November 23, 2025 • 12 mins
National Espresso Day. Entertainment from 1955. Prescribing beer for medicianl purposes now illegal, WW2 food rationing ended, Jukebox debuts. Todays birthdays - Franklin Pierce, Boris Karloff, Betty Everett, Bruce Hornsby, Miley Cyrus. Larry Hagman died.
Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
Have another espresso - Shel Silverstein
Autumn leaves - Roger Williams
Love love love = Webb Pierce
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent https://www.50cent.com/
The shoop shoop song (its in his kiss) - Betty Everett
Just the way it is - Bruce Hornsby & the Range
Party in the USA - Miley Cyrus
Exit - Two Step - Songwriter Melissa Coston https://www.reverbnation.com/melissacoston/song/34508022-backwoods
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Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
Have another espresso - Shel Silverstein
Autumn leaves - Roger Williams
Love love love = Webb Pierce
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent https://www.50cent.com/
The shoop shoop song (its in his kiss) - Betty Everett
Just the way it is - Bruce Hornsby & the Range
Party in the USA - Miley Cyrus
Exit - Two Step - Songwriter Melissa Coston https://www.reverbnation.com/melissacoston/song/34508022-backwoods
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Speaker 1 (00:20):
Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history and
fact dud. It's about today. Today's November the twenty third.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Now, whatever life looks dark and mean, I have myself
an espresso and then I sort of sit back. Man
in life didn't see I have myself another espresso.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Today is National Espresso Day. Now. The word espresso it
is Italian. It means pressed out.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
The way it has made it is really strong. So
that's why they serve in those little cups. Luigi Bizaria
he invented the first espresso machine in nineteen oh one.
Espresso can be good for your health. Yeah, just a
shot of espresso. It's low glories and it stimulates your
metabolic system in your body, so yeah, helps you lose
weight too. Espresso also helps reduce inflammation. It release bloating, heartburn, nausia.
(01:10):
Kind of something you might want to have after your
Thanksgiving dinner.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
So that's a good enough reason to celebrate some espresso today.
This is going go on entertainment. No. November twenty third.
It was back to nineteen fifty five number one album
was Love Me or League Mean by Doris Day. Roger
Williams had the number one song with Autumn Leaves that
(01:45):
is the only piano instrumental ever to go number one
on the Billboard chart. No, we know, web Piers sad
the number one song with love, Love Love, I'm beginning
a good thing. You don't love me at all?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
How about the.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I Just rub love me Love. The number one buckle
was Marjorie morning Star by Herman walk Todd. Movie was
Guys and Dolls Now Gambler, He is bad to take
this fridge and little missionary girl down to Cuba. Yeah,
the bet was the finance of Craps game. Well, those
two fall in love stars Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra and
(02:29):
Gene Simmons. The actor's not the guy from Kiss. All right,
Let's see what happened On November the twenty third, seventeen
eighty three in Napolis, Maryland, it became the United States Capitol. Yeah,
but only until the next June. Yeah, then it moved
to Trenton, New Jersey. Eighteen eighty nine. In San Francisco
at the Palais Royal Saloon, they veld the jukebox. You
(02:50):
had had four listening tubes where you could listen to
a wax records that had to be changed by hand,
came huge instantly. Yeah, and then it just spread all
over the world really quickly. Now, the ju it was
originally called the automatic coin operated phonograph, but they were
only really in jukeboxes, and jukeboxes were places that were rowdy, seedy, disorderly, rough,
(03:11):
you know, kind of holes in them all. So jukebox
seemed a lot more fitting name. Now, Billboard, when they
started out, they actually tracked the songs that were played
on jukeboxes. That's how they first got their first number
one hit songs and stuff. So the number one jukebox
song that's been played the most hound Dog by Elvis Presley.
Now this isn't as fun as jukeboxes. But in eighteen
(03:32):
ninety seven, John Lee Love He invented the Portaba pencil sharpener.
Nineteen twenty one, President Warren Harding he signed the Willis
Campbell Act. Now it made it illegal for doctors to
prescribe bear for medicial person assistance. People have found a
little loophole in that prohibition. Nineteen forty two, Chinese sailor
Pumlin he was working on the British ship that Ben Lamont.
