David: Hello
Leila: Hello, hello. Welcome to Fun Fact Friday. I'm your host.
David: I'm your host, David. I'm Leila's dad.
Leila: Fun Fact Friday, friend. As always, we podcast we discuss
fun facts that we find online. Each episode will have each
episode one famous episode is video game for this episode will
be in the show notes. So you weren't doing this video game.
David: I was just listening to you. Hey, everybody,
Leila: I was gonna have you do the parts where you did it.
David: I was I was I was listening to you the difference
in your voice. Oh
Leila: my gosh,
David: hey, this is Fun Fact Friday.
Leila: We're a weekly podcast that we do facts around a
different topic each week. I don't know what you're thinking
about,
David: except for this week, except for this week. So due to
lack of planning, we are going to be we're going to be fact
checking ourselves and also going back and listening to our
first episode today and make fun of ourselves. We realize that
it's been a we've been doing the show for over three years. And a
lot has changed with you know, us and her
Leila: I went through puberty. I still I'm not done with that.
But my voice has changed. And I have changed as a person.
Everything's changed, man.
David: Yeah, so I have a personality now. Yeah, yeah,
well, you have one you've all you've had one for a while. But
before we do that, we are going to think we do have one boost.
We got one boost to gram come in from just listening 555 SATs
through the fountain at the fountain.fm that is one of those
new fancy apps that you can boost which is donating to the
show essentially. And amounts called Satoshis, which is a tiny
bit of a Bitcoin. But just listening says I just got to see
the Ross Creek cedars in Montana. I'm jealous. Me too.
That was that wasn't just listening to words with my wife
and her family. And there was a bighorn sheep just chillin in
the parking lot. I would like to see that too. I like nature was
I love sheep. Anyhow, there are big trees, eight foot in
diameter or more. Another good episode. So, man, I want to go
out west so bad. I haven't been further west. I mean, I've
landed we went to Vegas, but that's like, you land there. And
you're there.
Leila: I got really bad laryngitis because it was so
dry. Yeah, yeah. You're
David: not used to that dry environments. So for a week.
Yeah. It was fantastic. I bet it was. Oh, no. But yeah, it's
super, super humid here. I needed to put the wig hat on.
And we didn't we didn't we got a lot going on. We got a
convention this weekend. Yeah. And we didn't have time to do
I've been working on some cool gifts for the for different
shows. And I did did one for us. It maybe in the chapters. I
haven't done right. I'm not sure if that's the one I want to put
in the chat. I don't know if the chapters has an animated GIF of
our logo. You'll see. You'll see what I mean, I posted it on
Mastodon but I'm not sure if that's the final version or not.
But yeah, tonight, we are just going to go back and we're going
to reminisce and we're gonna go back to the first episode. And
pick it apart and make fun of ourselves and mainly me. Now I
want to like listen to the audio quality, and our listen to like
I'm already here and how bad I know you compared to how we
sound now. Which is not even 100% I mean, I've got I've got
just the quick settings on for everything. Yeah. But yeah,
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It's very excite All right, so you got anything else did you
want to? Oh, one thing. So aliens are like a thing now.
Yeah, that's what they said. And the House of Representatives,
they were just like, hey, yeah, aliens, man. You know, everybody
was like, Okay. Like, no. I mean, that's what that's all
Leila: of us right now.
David: I told Leila and she's like, okay. Yeah,
Leila: I was like, Okay,
David: sure. Why not? Yeah, might as well. They were they
weren't expecting them to come in 2020. But yeah, they were
they were kind of guarded with the language. But I think
panorama. It's you just yet. I'm getting to where I don't believe
a lot of stuff to say on TV, especially.
So let's listen to the first episode. And here we go.
Leila: fortnight has more users than Netflix. In the first
quarter of 2018. Netflix had 125 million streaming subscribers
worldwide. fortnight topped 125 million registered players in
less than a year since its release. More than 40 million
people play the game at least once a month.
David: So you're popping your pop and your peas right into
your microphone.
