Episode 152 - Roads!

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Well, they they probably Oreo probably had to like retool all of their equipment and go through the whole whole process. So the priest or whatever, one of the things about, yeah, one of the things about a big operation. It's kind of like a big ship versus a small boat. You can turn a small boat pretty easily in the water. But a big ship doesn't just like turn quick. Yeah, you know. So if you've got to make a pivot as a large company, there's a lot of moving parts, a lot of stuff you

I wanted to start as you were speaking, I'm sorry, funny.

Welcome, are ya? Fun Fact Friday news. With your lead anger? Me? Okay, me first. At a town in New Jersey, a couple went to a diner near Joisey. At the diner, they had a picture taken holding them in Europe. was one of those said to the other? Wouldn't it be neat if we had a picture just like this at every diner in New Jersey? And the other said that would be interesting. This is the conversation 15 years later? Wait, really? Yes. They've been doing this for 15 years, they've

Okay, I don't know about that.

So yeah, they basically just take day trips, whenever they both have a day off, and they feel like doing it, they go find the diner that they've ever been to, they've got like a spreadsheet of all of the diners, and they just go visit a new diner every every time they get a chance they have visited 212 So far as of the printing of the story that's in the show notes. And, yeah, they've been to 212 They've got about 203 left as of right now, which you know, who knows if another one's

cycle of diners opening up and they have to go to it.

I mean, it's it's a fun little thing, you know, New Yep. Jersey is kind of, there's not any, like huge long stretches of New Jersey point A to point B, you know, so you can do day trip pretty much anywhere in the state. If you if you want to, especially if you live kind of centrally so that's out there. So it was a fun story. Fun, fun thing to do as a couple. And it's not too expensive that you just got gas and whatever. Lunch cost. Yeah. So what what do you have now to our secondary

We should start doing it's like an actual news. We could Yeah, we could write it up. So there was this old lady. And for her 80th birthday she bought skydiving tickets. She went skydiving on her 80th birthday.

80 year old jumping out of a perfectly good Functional aircraft. Yeah, that's ridiculous.

I guess what? What was 10 years ago? Why did she do it again? Did she do it again? 90. Now, guess what she did?

She did it again.

She did it again for 90 years. Oh my goodness. That's what I'm saying.

But she too old for that.

Look at how healthy she looks. She looks so happy. Sorry. Yes, she

does. She looks. Looks like she's in good shape.

Yeah, good for her. She probably had an amazing time. And she wants to do it again when she turns 95.

I know a guy. I only know one person who's been skydiving, personally, that I've actually talked to about it. I'm sure maybe I know others have but he said he immediately got sick as soon as he landed. It was like, wow, that was amazing. Brah

Oh, cool. That's cool.

That was the coolest bar. Awesome.

Yeah, I had one of my teachers went skydiving.

Oh, yeah. I've always wanted to do it. But I hear it's kind of pricey.

Yeah, I bet it is. But you got that heat your money?

Yeah, barely any. You got that? public school teacher. That's it. So this concludes Fun Fact. Friday News for the week of current week.

We are recording this on Wednesday. Yeah. 23rd. So if you have any boosts come in to like tomorrow. We'll probably read them next week.

We'll get them next week. On the bandroom bandroom episode. Love it. If if you have any questions for band Drew, let us know. And we will ask as long as they're appropriate for a family show and and they pick on him a little bit because yeah, as he's a bit of a nerd.

Yes. He's a really big nerd.

It's probably good to listen to this be like I'm not gonna go on that show.

If he doesn't like being called a nerd, he shouldn't be on our show.

Yeah, I've I've talked to Bandra a few times. And I've called him a nerd before. He's fine with it. He accepts His nerdiness Yeah. So to this episode, we are gonna be talking about streets and roads. How long you think roads have been a thing? Like Pele paved roads? Because I mean, there's been paths for as long as you know, anything. So animals make paths. But we're talking about like, Hey, are you googling now? Are you like, No, you're supposed to know this stuff. We're doing an

I just Yep.

I thought that the year negative 4000. Native 4000 I

yep, I said

that 4000 BC, they found found evidence of roads. I don't know if it was written evidence or they actually found some but I know that some of the Roman roads are still around and still used. They came up with the idea of multiple layers. So you put like crushed rock down, lay that out. And then bigger rocks and then you get your you get them all level and then dirt in between them. It's like a whole it's a whole process. There's a whole process to making the road it's not like you just hey, I

very simple lanes outside

just laying laying down roads. Oh, they can't hear it though. Many say anything they wouldn't know.

