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December 3, 2025 13 mins
National cookie day. Entertainment from 19932007. 1st Burger King, British outlaw "Suttee" in India, Horse drawn lawn mower invented. Todays birthdays - Deanna Durbin, Max Baer jr, Jeff Bridges, Marissa Tomei, Chelsea Noble, Jay Z, Kevin Sussman, Tyra Banks. Frank Zappa died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran      https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
Cookie dance - Chocolate Chip
No one - Alicia Keys
So Small - Carrie Underwood
Smoke on the water - Deep Purple
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
Million dollar quartet
Beverly Hillbillies TV theme
Dead Prsidents - Jay Z
Don't eat the yellow snow - Frank Zappa
Exit - Save Christmas - Kara Ciezki   https://karasmusic.com.au/

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Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hey, Hello, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factor.
It's about today. Today's December, the fourth Cookie.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Going in cookies, Cookies, Cookies, cookies.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Trist the Cookie Chist, through the Cookie, Bess Stoom, the
Cooking Testom, the Cookie Fist.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Today is National Cookie Day, Systime Street. They're responsible for
National Cookie Day. It started celebrating in nineteen seventy six.
Of course the Cookie Monster had a lot to do
with it. Now there are deals today Darry Quinn seven eleven,
Duncan Donuts, Jimmy Johns, Panera Online. You can get deals
from Nistley Toolhouse and Pepper Peppbridge Farms. Now pretty much

(01:04):
every coffee shop. I'll have a deal there. Yeah, Someoneerian
is gonna have so big cookies today, So I have fun.
All right, this is going on entertainment on December fourth.
Let's got your two thousand and seven number one album
was As I Am by Alicia Keys. Alicia had the
number one song with no one.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Babo kids all ka. I could say one day like.

Speaker 4 (01:23):
All al Everything's gonna be all.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
No mon.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Carry Underwood had the number one country song was so small.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
It's all that matters. After seything.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
The number one book was Double Cross by James Patterson.
Top movie was Enchanted a young woman and she's about
to be married off, so she's sent by an evil
queen to New York City. There she falls in love
with a lawyer. Stars Amy Adams, Susan Sarandon, and James Marston.
Packed from Dempsey nineteen seventy one the band Deep Purple.
They were at the Montreal Casino in Switzerland. See, they

(02:26):
were going to courd a new album there, and that
casino was known for having great acoustics, which made a
perfect place to record a live album. Well, the night
before they were going to perform Frank Zappa he was performing,
So they went and they were checking Frank out. During
the show, someone fired off a flare gun set the
whole damn place on fire. Now, everybody made it out okay.
But as they were watching the casino burn to the ground,
the drummer for Deep Purple came up with their biggest head,

(02:48):
Smoke on the water. Yeah, he came up that he was.
He watched the smoke drift over Lake Geneva, the best.

Speaker 4 (02:59):
Stupid fold.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
Well, if you didn't now you knew all right what
happened on the some of the fourth seventeen eighty three
with the Revolutionary War over General George Washington. He had
a goodbye party for him and all his officers as
they went their separate way was Francis Tavern in New
York City. Now frances is still there. Yeah, you can
go get something to eat or drink at the pice
fore George and his boys hung out. Now supposedly, George,

(03:35):
you liked the chicken pop pie, so I looked online.
On their menu says their chicken pop pie is twenty
six dollars and may or may not contain bones. I
think called fats on that. Eighteen twelve and Lancaster, Pennsylvania,
Peter Gilliard, he invented the horse drawn lawnmore. Yeah, this
time of year he came up with that. Okay, eighteen
twenty nine Breton they were occupying in India. Now they

(03:56):
stepped in and put their foot down. Yeah, they had
to outlaw. That's called I guess I don't know. S
u t t ee. Now it's a Hindu practice. It's
where the widow lays on top of her dead husband
on his funeral pyre. Then when they light his body, yeah,
burns her to death. Also, Britz didn't like that. Nineteen
oh nine, hockey in the Montreal Canadians. They re formed.

