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November 8, 2025 16 mins
National cappuccino day. Entertainment from 1969. Montana became 41st state, 1st US college for women, Electric bug zapper invented. Todays birthdays - Edmond Halley, Margaret Mitchell, Ester Rolle, Patti Page, Bonnie Raitt, Mary Hart, Rickie Lee Jones, Leif Garrett, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Parker Posey, Tara Reid, Lauren Alaina. Alex Trebec died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran   https://www.diannacorcoran.com/ 
The Cappuccino song - Emma Stevens
Sugar shack - Jimmy Gilmore & the Fireballs
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent      http://50cent.com/
Doggie in the window - Patti Page
Something to talk about - Bonnie Raitt
Chuck E's in love - Rickie Lee Jones
I was made for dancing - Leif Garrett
Like my mother does - Lauren Alaina
Exit - The ballad of mint julep - JS Clockwise     J.S. on spotify

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Speaker 1 (00:19):
Welcome to history and factor. It's about today. I am
Jeff and today is November the eighth Chino Grid. Today

(00:45):
is National Cappuccino Day. Basically a cappuccino, it is a
double espresso with steained milk and some sprinkles espresso. That's
the key there. In the late sixteen hundred, it's Catholic
monks they created the cappuccino. Now, the espresso machine it
was invent in nineteen oh one, so that made it
a lot easier to make. Nineteen thirties Italy they actually
coined the term cappuccino means coffee topped with whipped cream

(01:07):
and sprinkles of chocolate or cinnamon. Now, they started serving
cappuccino in those little tiny cups in the nineteen fifties. Now,
cappuccino didn't take off the United States until the late
nineteen eighties after Starbucks exploded over there. You know what,
Today is a Saturday, so we can actually go a
little harder if you want. Yeah, it's also National Harvey
Wallbanger Day. Nineteen fifty two. A bartender named Dukeenton. He

(01:30):
created a Harvey Wallbanger in his bar in Sunset Strip
in Hollywood. He named it for a surfer dude who
would come in. Yeah, Harvey Wallbanger. Now it says vodka,
Galliano Liqueur and orange juice. Well, it sounds like kind
of a good day. Just do boat, all right? This
what's going on in entertainment on November the eighth was
Back in nineteen sixty three. Thember one album was In
the Wind by Peter Paul and Mary. Jimmy Gilmour and

(01:53):
the Fireballs had the number one song with Sugar Shack.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
And everybody calls the term shack. Well, it's just a
coffee house and it's made out of you espresso. Coffee
taste mighty good. That's not the reason why I thought
I get back that shoot the shut?

Speaker 3 (02:16):
Where would we be?

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Do that?

Speaker 4 (02:18):
Shooter Shut?

Speaker 1 (02:20):
What going's at? The number one country song with Who's
Gonna Live Here?

Speaker 5 (02:24):
Oh the Sun's Gonna shine in My Live Poet Store,
Love's gonna lift there again. Things are gonna be the
way they were before. Love's Gonna lift again.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
The number one book was The Group by Mary McCarthy.
The top movie was It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Mad World.
Now several people they winced a car crash out in
the California Desert. Now the driver his dying words, so
that he had hidden his stash of stolen money. People,
they each on their own went out and tried to
find that stash of money. Started Spencer, Tracy, Milton, Burro,

(03:05):
Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney. Yeah, a whole lot more,
all right, what happened on November the eighth in the
year three thirteen, Constantine, Constantine. Yeah, he made Christianity legal. Yeah,
so they can no longer persecute Christians anymore. But it
was to day in three to eighty Roman Emperor Theodosius
he made Christianity the official language of the Roman Empire.

(03:28):
But I don't know if he really understood it though.
See he threatened those who didn't practice Christianity to do
with punishment. Seventeen thirty one in Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin, he
opened up the first library in North America. Now people
they had to pay dues, and then they could borrow
books and use the library. Seventeen eighty nine in Bourbon County,
Virginia which is today Kentucky, Elijah Craig, He distilled the

(03:49):
first whiskey from corn. Before then, all whiskey had made
men from moray and barley. I mean they still used
Ryan barley for whiskey, but for it to be bourbon, yeah,
you have to use corn. Eighteen thirty seven, in Massachusetts,
the Mount holy Female Seminary was founded, the first woman
college in America. Yeah, eighty women went in that first class.
Now it's still there, it's just the Mount Holyoke College

(04:12):
and it's still a woman's college, except now they except
Transgenderston So yeah, it's co ed. Happy Birthday, Montana. Eighteen

(04:40):
eighty nine. Montana became the forty first state the Spanish
named it. It means mountainous. Montana is the fourth largest
state by area. It's the forty third most populated state.
Capital is Helena. Highest point is Granite Peak at twelve
and seven feet. That's one of the hardest state high
points to climb.

Speaker 6 (04:58):
Now.