Leila: Now we don't have pop filters right now. We've just
David: learned. Yeah. And you talk Can you talk a little off
axis?
Leila: Yeah, pop up. Pop, pop, pop, pop.
David: Oh, you gotta love a little bit. One. Little, little
tiny plosive plus we have plosive rejection. And we have
Yeah, it was really Yeah, we got Yeah, we've upgraded the
equipment. Thanks for it. Great donations from our fans. What
can make crochet popular crochet pop filter? that would that
would mess up the sound wouldn't. Yeah, we can test it.
Yeah, we can just make make one little, little has been crochet.
I have. She's got this like big needle and she like stabs it
into yarn. And it turns into stuff. Yeah, magic. I don't
understand. It's not a needle. It's a hook. I understand that.
I know. I know more more about crocheting than you think I know
about crochet. Well, I do call it knitting to mess with me. I
do it. But yeah, so we jumped right into the facts there,
didn't we? Wow, you just started reading you just started reading
facts. All right. I
Leila: think we had a script in this episode. It was
David: kind of kind of I remember correctly, we just had
like a real, real detailed outline.
Leila: We had that one note clipper thing. So we will clip
an actual sentence from the website and we buried it in our
OneNote now we
David: just leave the tab open and kind of scroll through the
way yeah. All right. No, I did not know that. But most of them
are under the age of 15. Every time I play there's just a
million little squeaky kid voices. That's fine. I can just
mute it. I have only played fortnight a few times with Leila
and I'm not a fan. You hear that echo? I feel like I get headshot
out of nowhere afternoon build my arsenal up and we're getting
good we're moving to where the storms closing in and then boom
microphone is bad as it was millions and millions of kids
out there playing. So where did you find your fact?
Leila: I found my fat fifteen.com Nasty this behavior.
David: So I'm listening to the audio quality right because I
need to I used to listen to you talk all the time. Like yeah,
and I'm I'm wondering how bad the actual original audio sounds
because if I remember correctly, we edited the this
Leila: all of it. My gosh, we had
David: an hour to edit a 15 minute episode we had audacity
to edit. I think I had Reaper at that point. No, we had our draft
where we're using Audacity. I remember editing it and a lot of
it because he taught me to edit. Oh, that's right. That's right.
It's very simple, but it was yeah, the only only time I edit
now is if Leila says one of our teachers names or i i say
something or you know I burp really loud. I don't I don't
know where we'll edit those things out sometimes. But very
rarely, like once every five or six weeks, we actually have to
edit something out. Now we just pretty much just go we hit
record. We go through the episode and we hit Export and
the road caster exports it to a file and I post it so yeah, I
remember I remember the editing, and we did not like editing and
that's how I talked you into doing the live. Yeah, because I
made you do the editing and you're like I don't know what to
do. I was like then learn to talk better. What was that? That
was the fortnight Yeah, do wanna go back in here?
Leila: Yeah, come on fact check 100 of a theme see Have a theme
theme for this episode is video games. All your facts sources
will be in the show notes. So here's my first video game fact.
fortnight has more users than Netflix in the first quarter of
2018. Netflix had 125 million streaming subscribers worldwide
fortnight topped 125 million registered players in less than
a year since its release. More than I
David: skipped 30 seconds. So what are we got now? Yeah, cuz
it's three years ago.
Leila: Yeah. Let's see. Oh my gosh, I don't care. I don't want
to sign up for your stupid website.
David: You read more than two articles on our website and a 30
day period, and then you have to pay us money for you. And it's
all this isn't a good website. And all those articles are AI
generated anyway, I know. Okay, I'm gonna hit play, and you
continue looking for the fortnight subscription numbers
and the Netflix subscription numbers. And let's see how
things have changed in three years. Build my arsenal up and
we're getting good. So where did you find your fact?
Leila: Out? fortnight Battle Royale?
David: Oh, okay. That's okay. Well, here's my fact. All right.
Did you find it? No. Okay. A little old school. Almost 40.