(03:53):
Now he cleaned and cooked and stuff fifty four sailor
was around barn Well. Then it was sunk by a
torpedo fired from a German U boat. In this out Atlantic,
fifty three died Poom. He was the only survivor. Now
he was able to get into an eight foot raft
and there was a little food in it. Mostly he
survived catching fish and sharks. Now, after one hundred and
thirty three days, he floated close enough to Brazil where
he was actually rescued by fisherman's. Yeah, that kind of
(04:15):
suck if they offered him something to eat. Nineteen forty five,
most war ration in the United States were done. Yep,
you know, Americans. You can eat all the meat and
butter and that kind of stuff that you wanted. Nineteen
fifty four, the stock market for the first time the
Dow Jones after the Dow Jones average measures the stock market.
It finished above where it was before the stock market
(04:36):
crash in nineteen twenty nine. Nineteen eighty two, the SEC
dropped the limit of how often how long TV commercials
could be played. Sure that's a good thing. Two thousand
and four, World of Warcraft, the online multiplayer video game
it was released, still the most subscribed to video game
in the world. Over one hundred and sixty three nerds
subscribed to it. I mean video game of fishing, inaudos.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Choked choked joke, dish Shilbert Day, he left this shiverthday.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
We want simple tage.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
He left dish Shilbirth day change you don't.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Youse. He was born on November the twenty third. Franklin pierced.
He was born in Hillsborough, New Hampshire, in eighteen oh four.
Now he was a career politician, except he did take
a break. Yeah, he went and served as a general
in the Mexican American War again in the fourteenth President
of the United States served from eighteen fifty three eighteen
fifty seven. He did nothing. Yeah, he basically didn't do
(05:34):
anything the whll time he was there. His only claim
to fame is that he was the first president of
a Christmas tree in the White House. He married in
eighteen thirty four and they had three children. Now, two
of those children they died really young. Then when Franklin
he was on his way to be inaugurated as president
in Washington, d C. His train car are derailed in Maryland,
rolled down an embankment. Now him and his wife were fine,
(05:55):
but his last child and eleven year old boy, Yeah,
he was killed. Paris was ahead of the heavy drink
pretty much of his adult life. Kind of can't blame him.
But he died from Crossis's Deliver in eighteen sixty nine,
sixty four years old. After Boris Carloff. He was born
in Peckham, England, in eighteen eighty eighteen eighty seven, now Boris.
He was in one hundred and seventy eight movies. No
one knew who he was until his eighty second movie.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
He played the monster in the nineteen thirty one original
movie Frankenstein. Then he became a horror film icon. Brian
and Frankenstein, son of Frankenstein, House of Frankenstein, Die Monster
died some of his movies. He did narrate Doctor Steus
Is how the Great Style Christmas don't want to gram
me for it? Boris. He had a daughter from his
fifth wife, married his sixth wife in nineteen forty six.
(06:38):
There together until he died from pneumonia in nineteen sixty
eight at eighty one years old. That was Betty Everett.
(07:05):
She was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, in nineteen thirty nine.
Now that song is actually called the shoop Shop song.
It's in His Kiss went to number one, so did
her duet with Jimmy Butler. Let it be Me. Some
of her minor hits, Sorry You're no good. There will
come a time I got to tell somebody. Betty she
never married. She lived with her sister her whole tire life.
She did die or Betty died in two thousand and
(07:27):
one at sixty one years old from a heart attack.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
She got old ladies eyes just funny.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Sis got a job.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
That's just weird.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Somethings will never chea.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
That's just wee. He is Bruce Hornsby. He is seventy one.
He's born in Williamsburg, Virginia in nineteen fifty four. Started
out playing piano for she Easton's band. Then they formed
Bruce Hornsby in the Range in nineteen eighty four. Nineteen
ninety one. Came in from the Range and just went
by Bruce Hornsby. Some of his big hits are every
little Thing, every little Kiss, the way it is, Mandolin Rain,
(08:12):
the Valley Road, Now Bruce. He played for Rachfel did
for two years in the early nineties. Yet he did
over one hundred concerts with him, So that's like, what
those concerts so long? That's like five hundred concerts for
anybody else. Now he's still performed. He's actually coming here
to Denver to perform with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. Bruce
had got married nineteen eighty three and they have two sons,
(08:54):
thirty three year old Mighty Cyrus. She was born Destiny
Hope Cyrus in nineteen ninety two. He was born in Franklin, Tennessee.
