Fun Facts of The Day

Fun Facts of The Day

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the fuck back to the day. We make you
look smart and funny. Everybody's it's the fuck that to
the day.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Happy World Radio Day, pal back Atcherer Brother Rodney. I'm
a big fan of the radio. I've always been a
big fan of the radio. Listened to it as a kid,
listen to my favorite DJs. I used to listen to
the school closings in the morning. First thing I ever
bought with my paper route money, which was really my

(00:30):
first job. I was in sixth grade. I took all
my Christmas tips and I bought a boombox. Bought a
radio with a cassette in the middle with the two speakers.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yeah, that was the first thing I ever bought.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
I'm radio.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Very nice, all right.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
So I because it's World Radio Day, I became an
official holiday in twenty twelve, I thought i'd bring you
some radio facts.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
I hope you're not bored by these.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
The first commercial radio broadcast was over one hundred years ago.
It happened on November second, nineteen twenty. The first radio
station went live. Now there are over fifteen thousand radio
stations in the US alone. A poll a few years
ago ranked radio as the eleventh most important invention of

(01:18):
old time, that is f who. Top three vote getters
were electricity, phones and vaccines.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Radio justice just missed the top.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Ted, Sorry, that's my radio voice. Most of you are
listening to us in your cars in the morning.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
The Model T came out in nineteen oh eight. Cars
didn't get radios until the nineteen thirties. It cost an
extra one hundred and thirty dollars to get a radio
in your car in nineteen Thirty's dumb the car. It's
two thousand, three hundred dollars in today is money? Just
drive around like it's silent, thug. It's so bad, yeah, dude, yeah,

(02:06):
the conversation. One of the big, one of the big
initiatives right now with World Radio Day this year is
to keep the AM radio in the car and to
keep the radio in the car.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
There's some the rockets as the astro.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Yeah, I mean talk radio and then keeping the FM
radio that. Yeah, they just they want to get rid
of the radio in the car. And it's like, guys,
you can't do that. Yeah, I think that's it's a
lot of facts.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Just so you know.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
One more, here's a bonus one. The call letters for
radio stations. So this radio station is ktbz uh. We
are on the west side of the Mississippi. On the
east side of the Mississippi, you.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Get the w's.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
In New York and then most stations in Canada start
with a C. I just had to throw that at THEE.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Of course you got a fuck. That's to the day
we make you look smart body. It's the day