Matt's last break of the show is a celebration of his favourite segment and his favourite holiday... Fun Fact Friday and Christmas.
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Maddie Jay, I actually can't believe this day has come,
but this is it.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
This is it was love one.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Oh my god. Well, I've tried to like put together
all of your favorite things for your very last segment
on air with us. So you've said you love Christmas,
so I've made a fun Facts Friday Christmas Edition.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Fun Fact Friday.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
You also have said you love sweets, sugar, gingerbread, smash cakes.
So I've gone to Woolies and gotten as many of
their desserts as I can, and we have a gingerbread
smash cake here, Brittany.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
You shouldn't have. Honestly, I don't know what I've done
to deserve such an amazing radio host, but thank you
so much. Boy.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I'm gonna let you smash it.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
But you can only smash it when you get one
of the fun Fact Fridays.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Right, Oh, how do you feel about that?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Good? I love it. I love it. I love it.
You know I like violence, Brittany, and there's no other
way I'd want to go out than a bit of
Christmas violence with treats the dream come true.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Okay, well, you need to get one of these correct
true or false. Home alone is the highest grossing Christmas
movie of all time.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
False. That's right.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I thought you'd get that wrong. So it was Home
Alone until I.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Guess, Can I guess what it is? Yeah? I want
to say I think it's going to be an animation,
and I want to say it's the Grinch. It is,
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yeah, So it was Home Alone until twenty eighteen when
the Grinch took over.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
What yeah, smash the cake?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Why can people believe it's a Christmas miracle?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
It is a Christmas You did say you're you were
really into Christmas?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
All right? I just found I don't know what this
is from. It's like a broomstick handle, but I found
it on the floor and can I use this?
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yeah? Can I film? You do this while we're on it?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Can I go?
Speaker 2 (01:54):
You go smash it?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Three?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Two?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Oh? Okay, okay, stop, okay, that stop? Oh no, that
went everywhere.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I got really into that.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
You were taking a lot of anger out there.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Oh my god, that's delicious. Okay.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Back to the Christian edition. Fun fact writing, True or false?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer was almost named Reginald.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
True. That is true. That's a lucky guess. I knew it.
I had no idea.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
The red nose reindeer was almost called rollo.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
I'm going to say that's false, not also true? Yes, okay,
it's almost on a hat trick.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Did they use to spray Christmas trees with fox urine
to discourage people from stealing them?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
What country are we talking about?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I don't know what country.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
I want to say fox you write, I mean back
in the day. Sure, I would say true, it's.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
True because fox urine is apparently so r answered and
like you cannot get rid of the smell, So if
it's in like a closed space, it would just knock
you out cold.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
I wonder why they wouldn't get like skunks.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
They use both fox You're inn and skunk's bro Wow.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Wow, there you go.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Okay, true or false?
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Taylor Swift grew up on a missletoe farm.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Mistlet she lived on a Christmas tree fie.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Oh he's good. I tried to throw a spannery.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
I know because we have a little book at home
and it's the history of It's like the story of
Taylor Swift that I have to read it to May
like once a week, and every time we get to
the Christmas tree part. But it's like, can you believe it?
I'm like, I know, I can't believe it.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Okay, this isn't a tru or false. I just want
to know if you can get it.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
What is the most successful Christmas song of all time?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
It is who sings it?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Rya carries a song? All I want for Christmas is
I think it makes like I think it makes like
four million a year in royalties.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
No, it's actually wrong. It's being Crosby's White Christmas.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
I don't believe that. Yeah, I want a fact check.
Fact check, please, sact check.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
In physical sales it's been Crosby's White Christmas, but streaming
it's Mariah Carey's all they want for Christmas?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Thank you, thank you? Okay, do you want one more please?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
The song jingle Bells was originally written for Thanksgiving, not Christmas.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Wow, you've really ended on a tricky one here.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
True or false?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
This is like the million dollar question, can I find
a friend?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
No, Grace, she wrote it.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
I wrote it, unfortunately, Okay for Thanksgiving. I want to say.
It's one of those ones where I'm sure it's I'm
sure it's true. I want to say false. But because
I know Grace is a sneaky little producer. I'll say
true is true.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
It was originally written for Thanksgiving, originally named the one
Horse Open Sleigh.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
James Lord Pipond composed.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
The song in eighteen fifty for he's Thanksgiving Sunday school class.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
There you go interesting. I cannot wait to tell my
mother these facts.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Okay, last fact, because I'm really into the Sorry. Yeah,
one more.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Oh my god, the very first artificial Christmas tree was
made from dyed goose feathers.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I'm going to go with my gut. My gut tells
me false.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
I'm sorry that was a fact. I was telling you.
Maddie Jay. It has been such a pleasure.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
To have you on the pick up the last couple
of months, feeling in for your wife Laura. I. We
give each other a hard time, we take the mickey
out of each other, but it has genuinely been absolutely wonderful.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
The amount of hr complaints I put in against you,
I put in so many against you, Joan, I take
them all back because it's been overall, it's been great.
Thank you so much. Thank you to the listeners for
letting me join you at three o'clock every single day
all around the country. It's been a pleasure. It's been
a joy. I'm going to miss you. Goodbye.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
It's also it's not like we're saying goodbye. We all
see each other every day. But it's been a pleasure.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
You're moving to Italy.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Oh by god, I am I forgot. Yes, I've seen
a couple of months. Bye, guys,
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