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August 29, 2025 3 mins
Fun Facts of The Day
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the fun back to the day. We make you
look smart, your buddies, It's the back to the.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Day pal favorite condiment, favorite condiment going into the Labor
Day weekend. It's obvious.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
What is it a catchup? It's not obvious. Apparently vious.
Apparently on a national poll, mayonnaise most telling me mayonnaise
is number one, most loved. People are most passionate about
the Mayo names. That's an East Coast survey. Okay, that's
not very I think it's Belgium. I think Belgia, the

(00:40):
East coast of Belgium. Maybe here we go. Brought in
some fun facts for you today. I don't know how
Alex feels about the Elton John song Philadelphia Freedom. Hate
it because you're not a Philadelphia guy at all. So
everything Philadelphia is terrible. Cheese steaks, you hate cheese steaks. Yeah,
if they're philadel the ches steaks, cheesesteaks, Philly cheesesteaks. Okay.

(01:04):
Elton John song Philadelphia Freedom was written as a favor
to his pal Billy Jean King. She was on a
professional tennis team back in the day. They were trying
to start up a league, and that team was called
the Philadelphia Freedoms. The team only lasted one season, remember
a professional tennis league? Vaguely, vaguely, I mean it was

(01:29):
a flash in the pan. Yeah one year, Yeah, one year.
But we got that song. It's a it's a great song.
Pulp Fiction, it's a movie.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Did you see it?

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Slots of that one? How is that you?

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Mia?

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Mia? The role in Pulp Fiction? Everyone knows Uma Thurman, right,
everyone knows. First offered the role, but he was too
busy with her television show Julia Louis Dreyfus commitmentster Seinfeld

(02:09):
kept her away from doing that. They said that they
considered Jennifer Aniston, Melanie Griffith, Darryl Hannah, Meg Ryan, Michelle Pfeiffer.
It looks like they had everybody up for this role.
It finally brilliantly went to Uma Thurman. Finally, three NFL

(02:31):
teams have never had the first overall pick in the
NFL draft. Give me one, sports boy, I know, right,
I don't know. Wouldn't be No, it wouldn't be a
new one because they would. Baltimore Ravens have never had
the first pick. Denver Broncos have never had the first pick.

(02:55):
John Elway wasn't the first pick, no want to take
that's right, that's right, that's right. And never having the
first pick in the NFL Draft the Seattle Seahawks, that's neat. Okay,
it's the fuck that to the day we make you
look smart in.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
Front of your bodies. It's the funk that to the
day
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