December 27, 2025 • 11 mins
National Phone a friend day. Entertainment from 1968.1st Vice President to resign, Iowa became 29th state, dry cleaning invented. Todays birthdays - Woodrow Wilson, Stan Lee, Nichelle Nichols, Edgar Winter, Mary Weiss, Denzel Washington, Joe Diffie, Sienna Miller. John Madden died. (2024)
Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard https://defleppard.com/
I just called to say I love you - Stevie Wonder
I heard it through the grape vine - Marvin Gaye
Whichita Lineman - Glen Campbell
Birthday - The Beatles
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent https://www.50cent.com/
Free Ride - Edgar Winter
Leader of the pack - The Shangra Las
John Deere Green - Joe Diffie
Exit - In my dreams - Dokken https://www.dokken.net/
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Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard https://defleppard.com/
I just called to say I love you - Stevie Wonder
I heard it through the grape vine - Marvin Gaye
Whichita Lineman - Glen Campbell
Birthday - The Beatles
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent https://www.50cent.com/
Free Ride - Edgar Winter
Leader of the pack - The Shangra Las
John Deere Green - Joe Diffie
Exit - In my dreams - Dokken https://www.dokken.net/
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history. In fact,
it's about today pasent A by Cool Media. Today's December
the twenty eighth. I just go.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
To say.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
I love you.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I just call say much shockcase.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Today is National Call a Friend Day. It's pretty self explanatory.
In twenty fourteen, texting passive phone calls for the most
popular way to communicate. Yeah, not really personal. So with
the holiday is almost over, don't let twenty twenty four
in without calling a friend you haven't talked to you
in a while. I know it's gonna feel a little
awkward when you talk to someone you haven't spoken with
a long time, But that awkwardness at least, I just
(00:55):
remember it's always easier to call someone than it is
to say I wish I called them. Yeah, let's see
what happened in entertainment nine December of the twenty eighth.
That's about. In nineteen sixty eight, number one album was
The White Album from the Beatles. Marvin Gay had the
number one song with I Heard It through the Grapevine.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
It's a big Boss number.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Clint Gampbell had the number one country song with Whichita
Lineman I Hear You singing in the why.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I can't get through the one and which your tall line,
It's still on the line.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
The number one book was The Salzburg by Helen mcmare.
McKinnon's todd movie was Oliver a young orphan Oliver Twist.
He has sold to a mortician, then he runs away
and joins a group of boys who are trained his pickpockets.
It's a musical based on Charles Dickens's book Oliver Twist.
All right, what happened on December the twenty eighth, sixteen twelve.
Galileo he was using a primitive telescope that he had made.
(02:20):
He recorded his discovery of Neptune in his journal. Yeah,
I wrote all about it, But see Galileo, he actually
thought it was just a fixed star. Then two hundred
years later, in eighteen twenty, an astronomer was reading his journal. Yeah,
he realized Galileo made a mistake. And since Galileto didn't
call DIBs, yeah, Frinch astronomer gets credit for discovering Neptune.
Eighteen thirty two, Vice President John Calhoun. Now he cannot
(02:42):
get along with the United States President Andrew Jackson to
save his soul, So Calhoun He became the first vice
president to resign from office. The only other vice president
resigned from office Sparro Wagne in nineteen seventy three. Well,
(03:14):
Happy Birthday, Iowa. It was today. In eighteen forty six,
Iowa became our twenty ninth state Iowa. It comes from
the Aihu Hu Bay Indian tribe. It means sleepy ones
or drowsy ones. Now Des Moines is this capitol. Highest
point is Hawkeye Point at one thousand, six hundred and
seventy feet high. State tree is the burrow, The state
flower is the wild rose, bird is the goldfish, and
(03:37):
the finch channel catfish.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Right.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Some people born in Iowa John Wayne, Johnny Carson, Herbert Over,
Donna Reid, Buffalo, Bill Cody, Andy Williams, Kurt Warner, Ashton Gootcher,
Joe Burrow, Lolo jones A was born in the Iiowa
state Hawkeye Street. In France in eighteen forty nine, John
Baptiste Jolly He accidentally knocked over a lamp containing drip
(04:00):
and dina oil. Is right while he was in the
middle of doing his laundry. Well, that's how dry cleaning
was discovered. Eighteen sixty seven, the United States claimed the
Midway Islands. It was the first territory outside of North
America ever claimed by the United States. Nineteen oh eight,
a seven point one earthquake hit Messina, Italy. It's believed
to be the largest earthquake to hit Europe in modern times.
