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Short Stuff: School Bus Yellow

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.676.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Why are all school buses the same color? Because one man made it so. This is that story.

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0:00.0

One of the best shows of the year according to Apple, Amazon and Time is back for another round.

0:06.5

We had a big bear of the man who was called Maladans, we were on roady and uh, uh, I was coming back on the plane and he said will you

0:17.0

pass the salt and pepper and I misheard him I said what?

0:21.2

Sergeant Pepper.

0:22.2

Listen to season two of McCartney I said what? What? Sorry you're better.

0:23.0

Listen to season two of McCartney and Life and Lurex on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey and welcome to the short stuff. I'm Josh and there's Chuck and there's Jerry and the driver's seat.

0:42.0

Hopping along, bouncing along in our little stuff you should know,

0:46.0

school bus. Two quick questions off the top. Did you ever have to ride a school bus to school with regularity?

0:53.2

I got two words for that. Oh, yes.

0:55.4

And please tell me you do.

0:58.2

Do you remember the name of your school bus driver?

1:01.3

I got several words. No no I feel really bad that I don't know that you ask but no I don't

1:07.9

remember the name of my school bus driver.

1:10.0

Oh that's okay you may have had several I have a theory that like a school bus driver, if you have the same one as one of those that kind of sticks with you.

1:18.0

I, even though my dad was my principal, I usually rode to work with dad.

1:27.0

But I did ride the school bus some because you want to as a kid, some. Ruby's dying to ride a school bus, but they don't have one at her school, and it's always sad when she sees them.

1:33.4

But I had Mr. Wagnon was my school bus driver,

1:37.7

which is interesting now that I think of it

1:40.1

because before school buses, you might have been taken to school in a wagon.

1:45.0

That was a pretty good segue man. It's been a little while.

1:50.0

Yeah. It's true until the 1930s, the late 30s, actually the 40s probably.

1:57.0

Yeah, if you were a rural kid, a rural juror, or the kid of a rare juror, and you wanted to get to school?

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