Fun Facts of The Day

Fun Facts of The Day

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fuck that to the day. We make you look smart.
Buddy hits the fuck that to the day.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
All right, I'm learning about, you know, the new way
to listen to the radio. I'm trying to bring the
best ones right up. Should I save it for the
third one? Or like, should the best one be the
first one? I think I gotta grab you by the
short and curlyes right out of the gate. So I
think this is the best one today. A pitcher by
the name of Mike Bassic Senior probably blowing that name, okay,

(00:35):
He pitched against Hank Aaron in the game where Henry
Aaron hit his record seven hundred and fifty fifth home run.
He was the starting pitcher, though he actually got Hank
Aaron out. Another one of his teammates was on the
mound when the moment happened with Milo Hamilton. Okay, So
Mike Bassick Senior pitched against Hank Aaron in that game.

(00:57):
Thirty one years later, his son, Mike Bassic Junior, threw
the pitch where Barry Bonds hit his record breaking seven
hundred and fifty sixth home run.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Pretty wild, that's insane. Yeah, there's just no way you.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Could ever draw that up. On paper.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
How does that happen? Hell, baseball, it's insane baseball. The
little ball so great, a little white ball.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Let me keep it with baseball. I don't know if
Alex you've never heard of a minor league baseball team
in Ohio, The Dayton Dragons.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
Dragon D's nuts long the longest streak of sold out
game games in sports.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
It's not a college football team, it's not a it
is a minor league baseball team in Ohio, the Dayton Dragons.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
Check it out.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
They've sold out every game for the past twenty five years,
which is a total of more than one thousand, six
hundred and twelve games in a row.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
That is.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Who is it a tiny station?

Speaker 3 (02:09):
You give them away?

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
They sold out one thousand, six and twelve games in
a row. No other sports team has done that.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
A lot of hot notes.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Finally, there's only one other actor besides Harrison Ford, who
is in all three of the original Indiana Jones movies.
There was a guy named Pat Roach. You'll remember him
from at least one of these roles because he was
the guy that was killed by the airplane propeller in Raiders.
He also was a bad guy in Temple of Doom,

(02:38):
and he played a Nazi in the Last Crusade. But
everyone knows the guy that was taken out by their
airplane propeller.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
That's neat. It's the fuck that's of the day. We
make you look smart bodies, it's the fuck thats to
the day.