December 21, 2025 • 12 mins
National cookie exchange day. Entertainment from 2003. 1st cloned cat, Shoe bomber Richard Reid caught, Perferatted toilet paper invented. Todays birthdays - Barbara Billingsly, Hacksaw Hawkins, Gene Rayburn, Hector Elizondo, Robin & Maurice Gibb, Luther Campbell, Ralph Fiennes, Meghan Trainor. Joe Cocker died. (2022)
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Well greetings everybody. I am definitely welcome to the History
of Fact. It is about today, presented by Cool Country Radio.
Today's December the twenty second.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I took the cookie from the cookie jar, the yummy,
yummy cookie from the cookie chart. Are you hungry? Let's share? Okay,
who wants some cookie? Cookie?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
See?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Here you go?
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
It's National Cookie Exchange Day now cookies. They've been exchanged
since the Middle Ages over the Christmas holiday, so today
is actually pretty cool. Everyone just gives each other cookies.
Works out really well for me. My cookies are kind
of bland and basic, but I got some really good
cookies in return. So don't worry about your diet today.
Just have fun trading cookies. See what was going on
(00:59):
on pop culture on December twenty second. Let's go back
the year two thousand and three. Top selling toy was RoboSapien.
Outcast had the number one song with Hey Yeah, don't.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Try to bag a bit just then on and DV
right now God from Mom and Papa can do together
because we don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Kenny Chesney had the number one country song, but there
Goes My Life.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
There Goes Live, There Go Love Everything.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Mane as well.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
He said, there goes mi.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Oh grad The number one book it was Blowfly by
Patricia Cornwell. Top movie was Lord of the Rings The
Return of the King Gandalph and Aragon. They have to
distract Saron's army as Fredo and Sam approached Mount Doom
with the One Ring stars Elijah Wood, Ego, Martin Son
and Ian McKellen. It had happened in the world on
December of the twenty second. It's eighteen eighty two. Edward Johnson.
(02:20):
He asked Tom and A Sedatives then to make a
string of lights for his Christmas tree back home. So
you know, the first string of Christmas lights had eighty red,
white and blue light bulbs on it. Eighteen ninety one.
Who ah, you looked ahead, didn't you. Eighteen ninety one
Seth Wheeler he invented perforated toilet paper. Now you could
easily tear the sheets off. Now, when Americans were saluting
(02:42):
the American flag or reading the Pledge of Allegiance, they
would use what was called the Bellamy salute. What they'd
do is they'd put their right arm straight out with
the palm down. Well, then in nineteen forty two it
was noticed that that Bellamy salute hit looked a hole
out like the German Nazi salute in Italy's fascist s loute.
So America decided no way to want to be identified
with that. So from now on, all Americans just put
(03:03):
your hand over your heart when you salute the flag.
Nineteen forty four, in the Battle of the Bolt the
Germans had the US one hundred and first air born.
They were completely surrounded. The Germans sent an ultimatum to
US Brigadier General Anthony mccaliffe, telling him either to surrender
immediately or free faced complete annihilation. Mccaull sent back a
message to the Germans that read two German commanders nuts,
(03:26):
the American commander well, the US fighting one and verse.
They held off the Germans and the United States won
the Battle of the Bolts. It pretty much ended in
Germany's any kind of chance for making any kind of
assault ever again on the Western Front. Nineteen fifty six,
the first gorilla was born in captivity at the Columbus
Zoo in Ohio. Now they named the gorilla Colo. She
(03:47):
was rejected by her mothers. Those zoo keepers had to
hand raise her. She had a nice life. She lives
until she was twenty seventeen at sixty years old. Now
in really creepy news. Now, the first cloned pet was
born in two thousand thousand and one, called c C
the cat. CC. It stands for carbon copy. CC was
cloned by a scientists at Texas N A and M
(04:08):
University in two thousand and six. She did give one
literate kittens, and then she died in twenty nineteen at
eighteen years old. Still creepy. Also in two thousand and one,
though not creepy, just kind of pisses you off. The
shoe bomber Richard Reid, he tried to blow up American
Airlines Flight sixty three in a mid air flight. He's
trying to light his shoe on fire. They had had
(04:29):
explosives in it, but because of the sweat from his feet,
the explosives were damp and they wouldn't ignight passengers and crew.
