Nov 17-Hiking, Rock Hudson, the dog Toto. Danny DeVito, Bell Biv DeVoe, band Hanson, Rachel McAdams

National take a hike day. Entertainment from 1995. US Capitol moved from Philadelphia to Washington D.C., Suez Cannal opened, Computer Mouse invented, 1st party fraternity formed. Todays birthdays - Rock Hudson, Toto, Martin Scorsese, Danny DeVito, Gordon Lightfoot, Stephen Root, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Ronnie DeVoe, Rachel McAdams, Isaac Hanson. Augeste Rodin died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran    https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
Take a hike song - Jeff Alt
Anti-hero - Taylor Swift
You Proof - Moran Wallen
Birthdays - in da club - 50 Cent     https://www.50cent.com/ 
Sundown - Gordon Lightfoot
Poison - Bell Biv DeVoe
MMMBop - Hanson
Exit - Shotguns on Whiskey - Mark McKinney      https://www.markmckinney.com/

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hi everyone, I'm Jeff. Welcome to history. In fact, dud's
about today. Today's November the seventeenth. Today is National take

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a Hike Day. Yeah it might seem odd and celebrating
hiking this time of year, but if you think about it,
the summer crowds are gone, winter really hasn't hit yet. Yeah,
pretty much a great day to go take a probably
had the trails almost to yourself. So just make some
fun and make sure you dress fourth though, that's for sure.
I mean the time of year getting kind of chilly,
and the weather does change off real quick. So I

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enjoy that Chris fault air, grab some of your friends
and yeah, I just go and enjoy the hike. Now,
if you don't want to leave the house, I guess
you can celebrate with Zimfidel homemade bread and back la bah. Yeah,
that's all their national days today. Also healthier to take
a hike, all right? This who's going on entertainment on
November seventeenth. It was back in nineteen ninety five number
one album was Melancholy and Infinite Sadness by Smashing Pumpkins.

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Rian Carey had the number one song with Fantasy George

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Strait He had the number one country song with check
Yes or No got.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Called Casen We Afraid if you want to.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Third number one book was The Lost World by Michael Crichton.
Top movie was GoldenEye. A powerful secret defense system is stolen,
so now James Bond he has to stop the Russians
from using it. Stars Pis Brosna and Sean Bean, Isabella
scorp Co, Robbie Coltrane. All right, what happened on November
the seventeenth? In eighteen hundred, the United States Congress met

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for the very first time at the new US Capitol
Building in Washington, d C. Before then, they'd been meeting
in Philadelphia. Now the Capitol it wasn't actually completed yet,
but it already moved all their stuff, so they kind
of had no choice. Eighteen sixty nine, the sus Canal
opened up in Egypt. Now it connects the Mediterranean Sea
and the Red Sea, so ships they can actually avoid
going all the way around Africa says them, fifty five

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hundred miles by using it. Today it stays around ten
days back in there, Yeah, a lot longer now. I
was paid for by private investors. It took him ten
years to build it. In Hungary in eighteen seventy three.
The city is a Buddha and the city at Pest.
They were fighting over who was going to be the
new capital of Hungary, and they were just whatever ever
got tired of it, if they said enoughs enough, stop
the bicker in the squadlin So they just merged the

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two city into Budapest. Eighteen eighty four, in New York
City policemen, they were working crowd control with a boxing
match at Madison Square Garden. In the second round, the
cops went into the ring and arrested boxer John Sullivan. Yeah,
the cops said he is being too cruel to his opponent.
Can you imagine that happened at a pay per view
of it? In nineteen forty, the NFL's Green Bay Packers,

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they took a bus to Chicago, then flew to New York. Yeah,
I played the New York Giants. First time a football
team had flown to an Awa game. Now, they took
two planes in case one of them crashed. Now, the
first sports team to actually fly was the baseball team
Cincinnati Reds. Yeah, they flew in nineteen thirty four. Once again,
they took two planes. Nineteen seventy Douglas ingle Bart. He

