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December 10, 2025 14 mins
International mountain day. Entertainment from 8008. 1st penus transplant, Indiana became 19th state, Libertarian Party formed, Last issue with nude pics in Playboy. Todays birthdays - Big Mama Thornton, Rita Moreno, David Gates, Brenda Lee, Teri Garr, Jermaine Jackson, Nikki Sixx, Mo'nique, Hailee Steinfeld. Anne Rice died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran    https://www.diannacorcoran.com/ 
I love the mountains - Super simple songs for kids
Love your life - T.I.  Rihanna
Chicken Fried - Zac Brown Band
Birthday - The Beatles
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent     http://50cent.com/
Hound Dog - Big Mama Thornton
Make it with you - Bread
Rockin' around the christmas tree - Brenda Lee
I'll be there - Jackson 5
Kickstart my heart - Motley Crue
Exit - Mistletoe - Royal Wade Krimes
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Speaker 1 (00:19):
Welcome to history and fast. Joy's about today. I am Jeff.
Today's December the eleventh.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
I love the mountains. I love the rolling house, I
love the flowers, I love the dafa toils. I love
the fireside when the lights are low.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
Boom diada boo diada boomdada boodiada.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Today is International Mountain Day. Probably means more out here
in Colorado than a lot of places. Twenty five percent
of all the land on earth is basically mountains are mountainous.
That makes sense to celebrate mountains to hitt the beginning
of ski season. Now, mountains, they are awesome. You can
drive through them and just hang out and enjoy the
pretty sceoning. But you really experienced mountains, Yeah, you really
need to get into them. Do some hiking, fish and

(01:05):
skin climbing, mountain bikes, anything like that. Now, if you
don't live near a mountains, yeah, today'd be a good
excuse to planning a trip for the summer. Okay, this
is going on entertainment. On December the eleventh that year,
two thousand and eight, then one album was I Am
Sasha Ferris by Beyonce, t I and Rana had the
number one song with Live Your Life You Save, Zach

(01:45):
Brown Band the number one country song with Chicken Fried.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
And a little Bit of Chicken, Don't bere on Friday Night,
A parans A Fit Just Right and the Radio I'm.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
A Lot of Sea, Some.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
See Love, Mamama's.

Speaker 4 (02:07):
Precious Child, and olm Vesna.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
The number one book was Cross Country by James Patterson.
Top movie was The Day the Earth Stood Still. That
was a remake of the nineteen fifty one classic movie
where an alien and a giant robot come to Earth.
Charles Canna raised, Jennifer Conley and Kathy Bates, all Right,
what happened on Thember the eleventh? Happy Birthday Indiana Today?

(02:53):
In eighteen sixty in Indiana began the nineteenth state Indiana.
It means land of Indians. It refers to the land
that was here a botter taken from local Indian tribes.
Capital is Indianapolis, which means Indian Nation. Highest point is
Hoosier Hill at one and fifty seven feet Indiana. It's
the thirty eighth largest state by area in the seventeenth
largest by population Indiana. State bird is the cardinal flower,

(03:17):
is a paeony tree, is a tulip, tree insect is
the saves firefly. Indiana state food popcorn makes sense, or
if a Redenbaker was born there and Indiana produces the
most popcorn of any state. Some other people born in
Indiana or Michael and the rest of the Jacksons, James Dean,
Larry Bird, Colonel Sanders, David Letterman, Axel Rose, John mellencap Bank, Robber,

(03:39):
Don Gillinger. It's just some of the people born in
the Hoosier State. So what exactly is a Hoosier? Well,
the official definition of a Hoosier is a countryfied person
who is usually from Indiana. At least they're proud of it.
In nineteen oh five and Rivedvilla, Argentina temperature got up
to one hundred and twenty degrees, still the hottest tim

(04:00):
which were ever recorded in South America. Nineteen forty one,
four days after Pearl Harbor Germany and Italy, they declared
war on the United States to show support for Japan.
Now Poland, God bless them. The western half of Poland
was occupied by Germany. The eastern half of Poland was
occupied by the Soviet Union Polish government they were hiding
in exile. Poland declared war on Japan to show support

