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whatever. So Leila, what's our topic for this episode, streets,
streets and roads and streets and roads, roads and streets and
streets. But before we get into that, we got a little
housekeeping as we always do the beginning of the show. We're
gonna run through our schedule real quick of what we got coming
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get a hold of this. This topic for this week was suggested by a
listener, our six year old listener in California,
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David: My favorite high protein pancakes is steak. How funny.
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Leila: I wanted to start as you were speaking, I'm sorry, funny.
David: 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
been visiting every diner in New Jersey. And thereby they're
about halfway done.
Leila: Okay, I don't know about that.
David: 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
going to open up or whatever. But this endless
Leila: cycle of diners opening up and they have to go to it.
David: 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
anchor? Leila?
Leila: 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.
David: 80 year old jumping out of a perfectly good Functional
aircraft. Yeah, that's ridiculous.
Leila: 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?
David: She did it again.
Leila: She did it again for 90 years. Oh my goodness. That's
what I'm saying.
David: But she too old for that.
Leila: Look at how healthy she looks. She looks so happy.
Sorry. Yes, she
David: does. She looks. Looks like she's in good shape.
Leila: Yeah, good for her. She probably had an amazing time.
And she wants to do it again when she turns 95.
David: 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
Leila: Oh, cool. That's cool.
David: That was the coolest bar. Awesome.
Leila: Yeah, I had one of my teachers went skydiving.
David: Oh, yeah. I've always wanted to do it. But I hear it's
kind of pricey.
Leila: Yeah, I bet it is. But you got that heat your money?
David: 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.
Leila: 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.
David: 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.
Leila: Yes. He's a really big nerd.
David: It's probably good to listen to this be like I'm not
gonna go on that show.
Leila: If he doesn't like being called a nerd, he shouldn't be
on our show.
David: 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
episode. You didn't even look up when it started. I have better
facts. 6000 years ago,
Leila: I just Yep.
David: I thought that the year negative 4000. Native 4000 I
Leila: yep, I said
David: 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
want the road to be there. And then there it is. Yeah. You
don't do that. It's pretty much the
Leila: very simple lanes outside
David: just laying laying down roads. Oh, they can't hear it
though. Many say anything they wouldn't know.
Leila: I know. But it's hilarious.
David: 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
inches deep. One foot diameter, give or take. So I filled it in,
you know, mixed up the rock and, and sand with a mixer stick and
then just dumped the asphalt repair over the top, smooth it
all out, stomped it, smooth it all out, stomped it and then put
sand on it. Well, I had half a bag of sand left and half a bag
of rocks left. So I set them on either side of the of the
pavement patch to get cars to see oh, I shouldn't drive over
this sandy patch on the road. Because it's not cured yet.
Because we have a lot of potholes our neighbor Edward
kind of going through the process of fixing them all up.
And
Leila: so people use cones,
David: right? We didn't have any cones. But anyway, our mailman
or mail lady or Female Man, whatever it is. This
Leila: pothole From the middle of the road is the middle of the
coldest so it's very easy to avoid.
David: 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
facts. And then we have we found just some funny named road.
Yeah, in the process of looking for facts. And then we found I
found a river before we even get started on streets. Just in the
process of looking for funny street names, fun facts about
route streets and roads. I remember that my brother had
sent me a picture of a street sign in Hawaii. And it was POUP
Oh, you and he said it was pronounced poopoo it was like a
poopoo street and you know, being a guy and having a sense
of humor of a fifth grader. I was like poopoo and but I was
looking for it because I wanted to get a picture of it. Or at
least like a map showing it. But I found something better than
poopoo road. I found poopoo stream, which is a river.
Leila: Oh my goodness. Ridiculous.
David: And I laughed at myself. And Leila came in. She's like,
What are you laughing? I was like
Leila: I was just gonna crochet in a skirt.
David: Wow. Anywho we've found we found some good facts for
y'all. What do you got? Leila?
Leila: I got the most common us street name.
David: Let me guess. Main Street.
Leila: Oh, probably.
David: Have it right in front of you. What do you mean here?
Leila: 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.
David: One is two two is three. Three is one. Yes. Okay. Gotcha.
Leila: Why is strain so first competes with main.
David: 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?
Leila: No second, second cooler.
David: 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.
Leila: 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.
David: Park Street.
Leila: Yeah, Park Place Park. Everything. Trees make up five
of the top 20 street names. So like pine. Oh, yeah. We've
David: got a lot of tree names in our in our city. Yeah.
Leila: Yes, the rest of the because the rest is like a joke.
And I don't want to steal jokes.
David: Yeah, you want to steal jokes from people never want to
do that.
Leila: I was gonna What do you have?
David: I got Okay, so I
Leila: was gonna say a joke, but then I thought against it. I
just
David: 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
Kansas or Kansas. And it is all one word. Far from poop and
road.
Leila: So pooping within an EN.
David: 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.
Leila: I was like, I'm What's the longest street name? Okay.
All right. Let me read this while you're doing that, okay.
David: 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.
Leila: Oh, yeah. Sorry. I was listening. There's also divorce
court.
David: 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
Leila: 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.
David: 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
believe this was proven so I don't have to say allegedly. But
I don't know. Anyway. The story is Tonya Harding paid a guy to
hit Nancy Kerrigan in the knee with a metal pipe or pole or
something. And to ruin her skating career, so Tanya could
win and go to the Olympics or something like that. It's been a
long time. I never watched the movie that they made about it.
But yeah, it was just, you know, funny because Kerrigan Street
and Harding Street in New York cross each other. And then we
got to say North Carolina's bombproof road because there's a
bomb. Yeah, there's a a big thermonuclear bomb that slammed
into a farm near near us and buried itself on the ground.
