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Fun Fact Friday. I have an article. He does not so. So my
article kind of goes along with what we're talking about today.
The ease road lines and Australia glow in the dark. And
it is a Tron style that went viral what it reminded social
media of Tron so a trio of Australian companies had made a
glow in the dark road paid to better illuminate highway lanes
at night. And our teal green hue has reminded social media of
Tron so currently being trialed in Victoria, Australia, a lane
marking use Photo luminescence which is the same technology
used in glow sticks and other glow that are products that
absorb the sun's light during the day and release it after
dark. I have that on my phone case, because it's really
vibrant and I like it. Yep. tarmac linemarking in
collaboration with Omni grip and VicRoads created the product
that went on trial for a one kilometer or one kilometer along
Matang Road in South East Victoria, Australia. And
afterwards, we're swamped with calls from businesses and town
councils wanting their own roads illuminated. I think it's a very
good idea. And I think it looks pretty cool. It's a blue I think
it's a good idea to have have stuff that glows in the dark.
For some things I used to have a light switch the glow in the
dark which just makes That's it. Oh, do you have any more that
glow in the dark paint?
I do. Okay, little mini pots, though.
That's fine. I just need like a dot. Yeah, because I've got some
black headphones that I use on the other computer. This isn't
news. So I'm going to turn the news down. Yeah. And I like
having the left earphone on the left ear and the right earphone
the right ear. And the cords go into both of the sides of the
earphone. So I don't know what's left or right. And the little
marking that tells you whether it's left or right is extremely
hard to see. Unless you've got like a lot of light. And I don't
like a lot of light in my room. So I just want to get like a
little dye. I like a little like a little dot for one of the
ears. So like I know that one with a glowing.is the right ear,
you know.
So this probably isn't very relevant right now. But I talked
about it on the episode that we just recorded, but Oh, dang, it
disappeared. Well anyways, it said gas down here and it said
three Oh 3.9 or 3.09 3.09 Yeah, sorry. I'm talking into my mic.
I know you're probably you're moving around a lot. Yeah, I am.
I'm very I'm very happy tonight.
Like a good mood. Is it because he ate that chocolate? Partially
chocolate for the fundraiser?
Yeah. Good old fundraiser chocolate super thin bar
chocolate for $1 Where's the best chocolates? Not that
expensive anymore. It used to be like crazy expensive. Yeah, but
now a regular candy bar is a buck 29 Yeah. Inflation man.
Inflation man. Inflation man. Oh, new superhero. Or villain I
guess. All right, so there's a good news segment. What do we
got for our facts for this week?
Road signs or just traffic's well signs. Traffic signs. Road
signs. What
did you say? Road signs, I guess street signs
all right. Oh, street signs the what you said. Anyways, named
street signs off your head right now.
Stop and do not enter and railroad crossing and
directional signs like interstate numbers and like
things that tell you where you're like street names, street
name signs, that's a thing. And then there's informational signs
that tell you things that you need to know while you're out
there in the world. There's the warning signs
and get the red signs. Yeah,
do you know the difference in the colors blue blue signs? No.
Okay, so I can actually I can do this off top my head because I
know all about signs. Okay, so when and this may be specific to
North Carolina for some of them. But a blue sign is a point of
interest. Like a scenic area or a rest area or something along
those lines. Also, brown signs are like super
Disney's Oh no, I went away when I Okay. Okay, so
brown signs in North Carolina are things that are also areas
of interest but not like right off the side of the road it's
just letting you know hey, the Museum of Art is up ahead.
Whatever exit or you know, points of interest that are
cultural I guess about green green signs are your typical
like telling you where to go signs there's gonna be your
exits their green signs, they're gonna have like your, your
you're gonna sneeze? Sneeze face,
because I was kind of in the middle of sneezing and not
sneezing,
right? The green signs tell you where to go. Now, when it comes
to the shield shaped signs. Green means a state highway and
also white, white or green. Normally white means a state
highway.
What is shield?
The shield shield? Oh, it's Yeah. Yeah, like it looks like a
shield. And the Blue Shields are interstates. Yeah, like those
are the ones that go right interstate 95 Let's see
interstate signs
like route us 66 with the with the fancy shield.
Um, that's an older of just an older version older version now.
I think they used to, I don't know if those are called
interstates. They're called the routes or highways. Now, the
thing about those are like caution. Type signs are
typically the triangles. Interstates. Interstate signs.
North the south signs are odd numbered. east to west
interstates are even numbered. And here's another fun fact
about interstate signs. The interstate numbers go from west
to east getting larger. That's why highway or interstate 95 is
on the east coast. It goes north to south and the east coast.
What isn't that interesting? Pull up a map map map of major
interstates. Now you can probably just bring that or
brave search it or you know, map of the major interstates. Yeah,
so the major interstates I know 90 goes I go there you go look
at look at the numbers interstate five as the West
Coast and north the south ones the north the south ones
interstate five as the West Coast and then you've got
interstate 15 goes from what San Diego up to Canada? Yeah, that's
because that's the north the South the end and odd numbers
and then it goes from five up to 95 going from west to east so if
somebody tells you interstate 45 You'll know as color there it is
my thing like your earphones Sorry.
