Fun Facts of The Day

Fun Facts of The Day

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the funk that's of the day. We make you
look smart and everybody. It's the fun that's to the day.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Here's some fun facts for you today, Alex, you read
all the Harry Potter books.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
I did mo your wheelhouse. You went out. No Harry
Potter for you.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
No.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
Someone told me I looked like Hermione and her bad days,
and I was out. What do you your bad days?
What does that mean? Frizzy hair, bad days? Yeah? I
don't think Hermione and Alex's eyes ever had a bad
day to mine. So it just bypassed. You were your
friends reading them? No, not my friends. The weird kids were.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
They're right, the weird kids very popular.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Hell, Will will read Your son will read all these books. Yes, me,
Will's weird.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
I've never read a weird He's a rock star. There
was only one real person mentioned in the Harry Potter books.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
It was a nine year old girl girl.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
In Toronto, Canada. Her name was Natalie McDonald. She was
dying of leukemia and she was a huge Harry Potter fan.
A family friend emailed JK. Rowling and she actually included
her name as a student at Hogwarts in the fourth book, The.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Goblet of Fire.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Really cool, that's the fourth book. Did you know that,
like there was a real person's name. I did not
know as a student. Yea, yeah, yeah, ordinarily reference to
any real people, because the would have talked about how
like Michael Jordan was kind of going off during the
time of the book. Was Harry not a big basketball fan?
I guess Greenland doesn't really have much vegetation. I think

(01:42):
we all know this. Like Iceland and Greenland, they're kind
of improperly named, right. It got its name from Nordic
settlers who wanted to trick people into moving there.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
That is, Hey, it's called Greenland. It's really awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
You gotta come here, is the old beaten switch. Now, finally,
Tennessee has the highest tax on beer of any state.
It's one dollar twenty nine cents per gallon, is number
one in the country. Wyomi has the lowest. It's two
cents per gallon. None of this really meant much to

(02:18):
me until I looked up, Okay, well, what are we
sitting on in Texas? It's six dollars. The tax is
six dollars per a thirty one gallon barrel. That's nineteen
point four cents per gallon here in Texas, Tennessee is.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
A dollar twenty nine. That's neat. I don't want you
drink it the moonshine lily, that's ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
It's the fuck that's to the day we make you
look smart, ere bodys, it's the fuck that to the
day