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Weekend Road Trip: The Jokes Phone

6/6/2026 • 16 min

A pay phone in Washington, D.C tells you jokes and affirmations. This episode is part of our Weekend Road Trip Series, where we bring you stories of the strange, incredible, and wondrous places right here in the United States, that you can see from the road. This series was produced in partnership with T-Mobile. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See … Play episode

The Rainmaker (Classic)
AO Mailbag: Five Friends, Three Nights, One Bathroom
Beyond the Game: Guadalajara’s Telmex Building
The Kindred Spirit Mailbox
Beyond the Game: LA's Kuruvungna Sacred Springs
Weekend Road Trip: National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum
The Atomic Clock (Classic)
French Horns on Ice
Beyond the Game: This Atlanta Monument is a Tombstone For…Gravity?
The Last Wild Apple Groves (Classic)
Beyond the Game: Mexico City's Footwear Museum
Weekend Road Trip: Tinkertown
Fairy Circles (Classic)
100 Years of the LA Central Library with Susan Orlean
True Treats Historic Candy
The Real Town Behind War of the Worlds
Garbage Goat (Classic)
Weekend Road Trip: The Bob Baker Marionette Theater
Temple of Pythons (Classic)
Walking the Johnny Appleseed Trail with Isaac Fitzgerald
A Syrian Seed Library, Under Siege
The Paris Sewer Museum
National Ice Core Lab (Classic)
Weekend Road Trip: The Mark Twain Stump
Enchanted Woods (Classic)
Haw Par Villa (Classic)
AO Mailbag: Who Gets to DJ on a Long Road Trip?
The Lunchbox Museum
The Places Behind the Star Wars Franchise
Smith Court (Classic)
The Merchant’s House and the Not-So-Secret Passageway
The Emma Crawford Coffin Race
Rita’s Place
Wonder in Your Backyard: The Aztec Ruins
Garden Week: Cementerio Municipal José María Azael Franco Guerrero
Garden Week: Underwater Sculpture Gardens
Garden Week: A Floating National Park
Garden Week: A Sound Garden
Garden Week: Alnwick Poison Garden
Bone Vinyl (Classic)
The World’s Biggest Social Studies Assignment with Paul Barbato
Bean There, Baked That
When In Rome… Accidentally Break the Rules?
When Kelly McEvers Was In Over Her Head
Thomas Merton's Hermitage (Classic)
A Short, Strange Trip
Wonder in Your Backyard: Crabby Steve’s
Jerry’s Hat Museum (Classic)
AO Mailbag: Best Movie to Watch on an Airplane?

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