(04:17):
They're the oldest still operating National League Hockey club, except
then they were called Club the Hockey Canadian. Nineteen fifty four,
the first Burger King opened up in Miami. Fluided. Now
they call the Instaburger King. Nineteen fifty six. The Son
records in Memphis, they call it the Million Dollar Quartet.
Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash

(04:37):
all sat down in an impromptuy recording session.

Speaker 5 (04:41):
My name.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
Jesus all Troubles.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
Nineteen seventy seven. Now, after a coup Jean Bidel Bokassa,
he crewned himself the emperor of the Central African Empire.
Today at Central African Republic it's between Chad, Sudan and Congo.

Speaker 4 (05:14):
Now.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
He threw one hell of a party to celebrate him
become an emperor. It cost twenty million dollars. Now that
was one third of the nation's yearly budget. Yeah, so
they were kind of broke. He got overthrown three years later,
So put it in perspective. Trump threw a party for
the United states that costs one third of the yearly budget.
The party cost two point two seven trillion dollars.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
Joke, joke, charge this shivebirth day, We're gonna page he
left this shiver birthday. We gonna sit botage.

Speaker 6 (05:45):
He left this ship birthday.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
And you know you don't give up birthday.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
Okay. This is born on December of the fourth. Actress
soprano Deanna Durban. She was born in Winnipeg, Canada in
nineteen twenty one, came to the United States as a baby,
grew up in Los Angeles. When she's fifteen, she was
in her first movie, Three Smart Girls. Now, Danna, she
always played this innocent, sweet teenage girls a lot. Then
when she guy was able to transfer into adult roles
very well. I mean, she had the biggest fan club

(06:12):
in the world, and in nineteen forty seven she was
the highest paid woman in the United States. Now she
also recorded a bunch of records too. And then in
nineteen forty eight she kind of got tired of it,
you know, she didn't want to play the good girl
and more. She told it the studio, I want to
play the bad girl. They said no, So she said
all right, and she just retired at twenty eight years old,
so she went and married her third husband and they
moved to Paris. She took her daughter from her second

(06:33):
husband and hear and that third husband had a son.
She only gave one interview the rest of her entire life.
Diana died from natural causes in twenty thirteen at ninety
one years old.

Speaker 5 (06:42):
And listened to him a story about her man named
sed the poor them out and near barely kept his
family fed. I didn't one days he were shooting nets,
food and up wool the ground come up, Oh that
is black and gold. Texas teen well, the first singing
old old Jims in Minionaire. Jim moved away from there.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
The only Beverly Hill Billy is still alive. Max Bear Junior.
He's eighty eight years old, born in Oakland, California, in
nineteen thirty seven. His dad Max Bear Senior. Yeah, he
was a boxing heavyweight champion in the world. Now Junior,
he's best known for playing Jeth Throw on the TV
show Beverly Hill Billies. But he really got typecast. He
couldn't get an acting job after that for nothing. He

(07:24):
did really well in business, so so he's got that.
He married once in the late sixties for five years.
Actor Jeff Bridges. He's seventy six. He was born in
Los Angeles in nineteen forty nine. His dad was actor
Lloyd Bridges and his older brother is actor Bow Bridges.
Jeffy served in the Coast Guard from nineteen sixty seven
to seventy five.

Speaker 4 (07:42):
Now.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
He was in his first movie when he was one,
Then he was on his dad's TV show when he
was nine. Jeffy has been nominated for Oscar Is four,
The Last Picture Show, thunder Bolton, Lightfoot, Starman, the Contender,
True Get Hill or High Water. He didn't win an
Oscar yep for Crazy Art. He should have won for
Starman though. Jeff married in nineteen seventy seven and they
have three daughters. Actress Marissa tom She was born in

(08:05):
nineteen sixty four in Brooklyn, New York, sixty one years
old today. First got known on the soap opera As
the World Turns. Then she went an Oscar for my
cousin Busy. She was nominated for Oscars for Her In
the Bedroom and The Wrestler. She's currently filming or working
on three movies. So if you're a miser, Rissa tomey Athan. Yeah,
we got that to look for next year. Rissa. She
has dual citizen ship up United States in Italy. Actress

(08:28):
Chelsea Noble. She's also sixty one. She was born in Chickawaga,
New York. Chelsea. She got known on the TV show
Growing Pains. Well, that's where she met and later married
Kirk Cameron.