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got a patent for the first computer mouse that was
six years before the first personal computers. Nineteen ninety one. Fox.
He had the first TV commercial for condoms.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
Joke joke, joked, joked, joke, shot dish shiburth day, please
don't pause. He left this shiverf day. We want simple cars.
He left this shibirth day. You you don't do so.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
I was born on November that seventeenth. Actor Rock Hudson.
He was born on Whenica, Illinois, in nineteen twenty five.
Rock was a huge heart throb and one of the
top actors in the world in nineteen fifties and sixties.
He was nominated for an oscar for the movie Giants.
The nineteen seventies, went to TV and he started making
Millener wife a Rock. He died from AIDS in nineteen
eighty five, fifty nine years old. He was the first celebrity,

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or basically the first somebody that anybody knew who had AIDS. Yeah,
and then when it got out the Rock cuts and
died from AIDS, the public was absolutely shock. They could
not believe that Rock Hudson was gay. Pretty Much every
in Hollywood knew about it though. Now the dog Toto.
He was born today in nineteen thirty three in Chicago. Well,
she was born say, she was born Terry, but she

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changed her name to Toto after she starred in The
wizardom of Oz. She was in sixteen movies. She even
did her own stunts. Yeah, she broke one of her
paws when a munchkin stepped on her foot. Toto never married.
She died in nineteen forty five at eleven years old.
She was a little young for a little dog. She
was a carn terrier. If you ever wondered, I can see.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Who I am. Glad you're seventeen. Well you do what
you do. Some dyaks.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
Around My best it is Gordon Lightfoot. He wrote that
song Sundown in nineteen seventy four. He wrote it about
his mistress, Kathy Smith in nineteen eighty two. That Kathy Smith,
she's the one who injected the drugs into John Belushi
that killed them. I did a little predis in time
before Gordon. He was born in Arilla, Ontario, Canada, in
nineteen thirty eight. Me and Bobby McGee Rainy Day People.

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The director of the Edmunds Fitzgerald. If you could read
my mind has some of his hits. He had two
children from his first wife, and then he had two
children from different girlfriends. Then he had two children from
his second wife. Married his third wife in twenty fourteen.
Gordon died from natural causes in two and twenty twenty three,
eighty four years old. Movie maker Martin Scorsese's eighty three.
He was born in Queen's New York in nineteen forty two.

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First movie he directed it was in nineteen sixty seven,
Who's Knocking at My Door? Now he's been nominated for
sixteen Oscars. Let's just go with his Best Director Oscars. Okay.
They were for A Raging Bull, The Last Temptation of Christ,
good Fellows, The Agent, Innocence, Gangs in New York, The Aviator,
Hugo Wolfe of Wall Street, The Irishman, Killers of the Are,
Killers of the Flower Moon. But I did give him

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one for the Departed Martin. He had a daughter from
his first wife, a daughter from his second wife. His
third wife was actress Isabella ros Leini for three years,
and he married his fifth wife in nineteen ninety nine.
They have a daughter, actor Danny DeVito. He's eighty one.
He's born in Neptune, New Jersey, in nineteen forty four.
Now he first really got known on TV and taxi.
Been in ninety four movies, though he's done a gajillion

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Jersey Mike TV commercials. His first big movie was One
Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I think Danny's best acting
job was in the movie The rain Maker. Now he's
currently filming in a Jumanji movie. They're still at it. Now,
back on to TV. He's been on That It's Always
Sunny in Philadelphia since twenty two, thousand and six. I
don't think they did a lot of episodes every year though, Danny.
He met Real Pearlman in nineteen seventy one. They married

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in nineteen eighty two. They had three kids. Separated in
twenty seventeen. They have absolutely no plans on ever divorcing.
Neither one of them says they have ever been happier
since they've separated. Now, Danny, he's four feet ten inches tall.
He has Fairbanks disease? Is it really rare conditions that
doesn't allow your bones to grow? Actor Stephen Root. He
was born at Sarasota, Florida, in nineteen fifty one. He's