Yeah. And then the the even numbered west to east or east or
west whichever direction you remember this that goes from I
believe. Is that north north to south or south and I can't
remember. And I don't have the I don't have the map in front of
me show. But yeah, that's that's a few things about signs that I
know right off the top of my head. Warning signs are
typically going to be yellow
describe yourself in a road sign.
I could describe you. Me dear crossing. Because the it's been
a while since we told that story. It's been a long while.
So we were we were in Sam's Sam's Club purchasing some
items. A lot of items. And red red just round the corner. We
hear we hear a commotion and we turn around and there is a buck.
I
don't see the deer no five seconds because I turned around.
And this this kid screaming her heart out turned into her mom
and like hugging her. And I turn around is near
all I see is a D I don't see any of this because I'm facing the
other direction and I'm like whatever I'm looking at
something completely and I look over and I see my wife grab
Phaedra grab grab Leila and like throw her up against the olive
oil. Yeah, and I'm like
what's happened who's my shoulder for like a few days
and the deer just runs right past me and get this right past
where Leila was standing so she almost got hit. If it wasn't for
the quick actions of my wife and get this I kid you not yo ran
directly into a pallet of deerpark water which always
makes the story unbelievable. So everyone thinks we're lying.
Are you like no no ran and it will try to jump but the since
the floor of Sam's is like slick concrete. It couldn't its feet
found no purchase on the floor. My
eyes were cameras. This would be a viral YouTube video.
Yes. After it's got up from being good quote right
there be will
be Willard from running into the pallet of water. It got up and
we took some carts and we wrangled it out in the back. One
of the loading bay doors out back into the woods behind
Sam's. So
yeah. It was funny because I heard the announcement be like I
don't remember what else. I was too young for that. Yeah. But
like on the announcements, and I was like what
they were calling people back to the back to help wrangle it and
it was it was confusing. The poor thing. It was okay. So we
believe it came in through the tire department tire department
because they've got their doors open. Yeah. And there's a bunch
of woods behind Sam's where we live so we see deer in town
quite a bit.
There was okay, there was an ostrich, ostrich ostrich in
front of the school window one time. What not when I was a
school, like a few years back. But my math teacher told us a
story about it. That she took a double take out of her window
and classroom. And there was a there was an emu or ostrich I
can't remember when she said it was an emu. But apparently it
was just looking into the classroom. And I think it was
one of the petting zoos But last
Oh no, no. So it was just like a plot to a cartoon episode. I
just I just popped my pee there. Sorry. But yeah. Oh, a couple
episodes ago it was on the no agenda stream I was listening
live and it was a I must have been really close to my mic
because I was popping like every other word it was bad. I was
like I can't believe that got past me.
Oh my gosh,
we try and have good audio here.
The stupid gems speakers with the gym teacher that is a gym
teacher so he doesn't really know his mic. He's right up
against you like this. And he's like yelling into it. Like we
can hear you bro.
Yeah, it's called over modulation. Like a Coach
P send your son your girls to the locker room to get changed.
You know? We can hear you. We can hear we can hear you we're
good.
Yeah, that's one of the things about once you start getting
into audio you like you cringe at a lot of things. Really bad
audio.
ASO, the buzzer is extremely loud. No, yeah, there's no it's
it's loud.
So we that's that's pretty much what I wanted. I mean, I know
more about science. It's just not coming to my head right now.
Yeah, we need to have some more facts about sign
generally gotten into the facts. I mean, I told
a lot. Oh, just from just from talking. What's your favorite
sign? I started to our favorite.
Yeah, even say your sign.
Um, I like Okay, I like the I have a link at least a least
favorite sign you do. Let's see wrong way. Okay, the reason I
don't like wrong way is because they'll put them in ambiguous
places where you're not sure if it's talking to you or the other
side. Yeah.
I hate I go the wrong way. I hate to sign with straight line
and a straight line. That's a little curvy. Like it goes
straight. It's letting
me know. Yes, letting you know that there's a it looks ugly.
Yes. It's not aesthetic, but it's informational. Worst
sign it's the Biohazard sign.
It looks really cool. Yeah, that's not a street sign.
I will it can be. Well, yeah. Biohazard a vote, you know of a
truck
carrying like mutagen form from
carrying some acid on the freeway,
right? I mean, they gotta move it right. You gotta move the
acid from one place to another. Yeah,
the first road signs were designed for cyclists. The
modern world science has origins dating back till the late 1800s,
during which they were they were erected in the US roads to warn
cyclists of potential hazards. A lack of transportation safety
back then resulted in high number of cycling related
injuries. As a result several cycling organizations partnered
to create road signs that warn cyclists of potential hazards.
That's a good good reason to create signs you know?
Yeah, they're they're very important. It's like it's like I
always say this you know, it's like I'm not a I'm not a big fan
of a lot of the laws that exist a traffic laws
a traffic laws. Most of them make sense. A lot
of them yeah, a lot of makes sense. It makes
sense. The octagon is a universal shape for stop signs
because it is low cost. Ever wonder why stop signs are
octagons
Why are stop signs octagons
I'm glad you asked.
