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November 18, 2025 14 mins
National play monopoly day. Entertainment from 1975. Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address, Pop Tarts invented, Apollo12 was 2nd moon landing. Todays birthdays - James Garfield, Ted Turner, Dan Haggerty, Kathleen Quinlan, Allison Janney, Meg Ryan, Jodie Foster, Billy Currington, Adam Driver. Mel Tillis died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran    https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
Monopoly theme song
Island girl - Elton John
Rocky - Dickey Lee
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent     https://www.50cent.com/
Mom TV theme
Like my dog - Billy Currington
Coca Cola Cowboy - Mel Tillis
Exit - Cowboy Cry - Howard County     https://howardcountymusic.com/
countryundergroundradio.com
History & Factoids about today webpage
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Speaker 1 (00:19):
Well, I am Jeff. Welcome to history in factor. It's
about today. Today's November the nineteenth.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Else, Oh oh, come, Monopoly is Monopoly?

Speaker 3 (00:33):
Otell roll the paradise?

Speaker 4 (00:41):
What if you fell? Today? Is National Play Monopoly Day?

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Now if you have an extra five to seven hours
to come, yeah, why not play a game of Monopoly?
Nineteen oh three Lizzy Maggie. She created a board game
that she called the Landlord's Game. Parker Brothers. They bought
her out in nineteen thirty five. I've changed the name
of Monopoly.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
There are over three hundred versions of Monopoly. He can't
even get one in Braille.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
Monopoly.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
It does help with math and analytical skills. So have
your kids put down that video game once in a
while and grab some family and friends and play a
rousing game of monopoly. All right, what do you like
to be when you play Monopoly? What game piece do
you choose?

Speaker 4 (01:20):
Now?

Speaker 1 (01:20):
The number one choice is the little dog, it's the
most popular. Then they have the race car, the thimble,
and the top hats. All right, let's see what's going
on in the entertainment. Not November the nineteenth, It was
back to nineteen seventy five. Them when the album was
Rock of the Westies by Elton. John Elton had the
number one song with Island Girl.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
Dicky Lee had the name on Country Song with Rocky
with Till.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Each Other Close at Night and.

Speaker 5 (02:07):
Trade dreams each dayson.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
In Love You Get Through.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
The number one movie was The One Who flew Over
the Cuckoo's Nest Criminal. He kind of fakes it, but
he gets into a psychiatric hospital. Then he rarely stirs
things up. Stars Nack, Jack Nicholson, Christopher Lloyd, Louise Fletcher,
Danny DeVito, whole bunch of people. Now the movie One
Who flew Over the Cookouzness. Yeah, I got the Oscar
for Best Picture that year, and Jack Nicholson and Louis Fletcher,

(02:45):
they both won Our Academy Awards for her Best Actors
nineteen ninety Millie Vanilla, they had their Grammy Awards taken
away from see the Grammys. They were being real stricklers.
They said that he actually had to sing on your
record in order to win the award. Now, I can
see how you can lip see like in live concerts,
so I don't see how you could lip sync in
a record through yo though, all right, what happened on

(03:05):
November the nineteenth today is also national discovered Puerto Rico Day,
fourteen ninety three. Columbus and his men, they were the
first Europeans at land on Puerto Rico.

Speaker 4 (03:16):
Now that is what it was.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
On his second trip over here, he named it San
Juan Bautista, so in honor of Saint John the Baptist.
But the Tiana people who actually lived on the island,
they said, no, no, it's God bory Can. Yeah, he
didn't care. But that's why the capital, San Juan, it
is named after Saint John. Sixteen twenty, the Mayflower had
found Cape Cod and then it started going up and
down the coast trying to find a place of land.

Speaker 6 (03:39):
Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth
on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and
dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
Now that wasn't him, but it was today.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
In eighteen sixty three of the President Abraham Lincoln gave
the Gettysburg Address that's only two hundred and seventy two
words long, still one of the most famous speeches in
American history. Now, he gave the speech four and a
half months after the Battle of Gettyberg was fought in Pennsylvania.
That battle side he was just being turned down a
national cemetery. Thirty two hundred Confederate soldiers were buried there,
but not with the honors. So in the eighteen seventies,

(04:16):
Southern veteran groups they removed their remains to Confederate cemeteries
in Georgia, Virginia and like the Carolinas and that kind
of stuff, But they didn't move them all. There are
still some Southerners who are buried in get his Burg
along as their northern brethren.

