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David: Before we start this episode, we must tell you, this
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David: one of our worst we just finished recording and we were
like, wow, we haven't put out an episode that bad since the dawn
of time, early, early days of fun.
Leila: We got to about the 30 minute mark, and we were like,
should we restart? But then we finished it,
David: and we were like,
Unknown: No,
David: I'm too tired. It's late Thursday night. Leila has school
tomorrow,
Leila: and we don't feel like it, and
David: we have a couple of 16 hour days ahead of us, so we
won't have an opportunity to record any who,
Leila: any who enjoy one,
David: enjoy the episode, the episode and, Oh, we didn't even
say Happy Halloween to everybody.
Leila: Happy Halloween. Wait. We'll be here next week. That's
about when Halloween
David: is it'll be fine anyway.
Leila: Happy week before Halloween. Here's
David: the show
Leila: that was like, immediate we're back. Hopefully none of
that cuts out.
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David: Back again, we only missed a week. Welcome to Fun
Fact Friday. We're a weekly podcast for, well, sometimes
weekly podcast where we discuss facts surrounding a different
topic. It's not what we're doing to this episode, but we'll talk
about that after the intro music, as if on cue. It's like
I've heard that song before and I knew how long it had left, we
Leila: should have said right after this, like, we're gonna
have a sponsor right
David: right after this message from our sponsor, the earth,
Leila: favorite place to go, the
David: best planet I've been on, yeah, um, that's also the worst.
You
Leila: said that you were the best dad I've ever had to
someone the other
David: day, oh, thank you. They were like, have you had
Leila: more than one dad, and I'm
David: like, No, well, yeah, some folks do Yeah. So Yeah.
Last week, we were just too busy. We were trying to eke out
45 minutes to run out to the studio and get an episode. There
was none. It just didn't happen. We were going non stop. Last
week, Leila had stuff after school stuff, school stuff, and
it just, we, yeah, yeah. And if we had canned episodes, we could
have just played one of those. We, I need to make a I need to
make a clip show, and we need to record a like a evergreen clip
show, intro and outro, and then I can just have a clip show
about with that transcript search on the site, anywho
welcome forever, though, yeah, well, I could just pick a topic
and then just grab some clips just to have something on the
feed. You know, not like I care about algos, though. Oh, I've
got a potential security risk.
Leila: It was a.com
David: somebody don't have their certificates properly done. This
episode
Leila: is kind of not factual, but it is fun.
David: It is fun. We're going with more on the fun side this
episode, we're gonna be talking about old jokes. As you could
probably tell from the title,
Leila: we've never really done that. We've never been fun with
it, right? We've never tried
David: to be fun on the show. Yeah, the fun thing, the fun
was, like a click bait thing, get folks in. But, yeah, we're
gonna, we're gonna have a lot of fun on this one. We decided we
were gonna go back and look at jokes, and we say old jokes. I'm
not talking about like the 80s. I'm talking about like, you
know, BC, yeah, all the way back. And we have found some,
some very interesting changes in the way humor is the difference
is how humor happens. Yeah, you got, you know, puns and that
don't really make sense now, because the languages are
changed. And I guess just what people thought was funny was was
different. I saw VSOs did a little short about this. May
have done a full episode. This
Leila: is what I that's what I come home to like yesterday, he
was like, I got a topic. I
David: got a top. I want to tell some old jokes that don't even
make sense these days. He was talking. He found a book of puns
from the 1800s and none of like, none of the puns made sense,
just because we don't, we don't talk like that anymore. And
there was like, slang back in the day. Yeah. So you know,
things as things change, puns don't hold up as well as, like,
you know, narrative jokes do some narrative jokes don't hold
up at all either. For example, one of the ones that was, was, I
was scroll. And through all these jokes that multiple sites.
Oh, everybody, just so you know, the links in the show notes,
there are some very inappropriate jokes on some of
these sites. Yeah. So just your discretion. Viewer, click
clicker, clicker, discretion discussions, yeah. So I want
Leila: to start using very large words, oh, that's,
David: that is one of the I was listening to some comedians
talk, and they were talking about, if you want to be very
funny in the moment, a lot, expand your vocabulary, your
vernacular, yes, yeah. And what? Because when you say a word that
somebody doesn't expect, it can be funny because it's that's a
lot of what humor is is subversion of expectation.
Leila: Some new kid in my class said, Oh my days, Oh my days.
And I've started saying that, Oh my days.