And oh, I was. I was a baby. I wasn't even 40 yet.
Leila: It's only been like three years? Well, no,
David: because we started in 2022. Right. And May of 2022.
No, no. 2020 I was 10. Yeah, so we started in May of 2020. And
then May of 2023 just happened?
Leila: Yeah. So it's been three years.
David: 130 3939 time 4041. And I'm 41 and a half next month.
Leila: Where are you? 42 and just forgot.
David: Well, no, it's September 18. Is my half birthday. So
yeah. My half birthday.
Leila: Hold on
David: your half birthday. Okay, okay. I know. What's the
problem? I can't do math is the problem. Okay. I've been out of
school for too long. Okay. Okay,
Leila: so fortnight has I hate fortnight. fortnight?
David: That's 2018. Yeah, I'm
Leila: trying to find it. That may well, so this is when we
started.
David: Why don't you pop on FunFactFriday.com and click the
link in the show notes to see if that makes sense.
Leila: And you'll probably still be up.
David: So while we're while we're waiting on that, Leland,
I've just found a website called puzzle barons logic puzzles. I
Gosh. We love Robert. Logic. Robert over. logic puzzles are
fantastic. It's the like, Herb Ingram's movie came out in 2015
4040. Is the site dead? Most of them? Wow. Well, I guess we'll
never know. I guess we'll never know.
Leila: We use Screen ramp, but this is not available anymore.
David: Yeah. Well, I mean, that's, that was a good good
amount of time ago. Netflix, current subscribers.
Leila: I think it's like 115 but I'm not sure that was 2019. So
David: I don't think that they actually released the numbers of
their current subscribers.
Leila: Yeah, probably not. I don't like Netflix. Oh,
David: 44 Netflix, Netflix statistics. 2023. Here's a brief
overview. 238.3 9 million. I think.
Leila: Yeah, fortnight still does have more users. I assume
David: because fortnight is free. Yeah. And kids and and
children. Well, you know, kids get to the age where they can
actually play it. Yeah. And that the people who have been playing
it continue to play it. Oh, fortnight Hell has a you can pay
for it now. Oh, wait, no, that's
Leila: always been a thing that that's the Battle Pass.
David: I don't play the game. Alright, let's let me see what
my effect was on of the Nintendo era. And back when Nintendo was
making the original Legend of Zelda, they toyed with the idea
of letting players make their own levels. The game itself was
going to be almost exclusively about building dungeons to work
your way through after testing. They found that they enjoyed
playing through the dungeons and solving the puzzles much more
than they enjoyed making them what the lead Legend of Zelda
was going to be like Mario Maker but with Legend Zelda gameplay.
You know, I remember that. No. And then I was like Mario Maker
exists. Maybe they should do a Zelda maker? That would be
amazing. And they still haven't.
Leila: I mean, you can make stuff.
David: Well, here's the kingdom. Yeah, that's a building system.
You can't make your own dungeons? Oh yeah, you can't
make your own dungeons, which I would love for shrines to be
able to go make. Yeah, well, in the original Legend of Zelda, it
was just all dungeons. And I mean, you could do it in like
RPGmaker or something, but it's not like on the console. So
let's continue. So can you imagine mario maker but for
Zelda, which I have always thought should have been a
thing. I would love to make an original Legend of Zelda level.
I'm sure there's ways to do it out there. But an actual console
game where you make your own Legend of Zelda. My brain works
Leila: the same way. Interesting. I did not know
that.
David: Have you ever played through the original Legend of
Zelda? I played like a couple of
Leila: dungeons. But you never got never gotten all the way
through it.
David: Yeah, you were nervous kids these days with your video
games. You get the you got so many options and so many free to
play games back when when I was a kid. The games were 50 bucks
apiece give or take. And so you'd only get one or two or
three years depending on your income level. But you and 50
bucks back then was more than it is now. Oh yeah. When the when
the 64 came out the games were $70. And that was back that. Oh,
and that money that was in the late 90s. Yeah. So I like
Leila: the 64 controllers.
