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December 11, 2025 16 mins
National Ding A Ling day. Entertainment from 2018. Penssylvania became 2nd state,1st state dinner, 1st Black to serve in US House of Representatives, Tide went on sale. Todays birthdays - Frank Sinatra, Bob Barker, Connie Francis, Dionne Warwick, Cy Curnin, Sheila E., Jennifer Connelly, Mayim Bialik. Charlie Pride died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran  https://www.diannacorcoran.com/  
My Ding-A-Ling - Chuck Berry
Thank U, Next - Ariana Grande
Speechless - Dan & Shay
Birthday - The Beatles
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent     http://50cent.com/
My way - Frank Sinatra
My heart has a mind of its own - Connie Francis
I say a little prayer - Dionne Warwick
One thing leads to another - The Fixx
The Glamourous life - Sheila E
Kiss an angel good morning - Charlie Pride
Exit -There's no words - Joshua Martin     https://www.joshuamartinofficial.com/
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Speaker 1 (00:20):
Hey, Hello, I am Jeff and welcome to history. In fact,
it's about today. Today is December the twelfth.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
When I was a little beaty boy, my grandmother bought
me a cute little toy, silver bells hanging on a string.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
She told me it was my dingling.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Today is National Dingling Day. That might not be what
you're thinking. Today is about calling people that you haven't
talked to in a long time. Oh, come on, it's
not that hard. No text, no emails, no shout outs
on social media and media. Yep, you actually have to
make a phone call and talk person to person. Now,
that's not gonna hurt you to say hi to somebody

(01:09):
that you kind of lost track of, you know, just
let him know that you're still thinking about him. But
today he actually has two purposes besides making some phone calls.
You're supposed to drop some money into the Salvation army kettles,
you know where the people are doing the dinga ling.
That's a good cause and makes for a cool day.
You get to make some calls and drop some coin.
You'll feel like you actually accompoyed something today. On a
side note, Chuck Berry song my dingle ling that we

(01:31):
play Yeah, it's nothing to do with today. Just put it.
You know, that's Chuck's only a number one song you
ever had a This is going on to entertainment on
just some of the twelve. It's about twenty eighteen. And
one album was asked Your World by Travis Scott, Arianna
and Groan. The ad that every one's on one. Thank you, Next.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
On me.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Kill Ki.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Poo from.

Speaker 4 (02:03):
Streak.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Danny Say had the number one country song was Speechless.

Speaker 4 (02:10):
His videos looking read with those steeless.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
I'm just standing there in the dress. Well to do
Went's homie hate a secret. Just watching you is all
I can do see slaves.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
The number one book was Fire and Blood by George R. R. Martin.
The top movie was Spider Man Into the Spider Verse.
Now Miles, he becomes Spider Man of his universe. Now
he has to give a five other Spider Man from
their universes in order to make save reality. Basically voice
by Shan mcmore, Jack Johnson and Hailey Steinfeld. Ah, what

(02:52):
happened on December the twelfth, Happy Birthday Pennsylvania Today. In

(03:18):
eight seventeen eighty seven, Pennsylvania became the second state. Yeah,
they ratified the US Constitution Pennsylvania I means penns Woods
William Penn He named it after his dad. Capital is Harrisburg.
Highest point is Mount Davis at three two hundred and
twelve feet. Now the area of Pennsylvania makes it the
thirty third largest state. It's the fifth largest population though.

(03:39):
State bird is the roughed grouse, fish Brook, drought dog
is a great Dane. Flower is the Mountain Laurel tree,
Eastern hemlock mamm a white tailed deer. Pennsylvania state dance
the Poka. Somebody were born in Pennsylvania Grace Kelly, James Stewart,
Mister Rogers, Bradley Cooper, Kobe, Bryan, Taylor, Swift, Kevin Hart, Pink,

(04:03):
Jenny and Tommy, and some of the people born in
the Keystone State. So why Keystone State? Well, the original
thirteen states, it was right in the middle. There were
six states above it in six states below it. Eighteen seventy,
representing South Carolina, Joseph Rainey became the first black man
to serve in the United States House Representatives. Yep, he
had won a special election. Josephine was a very successful

(04:23):
barber for it went into politics. Served for nine years
eighteen seventy four, Hawaii was an independent nation. Now it's
King David klukule It became the first king to visit
the United States. He was President Grant's guest at honor
at the very first state dinner that was hid at
the White House. Any idea what president probably held the
most state dinners at the White House? Ronald Reagan up

(04:44):
held fifty nine of them. Trump he's old three in
both terms. That's why I wants to build that ballroom.
I guess he's embarrassed. Eighteen ninety nine, Boston's George Bryant.
He then in the wooden golf Tea. Now before then
every hole had a box of wet sand on it,
and golfers would make a man too the sand. Yeah,
and that's what they hit the ball of nineteen oh one.
Every expert said that you could not send a radio

(05:06):
signal over two hundred miles because of the curvature of
the earth. Marconi he believed you could.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
He believed that the.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
Radio signal would follow the curvature of the Earth. So
he sent a Morris code by radio.