(04:21):
for the United States. Kind of cute. All right, you
Libertarians out there, you can party are today. Nineteen seventy one,
The Libertarian Party was found in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Nineteen
eighty three. John Paul the Second the first pope ever
going to a Lutheran church, and it was in Rome.
Two thousand and nine, in the finished video game Angry
Birds was released. The birds were probably angry because it's

(04:42):
so cold up in Finland. Twenty fourteen. Doctors in Cape Town,
South Africa, they performed the first penis transplant. So if
you use that on your wife, would she be cheating
on you? Twenty fifteen, Playboy magazine published their last issue
with nude photos in it. Now, luckily she wasn't in it,
but she Pam Maddelerson. Yeah, she was on the cover.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
Joke dopp joked joke, sharg dish Shiverthdayle's gonna pause he
left this shiverthday.

Speaker 4 (05:10):
We gonna simple targe.

Speaker 5 (05:12):
Let this shibirthday.

Speaker 4 (05:13):
And you know we don't do that's.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
Her birthday, all right?

Speaker 1 (05:17):
Check out who's born nine to seventy eleventh. Now this
is how Elvis was supposed to sing it few She

(05:45):
was Big Mama Thornton born in Ayrton, Alabama. In nineteen
twenty six, she wrote that song hound Dog and went
to number one for seven weeks on the R and
B charts. Back in nineteen fifty three, she also wrote
the song Ball and Chain that Janice Joplin turned into
a big hits. Sadly, like a lot of black artists
in the singer or in the nineteen fifties, Yeah, big mom,
and she never received the money she should. She toured,

(06:05):
did clubs and festivals. Now she was a major alcoholic.
Then all of a sudden, she just started losing weight,
lost it really fast. She went four hundred and fifty
pounds down in ninety five pounds. Yeah, heart and liver failure.
She died nineteen eighty four. A fifty seven years old actress, dancer, singer,
Rita Marino. She's ninety four. She was born at Hugh Macaw,
Puerto Rico. In nineteen thirty one, moved to New York

(06:26):
City when she has five. Rita she was the first
woman to win the Egot Yeah, the Entertainment Grand Slam.
She got two Emmys one Grammy. She won her Oscar
for West Side Star and she wanted tony twenty one
people have won the egot Rita. She has retired. She
said she'll work if she was needed. She married nineteen
sixty five. Her husband died in twenty ten and they
had one daughter.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
Loves Fools Too ifty.

Speaker 4 (06:53):
Dream won this two. I won't Make It with You.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
That was Dan Gates singing for the band Brett. He's
eighty five. He's born in Tulsi, Oklahoma. In nineteen forty
he had small success as a solo artists, and he
helped form Bread in nineteen sixty eight. Now he did
most of the singing, but Jimmy Griffith did do some
of the singing. Some brad hitswear make it with you?
It doesn't matter to me, baby, I'm gonna want to
broke up in nineteen seventy eight, David he dan't movie
soundtracks after that, retired in two thousand and seven. Now,

(07:28):
all those years he was out touring with Bread. Back
in the day, David used that time to study cattle ranching.
Then when Bread broke up, meh I bought a fourteen
nine Daco count ranch out in Washington State, him and
his wife. They love being retired and living on their
cattle ranch. They got married nineteen fifty nine. I had
four children. Three of the kids are lawyers and ones
that cardiothoracic surgeon.

Speaker 5 (07:47):
He lucking around Christmas Street and Plicious Mammary House. Please away,
you can't see he's a foot for chart.

Speaker 4 (07:58):
Mister stuff locking r Christmas.

Speaker 5 (08:03):
Tree, last chastleas late.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
Brinda Lee recorded that when she was thirteen years old.
Now it went to number one just two years ago.
For the first time. She was seventy nine, so that
means she's eighty one today. She's born in Atlanta in
nineteen forty four. Her father died when she was eight
and by the time she was ten and she was
a portant. Whole family bite her singing. The nineteen sixties,
she had forty seven hit songs. That ranks her fourth
for the most hit songs in the nineteen sixties. She's

(08:30):
behind Elvis, the Beatles and Ray Charles. Sold over on
a million records. Some of her non Christmas hits are
I'm Sorry, I want to be wanted. That's all you
gotta do now. Our little nickname is little Miss Dynamite. Yeah,
she stands four feet nine, Branda. She married Ronnie in
nineteen sixty three and they have two daughters. Branda's in
That Rock and Roll Country and Rockabillya. Hall of Fames

(08:51):
actress Terry Garr. She was born in Los Angeles in
nineteen forty four. Now she danced in five of what
Elvis movies. But her speaking girl was in a monkey
movie called the You Know the Monkeys. Yeah, it was
called the Head First got none though in the movie
Young Frankenstein. Then Close Encounters the third time, her third
kind Mister Mom. Now, she was nominated for an oscar
for TUTSI. Now she went on David Lederman thirty two times.