I know. But it's hilarious.

Nowadays, we still use the layer method but we use like an asphalt tar rock combination. Yeah. And I have a little experience with this now because we had a pothole had had a pothole and I went to the hardware store and bought some gravel and sand and asphalt patch mixture and went out and filled the hole. It was that was about a after I chipped away the parts of the asphalt. It was like a sinkhole, maybe eight

so people use cones,

right? We didn't have any cones. But anyway, our mailman or mail lady or Female Man, whatever it is. This

pothole From the middle of the road is the middle of the coldest so it's very easy to avoid.

You can easily drive around this without getting anywhere near it. And she hit she hit the sandbag and split it. Excuse me. Yeah, that was one split it. Split the sandbag open. So now I've wasted upwards upwards of $1.70 worth of sand. Dang. poured it right out on the on the asphalt there. Yeah. So it's a repay you? Yeah, sand upwards. I mean, at least at least $1 For at least $1. Yeah. So anyway, that's my road experience this week. We had we have some we have some fun

Oh my goodness. Ridiculous.

And I laughed at myself. And Leila came in. She's like, What are you laughing? I was like

I was just gonna crochet in a skirt.

Wow. Anywho we've found we found some good facts for y'all. What do you got? Leila?

I got the most common us street name.

Let me guess. Main Street.

Oh, probably.

Have it right in front of you. What do you mean here?

Okay. The first. Oh, crap. This is so difficult to read because of all the numbers. The most common us street name is second. The second most common name is third. And a third most common name is first.

One is two two is three. Three is one. Yes. Okay. Gotcha.

Why is strain so first competes with main.

Okay, so main structure like equal I guess. Gotcha. Why is it first entry? You think that there will be places that only have a first street and not a second street?

No second, second cooler.

So, okay. All right. Well, I mean, it's, it's what it is. I can't do anything about it. But I don't like it.

Numbers numbered street names dominate the top of the list. And it isn't until a fifth place that we find a non number. Park.

Park Street.

Yeah, Park Place Park. Everything. Trees make up five of the top 20 street names. So like pine. Oh, yeah. We've

got a lot of tree names in our in our city. Yeah.

Yes, the rest of the because the rest is like a joke. And I don't want to steal jokes.

Yeah, you want to steal jokes from people never want to do that.

I was gonna What do you have?

I got Okay, so I

was gonna say a joke, but then I thought against it. I just

want to get sued for a joke. I guess it depends on the job. So I, I kind of went down went down the rabbit hole of just funny street name. And I found a Reader's Digest article where they have a funny street name from each state. And all of them are good, but I'm going to skim through a couple real quick that I thought were funny. Alabama has booger hollow road. Alaska has yellow snow road, you want to avoid yellow snow. This was this was my favorite favorite is an Arkansas or

So pooping within an EN.

It's just been all about poop jokes this week. And then there was another in Colorado. This is probably the longest street name I've ever seen. And I don't know how factually correct. The statement is that the street name makes a dog will lick his butt but won't eat a pickle, road and I believe we have a fact checker getting live fact check right now. The dogs eat pickles. I think so because our dog our dog was good.

I was like, I'm What's the longest street name? Okay. All right. Let me read this while you're doing that, okay.

Okay, you're gonna read it silently to yourself to check it out. Yes, Drury Lane is where we can find the Muffin Man. He lives in Connecticut. Let's see, there was a couple of other really funny ones. Oh, Illinois. Athletics was funny. There's a Supreme Court. Like, you know, you know, some streets have court as the name.

Oh, yeah. Sorry. I was listening. There's also divorce court.

Yeah. There's also a divorce court somewhere. There's an up the road. What do you mean? Like, where do you live? Up the road? Right. Which road up the road? Thought that was clever. There's a memory lane. There's a kangaroo court in Missouri. Memory Lane is in Mississippi. Ninth and a half Street. There's just

so I found the longest street name, but it's from Netherlands. So. No, it isn't. look okay. blaan van de London. rissington scomi. See duvan Westernport. Okay. Well, there you go. And duvan Netherlands.

They've got they've got some really long name stuff over there in the Nordic countries. I've seen it before. I can't think of any right now. But in New York, this is the last one I'll say from the street names. You can check out the rest of the link in the show notes and the funniest street names from Reader's Digest. Kerrigan and Harding street. So that basically, there was a rivalry between two figure skaters back in I want us the 90s had to be the 90s and Tonya Harding. I

us up any moment.

Oh, well, Oh, wow. So we'll deal with it when it comes. If that happens, we'll clean it up. It's fine. Figure it out, you know, fine, I'll be fine.