David: They're funny. Yeah, the three prong the Trident played
the crap out of those games that you got. That was my first fact.
Do you have another fact for us relating to video games?
Leila: Yes, I have another one about fortnight, which is a
school has banned the floss because the moves are
intimidating children on the playground. Players Avatars can
perform. Players Avatars can perform celebratory dances and
the most popular victory dance is the floss. A dance which
requires you to simultaneously sway your hips and arms and
opposite direction Oh, the floss primary school and divan
England. I don't know.
David: You were doing really good at reading. But if I
remember correctly, you read I read her you rehearsed a lot for
the first episode.
Leila: You know we do now. We look at our facts 15 minutes
before the show. And we're like,
David: this is a good site. Now. Don't read them. Here's the
thing, though. To be fair, on the episodes where we actually
come out here and sit for an hour or so before, instead of
just running out here right before we record. All those
episodes are better. That she's episode, the cheese episode.
Leila: outline of what we're doing. Yeah, we were like, Intro
support. Boom, boom, boom. Outro
David: Yeah, we kind of have like, let's go let's go with
like the history for a little while. Episodes. Yeah, the
cheese episode is fantastic. Although the light episode just
had a huge hit. And the numbers like a whole bunch of people got
got on that one. I don't know if we were featured on a list or
something. But we got like, three times the normal downloads
on that one. Oh, yeah. Oh, the light episode just happened to
happen to hit hard. Maybe it was Aziz. Aziz light sick reference.
Leila: That's how you say it. But they banned flossing because
they felt that fortnight rewards the maths of killing other human
beings with dance of celebration, celebration. Oh,
geez.
David: I get well, I mean, there's celebratory dances and
football and stuff. I guess they kind of they try and discourage
those for the similar reason. But I think the floss. Maybe I'm
just old but it just looks annoying. And maybe the teachers
were just tired of watching the kids.
Leila: Had to give a reasonable answer about it.
David: Most of the kids I see doing the floss dance. Or did
see nobody does it anymore. But back in the day, it was always
the most laughable face. Like they always had this laughable
smile on you know, like because you didn't need all smoky. Floss
dance. Where are you cringing so hard over there.
Leila: Nothing I was gonna say something but then I realized I
shouldn't say it on the podcast
David: subscribe to our Patreon for the behind the scenes. No,
no, I'm just kidding. We I think we actually do still have a
Patreon. Do people know we we haven't had anybody subscribe to
us. I don't think it's because we never like yours. Yeah,
that's true. But I mean, we don't offer anything else on
there. It's just kind of another way for you to give us support.
Leila: So if you don't have like, a new podcast episode,
David: right playing for Right. Okay, so that's a interesting
one, relating to fortnight in a kind of a roundabout way. I've
got a couple of real quick facts going back to the older days,
and other aspects. Related fact, I'm not stuck in the old days
with the nostalgic video games I do keep up with stuff but I
gotta play some a heart for this old stuff. Nintendo's main
character Mario because first appeared in the arcade game
Donkey Kong in July 9 1981. And went by the name Jump Man.
Leila: Pretty straightforward.
David: Just that was just, you know, letting you know his
first. First thing. Nolan Bushnell started Atari when just
$500 within five years, the company had earned $28 million.
And by nicely to the sales topped 2 billion, and that's 19
$82. That's the year I was born. And a billion was a lot more
back then. And a
Leila: pretty straightforward, pretty
David: straightforward. Mission to starting Atari Nolan Bushnell
also founded the popular pizza and entertainment company,
Chucky Cheese.
Leila: Very interesting father.
was I trying to sound smart?
David: I don't know if you were making fun of me.
Leila: I think I was. I don't even know at this point. What
was I do a very interesting father. That didn't so I'm
David: not a fan of myself. Yeah, you were messing with me.
