This week’s Traffic School episode was a caffeine-fueled descent into microphone chaos, cowboy confessions, vehicular disasters, and livestock litigation — a full-blown Idaho fever dream masquerading as public service radio. It began with broken chairs, cursed microphones, and Lieutenant Crain being forced to co-host amid technical ruin and laughter so thick it could clog a carburetor. Then Viktor — fingernails painted and spirit unbroken — announced he’d soon shave his beard to become a woman for a Halloween metal show, sparking a debate about masculinity, karaoke, and the fashion implications of cowboy hats and no pants.
From there, the lines exploded with callers: Carl, the eternal promoter, hijacked the show to turn it into an infomercial for his Toys for Tots car meet — complete with dental conspiracies, collapsing Corvettes, and tales of mothers who locked their children out until the streetlights came on. When the hosts finally escaped Carl’s gravitational pull, Brandon called in mid-delivery, nearly hitting a squad of right-wing goats and asking whether he’d be jailed for goat-slaughter-by-accident. Lieutenant Crain, a beacon of composure, explained open range law like Moses reading traffic codes from Mount Sinai, while Viktor dissolved into laughter.
Rory followed with a rant about construction zones so nonsensical he questioned the sobriety of Idaho’s highway planners, prompting a philosophical tangent about airborne bridges and “drug-tested cone alignment professionals.” The chaos climaxed when the hosts debated whether Boise deserves more metal on the airwaves, shouting at imaginary programmers to “quit being afraid of the metal!” as if Iron Maiden were a civic duty.
By the end, no lesson in traffic safety was learned, several laws were accidentally broken on-air, and yet everyone left spiritually enriched — high on laughter, coffee, and the strange brotherhood of Idaho radio. It was Traffic School in name only, but in spirit? It was a transcendental Idaho road trip through madness, metal, and goats.