(04:22):
Almost two thousand people or two hundred thousand people were killed.
It created a tsunami forty feet high. In twenty twelve,
Russia's Vladimir Putin he signed a lot barring United States
citizens from adopting Russian babies. Just the United States, all
of the states, consider all of the countries they could
adopt Russian kids, not the United States do joked.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Joke dish Shiver birth day. He left this Shiver birthday.
We want simple tage like this shibirth day, and you
know we don't earthday.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
So it was born on December the twentieth Woodwell Rosse.
He was born in Staunton, Virginia, in eighteen fifty six.
He was an academic guy. He was a college professor.
Then he became president of Princeton. Then he became governor
of New Jersey. No real real world experience, but he
became the twenty eighth president. He served from nineteen thirteen
to nineteen twenty one. He had a stroke in nineteen
(05:17):
nineteen and he was pretty much incapacitated the last two
years of his term. He made absolutely no public appearances.
He had no talks with the press, Hardly he hardly
met with anyone, including his staff. His wife just controlled
everything DejaVu. He had three children from his first wife.
She died one year after they moved into the White House.
Married his second wife one year later in nineteen fifteen.
(05:39):
Now only John Tyler and Grover Cleveland also married while
they were President. Wilson he died in nineteen twenty four
at sixty seven years old, and that stroke he had
back in nineteen nineteen. That King of All Nerds. Comic
book writer Stan Lee was born in Manhattan, New York
in nineteen twenty two. Started out in his little, family
owned run business called Timely Publications. Stan helped turn that
(05:59):
into Marvel Comics. Yeah that Marvel Comics Leader and comic
books and movies Today. Some of the characters a Stan
either created or co created Spider Man, X Men, Ironman, Hulk,
Fantastic Four, Black Panther, Dared Devil, a whole lot more
Standy married nineteen forty seven and they had two children.
He died one month before his ninety sixth birthday in
(06:20):
twenty eighteen. Actress Michelle Nichols. She was born in Robmin's, Illinois,
in nineteen thirty two. Started out as a singer and dancer,
but she's best known for playing Lieutenant or Hera on
the TV show Star Trek and six Star Trek Movies.
Nineteen sixty eight, her and William Shatner had the first
interracial kiss on TV. She had two really quick short marriages.
(06:40):
She did have a son from her first one, Michelle.
She died in twenty twenty two from heart failure, eighty
nine years old. That was Edgar Winter. He's seventy eight.
(07:12):
He was born in Beaumont, Texas, in nineteen forty six.
He's going out on tour this year, and his older
brother was bluesman Johnny Winter. Edgar he released his first
album in nineteen seventy. Some of us had HiT's over
the ears were Frankenstein, Free Ride, River Rising, and Keep
Playing in That Rock and Roll. Married nineteen seventy nine.
Both Edgar and Johnny were born albino yeah, but didn't
(07:32):
hold either one of them back. That was Mary Weiss,
(07:57):
singing lead for the Shane Gerlass. She was born in Queens,
New York, in nineteen forty eight. Shangri Las. They were
two sets of sisters. They formed together when they were
in high school. They were only together from nineteen sixty
three to nineteen sixty eight. Their biggest hits were all tragedies.
