Dec 29th-Texas Birthday, Mary Tyler Moore, Jon Voight, Ted Danson, The Offspring, Toad the Wet Sprocket

National tick tock day. Entertainment from 1958. Wounded Knee Massacre, Texas became 28th state, longest swim ever completed. Todays birthdays - Andrew Johnson, Mary Tyler Moore, Jon Voight, Ed Bruce, Ted Danson, Dexter Holland, Glen Phillips, Jude Law, Jessica Andrews. Pierre Cardin died.
(2024)
Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard    http://defleppard.com/
Tick Tock - Clean Bandit & Mabel
The chipmunk song - Alvin and the Chipmunks
City Lights - Ray Price
Birthday - The Beatles
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent     http://50cent.com/
Mary Tyler Moore show TV theme
You're the best break this old heart ever had - Ed Bruce
Cheers TV theme
Self esteem - the Offspring
All I want - Toad the Wet Sprocket
Who I am - Jessica Andrews
Exit - In my dreams - Dokken     https://www.dokken.net/

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Hey, hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History
and Factor. It is about today presented by Cool Media.
Today's December the twenty ninth. Today is National TikTok Day. No,
we're not talking about the social media app. No, it's

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the TikTok sound that clocks make. Yeah, it's reminding you
the year is almost over. Sah, you better get to it.
If you have any projects that you wanted to complete
this year. Now, some they may be unattainable, like losing
fifteen pounds in the next two days or rebuilding that
nineteen sixty seven gto engine. Just move those until next year.
Then check off what you can and celebrate the rest
of this year. Just don't make next year's list. So hard,

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all right? Lits? Who's going on? Entertainment? One December of
the twenty ninth spect year nineteen fifty eight number one
album was Singing Along with Mitch by Mitch Miller, The
Chipmunks and David Savell had the number one song with
the Chipmunk song Great Price side the number one country

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song with City Lights. God Like the caval Rais said
hum their flashing signs and by hard to Lose Itself Timberical.

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Number one book was Doctor Chivago by Boris Pasternak. The
top movie was Anti Mame An Orphan. He goes to
live with this free spirited ant well. The ex secuter
of his father is a state doesn't like the way
that she's raising The boy stars Rose Lynn Russell, Forest Tucker,
and Carol Brown. All Right, what happened on December of
the twenty ninth? Happy Birthday, Texas? It was today? In

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eighteen forty five, Texas became the twenty eighth state. Texas
has come from the Cato Indian word. It means friend.
Capital is Austin. Highest point is Guadaloupe Peak at eight
seven fifty one feet high. Texas state bird is the
Northern mockingbird. Fish is the Guadaloupe bass, mammal is the longhorn, steer,
tree is a peak on. Flower is a blue bonnet.

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Texas state food is chinny, and the Texas state sport
is rodeo. People born in Texas Matthew McConaughey, Patrick Swayzee,
Dwight Eisenhower, Jamie Fox, Claily Clarkson, Pharah Fawcet, Beyonce, Selina Gomez,
Patrick Mahomes that's just some. There are so many. That's
just some of the people born in the Lone Star
State now Texas's when he got us independence from Mexico

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in eighteen thirty six. They're flagg only had one star
in it. That's why they're called the Lone Star State.
Eighteen fifty one, the first YMCA opened up the United States,
opened up in Boston. If you don't know, YMCA stands
for Young Men's Christian Association. Now. The next year in Boston,
eighteen fifty two, Amma's Nodgrass. She was arrested for wearing pants. Yeah,
women weren't allowed to do that. They had to wear dresses. Now,

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am she was a really pretty seventeen year old. She
was the daughter of a New York City police officer.
So she was mocked, arrested, and sent back home to
her father. Today, in South Dakota, it's the Pine Ridge
Indian Reservation, but back in eighteen ninety it was the
site of the Wounded Knee massacre. United States Cavalry was
disarming the Lakota tribesmen when a gun went off, so
the calvary decided to just open up on the entire

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try killed over three hundred of them, two hundred were
women and children. What made it even worse is twenty
of those soldiers actually received medals for their actions during
the massacre. Back on July sixth in nineteen thirty, fred Newton,
he started swimming the Mississippi River. Jumped in at the
foe damn in Minnesota. Today. Over five and a month
and a half months later, Freddy crawled out of the

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Mississippi River in New Orleans. Yeah, swam the whole damn
thing one eight hundred and twenty six miles. It has
the record for world's longest swim. Nineteen forty, Germany launched
his worst air raid on London, England. Germany dropped over
ten thousand bombs on London and part of their blitz
nineteen seventy YOSHA the Occupational Safety Healthy Actor, Yeah, I
was signed into law by President Nixon. Nineteen ninety seven.

