November 27, 2025 • 9 mins
(2023) National french toast day. Entertainment from 1982. Magellen starts off across the Pacific Ocean, New Zealand 1st country to allow women to vote, 1st automobile race, 1st skywriting. Todays birthdays - Barry Gordy jr, Randy Newman, Ed Harris, Christine Arnold, Judd Nelson, Jane Sibbett, Jon Stewart. James Naismith died.
Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard http://defleppard.com/
French toast - Drew.0
Truly - Lionel Richie
You and I - Eddie Rabbitt Crystal Gayle
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
You can leave your hat on - Randy Newman
Midnight girl/Sunse town - Sweethearts of the rodeo
Exit - It's not love - Dokken http://dokken.net/
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Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard http://defleppard.com/
French toast - Drew.0
Truly - Lionel Richie
You and I - Eddie Rabbitt Crystal Gayle
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
You can leave your hat on - Randy Newman
Midnight girl/Sunse town - Sweethearts of the rodeo
Exit - It's not love - Dokken http://dokken.net/
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Hey, hello there, I am Jeff and welcome to History
and Factoids about today. Pisent about cool media. Today's November
the twenty eighth.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
The French toast, French toast? Whoa the French toast? Whoa
French teste?
Speaker 1 (00:32):
It is National French Toast Day. Yeah, one of my favorites.
Now the Romans. They came up with French toast is
a way to not let stale bread go to waste.
They dipped it in milk and then cooked it in
the fourteen hundred is French toast? It was all over Europe,
but they started using eggs in cineam milk. So why
is it called French toast? Well, in seventeen twenty four,
an innkeeper in Albany, New York, Joseph French, he introduced
(00:56):
French toast to America. See he called it French's toast,
but on his menu they left off the apostrophe and
the s, so it just said French toast. Huge hit
and the name stuck. That's why we have French toast.
But it is something different in every single country across
the planet. No big deals today, but that's okay. You
can just enjoy some French toast. Just something to ponder
as you're getting ready to eat your French toast. Day
(01:17):
in Louisiana, Creole cooking. Yeah, they spiked their French toast
with alcohol. It's usually whiskey. It's going on and entertainment
nine November twenty eighth, Let's Back to nineteen eighty two.
Number one album was Business as Usual by mintework Line.
Richie had the number one song with Truly Yeddi Rabbin.
(01:52):
Crystal Gale have the number one country song with You
and I Just.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Hiving. Helloime Donald, We'll build the trees, Sweet Chert.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
The number one book was Space by James Mitchener. The
top movie was Et the Extraterrestrial, Some nerdy kids helping
alien escape Earth and return to his own planet stars
Henry Thomas, Drew Blurrymore and Peter Kyu. All right, let's
see what happened in the world. On November the twenty eighth,
fifteen twenty. Spanish explorer Ferdinand Magellan. He discovered that straight
(02:37):
at the tip of the South America that's named after him. Today,
he and his two other ships they'd made it through
there successfully, and today they started out across the Pacific Ocean.
They had no idea how big it was. Took him
three months and twenty days to get across that thing.
When they got to their side, they landed in the Philippines.
Now Magellan he was killed by the natives. His second
in command, Jan O'Connell, he wasn't about to go back
(02:58):
across that big ass ocean again. Screw that, We're just
going to keep going forward. That's how they ended up
having the first circumnavigation of the Earth. In seventeen twenty,
Notorious Pirates and Bonnie and Mary Reid. They went on
trout for pirracy in Jamaica. Both were found guilty and
sentenced to death. Well then the Spanish found out they
were both pregnant, so they received stays of execution. Reach
(03:19):
He ended up dying in prison, but Bonnie she was
relieved after the baby was born. Eighteen ninety three, for
the first time in world history, women were allowed to
vote in a national election. That was in New Zealand.
Eighteen ninety five, the first automobile race was run in
the United States. Went from Chicago to Evanston, Illinois, and
back fifty five miles. Around trip eighty three vehicles actually
(03:40):
registered for the race, but only six showed up to
actually run the race. Frank Durya he won. His motorized
wagon sped through the race in seven hours and fifty
three minutes. He averaged a blustering seven miles an hour.
A German car driven by Carl Binns got second place.
He finished an hour and a half later. Those were
the only two that actually finished the race to a
British pilot, Cyril Turner. He performed the first sky riding
(04:03):
in the United States, Yeah ten thousand feet over Times
Square in New York City. He wrote with his airplane
Hello USA, called Vanderbilt seven two zero zero, so it
was obviously a publicity, but forty seven thousand people called
Vanderbilt seven two zero zero. Nineteen thirty six, during Spain's Revolution,
Spanish comic and playwright Pedro Seca he was arrested and
(04:24):
sentenced to death. Was not supporting the side of the
that was fighting for independence. He was actually supporting the monarchy. Well,
they didn't like that, so they sentenced him to death,
and then they asked him if he had any last words.
