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Ray's Speech Impediment and the DWI Stop from an Open Mic
from The Pilot! · #15
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3 minTim needles Ray about his mild speech impediment before Ray tells the story of getting pulled over driving home from a Long Island open mic on a suspended license, expecting to go to jail, and getting let off after mentioning he works in a morgue.
- 16:18Ray has a slight speech impediment he never learned to speak properly.
- 16:50Ray thinks he doesn't pronounce his R's properly and attributes it to having a small tongue.
- 17:16Tim says Ray always sounds a little buzzed, like he's had one beer and is slurring.
- 17:30Ray got pulled over by a cop after leaving an open mic on Long Island and swerved out of his lane.
- 17:53When the cop asked where he was coming from, Ray's slurred speech made Tim think they were going to jail.
- 18:16Ray invokes white privilege as the only reason they weren't arrested during the DWI stop.
- 18:26Ray told the cop he worked at the morgue, and the officer let him off with a warning instead of arresting him.