August 5, 2025 • 13 mins
📖 “What hurts more—being ghosted by a crush or by a friend you thought was solid?” In this emotionally honest and unexpectedly hilarious episode of The JB and Sandy Show, Tricia shares a painfully relatable story of being ghosted… by a friend. After spending eight hours chatting during a design install, she sent a friendly follow-up text—only to be met with silence. Sandy and JB weigh in with theories ranging from “hired help boundaries” to “she thought you were stealing.” From friendship rejection to urban planning, the crew dives into Austin’s growing obsession with roundabouts. Tricia breaks down why they’re more than just pretty landscaping—they’re a strategic move to reduce accidents by 75%. Plus, Sandy reveals the surprising origin of roundabouts (spoiler: it’s not Europe), and shares his personal struggles navigating them in a Texas-sized Tundra. And don’t miss the teaser for an upcoming segment on the “wussification of America”—a topic Sandy’s been tracking for over 15 years, now with a new twist: women are officially fed up. Key Moments:
“We pulled into the roundabout and both counted out loud—one, two, three—like morons.” – JB
📣 Call-to-Action: Enjoyed the show? Subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who’s ever been ghosted by a friend or confused by a roundabout. Text the show at 737-301-9600 and follow @JBSandyATX on TikTok and Instagram!
- 💔 Tricia gets ghosted by a longtime friend after a heartfelt text
- 🚗 Austin’s roundabout boom: 47 built, 50 planned by September
- 🧠 Roundabouts reduce accident risk by 75%—but cost $1.3M each
- 🇺🇸 The first roundabout wasn’t in Europe—it was in New York City
- 🛑 Why big trucks and roundabouts don’t mix
- 🧍♂️ Teaser: The “wussification of men” and why women are over it
“We pulled into the roundabout and both counted out loud—one, two, three—like morons.” – JB
📣 Call-to-Action: Enjoyed the show? Subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who’s ever been ghosted by a friend or confused by a roundabout. Text the show at 737-301-9600 and follow @JBSandyATX on TikTok and Instagram!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the JB and Sandy Show podcast. You can
listen live every morning on one oh three point one
in Austin or stream the show on the iHeartRadio APPI
so did.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
My old car wash went away? I used to go
to Jeanie on South Lamar. You probably remember that was
Ever Condos or whatever, and I didn't have a go
to unlimited car wash deal because I'll take I'll take
my car, my wife's car every week.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
I signed up for it too because there's a newer
one and it's very convenient, really convenient.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
So it's like, yeah, I'll do that.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
So I was like, oh great it rained I can
take my car get it washed again tomorrow. The kid
that signed me up, he was like, hey, you can
bring it more than once a day.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
We don't keep track.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
He goes like one guy last month he came forty
times watched his car for.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Oh, you're right. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I've met a couple uber drivers that are like oh yeah,
because they they go every day as part of routine.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
That's a business that I've been thinking. I thought about it.
I was like, how do you make any money at
that business? I don't. I mean, I just like, do
the math.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Let's say you spend twenty let's just say twenty bucks
for a car wash?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
How many can you get through in an hour? You
know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Just doing the math, it's just like it seems like
it'd be tough to make money at it.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I don't know. It's it's money laundering for your mess business.
So you didn't know that? Oh I should have thought
of that. Did you watch Breaking Bad? Oh?
Speaker 4 (01:30):
That's right, they think you know what I was actually
thinking about rewatching Breaking Bad?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Yeah, I think that's why they bought a car wash.
Was that a lot launder the money?
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Right.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
I've tried three times to watch Breaking Bad.
Speaker 6 (01:43):
I can't get past I think the second episode, the
third episode.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
I don't know why everybody else loves it so good.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
It started really slow, I remember, I just remember was.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Slow and very brown.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
Everything was very brown, his clothes, that, the landscape, his house.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
I just remember. I don't know. I couldn't do it.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Have either of you watched?