They were able to tie him up for the rest
of the flight.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Go coat coat, coat.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Coat coat shage.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
This shiverf day, were gonna pause. He left this shiver day.
We don't sit with targe. He's like, it's shivers day,
and you know, we don't give up because that birthday.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
All right, let's see he was born on July the
twenty second. That is the theme song to Leave It
to Beaver. Actress Barbara Billingsley was born in Los Angeles
in nineteen fifteen. After over ten years of getting just
(05:13):
bit parts, she finally landed the mom on the TV
show Leave It to Beaver. Then she was the mom
on the new Leave It to Beaver. She was on
The Muppet Babies for about seven years. She was in
the movie Airplane Too. She's the one who spoke jive.
She had two sons from her first marriage, married a
third husband in nineteen fifty nine and they were together
until he died in nineteen eighty one. Barbara, she died
of polymialgia in twenty ten, at ninety four years old.
(05:35):
Game show host Jean Raybourne. He was born in Christopher,
Illinois in nineteen seventeen. Started out on radio, best known
for the TV game show Match Game, Though hosted for
almost twenty years, he listened to other game shows too,
but they really weren't very successful. He married his wife
for fifty six years before she passed away. They had
one daughter. Jean died of heart failure in nineteen ninety
nine and eighty one years old.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Keep me waiting until let's get agra Euroslo cold ah, wait, worry,
but you never seemed to burry Rosso time means nothing
to you. Away and they lay again.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
That is country singer hecksa Hockins, ticking off all the women.
It's still the same hack side hasn't changed in all
those years. He was born in Huntington, West Virginia in
nineteen twenty one. Now he had a really imposing stage.
President was six feet five. Yeah, that was really tough
for back in that day. It's well it's tall now too.
But started going pro nineteen forty Religs nineteen forty six,
(06:42):
started relieving his hits. Some of his biggest hits were
The Doghouse Boogie, The Wasted Nickel, Slow Poke, Lonesome seven
seven two old three. He married country singer Gene Shepherd.
Then in nineteen sixty three Hawkins he was killed in
the plane crash that killed Patsy Klein. Hawkins is forty
one years old. His wife, Jean, she gave birth to
their son a month after he was killed. Actor Hector
(07:03):
Alizondo he's eighty six years old. He's born in New
York City in nineteen thirty six on TV. He was
on Chicago Hope for six years, then he was on
Last Man Standing for ten. Some of his movies American Jigglow,
Pretty Woman, Beverly Hills, Cop Two. He's in both The
Prince's Diary movies. Hector had his son from his first wife.
He is married to his third wife since nineteen sixty nine.
(07:46):
Robin and Maurice Gibb. They were fraternal twins. Robin was
thirty five minutes older than Maurice. They were born on
the Isle of Man in nineteen forty nine. Grew up
in Australia. Barry Gibb he was three years older, and
Andy Gibb he was nine years younger. Barry, Robin and
Maurice they formed the Beg's in nineteen fifty eight. Yeah,
if you do the math, they were nine years old,
the twins were. But get this, two years later they
(08:09):
charted a song on the Australian charts. It's called three
Kisses of Love made it up to ninety eight. Now,
all of the years in the sixties, especially the Beaches,
they had decent success on the Australian charts down there,
but nothing huge and then disco hit now the bjs
of Begs of Solo wear two undred and forty million records.
Robin his first wife him. They were married for twelve
(08:30):
years and had two children. He married his second wife
in eighteen eighty five and they had a son. Then
for just fun of it, I guess he had a
daughter off on the side on her she kept him around.
He died of kidney thayer in twenty twelve at sixty
two years old. Now Maurice, he married the pop star
Lulu Yeah. They were married for four years. Then he
married his second wife in nineteen seventy five. They had
(08:50):
two children. Maurice died from a twisted in Testine in
two thousand and three at fifty three years old.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
I don't tell you them, mom, but without one but to.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Sex, you have no idea how hard it is to
find a clean version of that song. That is rapper
Luther Campbell. He was born in nineteen sixty in Miami, Florida.