Anyway, so on Mental Floss, I have what's the difference between a street road all that?

I'm sure you're gonna go into it. But I've always just had the like, to me. A street is more in the city, and has like curbs and always has lines letting you know what to do. And a road is more like out where we live, where there's sometimes there's not markings on the road, and it's just like a paved road. Right. And you just kind of it's less official. But I don't know what's the actual what's actually different though

an avenue is a traditionally straight road with the lines of trees or shrubs running along each side, which emphasize a rival in a landscape or architectural figure. A Boulevard is a usually widened multi Lane art or arterial street with a median and landscaping between the curbs and sidewalks on either side. A CT is the longest street or a CT is a short street. Where did I get that from? That ends in a cul de sac?

Do you have that form of dyslexia where you actually read the opposite?

But a drive can be short for a driveway. A private road for local access to one. I can't read this. How do I Okay? A drive can be short for driveway a private road for local access to one or a small group of structures. Other times it refers to meandering rather than straight roads and highways. an expressway is a divided highway meant for high speed traffic. A freeway is a road designed for safe high speed traffic through the elimination of intersections at the same grade or level.

Those all sound about right I kind of like if if I hear lane, I can just kind of think of her fight here. It's a highway. That's what I think of. Yeah. So I've kind of had that in my head.

You're so smart. Well, no, I mean, just

from experience, like Yeah,

that was you mean? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I don't know where I got longest. From.

Yeah. You said you read shortest. And then you said long as that's just funny. So another another article on Mental Floss. All right, you're, you're done with here? Yes. Okay. Another article in middle floss had more funny names. Or weird names. Tupac Layne, like the singer, but it was not named after Tupac. Well, it had to be apparently it was because the the parently the subdivision? It was in a subdivision the subdivision was developed in 1990. And Tupac was still a

That's something you would be this clever.

Idaho has a chicken dinner road. Where you live chicken dinner? I don't know. Where do you live? Do you live linger longer road the cranberries favorite road. I stole your job. So my job though your joke. Old trash pile road. That just reminds me of the way you when you get directions from somebody in a small town back before GPS you like you pull into a gas station. And you're like, hey, how do I get to you

And I'll forgive you. He'll also give you a milkshake. Get a milkshake

that makes me milk Craig. Man, we're so good at

tater batsman got bad.

Yeah, tater peeler road is out and doesn't say we look that we'd look that

one up. Yes, it's in Tennessee. Idaho like I wanted

to be in Idaho. Idaho needs to calm down with their potatoes.

Yeah. Not as bad as Wisconsin. No,

no, the cheese situation again. Yeah, so yeah, there's lots of really funny ones out there. We've got a couple of couple of lists on our show notes. And, oh, there's a chow mein lane. Well, according to one source in the 1970s multifamily building named the Orient apartments had to be relocated to make way for an interstate part of the complex ended up being part of the property of West Linn, Oregon landowner. So he insisted on at least naming the private road on

I would love I'd love to be on chowmein lane. It'd be so funny.

Well, if you love that there's a Little Smokies lane and what and medicine Okay all right. Let's do a Little Smokies not really I used to love on when I was when I was a kid when you're

all right they're not right homebuyer stupid expression.

Why do you hate that expression? Why

there's so many expressions that I absolutely just hate? Because it doesn't make

sense. Well, it used to be you had to write a letter to people

I know. But it's so stupid like you wouldn't realistically write home about anything you would if you if you like, you know you're really really liked off traveling one thing you would write home about me the love

of your life? What is your what is your cloud the top

of the list? That is the top I

don't know if something really cool happened. Like like, you know, you're you're hanging out like let's say you travel you travel

the best or you in my life? Thanks. See you later. Like that's realistically what I think of

it has to be it has to be something worth taking the time to get sit down with your stationery as you had back in the day. Yeah, getting out getting out your your quill and your ink pot. And writing a letter and sealing it up with wax and putting going down to the post office and purchasing a

stamp and then let it go. Okay, recently. Oh, we

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Man? Oh, no. Man, I don't know Me. Me. No, no, hold on. Let's see naming streets.

Do you want me to tell you about how much streets cost? Sure. Basically, between two and $12 million per mile. What

I've heard is say between like two and a million dollars.

somewhere, somewhere somewhere between two and 1 million. That's the sweet spot.