Pedro said, I'm starting to believe you're not intending to
count me as one of your friends. Well, everybody laughed
and they killed him. In nineteen forty two, a sixteen
year old bus boy he was using a match as
(04:46):
a light and learner to try and change the light
bulb at the Coconut Grove nightclub in Boston, Massachusetts. Well,
the match he caught the Tropical the Core on fire
and burned it to the ground. Four in ninety two
people died. Still the deadliest nightclub fire in the US history.
Now it's been twenty five years, but it's still one
of the saddest days in entertainment. Yeah, nineteen ninety seven,
in his last episode of Beavis and Budded.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Coat Coke Coach goat shage this shibirth Day.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
We're gonna pause.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
He left this shiverthday.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
We gonna sit pletarge.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
He like this shibirth day.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
And you know we don't give up because that's the birthday.
Who was born on November the twenty eight. Music executive
and music pioneer Berry Gordy Jr. Is born in Detroit,
Michigan in nineteen twenty nine. He's ninety four today, most
known for founding Motown Records. Now, he didn't just produce
produce the accent on that. He wrote a whole bunch
of those hit songs. Just some of the acts that
he actually made big where the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, The Temptation,
(05:43):
Gladys Knight and the Pips, Stevie Wonder, Jackson five Barry.
He had two sons and a daughter from his first wife.
Then he had a son from his second wife. Then
he had a daughter. Then he had a son. That guy,
he's the one who sings says rockwell. Then he had
a daughter. He had daughter was actually from Diana Ross.
Then he had the child, another son. Then he decided
to get married for a third time. They were only
(06:03):
together three years.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
They would take off the tris.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Yes Yes Head ho.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Kileyhead. Randy Newman's eighty years old today. He was born
in Los Angeles in nineteen forty three. Some of his
hits short people. Now he sings about hating short people.
He is only five to eleven, and he had I
Love La. You can leave your hat on, You've got
a friend in me. He has that huge success writing
music for movies. Some of them were The Toy Story Movies,
(06:41):
Monsters Inc. Movies, Cars Movies, The Natural Meet The Parent, Seabiscuit,
and a whole bunch more. He had three sons from
his first wife, married his second wife in nineteen ninety
and they have one son and one daughter. Actor Ed Harris.
He was born in nineteen fifty in Inglewood, New Jersey.
Seventy three today he's been an over eighty movies nominated
for Oscars for Apollo thirteen, The Truman Show, Pollock and
(07:03):
The Hours. You know, it's always nice to be nominated.
He met his wife, actress Amy Madigan, filming the movie
Places in the Heart back in nineteen eighty three. They
have one daughter, My yeast.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
They got Time, I Got to get Away, and James
once did that and again on Everyone Knows. When the
Neighbors they pulled up the streets. When the sun goes down, Knockers,
the son.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Said time the country Deal. Sweethearts of the Rodeo they
were sisters. That one was Christina Arnold. She was born
in Los Angeles in nineteen fifty six. Sixty seven year old.
She formed Sweethearts with the Rodeo with their sister Janice
in nineteen eighty five. Some of their biggest hits Wears
Since I Found You, Midnight Girls, Unset Down Chains, the
Gold satisfying. You know what, they decided to insture to
(07:54):
start hating each other. They just go do their own thing.
Back in nineteen ninety six, Christine, she got married nineteen eighty.
Actor Jeded Neilson. He was in sixty four. He was
born in Portland, Maine in nineteen fifty nine. First dead
in the movie The Breakfast Club and then Saint Elmo's Fire,
New Jack City Airheads on TV. He was on the
sitcom Suddenly Soon. Actress Jane Sebitt. She's sixty one. She
(08:17):
was born in Berkeley, California, in nineteen sixty two. She
started out on the daytime soap opera Santa Barbara. Then
she had on the sitcom Herman's Head. She played Ross's
lesbian ex wife on Friends, and she got married for
twenty four years before they divorced them. They had three
children now Jane. She was originally cast to play Rachel
on Friends, but when they found out she was pregnant, yeah,
they replaced her with Jennifer Aniston. TV hoast and actor
(08:40):
John Stewart was born in New York City in nineteen
sixty two. He's also sixty one. First got known a
really big knowing I guess you say, hosting The Daily
Show did it from nineteen ninety nine to twenty fifteen
two thousand, five hundred and seventy nine episodes. Some of
his movie is Big Daddy, Death of Smoochy Half Baked.
He's been married since two thousand and they have two children. Now,
(09:00):
whether you agree with this politics or not, you know
he really does actually a great job as an advocate
for the nine to eleven first responders, testifies in front
of Congress, and all kinds of stuff to help them out.