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Hong Kong, they started slaughtering all their chickens. Yeah. They
wanted to prevent bird flu from spreading. It didn't work.
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We want simple tage. He was like s birthday and
you know, we don't, oh God. Who was born on

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December of the twenty ninth. Andrew Johnson. He was born
in Raleigh, North Carolina, in eighteen oh eight. He grew
up really poor. He never even went to school. Then
he started out as a tailor's apprentice, then became a
career politician. During Abraham lincoln second term for president, they
wanted to kind of balance the ticket a little bit,
so they picked Andrew Johnson to be his vice president.
Since Johnson was from the South, they never thought he'd

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ever be president. Welly his vice president for one month
when Lincoln was assassinated. That made him the seventeenth President
of the United States, Sir. From eighteen sixty five eighteen
sixty nine. He married back in eighteen twenty seven. They
had five kids. He died from a stroke in eighteen
seventy five at sixty six years old. He's each Glass Juan.

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Actress Mary Tyler Moore was born in Brooklyn Heights, New
York in nineteen thirty six. She was twenty four years
old and she started playing Laura Petrie on The Dick
Van Dyke Show. After that she got her own show,
The Warry. Tyler Moore Show. She won one Emmy playing
Laura and two Emmy's playing Mary. She was nominated for
an oscar for the movie Ordinary People. She had a
son from her first husband. She married her third husband
in nineteen eighty three. They were together until she died

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in twenty seventeen at eighty years old from pneumonia. Actor
John Voight, He's eighty six. He's born a Yonkers in
New York in nineteen thirty eight. He first hit big
playing Joe Buck in the movie Midnight Cowboy, who was
even nominated for an oscar for it, and he is
also nominated for Oscars for The One Ran Away Train
and Allie. He didn't win an oscar for Coming Home.
I think his best movie was Deliverance. Now. Johnny married

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a second wife for nine years. They had a son
and a daughter. Daughter is actress Angelina and Joe Lee.
You're the best grave, the shoul your role. He never
spolen out of love again, do the best. Country singer

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and songwriter Ed Bruce. He was born in kaiser Arc, Arkansas,
in nineteen thirty nine. He first got known really when
he wrote the song Mamas, don't let your babies grow
up to be cowboys? After that they let him sing.
He had the hits, You're the best break this horrild
heart ever had ever, never loving you after all, you
turn me on like a radio. On TV, he co
starred with James Garner on the show Maverick. Eddie was

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two times divorced. He had went cho from his first
wife and three from his second wife. He died from
natural causes in twenty twenty one at eighty one years old.
Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name,
always match a case you want to be you can

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seems you want to be with everybody proles your name.
Actor Ted Dance in his seventy seven today. He was
born in San Diego nineteen forty seven. Cheddy first had
playing Sam Alone on the TV show Cheers. Then he's
on Becker CSI in the Good Place. First movie was Onionfield,

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then Three Men and a Baby Dad Made in America.
Daddy had two daughters from his second wife. Then he
married his third wife, Mary Steinbergen in nineteen ninety five.
Now we googled how many times how many consumer cellulair
commercials Ted's been in? Came back just at Julian who no, wo, No,

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that's o. Jacob Dexter Holland. He sings late for the
band That Spring. Dexter. He's fifty nine. He was born
in Garden Grove, California, in nineteen sixty five. Now Dexter.
He is a very very smart guy. He was valedictorian
in his graduating high school class. Then he wanted to

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get a doctorate in molecular biology. Now while he was
doing that, in nineteen eighty four, he founded the Band's
Manic Subsidal changed their name to The Offspring in nineteen
eighty six. Some of their hits are come Out and Play,
self Esteem Gone Away, Why don't you get a job?
Pretty fly for a white guy. Now they're doing a
world tour this year, but no shows in the United States.
Dexter he had a daughter from a girlfriend. Then he

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married his second wife in twenty thirteen and they have
two kids. Seals Seal. That was Glenn Phillip singing lead

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for Toad the wet Sprocket. Glenn. He's fifty four. He's
born in Santa Barbara, California. In nineteen seventy, him and
some friends they formed Tone of the Wetsprocket when they
were fifteen years old in high school. Took the name
from a Monty Python skid. Some of their hits are
all I Want, Walk on the Ocean, fall Down. Some
things are always wrong Glenn. He was married for eleven
years and they had three children. Now whenever he performs

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on stage, he always performs barefoot. Actor Jude Law He
was born in nineteen seventy two and lewis Ham, England.
He's fifty two now. He first had in the movie
That Talented Mister Ripley. He was the name nominated for
an Oscar for it. Then he got nominated for an
Oscar for a Cold Mountain, but since two thousand and three,
no no more Oscar nomination. He has starred in the

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movies The Aviator Sherlock Holmes. He played Albus Dumbledore in
the Fantastic Beast movies. Jodey had two daughters and one
son from his first wife. Then he had a daughter
from a girlfriend. Then he had a daughter from a girlfriend.
Then he married a second wife in twenty nineteen and
they have two children and then forty one year old

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country singer Jessica Andrews was born at Huntingdonas, Tennessee, in
nineteen eighty three. She released that song we just played
who Who I Am? Yes, she is fifteen. Then she
hit with you Go First, Unbreakable Heart, There's more to
Me than you. She is married and they have a
son and a daughter. All right, let's go back to Texas.
The state of Texas is bigger than any country in Europe. Wow,

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See what we're doing on the other podcast and the
radio station and all that. Fashion designer Pierre Cardin, he
died today in twenty twenty at ninety eight years old.
He said, my name is more important than I am.
You guys, have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow