December 20, 2025 • 11 mins
National short girl appreciation day. Entertainment from 1967. Pan Am flight 103 Lackabie bombing, 1st basketball game played, 1st crossword puzzle printed. Todays birthdays - Phil Donahue, Jane Fonda, Frank Zappa, Samuel L. Jackson, Nick Gilder, Jane Kaczmarek, Lee Roy Parnell, Ray Romano, Keifer Sutherland. George S. Patton died. (2024)
Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard http://defleppard.com/
Short girls - Don Arndt
Day dream believer - The Monkees
For loving you - Bill Anderson Jan Howard
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
Don't eat the yellow snow - Frank Zappa
Samuel L. Jackson in Snakes on a plane
Hot child in the city - Nick Gilder
What kind of fool do you think I am - Lee Roy Parnell
Exit - It's not love - Dokken http://dokken.net/
Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard http://defleppard.com/
Short girls - Don Arndt
Day dream believer - The Monkees
For loving you - Bill Anderson Jan Howard
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
Don't eat the yellow snow - Frank Zappa
Samuel L. Jackson in Snakes on a plane
Hot child in the city - Nick Gilder
What kind of fool do you think I am - Lee Roy Parnell
Exit - It's not love - Dokken http://dokken.net/
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Happy first day of winter everyone, and thank you for
listening to history and fact dud it's about today.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Today is December the twenty first.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Short girls, long hand get me a time.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Short girls, long hand make me want to lose my mind.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Today is National Short Girl Appreciation Day. Short girls they're
invented by the Chinese back in the Ming Dynasty. I
have absolutely no idea where I'm supposed to go with
this today, Now show short girls. They sure are cute, though,
I'll give them that. I guess you can celebrate today
by getting something down from them off of high shelf.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Go.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yeah, I'm kind of digging a hole here on it. Now,
if you have a shorter lady in your life, you
gonna take a break from the holidays and have fun
celebrating her today.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
If your lady is tall, I guess she has to
wait till Christmas.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Now. It's not written in stone, but women around five
two are under are considered short. Some famous ones are
Brenda Lee, Ariana Grand Kylie Minot, Judy Garland, Paula Abdel,
Christina Aguilera, Little Kim Avril, Levine, Melissa McCarthy, Stevie Nicks,
Lady Gaga. Just some of that short women that we
all love. Now, do you think this is a coincidence
(01:25):
that today is also the first day of winter, which
is the shortest day of the year. Okay, this is
going on in entertainment. On December the twenty first, nineteen
sixty seven was the year.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
The number one album was.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Pisces Aquarius, Capricorn and Jones limited by the Monkeys. Monkeys
had the number one song with Daydream Believer.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Cheer Bitch.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Gill Anderson and Jan Howard had the number one country
song for Loving You.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I never really lived before before loving you, And for
loving you, my faith is a little stronger for a
world that could give you to me couldn't be as
bad as it's made out to be.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
The number one book was That Confessions of Nat Turner
by William Styron Todd. Movie was The Graduate, a recent
college graduate, He's in love with an older woman and
her daughter. Stars Dustin Hoffman and Bancroft and Catherine Russ. Okay,
what happened on December of the twenty first a YMCA
instructor named James Nasmith. He has given two weeks to
(02:47):
create a new game.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
The new game was to calm rowdy boys down needed
to be played indoors and keep athletes in shape, and
it couldn't be rough. Nate Smith he created basketball. He
called it that because when he asked for two boxes
of the Jane Ride two peach baskets. Now the first game
is played today in eighteen ninety one in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Now it had nine players on each side. The basket
still had the bottoms on them, so when somebody made
(03:10):
a basket, they had to get a ladder out and
then go get the ball out, and everyone that kind.
They ended up poking a hole in the bottom of
the basket, and that way they could just use a
broom handle to pop the ball out. They used a
soccer ball. Now you can only pass, yeah, dribbling. It
won't be invented in basketball for ten more years. As
in nineteen oh one eighteen ninety eight, in France, scientist
Pierre and his wife Marie Curry discovered radium. Pierre he
(03:33):
got off easy, see he got run over by a
horse and carried six years later Ray though she had
a long, agonizing death because of her exposure to radium.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
But you did win a Nobel.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Prize, so I guess you know Class half Full. Nineteen
oh nine in Berkeley, California, they created the first junior
high school grade seventh through nine. Nineteen thirteen, the New
York World newspaper printed the first crossword puzzle instant hit.