Sixty to You kind of started out as a really
small time concert promoter and manager. Then two Live Crew
(09:33):
came through Florida, so we joined him in nineteen eighty six.
Their third album, it was as nasty as it wants
to be. It's the first and only album in history
to be legally obscene. That's right. That was the verdict. Well,
a couple of years later the verdict was overturned. Luther
he went solo in the early nineteen nineties and it's
really stayed album since. He's done fairly well on the
hip hop charts. Lutherree got married in two thousand and
(09:55):
eight and they have one child. Actor Ralph Fines. He
was born Ipswich, England in ninety sixty two. Happy sixtieth birthday.
Started out as a Shakespearean actor. Then I guess he
decided he wanted to make some money and so when
he into real movies. It's been nominated for Oscars for
Schindler's List in the English Patient he was in a
bunch of the Harry Potter movies, played Lord Voldemart. He
(10:15):
was in The Avengers not Time to Die. It was
in two lego movies. He played No. He was married
for four years back in the nineties.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Straight come by.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Showmans and go ahead, because you know I'm all of
bad daveys ba daves no shubble. I'm allowing ba daves
ba Daves.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Megan Trainer's twenty nine years old. She was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts,
in nineteen ninety three. Twenty fifteen, she released her first album.
She released four more sins. Some of her biggest hits
are all about the bass lips are moving now and
like I'm gonna lose you. Megan. She got married in
twenty eighteen. And they have a little boy. All right,
Today's stupid fact toy that's gonna win you a beer.
(11:08):
Flamingos they can only eat with their heads upside down. Well,
thank you for joining us today. We appreciate you. Make
sure you subscriber, follow us on whoever you listen to
us on You Get a Chance dot by Coolmedia dot com.
That's cool. Three of them. See what's going on on
the radio stations. On the other podcast. Let's end with
a singer, Joe Cocker.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
S chef.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Head on Chilly Kelly.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Joe died today in twenty fourteen. A's seventy years old. Now,
if you're gonna have cabin fever, have a big cabin.
Will you guys all have yourselves an awesome day and
we'll talk tomorrow. Nomenonon nomenon
Well greetings everybody. I am definitely welcome to the History
of Fact. It is about today, presented by Cool Country Radio.
Today's December the twenty second.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I took the cookie from the cookie jar, the yummy,
yummy cookie from the cookie chart. Are you hungry? Let's share? Okay,
who wants some cookie? Cookie?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
See?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Here you go?
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
It's National Cookie Exchange Day now cookies. They've been exchanged
since the Middle Ages over the Christmas holiday, so today
is actually pretty cool. Everyone just gives each other cookies.
Works out really well for me. My cookies are kind
of bland and basic, but I got some really good
cookies in return. So don't worry about your diet today.
Just have fun trading cookies. See what was going on
(00:59):
on pop culture on December twenty second. Let's go back
the year two thousand and three. Top selling toy was RoboSapien.
Outcast had the number one song with Hey Yeah, don't.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Try to bag a bit just then on and DV
right now God from Mom and Papa can do together
because we don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Kenny Chesney had the number one country song, but there
Goes My Life.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
There Goes Live, There Go Love Everything.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Mane as well.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
He said, there goes mi.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Oh grad The number one book it was Blowfly by
Patricia Cornwell. Top movie was Lord of the Rings The
Return of the King Gandalph and Aragon. They have to
distract Saron's army as Fredo and Sam approached Mount Doom
with the One Ring stars Elijah Wood, Ego, Martin Son
and Ian McKellen. It had happened in the world on
December of the twenty second. It's eighteen eighty two. Edward Johnson.
(02:20):
He asked Tom and A Sedatives then to make a
string of lights for his Christmas tree back home. So
you know, the first string of Christmas lights had eighty red,
white and blue light bulbs on it. Eighteen ninety one.
