The road stretches before you, but there's trouble ahead, stationary cars.

You're faced with the McDonald's side mission.

Do you, A, join the ever-growing queue, or B, take the next exit and treat yourself to a glorious Mackey's?

Detouring to McDonald's.

Start your side mission today.

We've already been talking for 10 minutes about stuff that should have just been on this podcast.

We were going to roll yet.

And then we just were talking.

Yeah.

But then we were just chatting and it was like, ah, this should probably just be in that.

Okay.

So what's up with Las Vegas?

Oh, did she say, have you ever thought about the name?

Uh, yeah, I mean, yeah, I guess it's Spanish. The Vegas.

The Vegas, right? Yeah, the Vegas, yeah. It means the Meadows. Hmm. I never knew that. It seems like something I should have known. I didn't know that either. never even crossed my mind to think to translate.

Is it a shortened version of a longer name?

Do you know?

Or is it not?

It was named,

it was named the Meadows in the 1850s because it was a land of meadows

and abundant natural springs. Is that real? Yeah. And so the Mormons built a fort there as like a

halfway point between L.A. and Salt Lake City, I guess.

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