(09:14):
That's most of any guests that he had on Now.
She kept it really hidden, the really private that she
had multiple sclerosis. Yeah. I was a secret for a
long time. But when she couldn't hide it anymore, Yeah,
she had to retire in twenty eleven. She's not diagnosed
with the mess. In nineteen eighty two, while she was
filming the movie Tootsy. She married once for three years
and they had a daughter. Terry died from her MS
last year, seventy nine years old. I know what you're thinking,

(09:56):
and you're wrong. That was actually Jermaine Jackson. Yeah, him
and Michael sang on the song I'll Be There. Jermaine
seventy one. He's born in Garyan, Dana in nineteen fifty four.
He is the fourth oldest of the Jackson's ten kids.
Now they led Jermaine singing every once in a while
just so Michael could take a break during the shows. Jamian,
though he did release fourteen solo albums over the years,
retired in twenty twenty two. He had three children from

(10:18):
his first wife, two sons from a girlfriend, and she
had two sons from his second wife. Then he married
a third wife for twelve years. Nicki six. He wrote

(10:47):
that song Kickstart in your Heart after he overdosed on
drugs that he has the paddles to get his heart
beat again. Nicki sixty seven today, he's born in San Jose, California,
in nineteen fifty eight. For Motley Crue in nineteen eighty one.
Now he writes a there and plays bass guitar. Now, Madley,
they're gonna be going out on tourga in the summer,
and they start off in July sometime. Now. Nikki had
three children from his first wife. He had a son

(11:09):
from his second wife, married his fourth wife in twenty
fourteen and they have a daughter. I'll get this Nicki.
He has been cleaning sober for twenty four years, so
that's pretty cool for Nicki. Comedian and actress Monique She
was born in Woodlawn, Maryland, in nineteen sixty seven. Fifty
eight year old. She's a very yeah, she's a huge
stand up comedian. She first really got known though, as

(11:30):
a member of the Queen's of Comedy if you remember that,
and on TV she starred on The Parkers. She won
an Oscar for the movie Precious Now. She did get Yeah,
she should have won an Oscar for soul Playing. But
next she had two sons from her first husband. She
married her third husband in two thousand and six and
they have two sons. Twenty nine year old actress Hailee
Steinfeld was born in Tarzana, California, in nineteen ninety six.

(11:50):
It's a suburb of Ella Now, and Hailey was fourteen,
she was nominated for an oscar was for The True Get.
Then she started in Romeo and Juliet, some of the
pitch perfect movies. She in Bumblelee, Bumblebee, and she voiced
some of the Spider Verse movies. At least. She just
married Buffalo Bill's quarterback Josh Allen on May thirty. First,
all right, here, Court of the Day. It comes from

(12:10):
writer and Rice, she wrote those vampire movies. She died
it in twenty twenty one and eighty years old. She says,
we are frightened of what makes us different. Well, thank
you all for listening, and don't forget to follow us
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of the people that we talked about. All right, our
country and the ground ready artists today. It comes from

(12:32):
Liz out there in Georgia. She wants toy her royal
Wade Kimes a song Missiletoe. You guys have an awesome
day and we'll talk tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (12:38):
Let's take a try down on the square. I heard
saying I just might be the hey baby, but let's go.
We'll find some missile who told you kiss me one,

(12:59):
kiss me twice. It don't matter a lot of all
of y'all nights. It's Christmas and you're with me.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
Water, you know, that's missing. So slide over here. I

(13:47):
turn the radio on.

Speaker 4 (13:50):
It's Christmas music. We can sing out along. We'll have
a couple of jokes. I want to miss it too.
Kiss me once, kiss me twice. It don't matter about Molly.

(14:12):
On nine, it's dress, my seed and you go with me.
Wad you know that's missing too,
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