Her dad is Billy Ray Syrens. Miley, she became huge
starring on the TV show hand Him Montana. Well that
was with kids. If you didn't have kids, you didn't
know who Handham Antenna was. Miley. She has had thirteen
top five albums. That is the most by any film
(09:15):
artist the centery century. And if you're yeah, Taylor, she
only has twelve. She's only released twelve albums, Okay, meer.
Some of her big hits are The Climb Party in
the USA, we Can't Stop breckham Ball now some of Basically,
she married, I'm not going to go into that. She
married actor Liam Hemsworth for two years. That's all I'm
(09:36):
gonna talk about. You want to know more. You can
look it up all right. Our code of the day.
It comes from Larry Hagman, the guy who played Jr.
On Dallas. He died to day in twenty twelve at
eighty one years old, so he actually lived eighteen years
after he had a liver transplant. Larry said, once you
get rid of integrity, the rest is easy. You guys
have an awesome day, and thank you for listening to us.
We sure appreciate it. Don't forget to follow us on
(09:58):
whoever you're listening to us on. Check out today's show descriptions.
See all the connections and what we're doing our country
inderground Radio arts today. Well see we actually promote songwriters
also on that station. Today, I'm gonna actually play one.
I'm gonna play a songwriter from the young up and
coming songwriter. Her name is Melissa Cousten. This is her
song two Step. You guys have an awesome day. We'll
(10:18):
talk tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Tuesdap Tuestom kick in a Turn, I said, tuesdamp tu
Storm kick in a.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Turn, Baby, I got some energy to burn. I got
to thinking what to do this evening. Dinner and a
movie just won't do.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I want to see him.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Boots leave izen.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
A stetson me and is short saying a summer dress
giving you dance and listens. Two stattoo stom kick in
a turn baby, I've got some in a Jeta burn,
two stattoo stop kick and a turn spinning around and
(11:13):
around in it and fin any time. Yeah, there's a
dancelor baby call in our names, a room full of
people that are feeling the same. Boots sliding and glidden
(11:35):
on a soadast floor.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Two step, two stomping clap four four.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Two staftoo stom kick and a turn baby, I've got
some in a Teita burn, two stattoo storm kick and
a turn spinning around and around in and it said,
Pizza Say
Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history and
fact dud. It's about today. Today's November the twenty third.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Now, whatever life looks dark and mean, I have myself
an espresso and then I sort of sit back. Man
in life didn't see I have myself another espresso.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Today is National Espresso Day. Now. The word espresso it
is Italian. It means pressed out.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
The way it has made it is really strong. So
that's why they serve in those little cups. Luigi Bizaria
he invented the first espresso machine in nineteen oh one.
Espresso can be good for your health. Yeah, just a
shot of espresso. It's low glories and it stimulates your
metabolic system in your body, so yeah, helps you lose
weight too. Espresso also helps reduce inflammation. It release bloating, heartburn, nausia.
(01:10):
Kind of something you might want to have after your
Thanksgiving dinner.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
So that's a good enough reason to celebrate some espresso today.
This is going go on entertainment. No. November twenty third.