Speaker 4 (02:06):
I know Tricia hasn't jab Did you watch mob Land
now with Tom Hardy and Peters Browns? And it was
great too? English Gangsters on Paramount is where that is? Tricia,
let's talk about the feeling of rejection. Tricia ate one like,
dudes eat it all the time in their twenties and thirties.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
I got shot down.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
Yeah, I got shot down by a friend. So we
have some friends that we've known for a while. I
also have a side hustle. I do interior design, so
I have been working on their house since like March.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
We've been doing it in phases.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Every other time I've been out there, neither one of
them have been home because they travel a lot. But
this past Friday, I did a big install and she
happened to be home the whole time, so she kind
of was in the room with me most of the time.
We chatted it up. I was there for like eight hours.
So I left and I came home Friday night and
I just sent her a quick text and I was like, Hey,
just wanted to say I really enjoyed getting to chat
(03:04):
with you today, so glad you're on vacation and we're
able to be there. Not a single response she did
not give me. Yeah, I had a great time too.
There was no we should go out to dinner soon.
There was no thumbs up. Never maybe ignoring me.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Maybe she is worried about you becoming that friend that
Oh my gosh, I've opened up the can of worms.
Everyone's got this friend like you haven't seen him, and
then all of a sudden you hear from him and
they want to talk or text every single day. I
think girls much bigger deal for girls than guys. Guys
don't really have that problem. But maybe she's worried you're
going to be that person, or maybe she's like, does
(03:44):
she not realize she's the hired help?
Speaker 5 (03:49):
It is not what it is.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
You were mingling with the boss a little bit too much.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
I think she was mingling with me just as much.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
But man, if this is what it's like to feel
like a guy to send out a text to a
girl like, hey, great time. Maybe we could get a
bite to eat and just be left on red as
they said, Now now it feels horrible.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Maybe she was hanging out with you the whole time
just to make sure you didn't steal anything.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Gosh, I.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Don't I feel now I'm all awkward and weird because
I'm not quite done with the project. So now I
feel like I need to keep it super business like
per our last text.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
You know what I mean. I feel like she's clearly
taken me out of the friend zone?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Are you going to show up next time? All but her,
they're they're trying to chat you up and they're like, how.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
You doing fine to this? Now? I'm sorry, what'd you say?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Should I text her husband and go, dude, have your
wife responded butt about it?
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Absolutely not? And I went back and I was like,
it's sent. It definitely sent. There definitely no reply.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Oh sorry, trash.
Speaker 7 (05:03):
I know.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Kind of sad.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Really, I thought it was a good friend.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Just doesn't want to be your friend at our age?
Who needs more friends?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
JB? You actively looking for more friends? No?
Speaker 6 (05:12):
No, either, distinct friend she's been for a long time.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Yes, yes, yes, I'll give you that.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Definitely coming up on the show today right around seven
twenty five or show you got to be here, because
if you've listened to the show for any period of
time at all, I've for over fifteen years, I've been
calling it the wassification of America. That just dudes have
just been wassified and wussified and what'ssified. And now there
is a new term that's out there, and women are
(05:41):
tired of it.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
They're tired of the wassification. Of men.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
We're going to tell you all about that. It's interesting.
You guys will have a lot to say about this.
All right, So that's coming up about seven twenty five,
seven thirty. Trishia's got the story we love coming up next.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
What do you have?
Speaker 6 (05:56):
All right, this is a random, random topic, but we're
going to talk about all the roundabouts that are popping
up in Austin at intersections that used to be four
way stops. I thought that they were just kind of
because they were prettier, nicer, you know, they can landscape
in the middle of the circle.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
That's not what it is.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
I had no idea that roundabouts were as important as
they are.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
This is the JB and Sandy Show on Austin's eighties
station one oh three point one.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Tricia, you got you gotta to really show your talents
here and making roundabouts interesting for our listeners. I mean,
the goal here is to get them to listen. I
don't know if roundabouts is the best decision for a story.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
I know it was talked about.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
I'm just I basically report the things that I think
are interesting. I just kind of hope everybody else likes
it too. I'm a fan of a roundabout, and I
didn't know how strategic they are.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
You guys interested, We'll get to it in just a second. Hey,
that's what we're doing, so you better make it interesting,
all right. Don't forget to give us a follow on
TikTok and Instagram at JB Sandy at And of course
you can always get the podcast version of the show
every day on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Just search JB and Sandy The Stories we.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
Love Fly from the Lesterholtz Studio. Here's Tricia Delicia.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
All right, so I did not notice this.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
I've noticed a few roundabouts into Austin, but it turns
out that Austin is turning a lot of their intersections
into roundabouts, getting rid of four away stops, and it's
all part of a safety strategy. They have already built
forty seven roundabouts in and around Austin. The most recent
one was at Pleasant Valley Road in Terry Road. Not
out there very often. And there's a new one kind
(07:38):
of in your area. JB at Bluebonnet Lane and Delcurdo
over in that area, Tmar Evergreen Avenue when West Mary
they're putting them in. There's going to be fifty total
by the end of I believe September.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
The reason they're.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Doing this, I thought it was just an aesthetics thing.
They just look nice, you can landscape them. They are
totally for safety reasons. They cut off conflict points, which
means areas of where you could have either a car
accident or interact with the pedestrian by seventy five percent.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Oh really, Yes, I had no idea.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
And that's assuming that people know how roundabout works, because
I see a lot of people who just have no
idea that they're supposed to yield to the people who
are already in the circle just kind of fly in there.
But yeah, they instead of people having to stop and
turn right and turn left and look for pedestrians and
other cars who weren't stopping or going incorrectly, it cuts
(08:39):
down on accidents by seventy five percent. The only problem
with this is that it takes about, let's see, one
point three million dollars per round about.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
This really just brought it in. Oh wow, plan it
and put it in. Yeah, there's kind of a new
one in my daughter's neighborhood in Rosedale. There's some in
Bolden that they in a while ago.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Yeah, there's almost fifty interesting compared the one point three
million dollars for a roundabout. Compared to a four way intersection,
that's like five hundred thousand.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
So let me ask you this. They're putting these into
bigger intersections. You see them a lot going through neighborhoods
and stuff, but now these are more traveled intersections, more
bigger thoroughfares than just neighborhoods.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
Right.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
One of the biggest safety points. And I did not
even think about this, but it makes sense. Is it
completely eliminates te bones or head on accidents because all
the cars are going in the same direction.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
If you're gonna have an accident, you're gonna hit on
the side.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
But nope, there are no more t bones or head
on collisions in the roundabouts. I thought that was pretty cool.
Am I am I dorky for like in the roundabout?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I love it. I love a good right. I know
when you think of around, it's a very European thing. Yeah, ye,
and it's I just remember my wife and I driving
around Switzerland, and you know, and the voice dictation on
the map would be like take the third left at
the roundabout, and so we weren't used to roundabout. So
(10:07):
we'd pull into the end of the roundabouts and both
count out loud one.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Two, three, three, this one, take that one.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
It became a running joke of us just counting it out.
It's like, yeah, such morons.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
The first time I saw one was in Ireland when
I went on a girls trip.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
This was like in two thousand and I was.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
Driving and you know, you're on the left side of
the road in Ireland and we came up to one,
and I had no idea what to do, so I
just stopped, and the guy behind me went nuts, because
you know, it's a yield, not a stop.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
You gotta really, you gotta get used to it. You
got to figure it out.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
By the way, I know we I agree with you
that the roundabout is a very very European or English thing.