All right, Today's fact to it. Heaven. It is not
mentioned in the Old Testament. Nope, first time you'll read
about heaven in the Bible, yep in the New Testament. Well,
thanks for being here today. We appreciate you. It's always
(09:22):
good to hear from you. If you go to Coolmedia
dot com Cool with three Us, you can always just
click a button and leave us messages if you want.
Sometimes I even respond. That's in today with the inventor
of basketball, James Natesmith. He died to day in nineteen
thirty nine at seventy eight years old. Be strong in body,
clean in mind, and lofty and ideas. You guys have
an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow
Hey, hello there, I am Jeff and welcome to History
and Factoids about today. Pisent about cool media. Today's November
the twenty eighth.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
The French toast, French toast? Whoa the French toast? Whoa
French teste?
Speaker 1 (00:32):
It is National French Toast Day. Yeah, one of my favorites.
Now the Romans. They came up with French toast is
a way to not let stale bread go to waste.
They dipped it in milk and then cooked it in
the fourteen hundred is French toast? It was all over Europe,
but they started using eggs in cineam milk. So why
is it called French toast? Well, in seventeen twenty four,
an innkeeper in Albany, New York, Joseph French, he introduced
(00:56):
French toast to America. See he called it French's toast,
but on his menu they left off the apostrophe and
the s, so it just said French toast. Huge hit
and the name stuck. That's why we have French toast.
But it is something different in every single country across
the planet. No big deals today, but that's okay. You
can just enjoy some French toast. Just something to ponder
as you're getting ready to eat your French toast. Day
(01:17):
in Louisiana, Creole cooking. Yeah, they spiked their French toast
with alcohol. It's usually whiskey. It's going on and entertainment
nine November twenty eighth, Let's Back to nineteen eighty two.
Number one album was Business as Usual by mintework Line.
Richie had the number one song with Truly Yeddi Rabbin.
(01:52):
Crystal Gale have the number one country song with You
and I Just.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Hiving. Helloime Donald, We'll build the trees, Sweet Chert.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
The number one book was Space by James Mitchener. The
top movie was Et the Extraterrestrial, Some nerdy kids helping
alien escape Earth and return to his own planet stars
Henry Thomas, Drew Blurrymore and Peter Kyu. All right, let's
see what happened in the world. On November the twenty eighth,
fifteen twenty. Spanish explorer Ferdinand Magellan. He discovered that straight
(02:37):
at the tip of the South America that's named after him. Today,
he and his two other ships they'd made it through
there successfully, and today they started out across the Pacific Ocean.
They had no idea how big it was. Took him
three months and twenty days to get across that thing.
When they got to their side, they landed in the Philippines.
Now Magellan he was killed by the natives. His second
in command, Jan O'Connell, he wasn't about to go back
(02:58):
across that big ass ocean again. Screw that, We're just
going to keep going forward. That's how they ended up
having the first circumnavigation of the Earth. In seventeen twenty,
Notorious Pirates and Bonnie and Mary Reid. They went on
trout for pirracy in Jamaica. Both were found guilty and
sentenced to death. Well then the Spanish found out they
were both pregnant, so they received stays of execution. Reach
(03:19):
He ended up dying in prison, but Bonnie she was
relieved after the baby was born. Eighteen ninety three, for
the first time in world history, women were allowed to
vote in a national election. That was in New Zealand.
Eighteen ninety five, the first automobile race was run in
the United States. Went from Chicago to Evanston, Illinois, and
back fifty five miles. Around trip eighty three vehicles actually
(03:40):
registered for the race, but only six showed up to
actually run the race. Frank Durya he won. His motorized
wagon sped through the race in seven hours and fifty
three minutes. He averaged a blustering seven miles an hour.
A German car driven by Carl Binns got second place.
He finished an hour and a half later. Those were
the only two that actually finished the race to a
British pilot, Cyril Turner. He performed the first sky riding
(04:03):
in the United States, Yeah ten thousand feet over Times
Square in New York City. He wrote with his airplane
Hello USA, called Vanderbilt seven two zero zero, so it
was obviously a publicity, but forty seven thousand people called
Vanderbilt seven two zero zero. Nineteen thirty six, during Spain's Revolution,
Spanish comic and playwright Pedro Seca he was arrested and
(04:24):
sentenced to death. Was not supporting the side of the
that was fighting for independence. He was actually supporting the monarchy. Well,
they didn't like that, so they sentenced him to death,
and then they asked him if he had any last words.
Pedro said, I'm starting to believe you're not intending to
count me as one of your friends. Well, everybody laughed
and they killed him. In nineteen forty two, a sixteen
year old bus boy he was using a match as
(04:46):
a light and learner to try and change the light
bulb at the Coconut Grove nightclub in Boston, Massachusetts. Well,
the match he caught the Tropical the Core on fire
and burned it to the ground. Four in ninety two
people died. Still the deadliest nightclub fire in the US history.