It was back to nineteen fifty five number one album
was Love Me or League Mean by Doris Day. Roger
Williams had the number one song with Autumn Leaves that
(01:45):
is the only piano instrumental ever to go number one
on the Billboard chart. No, we know, web Piers sad
the number one song with love, Love Love, I'm beginning
a good thing. You don't love me at all?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
How about the.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I Just rub love me Love. The number one buckle
was Marjorie morning Star by Herman walk Todd. Movie was
Guys and Dolls Now Gambler, He is bad to take
this fridge and little missionary girl down to Cuba. Yeah,
the bet was the finance of Craps game. Well, those
two fall in love stars Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra and
(02:29):
Gene Simmons. The actor's not the guy from Kiss. All right,
Let's see what happened On November the twenty third, seventeen
eighty three in Napolis, Maryland, it became the United States Capitol. Yeah,
but only until the next June. Yeah, then it moved
to Trenton, New Jersey. Eighteen eighty nine. In San Francisco
at the Palais Royal Saloon, they veld the jukebox. You
(02:50):
had had four listening tubes where you could listen to
a wax records that had to be changed by hand,
came huge instantly. Yeah, and then it just spread all
over the world really quickly. Now, the ju it was
originally called the automatic coin operated phonograph, but they were
only really in jukeboxes, and jukeboxes were places that were rowdy, seedy, disorderly, rough,
(03:11):
you know, kind of holes in them all. So jukebox
seemed a lot more fitting name. Now, Billboard, when they
started out, they actually tracked the songs that were played
on jukeboxes. That's how they first got their first number
one hit songs and stuff. So the number one jukebox
song that's been played the most hound Dog by Elvis Presley.
Now this isn't as fun as jukeboxes. But in eighteen
(03:32):
ninety seven, John Lee Love He invented the Portaba pencil sharpener.
Nineteen twenty one, President Warren Harding he signed the Willis
Campbell Act. Now it made it illegal for doctors to
prescribe bear for medicial person assistance. People have found a
little loophole in that prohibition. Nineteen forty two, Chinese sailor
Pumlin he was working on the British ship that Ben Lamont.
(03:53):
Now he cleaned and cooked and stuff fifty four sailor
was around barn Well. Then it was sunk by a
torpedo fired from a German U boat. In this out Atlantic,
fifty three died Poom. He was the only survivor. Now
he was able to get into an eight foot raft
and there was a little food in it. Mostly he
survived catching fish and sharks. Now, after one hundred and
thirty three days, he floated close enough to Brazil where
he was actually rescued by fisherman's. Yeah, that kind of
(04:15):
suck if they offered him something to eat. Nineteen forty five,
most war ration in the United States were done. Yep,
you know, Americans. You can eat all the meat and
butter and that kind of stuff that you wanted. Nineteen
fifty four, the stock market for the first time the
Dow Jones after the Dow Jones average measures the stock market.
It finished above where it was before the stock market
(04:36):
crash in nineteen twenty nine. Nineteen eighty two, the SEC
dropped the limit of how often how long TV commercials
could be played. Sure that's a good thing. Two thousand
and four, World of Warcraft, the online multiplayer video game
it was released, still the most subscribed to video game
in the world. Over one hundred and sixty three nerds
subscribed to it. I mean video game of fishing, inaudos.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Choked choked joke, dish Shilbert Day, he left this shiverthday.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
We want simple tage.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
He left dish Shilbirth day change you don't.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Youse. He was born on November the twenty third. Franklin pierced.
He was born in Hillsborough, New Hampshire, in eighteen oh four.
Now he was a career politician, except he did take
a break. Yeah, he went and served as a general
in the Mexican American War again in the fourteenth President
of the United States served from eighteen fifty three eighteen
fifty seven. He did nothing. Yeah, he basically didn't do
(05:34):
anything the whll time he was there. His only claim
to fame is that he was the first president of
a Christmas tree in the White House. He married in
eighteen thirty four and they had three children. Now, two
of those children they died really young. Then when Franklin
he was on his way to be inaugurated as president
in Washington, d C. His train car are derailed in Maryland,
rolled down an embankment. Now him and his wife were fine,
(05:55):
but his last child and eleven year old boy, Yeah,
he was killed. Paris was ahead of the heavy drink
pretty much of his adult life. Kind of can't blame him.
But he died from Crossis's Deliver in eighteen sixty nine,
sixty four years old. After Boris Carloff. He was born
in Peckham, England, in eighteen eighty eighteen eighty seven, now Boris.