But they were invented in the United States.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
Really really yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Yep, I looked it up.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
The nineteen oh three to nineteen oh seven, the concept
of a circular system emerged in the United States. The
first true roundabout the world. No Columbus Circle, New York City, That's.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Where it happened.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
It didn't take off, It just did not take off,
but it did take off. In the UK in the
mid nineteen twenties, and then they kept kept building them,
and then now here we are, and you know, one
hundred years later, and America is now getting hip to
the roundabout.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Yeah, they feel fancy to me.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
I'm like, whoo, it must have been a nice neighborhood
with all these roundabouts.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
They do look a lot nicer than yeah. Yeah, just esthetically,
and it slows you down a bitter man. It's tough.
I drive a big old tundra. Yeah, it barely fits
around some of those rounded There's a lot of big
trucks that just roll right through it, just right over
the top.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
The thing to remember in them is that there's somebody
yield to the person already in the roundabout, right mm hmm.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
And make sure that nobody's in the roundabout. You don't
have to stop.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
You can just zoom right in and zoom right out,
even if nobody's in their circle. I see people come
to that yield sign and stop just to look.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
All right. That's the story.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
We love stick around because forever I've been talking about
the wissification of America, in particular the wissification of men
and young men and now women are tired of it,
and they've got a word for it. And I think
you guys are gonna have a lot to say about
this stick around. It's coming up on Austin's Avy Station
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(12:33):
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This is the JB and Sandy Show podcast. You can
listen live every morning on one oh three point one
in Austin or stream the show on the iHeartRadio APPI
so did.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
My old car wash went away? I used to go
to Jeanie on South Lamar. You probably remember that was
Ever Condos or whatever, and I didn't have a go
to unlimited car wash deal because I'll take I'll take
my car, my wife's car every week.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
I signed up for it too because there's a newer
one and it's very convenient, really convenient.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
So it's like, yeah, I'll do that.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
So I was like, oh great it rained I can
take my car get it washed again tomorrow. The kid
that signed me up, he was like, hey, you can
bring it more than once a day.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
We don't keep track.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
He goes like one guy last month he came forty
times watched his car for.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Oh, you're right. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I've met a couple uber drivers that are like oh yeah,
because they they go every day as part of routine.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
That's a business that I've been thinking. I thought about it.
I was like, how do you make any money at
that business? I don't. I mean, I just like, do
the math.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Let's say you spend twenty let's just say twenty bucks
for a car wash?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
How many can you get through in an hour? You
know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Just doing the math, it's just like it seems like
it'd be tough to make money at it.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I don't know. It's it's money laundering for your mess business.
So you didn't know that? Oh I should have thought
of that. Did you watch Breaking Bad? Oh?
Speaker 4 (01:30):
That's right, they think you know what I was actually
thinking about rewatching Breaking Bad?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Yeah, I think that's why they bought a car wash.
Was that a lot launder the money?
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Right.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
I've tried three times to watch Breaking Bad.
Speaker 6 (01:43):
I can't get past I think the second episode, the
third episode.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
I don't know why everybody else loves it so good.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
It started really slow, I remember, I just remember was.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Slow and very brown.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
Everything was very brown, his clothes, that, the landscape, his house.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
I just remember. I don't know. I couldn't do it.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Have either of you watched?
Speaker 4 (02:06):
I know Tricia hasn't jab Did you watch mob Land
now with Tom Hardy and Peters Browns? And it was
great too? English Gangsters on Paramount is where that is? Tricia,
let's talk about the feeling of rejection. Tricia ate one like,
dudes eat it all the time in their twenties and thirties.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
I got shot down.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
Yeah, I got shot down by a friend. So we
have some friends that we've known for a while. I
also have a side hustle. I do interior design, so
I have been working on their house since like March.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
We've been doing it in phases.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Every other time I've been out there, neither one of
them have been home because they travel a lot. But
this past Friday, I did a big install and she
happened to be home the whole time, so she kind
of was in the room with me most of the time.
We chatted it up. I was there for like eight hours.
So I left and I came home Friday night and
I just sent her a quick text and I was like, Hey,
just wanted to say I really enjoyed getting to chat
(03:04):
with you today, so glad you're on vacation and we're
able to be there. Not a single response she did
not give me. Yeah, I had a great time too.