Speaker 4 (04:30):
So do you know how long.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
Four score in seven years is eighty seven years? Yeah,
it's course twenty years. Eighteen ninety five in Philly, Frederick
blaizew He invented the self sharpening paper pencil. Today we
caught the China marker. It's the one with the string
on it. Nineteen sixty five pop tarts were invented. Yeah,
Kellogg's invented him. Now sixty one percent of all people

(04:52):
they eat their pop tarts without toasting, and the toaster
just take all the box of their package and show down.
Nineteen sixty nine, twelve hours tonight, it's Charles Conrad and
Alan Bean became the third and fourth people to walk
on the moon. Now as Conrad he stepped out onto
the Moon's surface.

Speaker 4 (05:08):
He yells, whoopy man. It might have been a small
step for Neil, but it was a big one for me.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
Whooo.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Now see that that is cool. See that is emotion. Yes,
he's on the moon for crying out loud.

Speaker 4 (05:19):
That's a lot better than one mo. Yeah, you get
the point.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
Nineteen ninety seven in Des Moines, Iowa. Name was Betty mccaffee.
She gave birth to the first steptuplets, this fight infancy.
That's seven babies now, the four boys and three girls.
They're twenty eight years old today. So happy birthday to
the mccaffee sept tup Let's call, hey, might as well
go do birthdays.

Speaker 7 (05:41):
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Speaker 3 (05:47):
We're gonna pause he left this shiverthday. Were gonna simple
target this shi birthday. And you know we don't give birthday.

Speaker 4 (05:56):
So it was born on November the nineteenth.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
Well.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
James Garfield is and Moreland Hills, Ohio in eighteen thirty one.
Now he was a lawyer, then became a Union general
during the Civil War. Garfield he was a twentieth United
States President Sir from March fourth, eighteen eighty one to
September nineteenth, eighteen eighty one. On July second, Garfield he
was waiting for train at the station in New Jersey.
His net job walked up and shot him in the

(06:19):
back of the arm. Garfield didn't suffer for two months
before he actually died. Now, the net job that shot him, now,
he had never met Garfield. They did not know each other,
didn't have any common friends. And this guy had absolutely
no experience in working in the government. While he had
written Garfield the letter though, and in the letter he
asked for a job in governments there in Garfield's government,
whoa Well, then he didn't get an interview. Yeah, so

(06:41):
he just went and shot Garfield. Garfield he is forty
nine years old, left wife and seven kids. Now, the
guy who shot him, they did rule that he was crazy,
so you know, yeah, they executed him anyway. They didn't care.
Ted Turner he's eighty seven. He's born in Cincinnati, Ohio,
in nineteen thirty eight. Started out in billboards hip, took
over his dad Billboard Company, and he became a medium mogul,

(07:01):
started CNN, TVs, T and TTNSA.

Speaker 4 (07:04):
He did a lot.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
Ted is the fourth biggest landowner in the United States.
He owns over two million acres owns land in New Mexico, Kansas, Nebraska,
South Dakota, Montana. Raises bison mostly. Yeah, it's fifty thousand
heard of bison. It's the largest private bison were heard
in the entire world. Teddy had two children from his
first wife, three children from his second wife. Then he
married Jane Fonda for ten years after that divorce. Yeah,

(07:28):
Teddy's pretty much put off on marriage. Can't blame him.
Act Dan Haggerty. He was born in Pound, Wisconsin in
nineteen forty one. Now he has this big, burly bearded guy.
Now helped build the motorcycles for the movie Easy Rider.
So when he's done that, he kind of liked that
entertainment thing, so we went into acting. That's none for
playing Grizzly Adams on the TV show Grizzly Adams. He
had two daughters from his first wife. He had two

(07:49):
sons from with his second wife. Now his second wife,
she died in a motorcycle accident in two thousand and eight.
Dan He died from spinal cancer in twenty sixteen at
seventy four years old.

Speaker 4 (07:57):
That doesn't sound cool.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
Actors Scott from Clinton, Kathleen Quinnlandy. She had seventy one.
She's born in Pasadena, California, in nineteen fifty four. She
grew up in Mill Valley, California.