Oopsies and the US government was like, just leave it there.
It's fine. You know what? It's it's underground. It's good.
Good. blow
Leila: us up any moment.
David: 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.
Leila: Anyway, so on Mental Floss, I have what's the
difference between a street road all that?
David: 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
Leila: 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?
David: Do you have that form of dyslexia where you actually read
the opposite?
Leila: 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.
Highway is a main road intended for travel between destinations
like cities and towns. A lane is a narrow road or street usually
lacking a shoulder or median. And a way is a minor street off
a road in a town.
David: 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.
Leila: You're so smart. Well, no, I mean, just
David: from experience, like Yeah,
Leila: that was you mean? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I don't know where I
got longest. From.
David: 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
backup dancer at that point. So he wasn't noted. It wasn't
notable personality. However, there were several Inca rulers
and a former state senator in Michigan who had the name Tupac.
So might have been one of those or somebody somebody in the
subdivision or the work for the you know, somebody named but it
was probably wasn't Tupac Shakur in Nova Scotia I like this one.
Scotia Nacho Scotia there's three streets that all intersect
with each other different ways because they loop around our
anyway they're this street that street and the other street I
thought was clever.
Leila: That's something you would be this clever.
David: 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
know, our whatever place whatever. And the guys I owe you
all to dues you want to go down and you don't want to go down
the road. You were already going down there until you see there's
is dead cow underside of the road. You're gonna take a lift
there and then you're gonna keep me like there's an old trash.
Old trash pile road there is named after the old trash pile.
You'll see what I mean. Yeah, you're gonna, you're gonna keep
going and the nurses red house, you're gonna go up to the red
house, you're gonna knock on the door and there's this guy that
lives there. He'll tell you where you get to go.
Leila: And I'll forgive you. He'll also give you a milkshake.
Get a milkshake
David: that makes me milk Craig. Man, we're so good at
Leila: tater batsman got bad.
David: Yeah, tater peeler road is out and doesn't say we look
that we'd look that
Leila: one up. Yes, it's in Tennessee. Idaho like I wanted
David: to be in Idaho. Idaho needs to calm down with their
potatoes.
Leila: Yeah. Not as bad as Wisconsin. No,
David: 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
his land that led to the apartments. This was the
unfortunate result. I don't know why would you say unfortunate
that's an awesome name for that it'd be really easy to remember.
You know, if you're told hey, what's the deal? Yeah, I live on
Charmaine lane. What
Leila: I would love I'd love to be on chowmein lane. It'd be so
funny.
David: 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
Leila: all right they're not right homebuyer stupid
expression.
David: Why do you hate that expression? Why
Leila: there's so many expressions that I absolutely
just hate? Because it doesn't make
David: sense. Well, it used to be you had to write a letter to
people
Leila: 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
David: of your life? What is your what is your cloud the top
Leila: of the list? That is the top I
David: 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
Leila: the best or you in my life? Thanks. See you later.
Like that's realistically what I think of
David: 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
Leila: stamp and then let it go. Okay, recently. Oh, we
David: haven't. Yeah, we do have a Pio box if you ever want to
send us any. Okay, so we've got a mini fridge in the studio.
It's so loud. And if you got stickers, or magnets that you
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school stickers. All right, what other facts we got regarding
roads?
Leila: Man? Oh, no. Man, I don't know Me. Me. No, no, hold on.
Let's see naming streets.
David: Do you want me to tell you about how much streets cost?
Sure. Basically, between two and $12 million per mile. What
Leila: I've heard is say between like two and a million dollars.
David: somewhere, somewhere somewhere between two and 1
million. That's the sweet spot.
Leila: More than that, but But
David: 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.
And so many people get a benefit from it. A lot of people don't
complain about paying for roads with taxes. Speaking of which,
taxes, gas taxes, help pay for roads, but they don't pay for
all of it. It takes about four times the amount of
Leila: help pay for like a mile. Yeah.
David: 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
Leila: they act like they're giving you money when it's just
your money you're giving back
David: Yeah, they just like oh, you you ever paid us? You know,
Leila: you gotta pay me money. I have to tell you how much
David: 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.
Leila: You go to jail. And you don't know how for how long
thanks.
David: Oh man.
Leila: 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
David: the way you pronounce the participle? What did I say? Like
participa? Whirlpool.
Leila: supposed to say it participle. Well, I'm saying
David: 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.
Leila: 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?
David: 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
Leila: with the scene.
David: I never understood that.
Leila: I hate it so much.
David: I had a buddy in middle school named Sean. And it was
the scenes. I just never I used.
Leila: It's like, No, you're never seen. It is not shy. I
don't care what you were told.
David: 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.
Leila: The same thing for my name. Yeah, well, but yeah, far
off, man.
David: I don't know how we ended up with your spelling, but your
pronunciate okay.
Leila: 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?
David: 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
last letter of each word. were correct. All of the letters in
the middle were correct. But jumbled. Yeah. And you can still
read the paragraph just fine. I
Leila: was talking about the study. So I bet.
David: 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
Leila: and I can never find my name on ornaments or keychain
Well, you know what are
David: you know what? We maybe we just need to get a laser
engraver or CNC machine.
Leila: No, no,
David: 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.
Leila: Do we have room for a CNC machine we
David: will make room for a CNC machine. We're
Leila: 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.
David: Yeah, wouldn't be too hard. Anywho I think that's
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Leila: Nope, I'm good. I just drank a sip of water. Sorry,
David: just drank a sip of water. Well, I think that that's
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Leila: You know who else is here? Who might
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Leila: Fun Fact Friday, I was gonna I was gonna make a my mom
joke, but then I was like, Nah, I'm gonna go. That's not enough
room. But I just
David: Yeah, your MO bye bye