Who ah, you looked ahead, didn't you. Eighteen ninety one
Seth Wheeler he invented perforated toilet paper. Now you could
easily tear the sheets off. Now, when Americans were saluting
(02:42):
the American flag or reading the Pledge of Allegiance, they
would use what was called the Bellamy salute. What they'd
do is they'd put their right arm straight out with
the palm down. Well, then in nineteen forty two it
was noticed that that Bellamy salute hit looked a hole
out like the German Nazi salute in Italy's fascist s loute.
So America decided no way to want to be identified
with that. So from now on, all Americans just put
(03:03):
your hand over your heart when you salute the flag.
Nineteen forty four, in the Battle of the Bolt the
Germans had the US one hundred and first air born.
They were completely surrounded. The Germans sent an ultimatum to
US Brigadier General Anthony mccaliffe, telling him either to surrender
immediately or free faced complete annihilation. Mccaull sent back a
message to the Germans that read two German commanders nuts,
(03:26):
the American commander well, the US fighting one and verse.
They held off the Germans and the United States won
the Battle of the Bolts. It pretty much ended in
Germany's any kind of chance for making any kind of
assault ever again on the Western Front. Nineteen fifty six,
the first gorilla was born in captivity at the Columbus
Zoo in Ohio. Now they named the gorilla Colo. She
(03:47):
was rejected by her mothers. Those zoo keepers had to
hand raise her. She had a nice life. She lives
until she was twenty seventeen at sixty years old. Now
in really creepy news. Now, the first cloned pet was
born in two thousand thousand and one, called c C
the cat. CC. It stands for carbon copy. CC was
cloned by a scientists at Texas N A and M
(04:08):
University in two thousand and six. She did give one
literate kittens, and then she died in twenty nineteen at
eighteen years old. Still creepy. Also in two thousand and one,
though not creepy, just kind of pisses you off. The
shoe bomber Richard Reid, he tried to blow up American
Airlines Flight sixty three in a mid air flight. He's
trying to light his shoe on fire. They had had
(04:29):
explosives in it, but because of the sweat from his feet,
the explosives were damp and they wouldn't ignight passengers and crew.
They were able to tie him up for the rest
of the flight.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Go coat coat, coat.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Coat coat shage.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
This shiverf day, were gonna pause. He left this shiver day.
We don't sit with targe. He's like, it's shivers day,
and you know, we don't give up because that birthday.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
All right, let's see he was born on July the
twenty second. That is the theme song to Leave It
to Beaver. Actress Barbara Billingsley was born in Los Angeles
in nineteen fifteen. After over ten years of getting just
(05:13):
bit parts, she finally landed the mom on the TV
show Leave It to Beaver. Then she was the mom
on the new Leave It to Beaver. She was on
The Muppet Babies for about seven years. She was in
the movie Airplane Too. She's the one who spoke jive.
She had two sons from her first marriage, married a
third husband in nineteen fifty nine and they were together
until he died in nineteen eighty one. Barbara, she died
of polymialgia in twenty ten, at ninety four years old.
(05:35):
Game show host Jean Raybourne. He was born in Christopher,
Illinois in nineteen seventeen. Started out on radio, best known
for the TV game show Match Game, Though hosted for
almost twenty years, he listened to other game shows too,
but they really weren't very successful. He married his wife
for fifty six years before she passed away. They had
one daughter. Jean died of heart failure in nineteen ninety
nine and eighty one years old.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Keep me waiting until let's get agra Euroslo cold ah, wait, worry,
but you never seemed to burry Rosso time means nothing
to you. Away and they lay again.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
That is country singer hecksa Hockins, ticking off all the women.
It's still the same hack side hasn't changed in all
those years. He was born in Huntington, West Virginia in
nineteen twenty one. Now he had a really imposing stage.
President was six feet five. Yeah, that was really tough
for back in that day. It's well it's tall now too.
But started going pro nineteen forty Religs nineteen forty six,
(06:42):
started relieving his hits. Some of his biggest hits were
The Doghouse Boogie, The Wasted Nickel, Slow Poke, Lonesome seven
seven two old three. He married country singer Gene Shepherd.
