. So I kind of had a feeling that that was going to be his law. Something with speed. And the fact that he was like everyone should have to take a race driving course and stunt driving course, which makes sense.
BHAVNEET: That would be helpful. Like it’s…
TARANJIT: It makes sense. Like you’re in a controlled environment and you’re learning how to manage your car and control it if something were to happen.
BHAVNEET: And handle like really dangerous situations. So, I mean I could see that that that would be useful. But I don’t know how comfortable comfortable I would be having a self-driving car going a hundred and he was like only inches from the car in front of you.
TARANJIT: Yeah. Like 6 inches or something. And I was like, Okay. Well if you’re going to have that lane, I feel like we should still have a little bit more bap in between.
BHAVNEET: Yeah, cuz what if your car or that car doesn’t sense that the other car wasn’t stopping or something malfunctioned and then what.
TARANJIT: Then everyone is going to crash into each other.
BHAVNEET: You’re going a hundred
TARANJIT: Exactly. I wonder if when they do create…
BHAVNEET: Not kilometers. Miles per hour.
TARANJIT: I wonder when they do create these. Automatic cars that drive by themselves. Like when we get to that point would the safety features in it, like if you were to go in a crash, would it like form a bubble or something. Like to lessen or to dampen the impact or something.
BHAVNEET: Would it be fast enough for this bubble?
TARANJIT: I don’t know. Like inflatable stuff or something would come out to lessen the impact.
BHAVNEET: So like an airbag on the outside?
TARANJIT: Pretty much. And you wouldn’t get hurt as much because it would be like a bubble bump.
BHAVNEET: But would it the bubble be able to inflate itself fast enough to be going a hundred miles per hour?
TARANJIT: I mean how the airbags inflate so it’s probably something similar mechanisms to inflate.
BHAVNEET: That’s true.
TARANJIT: From the outside.
BHAVNEET: But the problem is like it inflates once you hit something. So how would the car know to inflate the outside bubble?
TARANJIT: Maybe when it’s like, oh no. I can’t, I can’t do this.
BHAVNEET: You might have a lot of false alarms.
TARANJIT: In movies, you know, how like the robots and stuff for like I I’m like malfunctioning, you know? Like maybe the car senses…
BHAVNEET: I’m malfunctioning. And your car’s like, I’m malfunctioning. Bubble.
TARANJIT: Yeah. It like activates the emergency bubble.
BHAVNEET: Wow, you just took it and ran with it.
TARANJIT: I drove with it.
BHAVNEET: I was going to say that.
TARANJIT: I beat you to it.
BHAVNEET: Eh.
TARANJIT: Which one his the stories did you find the most and not…
BHAVNEET: I was like, find the most?
TARANJIT: I was going to say entertaining but I don’t know if like…
BHAVNEET: The most like surprising or like thing that really stuck with me was where he’s driving and I don’t remember if it was like rainy a little and then randomly they just do one spin on the freeway and then just keep going like nothing happened.
TARANJIT: Oh yeah. Yeah.
BHAVNEET: I was like, is this a movie or something. Like you know the slow pan where they’re randomly like, alright. Slo-mo time. And you see everything around you. And then you’re like, all right. Back to normal.
TARANJIT: This is clearly stuff that people are going to hear and put in movies. Like it’s going to happen.
BHAVNEET: Yeah.
TARANJIT: Like those ideas are going to come and they’re going to be like, oh. And you know how you watched in physics class you watch like what’s wrong. Like physics would never make this happen. Like you have to point it out. But, no. This happens.
BHAVNEET: First off, I don’t know what you’re talking about in physics class. Like, no. That can’t happen. This this…
TARANJIT: No. You didn’t have to do that in Physics?
BHAVNEET: Watch videos?
TARANJIT: We had to watch a movie. Like we had to pick a movie and watch it through
and like…
BHAVNEET: Oh. Like a Hollywood like pick a movie.
TARANJIT: Yeah, and then describe which scenes were not physically capable based on the laws of physics.
BHAVNEET: That sounds like a fun assignment.
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: I may have done that. I don’t remember.
TARANJIT: So I asked of course if I could do a Bollywood film because I never…
BHAVNEET: Obviously.
TARANJIT: I barely watched Hollywood movies.
BHAVNEET: And then take any superhero. Like Bollywood films. Any…
TARANJIT: Yeah. Basically, Bollywood films are filled with unrealistic scenes.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. You could write a movie or a book about the issues in the movie.
TARANJIT: Pretty much. I think I picked an older movie which was more problematic because they were really…
BHAVNEET: But more funny.
TARANJIT: Yeah. But that’s way off topic.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. So we hoped you enjoyed listening to his stories as much as we enjoyed hearing them. And if you or anyone, you know has any crazy or interesting driving stories and would like to come on as a guest. Fill out the interest form on our website at drivewithuspodcast.com.
TARANJIT: And stay tuned until the end for a sneak peek of next week’s episode where we are joined by Tamika Thomas. And she shares with us a scary moment she had in her car where her car’s computer malfunctioned. Thanks for driving with us!
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TAMIKA: One day, me and my kids, we were driving home and all of a sudden the car malfunctioned. LIke the computer in the car. So everytime I pressed the brakes, the car accelerated.