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November 20, 2025 13 mins
National gingerbread cookie day. Entertainment from 2015. Kristin shot JR, North Carolina became 12th state, Jerusalum recaptured and 2nd temple re-dedicated. Todays birthdays - Jean Shepard, Marlo Thomas, Harold Ramis, Goldie Hawn, Nick Gilder, Nicollette Sheridan, Carly Rae Jepsen. David Cassidy died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran    https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
Gingerbread cookie dance - Danny G.
Hello - Adele
Tennessee Whiskey - Chris Stapleton
Birthday - The Beatles
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent       http://50cent.com/
Dear John - Jean Shepard and Ferlin Husky
Hot child in the city - Nick Gilder
Call me maybe - Carly Rae Jepsen
I think I love you - David Cassidy
Exit - Silver - Kirstie Kraus     https://www.kirstiekraus.com/

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Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hi, and welcome to history and Factor. It's about today.
I am Jeff in today's November twenty first.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Tests Cookie Tests.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Test. Today it is National Gingerbread Cookie Day. It seems
a little early in the year, but the holladays are
coming awful fast. Gingerbread it has been around a long time.
Ancient Greeks and Egyptians. They use it for ceremonial purposes.

(00:53):
Now a ginger got to Europe in the eleven hundreds.
They use it for medicinal reasons. Then in the fifteen hundreds,
English Queen Elizabeth the First she asked her servants to
make her gingerbread cookies. Well, she called them biscuits, and
she wanted to look like the guests are the people
who were coming to a Christmas party. So ill that
gingerbread cookie he was born. Now, when you eat gingerbread cookies,
if you bite the head off first, thing, yeah, it

(01:14):
means that you are an achievement oriented person and a
natural leader who will not take no for an answer.
You don't want to know what you are if you
bet the feet off first. Now, these are the healthiest
cookies you're gonna eat all Christmas seasons. So I enjoy today,
She's going on entertainment. I November the twenty first, It's
Bet Your twenty fifteen number one album was Traveled by
Chris Stapleton. Adele had the number one song with Hello.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Hello, how are you? It's so terrifical me to talk
about ale myself.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
At you will.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Chris Stapleton had a number country song with Tennessee Whiskey
o Rest. What's The Number one book was The Bizarre

(02:20):
of Bad Dreams by Stephen King. Top movie was The
Hunger Games Mocking j Part two. Catnus and rebels from
the district. They prepare for a battle that will decide
the fate of Panham. Stars Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutchinson and
Liam Himswurs. All right, let's say it happened on November
the twenty first, one sixty four BC. Judas maccabeas he

(02:40):
led them maccabeean revolt. Now they were able to recapture
Jerusalem from the Greeks. Yeah, they rededicated their temple. Now
that's when the miracle the oil happened. They still celebrated
today as Honikah. For you Christians, when Jesus is in
the Bible, when he celebrates dedication. Yeah, he's celebrating Honikah
for he is honic Goa is starting December fourteenth this year. Now,
though hot air balloons they've been around for a few years,

(03:03):
no one had made a hot air balloon flight. Yeah,
without it being tethered to the ground. Well, in seventeen
eighty three, John Francis Rosia and Marcus ardel Arts, Yeah,
they grew up here and cut that cord made the
first free balloon flight. Got upped about three hundred feet,
went almost six miles and twenty five minutes. Yeah, they
flew over Paris. Happy birthday. North Carolina today. In seventeen

(03:45):
eighty nine, North Carolina game the twelfth state. Now it's
named for England's King Charles Carolina. It's Latin for Charles. Now,
it was supposed to just beat Carolina. Yeah, but it
was really too hard to govern the people in the
northern part in the southern part of the state, they
are so different. Yeah, it didn't work. They were constantly
bitching and fighting on that seventeen seventeen twelve. Yeah, they
just cut the state in half and said the hell