Then in nineteen sixty three Hawkins he was killed in
the plane crash that killed Patsy Klein. Hawkins is forty
one years old. His wife, Jean, she gave birth to
their son a month after he was killed. Actor Hector
(07:03):
Alizondo he's eighty six years old. He's born in New
York City in nineteen thirty six on TV. He was
on Chicago Hope for six years, then he was on
Last Man Standing for ten. Some of his movies American Jigglow,
Pretty Woman, Beverly Hills, Cop Two. He's in both The
Prince's Diary movies. Hector had his son from his first wife.
He is married to his third wife since nineteen sixty nine.
(07:46):
Robin and Maurice Gibb. They were fraternal twins. Robin was
thirty five minutes older than Maurice. They were born on
the Isle of Man in nineteen forty nine. Grew up
in Australia. Barry Gibb he was three years older, and
Andy Gibb he was nine years younger. Barry, Robin and
Maurice they formed the Beg's in nineteen fifty eight. Yeah,
if you do the math, they were nine years old,
the twins were. But get this, two years later they
(08:09):
charted a song on the Australian charts. It's called three
Kisses of Love made it up to ninety eight. Now,
all of the years in the sixties, especially the Beaches,
they had decent success on the Australian charts down there,
but nothing huge and then disco hit now the bjs
of Begs of Solo wear two undred and forty million records.
Robin his first wife him. They were married for twelve
(08:30):
years and had two children. He married his second wife
in eighteen eighty five and they had a son. Then
for just fun of it, I guess he had a
daughter off on the side on her she kept him around.
He died of kidney thayer in twenty twelve at sixty
two years old. Now Maurice, he married the pop star
Lulu Yeah. They were married for four years. Then he
married his second wife in nineteen seventy five. They had
(08:50):
two children. Maurice died from a twisted in Testine in
two thousand and three at fifty three years old.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
I don't tell you them, mom, but without one but to.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Sex, you have no idea how hard it is to
find a clean version of that song. That is rapper
Luther Campbell. He was born in nineteen sixty in Miami, Florida.
Sixty to You kind of started out as a really
small time concert promoter and manager. Then two Live Crew
(09:33):
came through Florida, so we joined him in nineteen eighty six.
Their third album, it was as nasty as it wants
to be. It's the first and only album in history
to be legally obscene. That's right. That was the verdict. Well,
a couple of years later the verdict was overturned. Luther
he went solo in the early nineteen nineties and it's
really stayed album since. He's done fairly well on the
hip hop charts. Lutherree got married in two thousand and
(09:55):
eight and they have one child. Actor Ralph Fines. He
was born Ipswich, England in ninety sixty two. Happy sixtieth birthday.
Started out as a Shakespearean actor. Then I guess he
decided he wanted to make some money and so when
he into real movies. It's been nominated for Oscars for
Schindler's List in the English Patient he was in a
bunch of the Harry Potter movies, played Lord Voldemart. He
(10:15):
was in The Avengers not Time to Die. It was
in two lego movies. He played No. He was married
for four years back in the nineties.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Straight come by.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Showmans and go ahead, because you know I'm all of
bad daveys ba daves no shubble. I'm allowing ba daves
ba Daves.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Megan Trainer's twenty nine years old. She was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts,
in nineteen ninety three. Twenty fifteen, she released her first album.
She released four more sins. Some of her biggest hits
are all about the bass lips are moving now and
like I'm gonna lose you. Megan. She got married in
twenty eighteen. And they have a little boy. All right,
Today's stupid fact toy that's gonna win you a beer.
(11:08):
Flamingos they can only eat with their heads upside down. Well,
thank you for joining us today. We appreciate you. Make
sure you subscriber, follow us on whoever you listen to
us on You Get a Chance dot by Coolmedia dot com.
That's cool. Three of them. See what's going on on
the radio stations. On the other podcast. Let's end with
a singer, Joe Cocker.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
S chef.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Head on Chilly Kelly.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Joe died today in twenty fourteen. A's seventy years old. Now,
if you're gonna have cabin fever, have a big cabin.
Will you guys all have yourselves an awesome day and
we'll talk tomorrow. Nomenonon nomenon
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