Nineteen seventy Elvis Presley, he met Richard Nixon in the
White House. Now the photo of those two shaking hands
in the Oval Office. It is the most requested photo
(04:04):
from the entire National Archives. Nineteen eighty eight as pan
Am flight one O three, it was flying over Lockerbie, Scotland.
A bomb planted on the plane by a terrorist exploded.
All two hundred and fifty nine passenger on crew were killed.
Eleven people on the ground were killed from falling debris.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Libya did it.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Joe joke joke joke show Dish Shivers Day.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Please don't pause. He left this shiverfday. We got simple cars.
He let Thish shibirth day.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
And you you don't do that? Worth to you?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Let's see what's born on December the twenty first TV
personality Phil down to you. He's born in Cleveland, Ohio,
in nineteen thirty five. Before there was Oprah, there was Phil.
He started his daytime talk show back in nineteen sixty seven.
It was the first TV talk show to actually include
the audience for participation and that kind of stuff. Now, Phil,
he was really liberal and he just loved to get
(04:57):
liberals and conservatives to really go at it. But he
we would even take the conservative side if he thought
I'd get everything more fired up. His show ended in
nineteen ninety six after twenty six years, and it was
seven thousand shows. They couldn't compete with Oprah Now. He
married his first wife for seventeen years and they had
five children. Then he married that girl, Marlo Thomas in
nineteen eighty. Phil he just died a couple months ago
(05:18):
in August, following a very long illness. He was eighty
eight years old. Actress Jane Fonda. She's eighty seven. She
was born in New York City in nineteen thirty seven.
Her dad was actor Henry Fonder. Her brother was actor
Peter Fonda. She's won two Oscars for Cloute and Coming Home.
She was nominated for Oscars for They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Julia the China Syndrome on Golden Pond The Morning After Now.
(05:39):
In the nineteen eighties, she was the exercise Queen videotapes
they had actually just come out, and she was one
of the first smart ones. She jumped right on that
band logging. Everybody owned Jane Fonda exercise videos. Now, she
had a daughter from her first husband. Three days after
that divorce, she had to marry the second husband because
she was already pregnant with his kid. They had a
son and a daughter before they divorce. Then she married
(06:00):
Ted Turner for ten years dead.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Handling all the lights. The man's too low, and she
said with the two watch up well, Hus's old. Don't
you weak that yellow snow? Watch up well, Hussy's old.
Don't you weak that yellow snow.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
That was frank Zeppa. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland,
in nineteen forty. He released sixty two albums while he
was alive. Since he died, his trust has released another
fifty seven albums Now. He married a second wife in
nineteen sixty seven and they had four children. He's probably
heard Moon Unit and to Weasel. Frankie died from prostate
cancer nineteen ninety three and fifty two years old. Now,
(06:43):
frank he was one playing the concert in Switzerland that
caused the band Deep Purple would write that song Smoke
on the Water. Yeah, it was during his show that
someone fired off the flare gun that burned that whole
damn thing down.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Enough is enough. I haven't had it with these munkey
fighting snakes on this Monday to Friday fight. Everybody's strapping in.
How about the open some freaking windows.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Shakespearean actor Samuel L. Jackson is seventy six. He was
born in Washington, d c. In nineteen forty eight. Grew
up in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Get this.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
He was almost forty years old before he made his
movie debut. It was a really small part in the
movie Coming to America. Since then, he's been in over
one hundred and fifty movies, and those movies have made
twenty seven billion dollars. That makes Samuel L. Jackson the
highest grossing actor of all time. He was nominated for
an Oscar for Pulp Fiction. He married nineteen eighty and
they have one daughter.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
I don't know game from what has game?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
That's Nick Gilder. He was born in London, England, in
nineteen fifty one. He's seventy three today. Grew up in Vancouver, Canada.
Start out sing a lid for the glam band Swingty Todde.
They had the big hit Roxy Roller. Then in nineteen
seventy seven Nick wet solo he has Hot Child in
the City, Here Comes the Night You Really Rock Me?