There was no we should go out to dinner soon.
There was no thumbs up. Never maybe ignoring me.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Maybe she is worried about you becoming that friend that
Oh my gosh, I've opened up the can of worms.
Everyone's got this friend like you haven't seen him, and
then all of a sudden you hear from him and
they want to talk or text every single day. I
think girls much bigger deal for girls than guys. Guys
don't really have that problem. But maybe she's worried you're
going to be that person, or maybe she's like, does
(03:44):
she not realize she's the hired help?
Speaker 5 (03:49):
It is not what it is.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
You were mingling with the boss a little bit too much.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
I think she was mingling with me just as much.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
But man, if this is what it's like to feel
like a guy to send out a text to a
girl like, hey, great time. Maybe we could get a
bite to eat and just be left on red as
they said, Now now it feels horrible.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Maybe she was hanging out with you the whole time
just to make sure you didn't steal anything.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Gosh, I.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Don't I feel now I'm all awkward and weird because
I'm not quite done with the project. So now I
feel like I need to keep it super business like
per our last text.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
You know what I mean. I feel like she's clearly
taken me out of the friend zone?
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Are you going to show up next time? All but her,
they're they're trying to chat you up and they're like, how.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
You doing fine to this? Now? I'm sorry, what'd you say?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Should I text her husband and go, dude, have your
wife responded butt about it?
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Absolutely not? And I went back and I was like,
it's sent. It definitely sent. There definitely no reply.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Oh sorry, trash.
Speaker 7 (05:03):
I know.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Kind of sad.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Really, I thought it was a good friend.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Just doesn't want to be your friend at our age?
Who needs more friends?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
JB? You actively looking for more friends? No?
Speaker 6 (05:12):
No, either, distinct friend she's been for a long time.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Yes, yes, yes, I'll give you that.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Definitely coming up on the show today right around seven
twenty five or show you got to be here, because
if you've listened to the show for any period of
time at all, I've for over fifteen years, I've been
calling it the wassification of America. That just dudes have
just been wassified and wussified and what'ssified. And now there
is a new term that's out there, and women are
(05:41):
tired of it.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
They're tired of the wassification. Of men.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
We're going to tell you all about that. It's interesting.
You guys will have a lot to say about this.
All right, So that's coming up about seven twenty five,
seven thirty. Trishia's got the story we love coming up next.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
What do you have?
Speaker 6 (05:56):
All right, this is a random, random topic, but we're
going to talk about all the roundabouts that are popping
up in Austin at intersections that used to be four
way stops. I thought that they were just kind of
because they were prettier, nicer, you know, they can landscape
in the middle of the circle.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
That's not what it is.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
I had no idea that roundabouts were as important as
they are.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
This is the JB and Sandy Show on Austin's eighties
station one oh three point one.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Tricia, you got you gotta to really show your talents
here and making roundabouts interesting for our listeners. I mean,
the goal here is to get them to listen. I
don't know if roundabouts is the best decision for a story.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
I know it was talked about.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
I'm just I basically report the things that I think
are interesting. I just kind of hope everybody else likes
it too. I'm a fan of a roundabout, and I
didn't know how strategic they are.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
You guys interested, We'll get to it in just a second. Hey,
that's what we're doing, so you better make it interesting,
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Love Fly from the Lesterholtz Studio. Here's Tricia Delicia.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
All right, so I did not notice this.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
I've noticed a few roundabouts into Austin, but it turns
out that Austin is turning a lot of their intersections
into roundabouts, getting rid of four away stops, and it's
all part of a safety strategy. They have already built
forty seven roundabouts in and around Austin. The most recent
one was at Pleasant Valley Road in Terry Road. Not
out there very often. And there's a new one kind
(07:38):
of in your area. JB at Bluebonnet Lane and Delcurdo
over in that area, Tmar Evergreen Avenue when West Mary
they're putting them in. There's going to be fifty total
by the end of I believe September.