(04:06):
with it. North Carolina's capital is Raleigh. It's the twenty
eighth largest state by land twenty's the ninth biggest state
by population. Highest point is Mount Mitchell at six thousand,
six hundred and eighty three feet. That's the highest point
in east of the Mississippi River. North Carolina state bird is,
the cardinal fish is the red drum flower, is the
flowering dogwood, mammon, gray squirrel, marshupio, the possum tree is

(04:30):
Pine state fossil is middland on teh teeth. All right,
some people born in North Carolina. I have a gardener,
Dale Earnharer Junior and senior, Julianne Moore, Sugar Ey, Leonard
Thomas Sewell, Billy Graham, Randy Travis, Luke Combs, Charlie Daniels,
just some of the people born in the tar Hill state.
Tar Hill. It is a person who works in a
lowly trade. Hey, they state, they can call it what

(04:53):
they want. Nineteen oh one, Richard Strauss his opera fiersnot
opened up in Germany now probably means something different in German.
But I guarantee you if you put on an opera
in America called Fierce Nut, You're gonna get a lot
more people to the Opera nineteen sixteen in the ANGNC
it's in the northeast part of the Mediterrane Sita, it's
between Greece and Turkey. The ship that Britannic hit a

(05:14):
mine and sank. Now that the Britannic, it was a
sister ship for the Titanic, and they had learned a
lot of lessons from the Titanic. Here only thirty people died.
One thousand and thirty five people were actually, yeah, rescued
in life boats. Nineteen forty six, Harry Truman, he became
the first president to write in a submerged submarine. Submerged submarine,
So do you think a president went out there and

(05:34):
told them not to go down? Then New York City
in nineteen forty seven, the Roosevelt Hotel. It became the
first hotel in the world where TV sets were in
the rooms. Nineteen eighty, over eighty three million people tuned
in to find out that christ is the one who
shot JR. On Dallas. Yeah, the most watched TV show
in history up to that point. You know what, Vegas
was betting on it. They got it right too. Vegas

(05:55):
hat Christen a three to one odds. They had her
before Bobby and Sewellen. Do you think this guy's first
prole here is gonna be twenty eighteen and Guatemala soldier
Santos Slopez Alonzo. He was sending the five thousand and
sixty years in prison for killed on hundred and seventy
one people during the Guatemalan Civil War. Cope Cope, cope, cope.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
Show this shiverthday.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
We're gonna pause.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
He left this shiver birthday. We want simple tage like
this shiver birthday.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
And you know we don't give birthday all right? Who
is born on November the twenty first? Aama Lanty.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
For years.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
We like long a major woman pioneer and guntry munisic.
Jean st Jean Shepard James was born in Paul's Valley, Oklahoma,
nineteen thirty twenty three. Now that song I played, Dear

(07:02):
John Letter, it wasn't just a number one song on
the country card that crossed over and was a huge
hit on the pop charts in nineteen fifty three. Jane
she was a member of the Grand Old Opera for
over sixty years. Her second husband was country singer Hack
saw Hawkins. Now they got married on stage when they
were doing the show in Wichita, Kansas in nineteen sixty
Now they tiered together most of the time, but in
nineteen sixty three eight Geen she was home. She was

(07:23):
pregnant like eight month along with their second son, Hack Saw.
He was on the road. He got killed in the
plane crafts that killed Patsy Kline Jane. She married her
fourth husband in nineteen sixty eight and they had a son.
She died from Parkinson's in twenty sixteen and eighty two
years old. Actress Marlo Thomas is eighty eight. She was
born in Detroit nineteen thirty seven. Grew up in Beverly Hills.
Her dad was actor Danny Thomas Marlow. She's most known

(07:46):
for starting on the TV show That Girl, and she
played Rachel's mom on Friends. Some of her movies were
Jenny Falling Down Ocean's eight. Now you probably know that
her dad founded the children's research hospital Saint Jude's Marlow.
She's still one of the directors on It thirty Everything
eighty eight. She Marrie Phildania in nineteen eighty. They were
marri until he died just last year. Actor writer director

(08:06):
Harol Ramis. He was born in Chicago in nineteen forty four.
So I'm just going to talk about the shows that
he the movies that he wrote or co wrote. We're
not going to talk about his acting or directing. So
some of the shows he wrote or co wrote, Animal House,
Caddy Shack, Meatballs, Stripes, Ghostbusters, Back to School, Groundhog Day.
That's just sub up. He's got a long old list now, Harold.