I've done a lot at the box car, which is a North Carolina based
bar where they don't have a minute. It's a barcade. They
have in other cities, but I believe the boxcar has like
Raleigh, Greensboro. They have a couple of locations. Interesting
Facts maybe page where they've got where I've gotten a few of
these effects from Bowser, the main antagonist and Nintendo's
Mario franchise was originally envisioned to be an ox. This is
probably why he has horns and a defined snout even though he's a
turtle. Cool. So okay,
Leila: I love check what Well, I'm just
David: I'm listening to. I'm listening to audio. So
critically now and like,
Leila: Okay, so we're this far away from your mic.
David: Right off, right. And when we got when we got featured
on the no agenda show, which is what gave us a big boost of
listeners near the beginning. John C. Dvorak was talking about
oh, they sound like they're they've got it. They're on NPR.
And NPR. I don't know if you I'm sure you've heard it before. It
has a very dry, very, like low energy sound to it the way that
the audio is like, the audio is so crispy on NPR. It's annoying.
Leila: Yeah. I don't like the crispy crunchy DS.
David: Yeah, they're their mixes always really. I don't know. It
sounds off to me. It's just a style that they've chosen. But I
get it. Because like, this is low, like our energy is very
robotic. Because we rehearsed. We rehearsed and we wanted to
feel like we were we were saying lines instead of just talking.
Leila: Yeah. Here's some video game facts about the game
Minecraft. The Creator notch his avatar in the game. Once he
dies, it drops an apple. His character is the only game
Resident that does that.
David: So he logs onto a server or something. He has special
code that then drops Oh, that's interesting. So basically, if
we're ever playing Minecraft, and not just decides to swing by
our server, we need to murder him for his apples. Yeah, that's
Leila: exactly what I was trying so hard to
David: spouted quite a few.
Leila: I have a couple more. So far away from my tea craft once
in a while actually gets its name wrong. Reversing the E and
the C
David: My lips are not touching. I wanted you to I wanted you to
get good. Using a mic. Get good, get good. And, you know, you're
constantly I'm not going to do mouth noises because I don't
want thank you subjected you or our audience to the mouth noises
but they bother me. I know they bother you. There's a there's
good at not making them. There's a chat room that I joined.
Sometimes it's in the voice chat. And they will ban you for
eating or making mouth noises.
Leila: I love
David: they'll kick you off the server,
Leila: which it spell was mince craft, or mince raft instead of
Minecraft. Also, the game's first name was much more
straightforward. It was first to be known as the cave game.
David: I remember, on the 25th September, I was just playing
with the idea of, of the video game Minecraft. I read an
article I don't remember when it was, What magazine was in any of
those things. I do remember it. The article was mainly about the
world generation for Minecraft, because each world you go into
if you're not familiar with Minecraft, each world and you
start Rando which generates and for all intents and purposes, it
is an infinite world, you could start in the center of the map
and run. It's, it's pretty much here's the thing, but for like I
said, for all intents and purposes, not for all intensive
purposes, which is what I thought that that phrase was for
the longest time. But if you start running in Minecraft, in a
quote unquote, infinite world, like it is, you will not reach
the end. In your natural life, it would take too long for you
to run. Using normal means no teleporting, no flying with
jetpacks or mods liatris. Right? Just running your you can never
reach the end of the world. Just running. Full speed. And
probably what I'm saying literally years to reach the
very edge of the literal years of real world time to reach the
edge of the map. It randomly generates what's called chunks.
And then I there was like a real pregnant pause right afterwards.
Hold on, I'll tell you likes real world time to reach. It
randomly generates what's called chunks.
I paused because your mother hates that word. Really like you
wanted to highlight the chunks to punctuate the chunks. These
chunks takes into account the chunks around to create a
cohesive world. So it's not just random, random pieces. And you
do get some very interesting world generation sometimes. And
it's really fun and interesting. But the article was mainly about
the world generation, which was the most innovative part of
Minecraft. But making a essentially a virtual Lego set.
kind of took the world by storm and notch notch made a billion
dollars.