David: There's some, there's some funny old old words. Yeah,
I've heard that before, but I haven't ever heard a young
person say it. I love it. So the first walks into a bar. Joke
that's recorded is from somewhere between 4500 BC and
1900 BC. They're not really exactly sure on the date. And
here's here's how it goes. Are you ready
Leila: two peanuts walk into a bar. What was the salted? No,
David: that is, uh, that's your mother's favorite joke of all,
it is, if
Leila: you don't know,
David: multiple times. Yeah. So this one is a dog walked into a
tavern and said, I can't see a thing, I'll open this one. So
that that probably fall. A dog walked into a tavern and said, I
can't see a thing. I'll open this one so it's either related
to the way of life. Hold on, a tavern is a bar. How do you not
like Moe's tavern from The Simpsons.
Leila: I don't know who Moe is. Give me some Moe like, no,
David: oh my gosh.
Leila: Who made this one?
David: Buster rhymes, yeah,
Leila: the ones the island.
David: He has an island named after, yeah, I don't remember
what episode that's on.
Unknown: You'll figure but yeah,
David: so why don't you, why don't you pull up a joke and
explain exactly what it means.
Leila: What do you call men who hate long sentences?
David: What do you call men who hate looks?
Leila: I don't know, criminals.
David: No, my when is that from?
Leila: This is from 18th to 19th century. Oh, okay,
David: that that that was pretty clever.
Leila: Pretty still holds up today. Oh,
David: here we go. Here we go. Episode 189, to around a 25
minute mark, 26 Well, 2632 for this clip, let's see if my
transcripts are just working.
Leila: Where is it? Hold on. I Okay. Massachusetts is home to
Busta Rhymes island. So there's an island in Massachusetts.
Would you say like, 40 feet?
David: 40 foot by 40 foot, yeah,
Leila: and it's named Busta Rhymes island. There was this
dude that visited it, and it was like, Yo, I think Busta Rhymes
would really like it here. True story, true story,
David: true story. Yeah, so Buster Adams Island is it is a
thing.
Leila: What can you fill a barrel with to make it lighter?
David: Nothing, holes. Holes.
Leila: Yeah. Okay, let me
David: find Yeah. That's like a riddle from something I can't
remember. That's from Leila. Leila has got a lot of
Shakespearean insult. I do wait where she's a fan of those. But
we'll do those all at one and one go, I'm gonna run through
real quick the No, that's, that's not, that's not what I
want to run through, where's Oh no. Funniest joke from every
decade in the 1900s and the first one, it's like, it's not
so much. It's like a funny thing, but it's not like a joke.
It's, it's not like they were. They're a comedian trying to
come up with fun something funny to say, but it's still funny.
This was speaking of the women's suffrage movement, which is not
about women's suffering, it's about them voting.
Leila: I thought that it was about women suffering for a long
Yeah. There's a lot of
David: man on the street videos where guys go up to Yeah, guys
go up to women and say, oh, you know, we're wanting to end
women's suffrage. Would you sign our petition? Like, oh my gosh,
yes, absolutely. And they don't know what it means, yeah. So
this is from someone and Anne Howard Shaw. Anna Howard Shaw,
speaking at the women's suffrage movement, said a man opposed to
their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced
anything of value in the world. I told him, the Chief Product of
women in. Hell had been men and left it to him whether to decide
if the product was of any value. See, it's like, I guess maybe
she wrote that as a joke, and that's why it's, I don't know.
This next one is a grandmother and girl. Dialog, Leila, do you
want to be the grandmother or the girl? Oh, where? All right,
you want to be the grandmother or the girl? I'll
Leila: be the grandmother. Okay, this
David: is from the 1910s All right. So the grandma says, How
useless
Leila: girls aren't today. I don't believe you know what
needles are for. Sorry, I can't read all my glasses on
David: how absurd you are grandma. Of course, I know what
needles are for. They're there to make the gramophone play
Leila: the crap. Sorry, gramophone. Graph of phone
graphophone
David: Is it says gramophone. That's the joke. That's from the
onlooker 1915 in Foley, Alabama.
Leila: I love graph like, whatever that what is it? A
graph phone, graph
David: of phone. That's a graph of phone, that's a graph of
phone. It's a record player. They
Leila: just look so absurd to me. It looks like this, like
probably use the web really janky perspective photos. Hold
on. Oh, I don't
David: know what you're talking about. That that could be so
many things. Leila,
Leila: there's some photos of, like, people with their hands,
like up, but it's just like their hand and it like, goes
down into, like, a little dot, pretty much.