(08:28):
He had a daughter from his first wife, then he
had a daughter from a fun time married his second
wife in nineteen eighty nine and they had two sons. Harold.
He died from an autoimmune disease in twenty fourteen and
sixty nine years old. Actors Goldie On is eighty. She
was born in Washington, DC in nineteen forty five. She
first got known on the TV show Laughing that she
crossed over and got an oscar for her first movie. Yeah,

(08:48):
she waned for Cactus Flower. She was later nominated for
an oscar for or Private Benjamin. She was also overboard
the First Wives club House Sitter. She married her second
husband in nineteen seventy six and they had a son
and then daughter, actress Kate Hudson. They divorced in nineteen
eighty two. Then She started dating actor Kurt Russell in
nineteen eighty three. She still lives. They have one son.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
From what.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
That was.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
Nick Gilder He was born in London, England, in nineteen
fifty one, seventy four years old today. Grew up in Vancouver, Canada. Now, Nick,
you start out singing for the glam band Sweeney Todd.
Then when Nick went off to go solo, Yeah, he
was replaced by sixteen year old Brian Adams. Yeah, that
Bryan Adams. Some of Nick's solo songs are Hot Child
in the City, Here Comes the Night, You Really Rock Me?

(09:52):
Now twenty years after he left in two thousand, yep,
he was back with the band him and Sweeney Todd.
There's stilt them pretty much want to play Canada though.
Actress Nicolette shared and she's sixty two. She was born
in Worthing, England, in nineteen sixty three. In the United States,
when she was ten, her first movie was The Sure Thing.
Now she was The sure Thing. Then she did Spy Hard,
Beverly Hills, Ninja. I was known for TV nots Landing

(10:15):
and then Desperate House Lives. She has two times divorce.
Her longest relationship is actually with Michael Bolton. They dated
for six years. Kylie ray Jepson's forty years old. She

(10:44):
was born in Mission, British Colombia, Canada. In nineteen eighty five,
she finished third place on Canadian Idol. She believes that
is the best thing that could have ever happened to her.
By not winning, she wasn't on a contract, so she
could do what she wanted. So she did and then
twenty twelve, call me maybe number one selling song in
the world. Some members our other hits are a good
time and I really like you Carly. She just got

(11:04):
married on October fourth. Then on November three, she announced
that they're expecting their first child. Now that's what you
call a honeymoon. All right, let's go to our quote
of the day. It comes from David Cassidy, love you wasting,
I love you one of the sort.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
I'm up then, I'm not sure of you.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
I love there, don't care for.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
What think.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
I love you, he said, not what Christman. David died
today in twenty seventeen at sixty seven years old. He said,
if you're not a daydreamer, you don't have any imagination.
Oh thank you all for listening today. We have to
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(11:53):
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you guys are have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow. Well, no,
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Speaker 2 (12:08):
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ever had, but it ain't working. You're doing a Fadrick
pill on No cut here is heard.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
I was trying to cooking.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
New play night to my head. You see jonas, I
see you read and you say I'm never home, but
you sound the when house go home. You're trying to
change me. I'm still the same.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
Bea Silver just can't big go?

Speaker 2 (12:45):
We go, we go, we go, we go around there, supercles. Mom.
Mama said, how Nay shouldn't be jumping her nose looking
it's supposed to be this ho go bos. We started
dry in subt pray by my head. You see Dunans

(13:06):
out sea ring and you say I'm never home, but
you sound the when hours gone home.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
You're trying to change me.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
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