Fun Facts of The Day

Fun Facts of The Day

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the fuck that to the day. We make you
look smart in front of your buddies. It's the fuck
that to the day.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Oh, we got those pit tickets coming up for a
hailstorm tomorrow night. Hell, back in the day when you
were shooting taking pictures for us, did you ever get
Lizzie hal Hailstorm?

Speaker 1 (00:21):
That's one that got away.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Oh my gosh, the energy of Hailstorm and Lizzie just
is an absolute force. I am so upset that I'm
missing that show. Okay, I know you shot Lympiscuit back in.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
The day, though, that was that was one of my favorites.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
I mean many times and three quarters of the pictures.
You would think you would be taking pictures of the
lead singer, but no, Wes Borland's is just you can't
take your eyes off of him. You don't know what
he's going to show up as, you don't know what
he's going to be doing. He's like probably the best
guy to shoot as if you're a photographer. Wes Boreland

(00:58):
is probably one of those energy haining guitar players out there. Definitely, yeah, definitely,
all right. I brought in some new fun facts for
you guys. The symbolism of the Olympic Rings. We're wrapping
up the Olympics on Sunday. Yeah, okay, Chili Pepper's just
announced playing the closing ceremonies. Hillie Eilish.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
There's the headliner, the Olympic Rings. The symbolism is kind
of less sophisticated than you might assume.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Is it every country's flag colors?

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Well, yeah, it's it's it's loose as goose poop. Okay.
The five rings represent the five inhabited continents of the world.
The Americas were considered one continent, and the rings were
created in nineteen thirteen to contain the colors of blue, yellow, black, green,
and red because they were common colors of flags of
all the nations at the time.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
They made the loss and then had to summarize, like
why they made the They're like, this is a really
cool logo, and someone's like, how did you come up
with that? And then somebody had to like have a
smart answer for it.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Why five rings? Well before the the tectonic plates moved.
This is a little dark, but weird and somewhat interesting.
The Nazi salute is called the Bellamy salute. Now that
was around before they started the Nazis took it over.

(02:18):
Kids in the United States used to use it during
the Pledge of Allegiance before the Nazis said we're taking
that in nineteen just like the swastika. If you've ever
watched Tom Hanks movie the books that we read the
Da Vinci Code, yes, yes, that symbol that the Nazis used.

(02:39):
That was around a long time and then they just
said we're going to start using that as our thing.
So kids used in the US would use that during
the Pledge of Allegiance in nineteen forty two, Congress said,
let's put our hand over our heart during the Pledge instead.
All right, final fun fact for you today. Everybody knows
that Lama's spit right, and it's not spit. They're actually

(03:01):
spitting out vomit. That's neat, not quite as funny.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
It's the fun back to the day. We make you
look smart in front of your bodies. It's the fun
back to the day.