Speaker 5 (07:56):
The reason they're.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Doing this, I thought it was just an aesthetics thing.
They just look nice, you can landscape them. They are
totally for safety reasons. They cut off conflict points, which
means areas of where you could have either a car
accident or interact with the pedestrian by seventy five percent.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Oh really, Yes, I had no idea.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
And that's assuming that people know how roundabout works, because
I see a lot of people who just have no
idea that they're supposed to yield to the people who
are already in the circle just kind of fly in there.
But yeah, they instead of people having to stop and
turn right and turn left and look for pedestrians and
other cars who weren't stopping or going incorrectly, it cuts
(08:39):
down on accidents by seventy five percent. The only problem
with this is that it takes about, let's see, one
point three million dollars per round about.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
This really just brought it in. Oh wow, plan it
and put it in. Yeah, there's kind of a new
one in my daughter's neighborhood in Rosedale. There's some in
Bolden that they in a while ago.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Yeah, there's almost fifty interesting compared the one point three
million dollars for a roundabout. Compared to a four way intersection,
that's like five hundred thousand.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
So let me ask you this. They're putting these into
bigger intersections. You see them a lot going through neighborhoods
and stuff, but now these are more traveled intersections, more
bigger thoroughfares than just neighborhoods.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
Right.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
One of the biggest safety points. And I did not
even think about this, but it makes sense. Is it
completely eliminates te bones or head on accidents because all
the cars are going in the same direction.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
If you're gonna have an accident, you're gonna hit on
the side.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
But nope, there are no more t bones or head
on collisions in the roundabouts. I thought that was pretty cool.
Am I am I dorky for like in the roundabout?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I love it. I love a good right. I know
when you think of around, it's a very European thing. Yeah, ye,
and it's I just remember my wife and I driving
around Switzerland, and you know, and the voice dictation on
the map would be like take the third left at
the roundabout, and so we weren't used to roundabout. So
(10:07):
we'd pull into the end of the roundabouts and both
count out loud one.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Two, three, three, this one, take that one.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
It became a running joke of us just counting it out.
It's like, yeah, such morons.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
The first time I saw one was in Ireland when
I went on a girls trip.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
This was like in two thousand and I was.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
Driving and you know, you're on the left side of
the road in Ireland and we came up to one,
and I had no idea what to do, so I
just stopped, and the guy behind me went nuts, because
you know, it's a yield, not a stop.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
You gotta really, you gotta get used to it. You
got to figure it out.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
By the way, I know we I agree with you
that the roundabout is a very very European or English thing.
But they were invented in the United States.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
Really really yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Yep, I looked it up.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
The nineteen oh three to nineteen oh seven, the concept
of a circular system emerged in the United States. The
first true roundabout the world. No Columbus Circle, New York City, That's.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Where it happened.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
It didn't take off, It just did not take off,
but it did take off. In the UK in the
mid nineteen twenties, and then they kept kept building them,
and then now here we are, and you know, one
hundred years later, and America is now getting hip to
the roundabout.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Yeah, they feel fancy to me.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
I'm like, whoo, it must have been a nice neighborhood
with all these roundabouts.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
They do look a lot nicer than yeah. Yeah, just esthetically,
and it slows you down a bitter man. It's tough.
I drive a big old tundra. Yeah, it barely fits
around some of those rounded There's a lot of big
trucks that just roll right through it, just right over
the top.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
The thing to remember in them is that there's somebody
yield to the person already in the roundabout, right mm hmm.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
And make sure that nobody's in the roundabout. You don't
have to stop.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
You can just zoom right in and zoom right out,
even if nobody's in their circle. I see people come
to that yield sign and stop just to look.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
All right. That's the story.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
We love stick around because forever I've been talking about
the wissification of America, in particular the wissification of men
and young men and now women are tired of it,
and they've got a word for it. And I think
you guys are gonna have a lot to say about
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