And in two thousand Nick and the rest of the
guys on Swey Time they got back together.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
They still are.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
If you want to go see him and just go
up to Canada. They only they don't come to the
States very often. Actress James because Merrick. She's sixty nine.
She was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in nineteen fifty five.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
She's most known.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
For playing the mom and the sitcom Malcolm in the Middle.
Some of her movies are Falling in Love, The Heavenly Kid,
Vice versa. She was married for seventeen years and they
had three children. You think.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Falling game. Country singer Leroy Parnell. He was born in.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Abilene, Texas, in nineteen fifty six. Sixty eight year old
got his first record deal in nineteen eighty nine, and
he had a lot of success in the nineteen nineties.
Some OF's biggest hits are what kind of fool do
you think? I am? Tender Molent, I'm holding my own
little Bit of You. Leeright married nineteen ninety. Actor comedian
Ray Romelino. He's sixty seven. He's born in Queens, New
(09:16):
York in nineteen fifty seven. Ray started out as a
sixth seven successful stand up comedian.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Well he still is.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
I think he usually just plays Vegas though, but he
does do a stand up act still, and he got
his own TV show, Everybody Loves Raymond. After that he
did a Parenthood and then gets Shorty. He's voiced Manny
in all the Ice Age movies. Got married in nineteen
eighty seven and they have four children. Actor Keifer Sutherland.
He's fifty eight. He was born in Buddington, England, in
nineteen sixty six. Now, his parents were both Canadian, so yeah,
(09:45):
his dad was actor Donald Southern. His mom was actually
a pretty known Canadian actress, so he grew up in
Canada and California, mostly split his time there.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Keifer.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
He made his acting debut alongside Matthew Broderick in the
movie Max Dugan Returns. It also started his dad Donald.
Then he did Stand by Me, Lost Boys, the Young
Guns movies. Now I think he for his best movie
is Phone Boot. Now he hit really really big on
TV when he played Jack Bauer on twenty four He
had a daughter from his first wife, married his second
wife for about eight years now he's been engaged to
(10:15):
what could be his third wife, but they've been engaged
since twenty fourteen. Now, have you watched Rudolf the Red
Nose Reindeer yet this year? Well, if you haven't, or
if you want to watch him again. The only elf
in the entire show without pointy years is Hermie. Yeah,
the elf that wants to be a dentist. All this
ELF's pointy years except Hermie not so much. All right,
thank you for listening today. Don't forget to follow us on.
(10:35):
Whoever you've listened to is on. Don't forget Country Underground Radio,
the best internet radio station there is for independent country music.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
General George S. Patten.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
He died to day in nineteen forty five at sixty
years old. Georgie said, the object of war is not
to die for your country, No is to make that
other bastard die for his You guys, have an awesome day,
and we'll talk tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
In stim
Happy first day of winter everyone, and thank you for
listening to history and fact dud it's about today.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Today is December the twenty first.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Short girls, long hand get me a time.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Short girls, long hand make me want to lose my mind.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Today is National Short Girl Appreciation Day. Short girls they're
invented by the Chinese back in the Ming Dynasty. I
have absolutely no idea where I'm supposed to go with
this today, Now show short girls. They sure are cute, though,
I'll give them that. I guess you can celebrate today
by getting something down from them off of high shelf.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Go.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yeah, I'm kind of digging a hole here on it. Now,
if you have a shorter lady in your life, you
gonna take a break from the holidays and have fun
celebrating her today.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
If your lady is tall, I guess she has to
wait till Christmas.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Now. It's not written in stone, but women around five
two are under are considered short. Some famous ones are
Brenda Lee, Ariana Grand Kylie Minot, Judy Garland, Paula Abdel,
Christina Aguilera, Little Kim Avril, Levine, Melissa McCarthy, Stevie Nicks,
Lady Gaga. Just some of that short women that we
all love. Now, do you think this is a coincidence
(01:25):
that today is also the first day of winter, which
is the shortest day of the year. Okay, this is
going on in entertainment. On December the twenty first, nineteen
sixty seven was the year.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
The number one album was.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Pisces Aquarius, Capricorn and Jones limited by the Monkeys. Monkeys
had the number one song with Daydream Believer.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Cheer Bitch.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Gill Anderson and Jan Howard had the number one country
song for Loving You.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I never really lived before before loving you, And for
loving you, my faith is a little stronger for a
world that could give you to me couldn't be as
bad as it's made out to be.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
The number one book was That Confessions of Nat Turner
by William Styron Todd. Movie was The Graduate, a recent
college graduate, He's in love with an older woman and
her daughter. Stars Dustin Hoffman and Bancroft and Catherine Russ. Okay,
what happened on December of the twenty first a YMCA
instructor named James Nasmith. He has given two weeks to
(02:47):
create a new game.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
The new game was to calm rowdy boys down needed
to be played indoors and keep athletes in shape, and
it couldn't be rough. Nate Smith he created basketball. He
called it that because when he asked for two boxes
of the Jane Ride two peach baskets. Now the first game
is played today in eighteen ninety one in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Now it had nine players on each side. The basket
still had the bottoms on them, so when somebody made
(03:10):
a basket, they had to get a ladder out and
then go get the ball out, and everyone that kind.