Speaker 5 (08:37):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
They married nineteen ninety one and they have six kids.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
One girl. One that when with clips me and Michael
climat shovel and this going to Benda Cli.

Speaker 5 (08:47):
Live about One Dreams until my hat gets down, the
boy with great you know we sat and did what
this about? What y'all mean?

Speaker 2 (08:53):
Hanson the citsanteen.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
After show like the Boy going over your favorite team
Down Down One. That is Jay Z. He was born
Sharon Carter in New York City in nineteen sixty nine.
He's fifty six today, done very very well in business.
He's worth over a billion dollars. Married Beyonce in two
thousand and eight and they have three daughters. Fans of
the TV show Big Bang Theory, they will remember Stuart.

(09:16):
He was played by Kevin Sesman. Kevin's fifty five. He's
born in New York City in nineteen seventy started out
on the TV show Ugly Betty. Some of his movies
he's been in almost famous, Sweet Home, Alabama, hitch Burn
after reading he was married to his first wife eleven
years married his second wife in twenty twenty three. Supermodel
TV personality Tyra Banks. She's fifty two. She was born
in Inglewood, California, in nineteen seventy three. Started modeling at fifteen.

(09:40):
She was on the cover in pretty much every magazine.
She was a victorious Secret Angel from nineteen ninety seven
to two thousand and five. First acting job was on
the TV show Fresh Prince of Lair. Now she had
her own talk show for like five years, was called
the Tyra Banks Show. Then she created and hosted America's
Next Top Model in two thousand and three that ran
all the way to twenty eighteen. She is also a
very very successful busin. She does that one son alrighty

(10:03):
call of the Day. It comes from Frank Zeppa, and.

Speaker 5 (10:06):
I said.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
All the lives commands to gloves.

Speaker 6 (10:12):
She said.

Speaker 4 (10:15):
With her to.

Speaker 3 (10:19):
Watch up well, uz, don't you meet that Yello snow
Watch up well us, don't you eat.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
That yellow snow. Yeah, that Frank Zeppa. He died to
day in nineteen ninety three or fifty two years old.
He said, if you want to get laid, go to college.
If you want an education, go to the library. Oh
thank you all for listening today. Don't forget to follow us.
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(10:46):
It comes from Daphne and Montgomery, Alabama. She wants to
hear the song Save Christmas by Karen Kirsky. You guys
have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
From Christmas Owner King song sleep but somewhat stealing the
presents run out from under the tree. They plans just
hair to bring time to all the good little girls
and boys.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
Also catches of thieves and the nights weld of those
bad guys sat try that's on the tree they twin
or some bread fellow bed break on the fight cleaning suns.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
Come on, guys, Paddy s say.

Speaker 6 (11:40):
Christian Well and nor sense coming.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
In. Slave of the birds. Got the list of the.

Speaker 6 (11:57):
Bad guys down put on his spas.

Speaker 3 (12:03):
See se that magical church, the form of fil and
the tensil.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Hell time geral presence.

Speaker 4 (12:11):
It's nothing a figure d have a long veecial taple here.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
That's a tree think twin or.

Speaker 4 (12:22):
A bright son of the swell brek on fight, claim
on suns, come on Scot's care, Paddy.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
Christian nice.

Speaker 3 (12:49):
And trust and faithful sense is tying of.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
Bills and a big tencel nesties.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
The girl be on them is a man sell class, unstounded, drunkly,
the boss timing their.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
Fut the train they twain.

Speaker 4 (13:08):
For some bight stand on the sand, right off fighting
cat ready, Ready

Speaker 2 (13:27):
Christmas, a nat
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