Remember walking in the sand, leader of the pack, give
him a great, big kiss. I can't never go home
no more. That they're actually in the Rock and Roll
(08:17):
Hall of Fame. After they split up, Mary she ran
a furniture store and was an interior designer. Then in
two thousand and seven she retired, went back and after
all those years did some singing and performing. She was
married to her third husband when she died just last
January at seventy five years old from pulmonary disease. Actor
Denzel Washingtonise seventy born in Mount Vernon, New York in
nineteen fifty four, started off doing off Broadway Shakespeare plays.
(08:39):
First got known on the TV show Say Elsewhere. Now
his movies have made over five billion dollars. He's one
Oscar Is for a Glory and then Training Day. But
nominated seven other times. Now, I think his best acting
were in Remember the Titans and Man on Fire. He
wasn't nominated for either one, but I think those were
his best works, especially Man on Fire. DENZELI got married
in nineteen eighty three and four children.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Once You Line, Midnight Hour, He Clomb the Moone, Water Tower,
Stood on the Ray, and Charm Aloha. Summer nine he
(09:23):
wrote Mini Bomb, Charlie Letter, Stream Funk, Shooting Brand, Buddy Look,
Couture Joy.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Country singer Joe Diffy was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in
nineteen fifty eight. Start out as a successful songwriter. They
finally let him sing in nineteen ninety. Some of his
number one songs were If the Devil Danced in Empty Pockets,
Third Rock from the Sun, Pickup Man, Bigger Than the Beatles, Yeah.
Two children from his first wife, two children from his
second wife, a daughter from his third wife, married his
(09:59):
fourth wife, and eighteen. Then Joe died from COVID in
twenty twenty at sixty one years old. Actress Sienna Miller
she's forty three. She was born in New York City
in nineteen eighty one. Then she packed up and moved
to London, England when she was eighteen months old. Grew
up over there. Her mom was David Bowie's personal assistant, Cianna.
She started out as a model in England, then she
found success acting here in the United States. Gi Joe,
(10:21):
Rise of the Cobra, American Sniper, The Lost City of
the American Woman some of her movies. She has one
daughter from an ex boyfriend, and she has one daughter
with her current boyfriend. Let's go back to Iowa. In Iowa, Hoggs,
they out numbered people seven to one. By the way,
Iowa is the safest of all fifty states. Well, thank
you for listening today. If you haven't, that makes sure
(10:42):
you follow us. I know every listen to is on.
We're on everybody. Come see this at cool Country Underground
Radio dot com or just Country Radio, Underground Radio anywhere. Yeah,
it's the number one. It's not number one yet, it's
getting there. It's the best for independent country music. Though.
Let's end with football legend John Madden. He died in
twenty twenty one and eighty five years old. John said
(11:04):
self praises for losers. Be a winner, stand for something,
always have class and be humble. You guys have an
awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow
Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history. In fact,
it's about today pasent A by Cool Media. Today's December
the twenty eighth. I just go.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
To say.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
I love you.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I just call say much shockcase.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Today is National Call a Friend Day. It's pretty self explanatory.
In twenty fourteen, texting passive phone calls for the most
popular way to communicate. Yeah, not really personal. So with
the holiday is almost over, don't let twenty twenty four
in without calling a friend you haven't talked to you
in a while. I know it's gonna feel a little
awkward when you talk to someone you haven't spoken with
a long time, But that awkwardness at least, I just
(00:55):
remember it's always easier to call someone than it is
to say I wish I called them. Yeah, let's see
what happened in entertainment nine December of the twenty eighth.
That's about. In nineteen sixty eight, number one album was
The White Album from the Beatles. Marvin Gay had the
number one song with I Heard It through the Grapevine.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
It's a big Boss number.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Clint Gampbell had the number one country song with Whichita
Lineman I Hear You singing in the why.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I can't get through the one and which your tall line,
It's still on the line.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
The number one book was The Salzburg by Helen mcmare.
McKinnon's todd movie was Oliver a young orphan Oliver Twist.
He has sold to a mortician, then he runs away
and joins a group of boys who are trained his pickpockets.
It's a musical based on Charles Dickens's book Oliver Twist.
All right, what happened on December the twenty eighth, sixteen twelve.
Galileo he was using a primitive telescope that he had made.
(02:20):
He recorded his discovery of Neptune in his journal. Yeah,
I wrote all about it, But see Galileo, he actually
thought it was just a fixed star. Then two hundred
years later, in eighteen twenty, an astronomer was reading his journal. Yeah,
he realized Galileo made a mistake. And since Galileto didn't
call DIBs, yeah, Frinch astronomer gets credit for discovering Neptune.
Eighteen thirty two, Vice President John Calhoun. Now he cannot
(02:42):
get along with the United States President Andrew Jackson to
save his soul, So Calhoun He became the first vice
president to resign from office. The only other vice president
resigned from office Sparro Wagne in nineteen seventy three. Well,
(03:14):
Happy Birthday, Iowa. It was today. In eighteen forty six,
Iowa became our twenty ninth state Iowa. It comes from
the Aihu Hu Bay Indian tribe. It means sleepy ones
or drowsy ones. Now Des Moines is this capitol. Highest
point is Hawkeye Point at one thousand, six hundred and
seventy feet high. State tree is the burrow, The state
flower is the wild rose, bird is the goldfish, and
(03:37):
the finch channel catfish.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Right.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Some people born in Iowa John Wayne, Johnny Carson, Herbert Over,
Donna Reid, Buffalo, Bill Cody, Andy Williams, Kurt Warner, Ashton Gootcher,
Joe Burrow, Lolo jones A was born in the Iiowa
state Hawkeye Street. In France in eighteen forty nine, John
Baptiste Jolly He accidentally knocked over a lamp containing drip
(04:00):
and dina oil. Is right while he was in the
middle of doing his laundry. Well, that's how dry cleaning
was discovered. Eighteen sixty seven, the United States claimed the
Midway Islands. It was the first territory outside of North
America ever claimed by the United States. Nineteen oh eight,
a seven point one earthquake hit Messina, Italy. It's believed
to be the largest earthquake to hit Europe in modern times.
(04:22):
Almost two thousand people or two hundred thousand people were killed.
It created a tsunami forty feet high. In twenty twelve,
Russia's Vladimir Putin he signed a lot barring United States
citizens from adopting Russian babies. Just the United States, all
of the states, consider all of the countries they could
adopt Russian kids, not the United States do joked.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Joke dish Shiver birth day. He left this Shiver birthday.
We want simple tage like this shibirth day, and you
know we don't earthday.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
So it was born on December the twentieth Woodwell Rosse.
He was born in Staunton, Virginia, in eighteen fifty six.
He was an academic guy. He was a college professor.
Then he became president of Princeton. Then he became governor
of New Jersey. No real real world experience, but he
became the twenty eighth president. He served from nineteen thirteen
to nineteen twenty one. He had a stroke in nineteen
(05:17):
nineteen and he was pretty much incapacitated the last two
years of his term. He made absolutely no public appearances.
He had no talks with the press, Hardly he hardly
met with anyone, including his staff. His wife just controlled
everything DejaVu. He had three children from his first wife.
She died one year after they moved into the White House.
Married his second wife one year later in nineteen fifteen.
(05:39):
Now only John Tyler and Grover Cleveland also married while
they were President. Wilson he died in nineteen twenty four
at sixty seven years old, and that stroke he had
back in nineteen nineteen. That King of All Nerds. Comic
book writer Stan Lee was born in Manhattan, New York
in nineteen twenty two. Started out in his little, family
owned run business called Timely Publications. Stan helped turn that
(05:59):
into Marvel Comics. Yeah that Marvel Comics Leader and comic
books and movies Today. Some of the characters a Stan
either created or co created Spider Man, X Men, Ironman, Hulk,
Fantastic Four, Black Panther, Dared Devil, a whole lot more
Standy married nineteen forty seven and they had two children.
He died one month before his ninety sixth birthday in
(06:20):
twenty eighteen. Actress Michelle Nichols. She was born in Robmin's, Illinois,
in nineteen thirty two. Started out as a singer and dancer,
but she's best known for playing Lieutenant or Hera on
the TV show Star Trek and six Star Trek Movies.