They ended up poking a hole in the bottom of
the basket, and that way they could just use a
broom handle to pop the ball out. They used a
soccer ball. Now you can only pass, yeah, dribbling. It
won't be invented in basketball for ten more years. As
in nineteen oh one eighteen ninety eight, in France, scientist
Pierre and his wife Marie Curry discovered radium. Pierre he
(03:33):
got off easy, see he got run over by a
horse and carried six years later Ray though she had
a long, agonizing death because of her exposure to radium.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
But you did win a Nobel.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Prize, so I guess you know Class half Full. Nineteen
oh nine in Berkeley, California, they created the first junior
high school grade seventh through nine. Nineteen thirteen, the New
York World newspaper printed the first crossword puzzle instant hit.
Nineteen seventy Elvis Presley, he met Richard Nixon in the
White House. Now the photo of those two shaking hands
in the Oval Office. It is the most requested photo
(04:04):
from the entire National Archives. Nineteen eighty eight as pan
Am flight one O three, it was flying over Lockerbie, Scotland.
A bomb planted on the plane by a terrorist exploded.
All two hundred and fifty nine passenger on crew were killed.
Eleven people on the ground were killed from falling debris.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Libya did it.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Joe joke joke joke show Dish Shivers Day.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Please don't pause. He left this shiverfday. We got simple cars.
He let Thish shibirth day.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
And you you don't do that? Worth to you?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Let's see what's born on December the twenty first TV
personality Phil down to you. He's born in Cleveland, Ohio,
in nineteen thirty five. Before there was Oprah, there was Phil.
He started his daytime talk show back in nineteen sixty seven.
It was the first TV talk show to actually include
the audience for participation and that kind of stuff. Now, Phil,
he was really liberal and he just loved to get
(04:57):
liberals and conservatives to really go at it. But he
we would even take the conservative side if he thought
I'd get everything more fired up. His show ended in
nineteen ninety six after twenty six years, and it was
seven thousand shows. They couldn't compete with Oprah Now. He
married his first wife for seventeen years and they had
five children. Then he married that girl, Marlo Thomas in
nineteen eighty. Phil he just died a couple months ago
(05:18):
in August, following a very long illness. He was eighty
eight years old. Actress Jane Fonda. She's eighty seven. She
was born in New York City in nineteen thirty seven.
Her dad was actor Henry Fonder. Her brother was actor
Peter Fonda. She's won two Oscars for Cloute and Coming Home.
She was nominated for Oscars for They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Julia the China Syndrome on Golden Pond The Morning After Now.
(05:39):
In the nineteen eighties, she was the exercise Queen videotapes
they had actually just come out, and she was one
of the first smart ones. She jumped right on that
band logging. Everybody owned Jane Fonda exercise videos. Now, she
had a daughter from her first husband. Three days after
that divorce, she had to marry the second husband because
she was already pregnant with his kid. They had a
son and a daughter before they divorce. Then she married
(06:00):
Ted Turner for ten years dead.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Handling all the lights. The man's too low, and she
said with the two watch up well, Hus's old. Don't
you weak that yellow snow? Watch up well, Hussy's old.