Hold on Hold on. Hold on. Why are stop signs octagons
I'm glad you asked. You may assume that it's because
octagons are more visible than other shapes. But it this isn't
the case. So the US government actually chose octagon for the
shape of stop signs because it was the cheapest to make
allowing more money into Pilates. Yeah, to save money
when municipalities that's my favorite word. Now, to save
money when creating new roads and upgrading existing roads
with stop sign
and you did not form your answer in the form of a question
what is you may assume because octagons are more I know I know.
Oh my god.
What is you may assume? Yeah.
Oh my goodness. I need to add sound.
We have have like no we don't have a buzzer. I don't have a
buzzer at my school is this
Oh no, here we go that's what it is.
Yeah. Why did you hear that? All right anyways?
Sorry, hold on.
Okay. There are three types of parking signs. Not all parking
signs are the same. Okay? Under the m mu T CD. There are three
specific types of parking signs including permissive, no parking
and no standing. So I guess no standing is like no loitering.
No standing you got to crawl everywhere. Sorry. Just the
rules. It's not me, man. You can't stand you gotta crawl. You
gotta get a kind of roll. You gotta roll under back.
Have you ever seen the bully signs? That just don't make
sense?
Yeah. Bridge ISIS before road. That makes sense. No, not to me.
Okay, so someone explained it to me, but I don't understand that.
So. So we were in Charlotte. One time. Yes. And this is back when
we were both, you know, teenagers, late teens didn't
have a lot of money. So we went to CC's pizza, the Eat CC's
pizza had, like 399 pizza buffet.
Did the sign say 399? pizza buffet? No. Oh,
we walked up to the door. And there were two doors, right?
We're like, Oh, two doors. And we were looking for like an
entrance and exit sign, as most places will have. They have two
doors. Well, they didn't. One sign said order pickup door. And
the other sign said dine in. And I'm like, Oh, okay. So when you
walk in, there's going to be like a separator, like a little
velvet rope or something to keep the two sides separate. So
they'll know who's walking in for for delivery order pickups,
and who's walking in for, for not delivery with their place.
They walk right next to each other. And they walked into the
same little waiting area, right? And I'm like, I don't
understand. So Phaedra walked in through the dining door. And I
walked in through the pickup door. Right? And oh, my gosh,
they flipped out because I was dining in and I walked in
through the pickup door. They're like, you pick it up when you
pick it up? And I'm like, oh, no, I'm dining in with her. It's
like, you got to go through the dining door. If you're going to
dine in. I'm like, wow, okay, no. I was like, do I need to
like leave and come back? And they were like, No, it's fine.
This time. I was like, Well, I'm never coming back. So. Yeah. And
then.
So we success. My class successfully made our math
teacher stop giving us warmups because we were too bad at them.
Oh, no. Do you want to brag?
I went well. I was okay at them. So it's not completely my fault.
But she was giving us questions that we didn't know the answers
to that she was like teaching us that day. And she would get mad
if we didn't get it. Right. So yeah, she stopped. It used to
degrade you on? Yeah. Boys. Traffic signs were originally
made of wood or stone.
Well, that makes sense. Yeah. I mean, you got Okay, so traffic
signs. I wonder how like the first sign. I wonder what it
was, because I know the first like, tablet that they found the
oldest tablet says curse, curse cursed.
A guy just pointing it well,
you think about like you think just a guy, the old like wood
reliefs and stuff where like, it's a picture of a road. And
then there's like a signpost and it's got like eight signs on it
pointing different directions. And they also have a different
town name. Yeah. But there's got to be even further back stuff
and that people had to like wrote on rocks and stuff saying
this is the road to Rome or whatever, you know,
they had something at the Dole Plantation, like in the middle
of it, remember? Oh, yeah, it was like that. Like, yeah, like
Sydney, Australia, like 554,000 miles or something like that? I
don't know.
That's a whole lot of trips around the earth to get back to
Sydney.
I don't know how far the miles the mile Earth is.
I don't know how many miles the earth is around. I don't know if
three, maybe four maybe probably
probably like maybe 10 Probably over 10
It is at least 10 miles or
10 miles around. We can probably justify that,
or flat, just flat 10 miles.
It's turtles all the way down. It's measured in turtles, you
got three turtles on one side, you got three chairs on the
other.
I always liked the banana and the banana as using a unit of
measurement. I like here's a boyband for scale,
quarter for scale.
So I went to the bank today to make a withdrawal. And I almost
told him I want it in dollar coins. So I want to start paying
for stuff with sacks of money. Just like sacks of coins are
like that'll be you know, $65 or whatever. And I just drop a big
sack of coins on the table. Nice. I think it'd be I think
it'd be fun.
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Oh, in the chat. There is a self hosted web IRC client. I've got
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Interesting. Check. Take a look at that. And servo has joined
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Yeah. Servo we're recording our outlook. Well, we'll talk about
this after we after we we do the outro did you have anything else
for us for this episode?
Nope. Road signs are cool. They help and they're taking me
stupid sometimes but government so we can't really say anything.
There's there's ISO right there. Government. Well, we can't
really do anything. All right, folks. Hopefully we'll see you
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