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seventy four, been in over ninety movies. Biggest one was
probably when he played Milton and All of Space. Nope,
I guess did fall. Probably a lot bigger. On TV,
he was on news radio and on King of the Hill. Yeah,
he voiced on that from ninety seven until twenty ten
when it ended. But they brought King of the Hill back. Yeah,
it's back on TV again. They brought it back in August.
So Roote, he's back to he voices Bill. He's the

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Army barber. Rody had his son from his first wife
and married his second wife in two thousand and eight.
Actress Mary Elizabeth master Antonio. She was born in Lombard, Illinois,
in nineteen fifty eight. She's sixty seven to day. She
started out on Broadway. Her first movie was Scarface. Then
she was nominated for an Oscar for the Color of Money.
She's also in the Best Robinhood, Prince of Thieves, The

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Perfect Storm. She married nineteen ninety and they have two sons. Now.
She didn't win, but Mary Elizabeth Mascontonio it is the
longest name ever to be nominated for an Academy Awards.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
Oh sad Girl, Listen.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
Damn Trust, The Big Girl, The Devot in Belle Bivdavout
is Ronnie Dvau fifty eight today. He was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts,
in nineteen sixty seven. Now he was an original member
of New Edition. They started in nineteen seventy eight. When
they broke up in nineteen eighty nine, him, Ricky Bell
and Michael Bevan started Boll Bivdavout New Addition. They got

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back together around two thousand and two, so now they
do double duty. They tour with Belle biv Davout and
then they tour with no audition. Then they go back
and forth. Ronnie he married in two thousand and six
and they have two sons. Actress Rachel McAdden was forty seven.
She was born in London, Ganada. In nineteen seventy eight.
She made her first movie, Yeah it was White Chicks.
Then she did Mean Girls, The Notebook, Wedding Crashers. She

(09:51):
was nominated for an Oscar for Spotlight Rachel. She's been
with her boyfriend since twenty sixteen and they have one
son and one daughter. This will make some of you

(10:17):
feel kind of old. The oldest handsome brother Isaac Isaac Canson.
He's forty five, born in Tosa, Oklahoma, in nineteen eighty He,
Tyler and Zach formed Hanson in nineteen ninety two. Isaac
he plays their guitar. Taylor he sings in desk keyboards.
Zach he plays the drum. Now after finding the record
companies for years, in two thousand and one, Hanson said, enough,
they just started their own record company. So yeah, they've

(10:38):
been in indie band ever since. Now, I guess they've
really grown up though. Next year they're gonna be opening
for Bush and to Shine Down. Isaac he married in
two thousand and six and they have three children.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
Now.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
When he's playing a show in New Orleans, he saw
his future wife in the fifth row. He said he
knew at that very moment that he was going to
spressing the rest of his life with that girl. Alright here.
Quote of the day. It comes from Scope Sure August Rudin.
He's the guy who scopted the Thinker. He died today
in nineteen seventeen at seventy seven years old. He says,
nothing is a waste of time if you use it,

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they experience wisely. Well, thank you all for listening today.
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sung shotgun on whisky. You guys are have an awesome day.
We'll talk tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
Downtown tone up, leading and showing. It's a lot tooim
dom cheated and broken. Blame my come, don't wall stay.
Just gotta get sick. Chattle the great in a corner

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in the Donalds. All the bat you gun all.

Speaker 1 (11:59):
It takes so much shity you find the Texas sun.
The yellow molk goes from the past.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
He ain't gonna let the school kid.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
Got ass, got.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
A rocket, A little line of control. Time done. And
the devil. Tell my brother's ancestors, we gotta kill that devil.
You got it rocking a rope, we go riding spots.
It's a crumbling life. Gallow see.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
You just gotta get a loud, pissed on big metal Norse.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
We that sh shadows O whiskey. I ain't on the narrow,
but so hard to find.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
That leaves me trying to sell pieces.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
From the bottle. Alls do show tears, but they must
stop and wins. Nothing left for fear.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
You gotta rout of control. Time, None in the devil still,
My brothers and sisters, we gotta kill that devil. We
got a rocking, we got a rattle for rolls. Let's

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coming up cat Sea.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
We just gotta give five. Passed up by a little
north wind. Shoot shots, all whiskey,