Don't you weak that yellow snow.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
That was frank Zeppa. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland,
in nineteen forty. He released sixty two albums while he
was alive. Since he died, his trust has released another
fifty seven albums Now. He married a second wife in
nineteen sixty seven and they had four children. He's probably
heard Moon Unit and to Weasel. Frankie died from prostate
cancer nineteen ninety three and fifty two years old. Now,
(06:43):
frank he was one playing the concert in Switzerland that
caused the band Deep Purple would write that song Smoke
on the Water. Yeah, it was during his show that
someone fired off the flare gun that burned that whole
damn thing down.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Enough is enough. I haven't had it with these munkey
fighting snakes on this Monday to Friday fight. Everybody's strapping in.
How about the open some freaking windows.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Shakespearean actor Samuel L. Jackson is seventy six. He was
born in Washington, d c. In nineteen forty eight. Grew
up in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Get this.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
He was almost forty years old before he made his
movie debut. It was a really small part in the
movie Coming to America. Since then, he's been in over
one hundred and fifty movies, and those movies have made
twenty seven billion dollars. That makes Samuel L. Jackson the
highest grossing actor of all time. He was nominated for
an Oscar for Pulp Fiction. He married nineteen eighty and
they have one daughter.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
I don't know game from what has game?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
That's Nick Gilder. He was born in London, England, in
nineteen fifty one. He's seventy three today. Grew up in Vancouver, Canada.
Start out sing a lid for the glam band Swingty Todde.
They had the big hit Roxy Roller. Then in nineteen
seventy seven Nick wet solo he has Hot Child in
the City, Here Comes the Night You Really Rock Me?
And in two thousand Nick and the rest of the
guys on Swey Time they got back together.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
They still are.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
If you want to go see him and just go
up to Canada. They only they don't come to the
States very often. Actress James because Merrick. She's sixty nine.
She was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in nineteen fifty five.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
She's most known.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
For playing the mom and the sitcom Malcolm in the Middle.
Some of her movies are Falling in Love, The Heavenly Kid,
Vice versa. She was married for seventeen years and they
had three children. You think.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Falling game. Country singer Leroy Parnell. He was born in.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Abilene, Texas, in nineteen fifty six. Sixty eight year old
got his first record deal in nineteen eighty nine, and
he had a lot of success in the nineteen nineties.
Some OF's biggest hits are what kind of fool do
you think? I am? Tender Molent, I'm holding my own
little Bit of You. Leeright married nineteen ninety. Actor comedian
Ray Romelino. He's sixty seven. He's born in Queens, New
(09:16):
York in nineteen fifty seven. Ray started out as a
sixth seven successful stand up comedian.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Well he still is.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
I think he usually just plays Vegas though, but he
does do a stand up act still, and he got
his own TV show, Everybody Loves Raymond. After that he
did a Parenthood and then gets Shorty. He's voiced Manny
in all the Ice Age movies. Got married in nineteen
eighty seven and they have four children. Actor Keifer Sutherland.
He's fifty eight. He was born in Buddington, England, in
nineteen sixty six. Now, his parents were both Canadian, so yeah,
(09:45):
his dad was actor Donald Southern. His mom was actually
a pretty known Canadian actress, so he grew up in
Canada and California, mostly split his time there.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Keifer.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
He made his acting debut alongside Matthew Broderick in the
movie Max Dugan Returns. It also started his dad Donald.
Then he did Stand by Me, Lost Boys, the Young
Guns movies. Now I think he for his best movie
is Phone Boot. Now he hit really really big on
TV when he played Jack Bauer on twenty four He
had a daughter from his first wife, married his second
wife for about eight years now he's been engaged to
(10:15):
what could be his third wife, but they've been engaged
since twenty fourteen. Now, have you watched Rudolf the Red
Nose Reindeer yet this year? Well, if you haven't, or
if you want to watch him again. The only elf
in the entire show without pointy years is Hermie. Yeah,
the elf that wants to be a dentist. All this
ELF's pointy years except Hermie not so much. All right,
thank you for listening today. Don't forget to follow us on.
(10:35):
Whoever you've listened to is on. Don't forget Country Underground Radio,
the best internet radio station there is for independent country music.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
General George S. Patten.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
He died to day in nineteen forty five at sixty
years old. Georgie said, the object of war is not
to die for your country, No is to make that
other bastard die for his You guys, have an awesome day,
and we'll talk tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
In stim
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