Leila: Your voice is so deep. Yeah.
David: I actually artificially raise it now. Like I lower the
bass and take on this mic. What? No, you don't. Yeah, I do. I'll
show you the equalizer when we when we get done. I don't want
to mess with it while we're in here. It's the mic. It's not
it's not like I have oh, a super, super deep voice. But
when I'm close to a mic off the frequent Well, I mean, we were
using those $20 mics. That's true. And we were running them
through a low to know when we were running. Oh my goodness, we
were running it through the Behringer mixer, the like $30
little mixer. And I had rigged it up calculator. Yeah. And I
had to rigged it up till to actually work into the computer
the right way. And it wasn't great. It wasn't great. And it's
also possible that I was boosting my base back then.
Because I want to do I want to just say oh, I wanted to sound
nice and manly.
Leila: Is my computer like struggling and has two tabs
open.
David: It's old. Computer Hardware wears out logic puzzles
and our website. You also don't know what JavaScript that logic
puzzle sites running and might be running bitcoin miner on your
left. Oh, no. All right, so let's continue. That's a lot of
money.
Leila: I saved one of the best facts that I've found for last.
Oh, okay. Creepers began as a coding error. Have you got five
minutes left? I was really interesting. What of Minecraft
stranger native species is the creeper an electrically charged
predator with a hunting mug. Notch didn't actually set out
the design to be a monster he was trying to create a pig but
accidentally switch the figures for the desired height and
length when inputting the code. The result was the monstrosity
the players know and love.
David: I had some very bad experiences with that sort of
noise before the creeper explodes. I've had some real
They need redstone contraptions destroyed by creepers. So
Leila: I've had some like hours of work on a house destroyed by
one.
David: So I've got one more little set of flags to say. So
again, and we'll move on to our second segment. There, there's
an urban legend, that turned out to be true. Oh, oh, Atari had so
many unsold copies of the video game, et The Extra Terrestrial
that they buried them. They I don't know if that's like they
make that's like one of those facts that when somebody starts
talking about Atari, or video game facts or things like that,
somebody's like, Well, did you hear about like, everybody knows
it. But everybody thinks nobody else knows it. Yeah, stuff like
that. So I mean, there's, there's always something that
somebody doesn't know. And they actually find it interesting.
And what's crazy is that I'm over 40. Now, just leave it at
that. And
Leila: I always said it earlier.
David: But yeah, I still occasionally find out. I mean,
mainly because of this show, I'll find out something I didn't
know about like that tree last or last week, we were talking
well, with the like, has the exploding seed pods. Like yeah,
let's go and watch the video. No. I told you to go what? I
don't remember I did. I haven't looked deeply into it. But I
know that they made more copies of the game than there were
consoles, as if they expected people to buy two copies of this
game. And they had and it was a terrible game. I remember
playing the game. I picked it up for the arts. Well, let's it was
it was a bad game. But what what gets me now is that you kind of
do have to buy two copies of a game sometimes now, you know,
you want to like because like I have a switch light. And Leila
has the regular switch. But like if we want to play a game
against each other, or like, in conjunction we have, we may have
to buy two copies of
Leila: the game. And that's we just buy the physical copy which
is the best. Right? But
David: if we want to, like Pokemon, if I want to trade with
you, we have to buy two copies of it. Yeah, you know, unless we
want to do some funky stuff with the marketplace or whatever. But
yeah, so we bought two copies of a couple of Steam games so we
can play together. So when I was probably about your age, I
picked it up at a yard sale. And it was terrible. There was no
goal. You would get caught into a loop sometimes and couldn't
get out of it. It was bad. The bad graphics of course, graphics
were probably a little bit less than par for the time. But it
was not a fantastic game. The extra copies were buried in the
desert. They were done by a documentary crew, they already
officially found the copies the pile and actually found the
copies the pile of unused unsold copies of EDD extraterrestrial
for the Atari were eventually sold on eBay for over $100,000
It's a piece of videogame history. So I kind of understand
eccentric millionaire purchasing, purchasing these
purchasing these or maybe even a museum putting them in video
games. So we'll have to look up and see if that exists. But it
does there's a museum. What rare thing would you buy? Like if we
won the lottery and had just millions millions of dollars?