Now it's been twenty five years, but it's still one
of the saddest days in entertainment. Yeah, nineteen ninety seven,
in his last episode of Beavis and Budded.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Coat Coke Coach goat shage this shibirth Day.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
We're gonna pause.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
He left this shiverthday.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
We gonna sit pletarge.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
He like this shibirth day.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
And you know we don't give up because that's the birthday.
Who was born on November the twenty eight. Music executive
and music pioneer Berry Gordy Jr. Is born in Detroit,
Michigan in nineteen twenty nine. He's ninety four today, most
known for founding Motown Records. Now, he didn't just produce
produce the accent on that. He wrote a whole bunch
of those hit songs. Just some of the acts that
he actually made big where the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, The Temptation,
(05:43):
Gladys Knight and the Pips, Stevie Wonder, Jackson five Barry.
He had two sons and a daughter from his first wife.
Then he had a son from his second wife. Then
he had a daughter. Then he had a son. That guy,
he's the one who sings says rockwell. Then he had
a daughter. He had daughter was actually from Diana Ross.
Then he had the child, another son. Then he decided
to get married for a third time. They were only
(06:03):
together three years.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
They would take off the tris.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Yes Yes Head ho.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Kileyhead. Randy Newman's eighty years old today. He was born
in Los Angeles in nineteen forty three. Some of his
hits short people. Now he sings about hating short people.
He is only five to eleven, and he had I
Love La. You can leave your hat on, You've got
a friend in me. He has that huge success writing
music for movies. Some of them were The Toy Story Movies,
(06:41):
Monsters Inc. Movies, Cars Movies, The Natural Meet The Parent, Seabiscuit,
and a whole bunch more. He had three sons from
his first wife, married his second wife in nineteen ninety
and they have one son and one daughter. Actor Ed Harris.
He was born in nineteen fifty in Inglewood, New Jersey.
Seventy three today he's been an over eighty movies nominated
for Oscars for Apollo thirteen, The Truman Show, Pollock and
(07:03):
The Hours. You know, it's always nice to be nominated.
He met his wife, actress Amy Madigan, filming the movie
Places in the Heart back in nineteen eighty three. They
have one daughter, My yeast.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
They got Time, I Got to get Away, and James
once did that and again on Everyone Knows. When the
Neighbors they pulled up the streets. When the sun goes down, Knockers,
the son.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Said time the country Deal. Sweethearts of the Rodeo they
were sisters. That one was Christina Arnold. She was born
in Los Angeles in nineteen fifty six. Sixty seven year old.
She formed Sweethearts with the Rodeo with their sister Janice
in nineteen eighty five. Some of their biggest hits Wears
Since I Found You, Midnight Girls, Unset Down Chains, the
Gold satisfying. You know what, they decided to insture to
(07:54):
start hating each other. They just go do their own thing.
Back in nineteen ninety six, Christine, she got married nineteen eighty.
Actor Jeded Neilson. He was in sixty four. He was
born in Portland, Maine in nineteen fifty nine. First dead
in the movie The Breakfast Club and then Saint Elmo's Fire,
New Jack City Airheads on TV. He was on the
sitcom Suddenly Soon. Actress Jane Sebitt. She's sixty one. She
(08:17):
was born in Berkeley, California, in nineteen sixty two. She
started out on the daytime soap opera Santa Barbara. Then
she had on the sitcom Herman's Head. She played Ross's
lesbian ex wife on Friends, and she got married for
twenty four years before they divorced them. They had three
children now Jane. She was originally cast to play Rachel
on Friends, but when they found out she was pregnant, yeah,
they replaced her with Jennifer Aniston. TV hoast and actor
(08:40):
John Stewart was born in New York City in nineteen
sixty two. He's also sixty one. First got known a
really big knowing I guess you say, hosting The Daily
Show did it from nineteen ninety nine to twenty fifteen
two thousand, five hundred and seventy nine episodes. Some of
his movie is Big Daddy, Death of Smoochy Half Baked.
He's been married since two thousand and they have two children. Now,
(09:00):
whether you agree with this politics or not, you know
he really does actually a great job as an advocate
for the nine to eleven first responders, testifies in front
of Congress, and all kinds of stuff to help them out.
All right, Today's fact to it. Heaven. It is not
mentioned in the Old Testament. Nope, first time you'll read
about heaven in the Bible, yep in the New Testament. Well,
thanks for being here today. We appreciate you. It's always
(09:22):
good to hear from you. If you go to Coolmedia
dot com Cool with three Us, you can always just
click a button and leave us messages if you want.
Sometimes I even respond. That's in today with the inventor
of basketball, James Natesmith. He died to day in nineteen
thirty nine at seventy eight years old. Be strong in body,
clean in mind, and lofty and ideas. You guys have
an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow
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