David: I'm not no idea.
Leila: I'll put in the chapters real quick. All right, yeah,
find
David: one. Yeah. I'm gonna go with the 1920s This is from WC
Fields, an American comedian, and I'm gonna, I'm looking at
this guy's face. I'm gonna try and do a voice that matches his
face. Once during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on
nothing but food and water. Wait,
Leila: which one's the right one should
David: be this one. Yeah. Once during Prohibition, I was forced
to live for days on nothing but food and water. So this guy's
talking into a microphone. So I probably could find a recording
of that if I tried hard enough. Do you think I should pause the
episode and do that? Or no that I
Leila: found some of the the link that I had earlier and
wasn't the one that I wanted, huh? Are you still looking for
an image? No, I'm looking at Shakespearean crap. I'll find
the image later,
David: alrighty. He
Leila: calls people egg. He called he called someone an egg.
I thought that was kind of kind of silly with him. He said,
like, what you egg? I can't remember where that's let me
find it. Talk. Oh my gosh, I'm trying to
David: just slap me. Be like, be like, talk. So in the 1930s we
got Will Rogers, a Great Depression era humorist. We're
the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poor
house in an automobile. That's kind of, kind of, I'm not gonna
get political.
Leila: Oh, wow. A lot of these you don't know what they mean
until you read the explanation on them. Yeah, there's
David: not any explanations on this best life site. It just has
the joke and then a stock image from one of the stock image
sites. I
Leila: like the let's meet as little as we can. Okay, thanks,
beer. That's from,
David: like it as you like it. The, well, what's the one? Much
Ado About Nothing is very funny. There's a very good movie of
that had Denzel Washington and Keanu Reeves and Kiefer
Sutherland. There's a really good, good version of that one
and one second, I'm
Leila: a joke. What
David: you only caught the last word of that? I paused. I had to
Leila: call I meant to say an opposite thing, but he made a
Obama joke. Oh,
David: and Shakespeare did, yeah, what do you want to go
ahead and do that. Do you want me to do 1940s in the 1940s and
I think you'll, you might, you might catch what's going on in
this one, a man walks into the records office and asks to
change his name. The clerk is not keen on helping, but asks
the man's name, and the man replies, my name is Adolph stink
foot. The clerk is sympathetic and decides to allow the man to
change his his unfortunate name. What do you want to change it?
To ask the clerk? The man replies, Maurice stink foot. You
think if he was changing and he would get rid of the stink foot.
Also, more, wow, that's
Leila: so funny.
David: Yeah, humor changes.
Leila: Yeah, there you go. Number 48 on this list is she
speaks, yet she says nothing from Romeo and Juliet. I like
that. I.
David: That happens a lot. Yeah, and translations on
Leila: here. I don't like the translation, sir, and like,
what, what like a boomer would think modern English is? Oh, no,
really, yes.
David: Yeah, the she speaks and says nothing is like, say, 90%
of the podcasts out there, not ours, yeah, fun. And we speak
Leila: and we say it. We're
David: like our thing, little companions here,
Leila: yes, thing, it's like the opposite of nothing. It's like
David: nevermind. Yeah, yes, thing and no, everything,
Leila: you could just say everything, I forgot that
everything existed.
David: So 19, going back to the 1950s Senator McCarthy is going
to disclose the names of 2 million communists. He just got
his, oh, he just got his hands on a Moscow telephone book. That
was Bob Hope. Bob Hope's got some funny bits that one. Not so
much. In my opinion. It's like, I don't know. Let's see. I'm
gonna, I'm gonna read this one before I because there's one.
What do you got?
Leila: I lost it. Okay, I do wish thou were a dog, that I
might love thee so he's like, I would love you more if you were
a dog.
David: Is that? Is that what it Yeah,
Leila: well, this translation says, let's face it, a dog is
better and more lovable than you. I hate super translations
on his website. They're
David: so, so what do you think if you were to translate it into
more modern English? I
Leila: already said that. Okay, I said, if you were a dog, you'd
be more lovable than he was a human.
David: Oh, gotcha, that's what you listen to me. No, I was, but
like, my brain didn't, didn't say, Oh, this is the translation
that Leila thinks today. Let's see 1960s this is supposed to be
the funniest joke in the 1960s by Robert Orban. Says, I still
can't see why it costs a quarter of a billion dollars to send a
camera to Mars. What's it going by cab?
