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Fun Facts of The Day

Apr 17, 20243 min
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Fun Facts of The Day

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It's the fuck that's of the day. We make you look smart in front of your buddies, it's the fuck that to the day. All Right, this fact will be known my people that are really old school listeners of this show because it's kind of thought of as the interview on the Rod Ryan Show that we maybe jumped the shark and we stopped maybe doing as many interviews and

then we just stopped altogether. Okay. Every baseball that's used in the major and the minor leagues is rubbed with a special mud that comes from a specific swamp in New Jersey. It is rubbed on the ball before it is used in any game. I interviewed the mud guy, mud god. One guy supplies all the mud every single baseball. You're like, well, rather they're white, they don't look dirty. It's a it's a very light mud, but it just puts a little dirt on the balls. Okay, and how

is the mud guy. It was the worst interview ever and it do you know the term jumped the shark what that means? Like? Happy Days was this old television show and then one time Phonsie in a leather jacket with skis jumped over a shark and they said, Okay, that's when your show is sucking and you do something that dumb you. When you see a television show and they just go for something that Wow, lot this, I gotta stop watching this show. They've jumped the shark. I see my mud interview.

We jumped the shark, and we immediately started doing less interviews. Mud guy. The mud guy was terrible. I interviewed a guy about his mud. Yep, Like, but now you know, jump the shark. Okay, here we go a lot of times when they bring in the cute kid. That's also called jumping the shark. When they bring in cousin Oliver on the Brady. I'm trying to think of like new versions of this. We'll find some example. Growing Pains. Didn't Growing Pains bring in Leonardo DiCaprio as a

little cute kid. I believe, so they were jumping the shark. Ah, you know, Okay, finally, no, not finally. Second, Sarracha has a rooster on the bottle because the guy who created it was born in nineteen forty five. Oh yeah, you're the rooster. It is fun. Whoa Okay, I need a good one here. This is good. This is a good one. The screenwriter who wrote Castaway for research spent a week alone on a deserted island and a volleyball washed up on shore, which

is where he got the idea for Well, sir, that's neat. It's the fuck that's of the day. We make you look smart in your buddies. It's the fuck that's to the day.

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