And I was like, You know what, here? Here's $500,000 To buy
collectibles with what would you go? Yeah. That's tough. Because
like, Would you like, buy one really, really rare, expensive
thing and have it like an eyeglass case? Or would you buy
like all like a copy of every single Super Nintendo game?
Which would you know, I mean, like it wouldn't be as expensive
per item, but you want to buy a lot of them. I don't know. You
don't have like a spot? Well, you'd like you know, like it
would would it be a video game? Would it be comic books? Would
it be stamps? Do you have anything that you would like a
collection of? I'd like a collection of precious metals.
Just all sorts of like gold coins and silver quality
figures. Just a whole you just want to like a meet you Miku
expensive they are? Are they expensive can be expensive. Oh
speaking of figures. I print a Samus I printed the Miku Santa.
It's about what do you say about a foot tall? Yeah, give or take.
Leila: Mine's about probably half a foot.
David: Yeah, yeah, it's about six or seven inches. The samurai
printed is of course from the Metroid game. And I've been
trying to find the best way to paint it and painting on a 3d
printed thing is you You got to prime it and you got to use the
right prime enamel.
Leila: I think you just should have put the enamel on it. I
don't think you should have used the primary.
David: I think you're right. I think I should have just gone
straight enamel. But the primer is already on there. I guess I
could strip it off. But I forgot the arms paint on it. I could
reprint it take forever, two days, three or four days. I
could probably do the infill. I were getting in the 3d printing
nerd stuff. Alright, so. But yeah, I'll post pictures of that
once I get it all painted and all figured out for everything.
Leila: I have no words. That's amazing. That's really cool.
David: It's so cool, dad. Okay, so we're gonna move on to our
second segment. Oh, you got a segment on each show. We're
going to highlight an upcoming holiday that falls in the week
after the episode is going to air Oh, this episode is released
on May 22 2020, which is Memorial Day. I forgot for the
last time I went out and found Memorial Day facts for us.
Leila: I did. multiple cities claimed to be the birthplace of
Memorial Day. According to the Library of Congress, President
Lyndon Johnson declared Waterloo New York to be the birthplace of
Memorial Day, referencing to a celebration that the town had in
1866. However, other places are known to have celebrated the
holiday earlier and exactly where the first celebration took
place. remains a dispute.
David: Union General John A Logan founded the holiday.
Although people were already decorating the graves of fallen
Civil War soldiers in an unofficial way. General Logan
codify the holiday. He famously said, totally not reading. So
I'm looking at holidays because apparently we've forgotten to
mention any upcoming holidays for the last 140 Something
episodes. Looks like we've got today is the 27th. It is Teesha
VA T 's above the Jewish Jewish holiday. It's a Korean War
veteran Recognition Day, just state as a state of observance
in West Virginia. And it's also national Korean War veterans
Armistice Day, which it's an official observance. And, yeah,
let's see the next week. Oh, Barack Obama day is coming.
August 4. That's next Friday. Ah, spoiler. Thanks, Obama
spoiler. Coast Guards birthday is coming up. And yeah, so
Leila: who's the Coast Guard?
David: The Coast Guard. You don't know what the Coast Guard
is? Yeah. Yeah, you do know what it is or yeah, you're, but I
don't understand who it is. Okay. Well, you will walk away
we will do one on the postcard. One episode. No, not not
interesting. Not really, if it's anything having to do with the
government, um Okay. All right. So, yeah, so that let me let me
just one minute and 30 seconds the 30th of May 1868 is designed
for the purpose of screwing with flowers and otherwise decorating
the graves of comrades who died in the defense of their country
during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost
every city village and Hamlet churchyard in the land.