More than that, but But

when it's just like a small two lane road, nothing fancy $2 million a mile. And then all the way up to like when you've got money four to six. Well, I mean, if you think about it, no. Too much money. But think about that little bag of asphalt I bought? No, that was $15. Yes. So that little bag? Yes. How many of those would it take to do a mile for with road, but that's too much money, man. It's it's a lot of money. Just do like leftover plastic. You don't have to do it that often.

help pay for like a mile. Yeah.

They would have to basically quadruple the gas tax to fully pay for the roads in an area. Yes. Yeah. Taxes are the best. Just amazing. Love taxes, taxes. I like how I like the part how like, you get money and then they take it away from you. That's the best part and

they act like they're giving you money when it's just your money you're giving back

Yeah, they just like oh, you you ever paid us? You know,

you gotta pay me money. I have to tell you how much

I declared to figure it out. Yeah, you got to figure it out. If you miss if you mess up, you're going to jail. Go into jail.

You go to jail. And you don't know how for how long thanks.

Oh man.

The word st is one of only a handful of words continuously used in English since Roman times. The Latin strata was borrowed from the Germanic peoples of Europe becoming stret. In Old English and stress, and modern German, the Latin word was itself a past participle of the word Stern. Sternen. Or what are you laughing at

the way you pronounce the participle? What did I say? Like participa? Whirlpool.

supposed to say it participle. Well, I'm saying

it wasn't that wasn't that off. It was just like it made my brain stop when she tried to say but Oh, participle got it.

Anyway, stir, stir and stir near, which means to lay down spread out pave. A fuller etymology can be found at the online etymology dictionary. And then it's just a joke. Why do these have to like have a joke at the end? Isn't it I just want to read you on I'm on S. spin spin. Innovations innovations.com but with an extra s and an extra n o SSP?

innovations.com. So yeah, this whoever whoever wrote this article, Stephen Hudak. Stephen, Stephen. Stephen. It could be Stephen he couldn't be seen because I've seen people with Stephen with the pH but I've also seen people whose pronounced Stephen so yeah, got a jokes. Back from March 2019. It was the good old probably no, probably pronounces it, Stefan. Hey, you know what that says? Yeah, I could. It's like Sean

with the scene.

I never understood that.

I hate it so much.

I had a buddy in middle school named Sean. And it was the scenes. I just never I used.

It's like, No, you're never seen. It is not shy. I don't care what you were told.

I remember. You know, you meet your classmates and yeah, learn their names and everything. But then he ended I assumed it was you know, Sean. And then I saw it written up somewhere. And I was like, What? What, who wrote who wrote seen? What is going on as a Dutch show an idiot? How should word to hell is this Shawn? Yeah. And he's like, it's how it's spelled.

The same thing for my name. Yeah, well, but yeah, far off, man.

I don't know how we ended up with your spelling, but your pronunciate okay.

Look, how do people get fully different names from my name? My name? Yeah, I get Leila, because that is another way to say my name. But I didn't say it like that. It's just how do you get Lia? How do you get? Get? Like?

I don't know. I know what you mean. Yeah, there's an L there. They're not paying attention. That's my guess. They see. A lot of people when they're reading something, I can't remember what's called but they're basically their brain sees the first and last letter, and then just kind of sees like a jumble of letters in between the first and last letter about that write that I read. And a lot of times if you there was somebody did it posted a huge paragraph. Yeah. The first and

was talking about the study. So I bet.

I bet it's something along those lines. Yeah, there's still an LMS some people are just super lazy. Yeah, it's like your mother's name. Phaedra she she gets called Pedro. She gets called Farah. She gets called all kinds of different names just because people don't don't want to read it. You're just David Yep. Good old David. Nothing beats David. How dare you generic

and I can never find my name on ornaments or keychain Well, you know what are

you know what? We maybe we just need to get a laser engraver or CNC machine.

No, no,

I wonder if Kayla and Emily from QBO will just send us a free CNC machine if they've got if they've got an extra one laying around.

Do we have room for a CNC machine we

will make room for a CNC machine. We're

gonna make a room for the CNC machine. We're just kind of like an add on room that only has the CNC machine in it.

Yeah, wouldn't be too hard. Anywho I think that's about it for this episode. And we hope you come back next week and hang out with us live 7pm Eastern you ich FunFactFriday.com There's a chat room you can also join our Discord just hit us up and we'll get you an invite for that. And you can actually chat, IRC or discord and they talk to each other so you can actually see the whole conversation either direction. And I think that'd be about it unless you got something else worse.

Nope, I'm good. I just drank a sip of water. Sorry,

just drank a sip of water. Well, I think that that's going to be it for us. Thank you for coming.

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Yeah, your MO bye bye