Unknown: That's the funniest
David: joke in the 1960s for an entire decade, people were
telling jokes, comedy clubs, writing books, writing TV series
is and that's the funniest thing that was said in the 1960s said
in the 1960s I don't think that it was,
Leila: well, obviously you weren't in the 1960s I was
there, and that was the funniest thing I'd ever heard. I've just
heard it way too many times.
David: No, this one's pretty funny. It's a little political.
1970s when they were when Mark Russell was speaking to Richard
Nixon. You tourists should be careful when you visit the White
House, so much is swept under the rug that you might hit your
head on the ceiling, because Nixon had a whole lot of
scandals. Had a whole lot of stuff going on, Watergate. You
can look into that if you want to later. I'm sure you'll learn
about it in high school, more of
Leila: your conversation would infect my brain.
David: More of your conversation would infect my brain. What's
that from? I
Leila: don't even know how to say that. Jurio lenis, point
David: to it 18.
Leila: Sorry, there you go.
David: I don't
Leila: I got you pronunciate, pro pronounciate, oh, I spelled
pronunciate. Copy paste, copy paste, copy paste. Riveting show
content you should probably be talking
David: really. Oh, making you get, like, fill the dead
coriolinis, yes. Okay, so Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan had some
really good one line, you know, zingers and one one liners while
he was running for president and while he was in office, this one
in the 1980s I've laid down the law, though, to everyone from
now on, about anything that happens, no matter what time it
is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting,
just commenting on See, that's okay. He had much funnier stuff
to say, though, and like, that's the best joke. This site is
terrible.
Leila: You literally just said that. That's the best site you'd
found for this.
David: Well, that's because I didn't look very hard. I could
tell. Okay, great site the 19 the 1990s Jerry Seinfeld, love
that guy. What's the deal with airplane peanuts? That's the
funniest joke in the 90s, according to the site. What like
the first one? I was like, Oh, great. This is Ellen DeGeneres.
Okay, so in the 2000s
Leila: Why'd you pick the site? It
David: has Ellen DeGeneres. I can see Russia from my house
Tina Fey as Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live. You can see
the stretch of liberty from here. What? That.
Leila: What do you want? I feel like a deer in the headlights of
love. You could stop at five or six stores or just one. Oh,
you're talking about that. I don't need friends. They
disappoint me. You should.
David: You should put that in the show notes. See the Statue
of Liberty from here, there's a YouTube video where there are, I
guess they're audition. I think it's an audition commercial, or
it's a gag, and they're making it look like it's an audition,
like a comedy troupe or something, but
Leila: it's like a whole bunch of people coming in saying, you
could stop at five or six doors or just one, and then saying
something like, completely ridiculous, yeah, saying, like,
some of the stuff that I just said, and then striking a pose
and doing a dance. Their
David: poses are all ridiculous. Go, go to the show notes. Watch
the video. It's, please do.
Leila: It's, let me find it. They find it. I
David: normally make it about halfway through before I stop.
It's a little long. Yeah, I'm normally four minutes. I'm like,
okay, I get it, and then I'm done.
Leila: Best fit very fun stuff. Here I'm putting the shorter
version. If you want to, like, watch the longer version, I'll
put it. No, I'm not putting it, but I'm putting the sort of okay
talk.
David: I'm doing work right now. Okay,
Leila: okay, okay, okay, hold on, hold on, hold on I got you.
David: I'm really enjoying making you sweat. What
Leila: do you call a tumbler full of whiskey?
David: I don't know. What do you drunken gymnast? Oh, my God. I
Leila: like that 19th century. I love that list, actually, so I
put it you could
David: stop. So here's, here's another bad one. It's from the
1920s it's, oh no, sorry, no. It's from a book from the 1920s
but it was actually written in the fourth or fifth century.
They found they anyway, a student, dunce, went swimming
and almost drowned, so now he swears he'll never get into
water until he's learned to swim.
Unknown: Okay, that's the joke. This is a statement.
Leila: Yo, my friend, my friend, Tim, he almost drowned, and he
doesn't know how to swim, so he kind of, he wants to get better
at that. That's really what that just said. That's what it
translated to in my head.
David: Oh my gosh,
Leila: I'll beat the but I would infect my hands. More
Shakespeare, more Shakespeare. I like the Shakespeare
David: ones go down the list of Shakespeare ones. Yeah, you
gotta try to keep it clean.
