Fun Facts of The Day

Fun Facts of The Day

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Here we go, alex hal I mean, I guess you
could mow as well.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
Anybody want to take.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
A stab at whistling this morning? The theme to the
Harlem Globetrotters.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Anybody want to go for it? Yeah? I can't.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
That's the Harlem Globetrotters. That theme song is called Sweet
Georgia Brown. It's an old ragtime song. Yeah, from nineteen
twenty five. The original lyrics raw and twenty suggests strongly
that it is about a hooker.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
To play basketball. That's where the tricks come in.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
I think.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Me a hooker called Sweet Georgia Brown.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Canada, everybody word of it. Canada.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
It's state had a rap song hit number one a
full decade before the United States of America.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
Okay Drake Rappers Delight by.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Sugar Hill Gang was a number one song in Canada
in nineteen eighty. We did not have a rap song
hit number one until Ice Ice Baby Vanilla Ice in
the US in nineteen ninety.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
That is fun hurts my soul.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
I mean Canada, the home of rap, I mean really
recognizing raps anonymous, you know, I mean, what do you
think when you think Canada now rap embraced it much
sooner than we did. Finally, President Grover Cleveland one.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
Of those fun president facts.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
He was twenty seven years older than his wife, which, okay,
let's just not go creepy on that in the like
on the surface, but he was good friends with her father.
He met her shortly after she was born, and he
babysat for her while she was a child.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
That's neat called the police. Okay, that is creepy.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Sorry, he gets the fun that to the day, we
make you look smart in front of her body sits
the fuck that to the day