Speaker 4 (08:08):
Now she's eighteen.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
She was in Her first movie was American Graffiti, then
Airport seventy seven The Hills Ovis. She was nominated for
an Oscar for Apollo thirteen. She was married to her second
husband for twenty eight years when they divorced in twenty
twenty two and one son together. Actress Alison Janney. She
was born in Boston in nineteen fifty nine. She's sixty five.
On TV, she started out in the West Wing and

(08:30):
then hit really big on Mom Bending over sixty movies.
I personally think her best movie was Drop Dead Gorgeous,
but she did win an oscar for Ititania. Drop Dead
Gorgeous is still a lot better. Now she's been nominated
for two Tony's also. Actress Meg Ryan sixty four. She's
born in Fairfield, Connecticut in nineteen sixty one.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
Meg.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
She started out on the soap opera As the World Turns,
and she got famous as the movie top Gun when
Harry met Sally sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail. She
married actor Denis Quad for ten years and they had
a son now after her and Dennis Devorice Meg. She's
adopted a daughter in two thousand and six. Now get
this Meg. She turned down the role in the movie
Silence of the Lamb that Joni Foster won an Oscar

(09:10):
for playing. Now you speak of the Devil Jody Foster.
She's sixty three today. She was born in Los Angeles
nineteen sixty two.

Speaker 4 (09:17):
Jody.

Speaker 1 (09:17):
She started out as a model when she was three.
She was nominated for an Oscar when she was twelve
for the movie Taxi Driver. Now she was nominated for
also later on for Nell and Nyad, but she won
her Oscars for obviously Silence of the Lambs and The Accused.

Speaker 3 (09:31):
Now.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
I think her best acting was in the movie Maverick.
I think that's a miss Jody Foster movie.

Speaker 3 (09:36):
Now.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
She had two sons with a longtime girlfriend. Then she
married her wife in twenty fourteen.

Speaker 6 (09:41):
Well leave see the pet Old Things.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
It is true. Won't you to live me like my?
Don't me I come home? Won't you just go crazy?

Speaker 6 (09:56):
He never looks to me like he.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
No. Country singer Billy Currington was born in Savannah, Georgia,
in nineteen seventy three. He's fifty two, still lives in
Savannah too. Some of his dozen number one songs I
must be doing something right, good directions, pretty good at
drinking beer? Do I make you want now?

Speaker 4 (10:20):
Billy?

Speaker 1 (10:21):
He hasn't married yet, but he does have a dog
after Adam Driver is forty two. He was born in
font Dana, California, in nineteen eighty three.

Speaker 4 (10:28):
Grew up in Indiana. After high school he went to
the Marines. Yeah, he was a marine.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
Then after that he went and graduated from Juilliard, So
that means he can act. He was a nomine three
years in a row for Primetime Emmys for the HBO
show Girls. Then he really hit big playing Kylo Wrenn
in the Star Wars movies trilogies. Been nominated for Oscars
for Black Klansman and Marriage Story Adam. He married in
twenty thirteen a girl who met in Juilliard. They have
a son and a daughter now Adam. He founded Arts

(10:55):
for the Armed Forces. This is really cool. It's a
nonprofit that performs theater for all branches of the military
in the United States and abroad. Okay, our quote of
the day it comes from Mil tillis As.

Speaker 8 (11:08):
She said, you're just a cold cold cowboys.

Speaker 4 (11:16):
You got a smile and Roberts read for your head.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
But you want to tras my heart luck it Wallas, Texas.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
Meil died to day in twenty seventeen at eighty five
years old.

Speaker 4 (11:34):
Mel said, everything.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
Was fine growing up, and then when I went to school,
I found out I couldn't talk. Well, if you don't
know Mel, he stuttered, Well, thank you for listening today,
don't We had to follow us and now you listen
to his own. So it's we're easy to follow that
way and check out today's shows. Description that I'll give
you links to everything like Country to Ground Radio dot
com so you can make a request just like Carolyn
Amarilla did. She wants our country underground radio artist to

(11:56):
be Howard County and there it's on Cowboy Cry. You
guys have out some day. We'll talk tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
Grampallas me.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
He said, stand up straight, some keep you a fit
Stu when you find.

Speaker 5 (12:19):
Be you a good man and speed your.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
Family his name, he said, not almost things can be ta.

Speaker 4 (12:32):
He must know no thout.

Speaker 8 (12:35):
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cut me down just to watch me guy, So the
American's cry still be two s if that's powerbo turphee enough.

Speaker 5 (12:54):
But you won't see the paint that.

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Speaker 3 (13:06):
Guy not being vague, and.

Speaker 5 (13:25):
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laugh as you live, did lealies weird rally.

Speaker 7 (13:40):
And I ain't even passed away. Mam on mebast you
and now you scared me.

Speaker 4 (13:51):
You w the tree we smiled when I saw you.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
With these guys.

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