Speaker 4 (05:16):
He did.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
The letter s went from England all the way to
Newfoundland twenty two hundred miles. Yeah, Marconi was even surprised,
but he said he could do it. But him and
the re experts, they were all wrong. Now, the reason
he was able to send that signal that far it
bounced off Theonis for today. In nineteen eleven in India,
Delhi replaced Calcutta as the capital of India. It became

(05:37):
New Delhi in nineteen twenty seven. See, they had to
pretty much rebuild the whole city because make it the capital.
Nineteen twenty five, in San juis Obisco, California, Arthur Heindman.
He opened up the motel End. It was the world's
first motel. Arthur came up with motel between combining motor
and hotel. Nineteen forty six. Tied Laundryturget went on sale Sweden.

(05:59):
In nineteen forty nine, military airplane maker Sob they began
making cars. So for the first seven years that they
made cars, Yep, you could only get a car in green.

Speaker 4 (06:08):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
All the cars they sold seven years, they were all green. Yeah,
they had a lot of green paint left over from
World War Two. Nineteen eighty, Apple made their first stock offering,
went on sale at twenty two dollars a share. Now,
had you bought one share back then and held it
on for twenty two dollars, yeah, today it'd be worth
fifty and seventy six books. Twenty nineteen, in that Arctica
they found the lowest point of Earth, or land on

(06:30):
the Earth. So where the ground is, Yep, it's underneath
the Denmark Glacier. It's eleven thousand, five hundred feet below
sea level. Now they still list the Red Sea as
the lowest land on Earth, at four hundred and fifty
feet below seawell, because they think that if that glacier
ever melts, Yeah, it's just gonna make that a big lake.

Speaker 4 (06:48):
Go go cop, cop, goat shod this shiverf day.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
Please don't he left this shiver day. We won't simple
to this shivers day.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
You know we don't get work for well, let's check out.
It's born on December the twelfth.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
I traveled each and every highway.

Speaker 4 (07:13):
And are.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
Much more than this.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
I did it my.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
Way.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
The chairman on the board Old Blue Eyes, Frank Sinatra,
He's born a whole book of New Jersey. In nineteen fifteen,
one of the biggest entertainers of all time, Frank will
have sold over undred fifty million records. Some of his
classic kids are New York, New York, Strangers in the Night,
Love and Marriage, My Way Starting Over fifty Movies, Somewhere
Here to Return Today on the Town, Guys and Dolls,

(07:46):
The Original Ocean eleven Now. Frankie had three kids from
his first wife, Nancy Frake, Junior and Tina. Then he
married Ava gabar Ava Gardner for six years. Then he
married me At Farrell for two years, or his fourth
wife in nineteen seventy six. Frank died nineteen ninety eight
at eighty two years old from a heart attack. I
guess you call me just a game show ho was
Bob Barker. He was born in Darrington, Washington, in nineteen

(08:09):
twenty three. Hosted Truth or Consequences from nineteen fifty six
to seventy five, Then he hosted Prices Ride from seventy
two to two thousand and seven. Also hosted Miss USA
and Miss Universe Pages nineteen sixty seven to eighty seven.
Bobby started out just a regular radio DJ. You got
pulled Ondred TV doing game shows. Biggest movie it was
Happy Gilmour. If you remember he beat up Adam Sandler.

(08:30):
Bobby married nineteen forty five. His wife died in nineteen
eighty one. Bob died in twenty twenty three, ninety nine
years old, from Alzheimer's. That was Connie Francis nineteen sixty.

(08:57):
She became the first woman to have the number one
song on the Billboard Pop charts. Yeah, it was that one.
My heart is a mind of his own. Connie.

Speaker 3 (09:04):
She's eighty eight.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
She's still with us. She's born in Newark, New Jersey.
In nineteen thirty seven, she sold over one hundred million records.
I'm who's sorry now, stupid, cupid, don't break the heart
of the one who loves you. That's someone now.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
Connie.