Leila: Memorial Day was originally called Decoration
Day. Oh, the holiday was celebrated by decorating the
graves of fallen soldiers with flowers, flags and more. Hence
the name ERATION day. They said whose bodies by in almost every
city, I thought to just like, chopped him up really finely.
And just sprinkled I didn't mean like different people.
David: kind of morbid. Yeah. So I kind of didn't want to pause
it. Okay, we got one
Leila: of the time it became known as Memorial Day.
David: And originally, only soldiers who had died in the
Civil War were honored. After World War one though, the
holiday began to encompass members of the American armed
forces who had fallen in any conflict. While Memorial Day is
a sad and somber day. It is a great day for us to honor and
remember those who have fallen fighting for our freedoms.
Leila: This has been the first episode of Fun Fact Friday was
written and recorded by me Leila
David: Fun Fact Friday is a meanness media production is
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Leila: get it means you can share it all you want just don't
change it yourself. Have a good one.
David: All rights reserved Fun Fact Friday so that was episode
one of Fun Fact Friday a wild ride. So what do you what do you
think, folks if you haven't gone back and listen to our first
episode. Now you have. Yeah, so we've been doing this for three
years now. And we're having a good time. And we hope y'all are
having a good time. as well. As always, let us know, if you have
a topic for us, or any corrections or anything like
that. Let us know. Leila, what are your thoughts on our first
episode? No, no. What do you mean? No,
Leila: not a fan.
David: So like our podcast, I will say, wouldn't listen to
episode two. To start stars. Well, you know, most podcasts
unless they're done by professionals, which we were not
at the time. At the at the top were professional podcasters.
Now we've got a road caster. So most of the time, if you go back
and listen to episode one or two, they don't even resemble
what the current episodes especially after 100 or so
episodes. They say. And I gotta agree with this, you really kind
of start hitting your stride around like episode 70. War,
we're more than twice that now. Oh, well. I mean, this is 147
148. Yeah. So we're coming up on 150. And everybody who listened
in send us $150. Now just kidding. We do. We do the show
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email, and it's fantastic if you want to send us a physical item.
Like a cool difficult thing. Leila is doing her crocheting
now. And we're since we're going to convention one of her
favorite YouTubers is going to be there. Well, I don't know if
if one of your favorites but your fan he's still pretty cool.
Yeah. And this YouTuber has a rat, or a few. Yeah, a few rats.
You can't have one. You can't just one. Yeah, it's not right.
They gotta have companion. I wonder if I've got two in the
back of my truck. There's a mouse living in the back of my
truck somewhere. I had some peanuts and
Leila: tell my friend about this. And she was like, is it
you?
David: Leila likes rodents. But so Leila is crocheting a rat
with a strawberry with holding a strawberry. Yeah, and is going
to want to remember a picture in our next episode, or wherever
you finish it. And she's gonna give it to her as a gift. So
it's it's fun when you're, when you're a content creator, and
you get gifts from people. And I'm not I'm not saying Oh,
you're gonna send her stuff or anything. But we have convinced
that things before and it always means a lot.
Leila: Yeah. Even if it's just like a note.
David: Yeah. We always appreciate that. And emails,
even anything because emails are kind of turning into like what
snail mail used to be. Yeah, you know. Oh my gosh. So yeah, you
can you can find that Fun Fact Friday. I believe if you click
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PO box. So and everybody have a fantastic weekend we are going
to be are going to have a fantastic weekend. Well, we're
hoping to be the convention we're going to eat a bunch of
like, food truck food, and see some famous people. Mark Waid is
going to be there. He's one of my favorite comic book creators
and is I'm hoping to get a couple of my comic books signed
by him. Hopefully he doesn't charge too much. Because they do
sometimes do that. And we'll be sure and have a full report for
you next week. And we also have another guest coming up probably
next week, hopefully and we're gonna we won't spoil that. And
case it's you know, a couple of weeks from now and when we do it
so yeah, everybody do we want to play the original theme ending
or the new one Kyle was Kyle. Kyle's better bye everybody.
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