Nineteen sixty eight, her and William Shatner had the first
interracial kiss on TV. She had two really quick short marriages.
(06:40):
She did have a son from her first one, Michelle.
She died in twenty twenty two from heart failure, eighty
nine years old. That was Edgar Winter. He's seventy eight.
(07:12):
He was born in Beaumont, Texas, in nineteen forty six.
He's going out on tour this year, and his older
brother was bluesman Johnny Winter. Edgar he released his first
album in nineteen seventy. Some of us had HiT's over
the ears were Frankenstein, Free Ride, River Rising, and Keep
Playing in That Rock and Roll. Married nineteen seventy nine.
Both Edgar and Johnny were born albino yeah, but didn't
(07:32):
hold either one of them back. That was Mary Weiss,
(07:57):
singing lead for the Shane Gerlass. She was born in Queens,
New York, in nineteen forty eight. Shangri Las. They were
two sets of sisters. They formed together when they were
in high school. They were only together from nineteen sixty
three to nineteen sixty eight. Their biggest hits were all tragedies.
Remember walking in the sand, leader of the pack, give
him a great, big kiss. I can't never go home
no more. That they're actually in the Rock and Roll
(08:17):
Hall of Fame. After they split up, Mary she ran
a furniture store and was an interior designer. Then in
two thousand and seven she retired, went back and after
all those years did some singing and performing. She was
married to her third husband when she died just last
January at seventy five years old from pulmonary disease. Actor
Denzel Washingtonise seventy born in Mount Vernon, New York in
nineteen fifty four, started off doing off Broadway Shakespeare plays.
(08:39):
First got known on the TV show Say Elsewhere. Now
his movies have made over five billion dollars. He's one
Oscar Is for a Glory and then Training Day. But
nominated seven other times. Now, I think his best acting
were in Remember the Titans and Man on Fire. He
wasn't nominated for either one, but I think those were
his best works, especially Man on Fire. DENZELI got married
in nineteen eighty three and four children.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Once You Line, Midnight Hour, He Clomb the Moone, Water Tower,
Stood on the Ray, and Charm Aloha. Summer nine he
(09:23):
wrote Mini Bomb, Charlie Letter, Stream Funk, Shooting Brand, Buddy Look,
Couture Joy.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Country singer Joe Diffy was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in
nineteen fifty eight. Start out as a successful songwriter. They
finally let him sing in nineteen ninety. Some of his
number one songs were If the Devil Danced in Empty Pockets,
Third Rock from the Sun, Pickup Man, Bigger Than the Beatles, Yeah.
Two children from his first wife, two children from his
second wife, a daughter from his third wife, married his
(09:59):
fourth wife, and eighteen. Then Joe died from COVID in
twenty twenty at sixty one years old. Actress Sienna Miller
she's forty three. She was born in New York City
in nineteen eighty one. Then she packed up and moved
to London, England when she was eighteen months old. Grew
up over there. Her mom was David Bowie's personal assistant, Cianna.
She started out as a model in England, then she
found success acting here in the United States. Gi Joe,
(10:21):
Rise of the Cobra, American Sniper, The Lost City of
the American Woman some of her movies. She has one
daughter from an ex boyfriend, and she has one daughter
with her current boyfriend. Let's go back to Iowa. In Iowa, Hoggs,
they out numbered people seven to one. By the way,
Iowa is the safest of all fifty states. Well, thank
you for listening today. If you haven't, that makes sure
(10:42):
you follow us. I know every listen to is on.
We're on everybody. Come see this at cool Country Underground
Radio dot com or just Country Radio, Underground Radio anywhere. Yeah,
it's the number one. It's not number one yet, it's
getting there. It's the best for independent country music. Though.
Let's end with football legend John Madden. He died in
twenty twenty one and eighty five years old. John said
(11:04):
self praises for losers. Be a winner, stand for something,
always have class and be humble. You guys have an
awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow
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