Leila: There's small choice in rotten apples,
David: yeah. I mean, that's just, is
Leila: that all you got
David: that's just a truth. There's a, there's a good one
from ancient Greece. It says, um, it was from a king. And
said, asked by the court barber how he wanted his hair cut, the
king replied in silence. And that's impossible. Now, I mean,
unless you're paying a lot and you tell the person, look, I
don't want you to talk to me. I just want, I just, I just want
my hair cut. Because I haven't had my hair cut in a long time
because little known fact,
Unknown: he's bald, I'm bald.
David: And I just, I just use my tremors at home. I just clip,
clip, clip, right? And however, I did go to a barber because she
was a friend of mine from a long time ago, and she's like, Yeah,
I'm cutting hair down. And I was like, Yeah, I'm bald. And she's
like, Yeah, but I'll, like, I'll trim up your beard. We'll do
the, like, the beard massage thing with the oil. And I'm Oh,
yeah, well, let's, let's give it a try, right? And it was really,
it was really cool, but she talked, it was like 20 minutes,
and I was waiting for somebody else to get done, and like, she
talked non stop.
Leila: It's kind of hard to not talk because it's such a long
time, and it's kind of like a no thing. It's
David: a social event. I get it and you're doing it, but this
girl, and I love her, she's great girl, but it was, have you
listened to a podcast or a YouTube channel where they cut
out any gap where somebody's not speaking less than like, if the
gap is longer than point against, what
Leila: that exactly, we don't cut anything out. We literally
hit the go button and
David: we go. As you might tell from this episode, it's been a
mess. It is. I'm
Leila: tired, he's tired. We're both. We're both. Yeah,
David: the the busyness of last week is just as
Leila: the busyness of the next couple of days for me.
David: Yeah. We're actually super busy until probably the
middle of November, right? Yeah, it's very exciting. And there's,
oh, wait, here's a Shakespeare fart joke. You want to be the
clown or the musician?
Leila: I'll be the
David: clown. All right, be the clown.
Leila: Are these? I pray you wind instruments.
David: Hey, Mary, are they, sir?
Leila: Oh, thereby hangs a tail,
David: whereby hangs a tail, sir,
Leila: Mary, sir. By Mary, a wind instrument that I know,
huh,
David: it's the Okay, the wind instrument that he knows is,
about as a booty, okay? And there's a tail hanging by the
tails. I see wearing a tail, and then, because you wear tails,
it's part of a man's suit, like a tuxedo. Tuxedo has tails, all
right? Maybe it makes more sense in context, yeah, oh my gosh. So
listen, everybody, this isn't our best episode, if you're just
finding it good, if you're just joining in, or you're just this
is your first episode you've heard. This is not our normal
content.
Leila: Sorry guys. So tired. We are tired. We're trying to get
the best content out to you currently.
David: So the the very first, Oh, wow. The Nope, can't say
that one. The very first joke in English is from the 10th
century, from an Anglo Saxton poetry book, and it is
inappropriate.
Leila: Not a T in that. What word?
David: Yeah, Saxton. I know I said Sexton. Again, tired, we
apologize, and we're gonna, we're just, we're, you know
what? I think, I think we just, just cut and run. We're at 26
minutes, all right. Wait,
Leila: which word may be pronounced quicker by adding
another syllable,
David: value for value.
Leila: Answer my question quickly
David: or no?
Unknown: Quick,
David: oh my gosh, and adding another syllable or taking one
which word
Leila: may be pronounced quicker by adding another syllable.
Quick, yes, what you what word would be pronounced by
David: adding another syllable? Yeah, I get it because the word
quick. If you add a syllable to that, you get quicker
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Leila: that I am dumb? Are you saying that I don't know my con,
my my citizenship? Are you saying that I don't know my
government? Because I don't. You wouldn't you think I know
anything about the government?
David: You know? You know more than most at your age. I'm
guessing. I'm guessing you went with us to vote. We went and did
early voting because it's much easier to do. There's like,
eight different locations we can go to in our county. They
Leila: did not cheat off each other. No, we, I keep my kept
their eyes on their own paper. My
David: votes is my secret. But you know, I got both the
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Leila: it as a what do you call it? What's the opposite of a
compliment insult? Yeah, yeah.
David: No, I think, I think, I think you've got a pretty good
handle on because, because I'm always ranting and raving about
the way things work
Leila: and everything, I think I see what he's saying though.
David: Oh yeah, we could go back and listen to the whole episode
on this episode, though. I'll pat out the time some sure
Leila: right now. We'll just clip it in
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