Speaker 1 (09:17):
She was in love with Bobby Darren. They were gonna
e lope and go ahead and get married, but her
father found out about it. Yeah, it chased Bobby off
with a gun, so they went their separate raise. But
Connie never never did get over Bobby. Her first, second,
and fourth marriages all lasted one year. Her third layriage
it lasted seven years, and they had a son.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
May I say you lifore welcome and one just too well,
I say you.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
Dianne Warwick she's eighty five. She's born East Don, New
Jersey in nineteen forty still performs start back in nineteen
fifty five when she first hit the stage. Dion she
is the second most charted female singer during the rock era,
so that runs from nineteen fifty five to nineteen ninety five.
She charted fifty six songs, walk on by, do You
Know the Way to San Jose, then came you That's

(10:19):
what Friends Are Far. Yeah, there was some of Dion's
biggest chart toppers. Anyway, anyway they charted, That's all that matters.
Diana Ross, she charted the most songs during that time.
Now the all time most charted female artists, they have
Madonna Dion. She had a sister named Didi and she
was a successful singer. Her aunt was Sissy Houston, so
that made Whitney Houston her cousin.

Speaker 4 (10:41):
Dion.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
She married in nineteen sixty six. Then early in nineteen
sixty seven, they thought that was a mistake and they
went and got divorce. Well later in nineteen sixty seven,
they thought that was a mistake, so they went and
got remarried. Then they had two children, and then they
divorced again in nineteen seventy five.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
Class Shots.

Speaker 4 (11:02):
You wrong, the coms to scream, I Don't Messua Sycard.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
And he still sings lead for the New Way band
The Fix. So I was born in Wimbley, England or
no Wimbledon, England in nineteen fifty seven, sixty years. Yeah,
we're a co found of The Fix in nineteen seventy nine.
They were originally called The Portraits. Some of the fix
Its are red skies saved by zero. One thing leads
to another. Are we ourselves now?

Speaker 4 (11:37):
Say?

Speaker 1 (11:38):
He's at least seven solo albums on the side over
the years. Five these things too are just interstrumental. He's
married and they live in Santa Cruz, California. The Queen

(12:09):
of Percussion. She's also sixty eight. She's born in Oakland, California.
Now she has a drummer first, then a singer. She's
very adamant about that. She started playing drums professionally at
nineteen years old. And she's gonna be out and going
to the shows starting I think it's like January seventh
or something like that. She's starting early, so you can
check her out in All Spring in her early summer. Now,

(12:30):
she first got known when she played drums on Prince's
Purple Rain album. He saw her and he spun her
off into her own solo career. So she had the
glamorous life Love Bazaarre, hold Me Sex Symbol, and she
her and Prince they dated and they were actually engaged
for a little bit, but it just didn't work out.
Now since then, she's actually besides touring for herself, she's

(12:51):
actually been on Ringo Star's All Star Band. Yeah, she's
done a couple of tours with him. Actors Jennifer Conley.
She was born in Cairo, New York, in nineteen seventy
fifty five. She started modeling at ten. At fourteen, she
was in her first movie, Once Upon a Time in America.
She went an Oscar for the Beautiful Mind. She also
started in the rocketeer Labyreth Hulk Top Gun Maverick Jennifer.

(13:14):
She has a son from a boyfriend, and she married
actor Paul Betting in two thousand and three and they
have a son and a duffer. Actress miam Bi Alex
she's fifty. She's born in San Diego nineteen seventy five.
She has fifteen. She started on the TV show Blossom.
She was Blossom when Blossom ended after five season. Yeah,
she just went to college and got a doctorate in neuroscience. Yeah,

(13:34):
she's a brain doctor. Well, that show she was smart,
so they put her on the Big Bank Theory for
its last eight seasons. She hosed said the game Jeopardy
off and on for a couple of years. She was
married once for nine years and they had two sons.
All right her for the day because from country singer
Charlie Pride, you got.

Speaker 5 (13:53):
To kiss you good morning. Let her know you laying
about her when years he's an angels that morning, I
love her like the devil when you get back.

Speaker 1 (14:10):
Charlie died today in twenty twenty at eighty six years old.
He said, I was always a dreamer in childhood. Especially
people thought I was a little weird. Oh thank you
for listening today. Don't you have to follow us? Who
you listen to?

Speaker 3 (14:21):
Us?

Speaker 4 (14:21):
Sons?

Speaker 1 (14:22):
We're easy to find and go in and check out
today's show description. Our country or ground ready artists today
comes from Eli in Mississippi. He knows here. Joshua Martin song,
there's no words. You guys, have an awesome day and
we'll talk tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (14:35):
I've made some hard breaks. I failed deserve shame. I've
made some major stakes and this live. And when you're
going down, there's no life line. You can't leave the
past behind. Consider it be rob. There's no first to

(15:05):
express this her.

Speaker 6 (15:10):
Like being on the com we deserve all the good
walls will get used me. All you gotta do's to
be true. There's been some dark times, but I can

(15:30):
feel the sun shine from coming through.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
Now.

Speaker 3 (15:36):
I can feel the worms.

Speaker 6 (15:39):
They are standing in a line, so easy to judge
someone else's life.

Speaker 3 (15:49):
Without those fools.

Speaker 6 (15:57):
There's no expressives, wyn Bill, count you some morn
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