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.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
If your buddies, it's the fuck that to the day.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Oh, here we go. There's an old song.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
MO, get your kicks on Route sixty six.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
I'm familiar you have.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yeah it's a country well it's a country issue.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Yeah song.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
It's an a rockabillyon on what it is? Root sixty
six Happy Birthday. One hundred years old this year. It's
about twenty five hundred miles. It spans eight states. It
starts in Chicago and it ends in Santa Monica, California.
I've never seen where it starts in Chicago, but I

(00:48):
have seen in Santa Monica. They're like, oh, you've made it, congratulations.
So I don't know if Root sixty six is officially retired,
but you can still plan a Root.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Sixty six road trip.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
You get hit up us century of Root sixty six
dot com. Happy Birthday, Root sixty six, Pallet's Root sixty nine.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
I don't know how many years old are Yeah, no.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Okay, it's pretty new, Like they're calling fifty nine sixty
nine nine Yeah right here, that's weird. Before the nineteen hundreds,
men wore the corsets. That is, let's bring that back.
Maybe maybe some man's spanks or something. They were popular

(01:33):
for hunting and exercise, kind of like how weightlifters wear
belts today. But yeah, the dudes wore the corsets. I
think they wore the long wigs and the high heels too.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Affect this. You guys stole everything from us. Thanks.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
I did not grow up even talking about this or
hearing about it, except from my dad, who he would
tell you he went to parochials.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
You know what that means. He went to parochial school.
I've heard of that.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
That's just like Catholic school, right, I don't know what
the just he went to Catholic school.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
He religious? Yea, any Yeah, he would tell me that
the nuns would beat the crap out of them. Yes,
I've heard of that.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
There are still seventeen US states, mostly in the Southeast,
where it is legal for teachers to use corporal.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Punishment on students.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
That's neat teachers can legally hit students in seventeen US states.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
That was never around.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
It was never even talked about except for my dad
telling these old timey stories. Yeah, it's still on the
books places. That's insane to me. Did you grow up
with that?

Speaker 1 (02:39):
No, but my dad told me stories. The dad told
you stories, Alex. Corporal punishment ever for you? No, never,
you can tell Alex is never. That bottom has never missed.
Thanks never much. You can't touch that bottom. His mom
told me. It's perfect. HiT's the fuck back to the day.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
We make you look smart, and he says the fun
back to the day.