He was in one hundred and seventy eight movies. No
one knew who he was until his eighty second movie.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
He played the monster in the nineteen thirty one original
movie Frankenstein. Then he became a horror film icon. Brian
and Frankenstein, son of Frankenstein, House of Frankenstein, Die Monster
died some of his movies. He did narrate Doctor Steus
Is how the Great Style Christmas don't want to gram
me for it? Boris. He had a daughter from his
fifth wife, married his sixth wife in nineteen forty six.
(06:38):
There together until he died from pneumonia in nineteen sixty
eight at eighty one years old. That was Betty Everett.
(07:05):
She was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, in nineteen thirty nine.
Now that song is actually called the shoop Shop song.
It's in His Kiss went to number one, so did
her duet with Jimmy Butler. Let it be Me. Some
of her minor hits, Sorry You're no good. There will
come a time I got to tell somebody. Betty she
never married. She lived with her sister her whole tire life.
She did die or Betty died in two thousand and
(07:27):
one at sixty one years old from a heart attack.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
She got old ladies eyes just funny.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Sis got a job.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
That's just weird.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Somethings will never chea.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
That's just wee. He is Bruce Hornsby. He is seventy one.
He's born in Williamsburg, Virginia in nineteen fifty four. Started
out playing piano for she Easton's band. Then they formed
Bruce Hornsby in the Range in nineteen eighty four. Nineteen
ninety one. Came in from the Range and just went
by Bruce Hornsby. Some of his big hits are every
little Thing, every little Kiss, the way it is, Mandolin Rain,
(08:12):
the Valley Road, Now Bruce. He played for Rachfel did
for two years in the early nineties. Yet he did
over one hundred concerts with him, So that's like, what
those concerts so long? That's like five hundred concerts for
anybody else. Now he's still performed. He's actually coming here
to Denver to perform with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. Bruce
had got married nineteen eighty three and they have two sons,
(08:54):
thirty three year old Mighty Cyrus. She was born Destiny
Hope Cyrus in nineteen ninety two. He was born in Franklin, Tennessee.
Her dad is Billy Ray Syrens. Miley, she became huge
starring on the TV show hand Him Montana. Well that
was with kids. If you didn't have kids, you didn't
know who Handham Antenna was. Miley. She has had thirteen
top five albums. That is the most by any film
(09:15):
artist the centery century. And if you're yeah, Taylor, she
only has twelve. She's only released twelve albums, Okay, meer.
Some of her big hits are The Climb Party in
the USA, we Can't Stop breckham Ball now some of Basically,
she married, I'm not going to go into that. She
married actor Liam Hemsworth for two years. That's all I'm
(09:36):
gonna talk about. You want to know more. You can
look it up all right. Our code of the day.
It comes from Larry Hagman, the guy who played Jr.
On Dallas. He died to day in twenty twelve at
eighty one years old, so he actually lived eighteen years
after he had a liver transplant. Larry said, once you
get rid of integrity, the rest is easy. You guys
have an awesome day, and thank you for listening to us.
We sure appreciate it. Don't forget to follow us on
(09:58):
whoever you're listening to us on. Check out today's show descriptions.
See all the connections and what we're doing our country
inderground Radio arts today. Well see we actually promote songwriters
also on that station. Today, I'm gonna actually play one.
I'm gonna play a songwriter from the young up and
coming songwriter. Her name is Melissa Cousten. This is her
song two Step. You guys have an awesome day. We'll
(10:18):
talk tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Tuesdap Tuestom kick in a Turn, I said, tuesdamp tu
Storm kick in a.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Turn, Baby, I got some energy to burn. I got
to thinking what to do this evening. Dinner and a
movie just won't do.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I want to see him.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Boots leave izen.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
A stetson me and is short saying a summer dress
giving you dance and listens. Two stattoo stom kick in
a turn baby, I've got some in a Jeta burn,
two stattoo stop kick and a turn spinning around and
(11:13):
around in it and fin any time. Yeah, there's a
dancelor baby call in our names, a room full of
people that are feeling the same. Boots sliding and glidden
(11:35):
on a soadast floor.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Two step, two stomping clap four four.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Two staftoo stom kick and a turn baby, I've got
some in a Teita burn, two stattoo storm kick and
a turn spinning around and around in and it said,
Pizza Say
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