Speaker 1 (04:59):
Mountana State is the Western Middle Lark, fish is the
cutthroat trout, flour is the bitter root, mammal, grizzly bear,
state dream, Vondro Sapine. Some people born in Montana Gary Cooper,
Phil Jackson, Evil Canievel, Dana Carvey, Patrick Duffy, Jesse Tyler, Ferguson,
and actress Michelle Williams. Some of the people born in

(05:20):
Big Sky Country now Montana. They have the shortest river
in the world. He has the real river. It is
two hundred one feet longung You can look it up
if you don't believe me. Nineteen ten and spoken in Washington,
William Frost. He invented the electric bug zapper. That's pretty cool.
But what's even cooler is he actually called that the
electric insect destroyer.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
Now that's a lot better.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
Nineteen fifty six, the noted nations, they demanded that the
Soviet Union leave Hungary. Now, I mean they could eat
what they wanted, but they went out of the country
of Hungary. So the Soviets left in nineteen eighty nine.

Speaker 5 (05:55):
Dope show dish shibth day. He left this shibthday.

Speaker 6 (06:03):
We want simpletage like dish shibirth day.

Speaker 3 (06:06):
And you know we don't get that birthday.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
Okay. He was born out in November. The eighth astronomer
Edmund Hill Hailey. Yeah, he was born in Hagerstown, England,
in sixteen fifty six. Now, Haley, he was more than
just an astronomer. He was also a physicist, a mathematician,
a meteorologist. He had a lot of great accomplishments.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
But Rogie, yep.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
He's most known for predicting the return of a comment.
Now it wasn't called Amy's comment until it came back
like he had predicted. Astronomers today, you know what, Haley's
limited technology and all that. They can't figure out how
he pulled that off. He was He married and they
had three children. He died in seventeen forty one at
eighty five years old. Writer Margaret Mitchell. She was born

(06:52):
in Atlanta, Georgia in nineteen hundred. She was a newspaper writer.
Then she wrote one book it's called Gone with the Wind. Yeah,
made her an instance celebrity. It was so huge I
think that I heard that even made a movie out
of it. So she quit writing in the newspaper. She
just wrote novellas and short stories. So what's the difference, Well,
novella is there longer than short stories, but not as
long as the nobles. She married her second husband in

(07:13):
nineteen twenty five and nineteen forty nine, she's forty eight
years old. She's going to a movie and she was
walking across the street to the theater. She's run over
by a drunk driver.

Speaker 3 (07:22):
She died.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
The drunk driver got eleven months in jail. Actress est
role She was one of Pumping O'd Beach, Florida in
nineteen twenty. She first got down in the TV show
mod After two seasons, they spun her off give her
own show. Good Times some movies at Esther Wrenn where
the Mighty Quinn driving his Daisy, he met fellow Americans.
She married once for twenty years Esther. She died from

(07:42):
complications some diabetes in nineteen forty eight and seventy eight
years old.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
How much is that dog in the window.

Speaker 5 (07:52):
One with the waly.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
How much is that dog, doggy in the window.

Speaker 6 (08:03):
I do hope the dogies for saves.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
The singing raigement is Patty Page. She was born in Claremore,
Ocahoma in nineteen twenty seven. She was the top charting
and top selling female arbist in the nineteen fifties. Sang
from nineteen forty six to twenty twelve, sold over one
hundred million records. Some of her heads are with my
eyes wide open when I'm dreaming Tennessee Waltz, I went
to your wedding. Doggie in the window, She had a

(08:30):
son and a daughter from her second husband, and she
made her third husband in nineteen ninety Patty. She died
in twenty thirteen at eighty five years old from heart
and lung disease.

Speaker 3 (08:38):
Lady Talk.

Speaker 6 (08:49):
Talk Talk, Blues, rock, folk country singer Bonnie Rate.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
She's seventy six.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
She was born in Burbank, California, in nineteen forty nine. Bonnie,
She's won ten Grammys. Something to Talk About, I Can't
Make You Love Me, Love, Sneaking Up, Finding You, That's
some of her biggest hits.

Speaker 6 (09:11):
Now.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
She released her first album back in nineteen seventy one,
but she's still out touring. She married actor Michael o'keith
for eight years. He's the guy who played noon In
on the movie Caddyshack. Now, when Bonnie was younger, yeah,
she had a lot of trouble with drugs and alcohol.
She just realized that she had to change or she
wouldn't go on any longer. Ben sober since nineteen eighty seven,
so that's really good for Bonnie. TV personality. Mary Hart

(09:33):
she was born in Madison, South Dakota, in nineteen fifty.
She grew up in sux Falls. She was missed South
Dakote in nineteen seventy made it all the way to
the semi finals of Miss America. Yeah, she lost to
Phyllis George Sports Fans you want Me mayor Phyllis. In
nineteen eighty two, Mary started hosting Entertainment Tonight. Now she
was pretty, but her legs stole the show. She got
a huge endorsement from Haynes' pantyhose company. It was so

(09:56):
big that they insured each of her legs were one
million dollars each. She hosted Entertainment Tonight for twenty nine years.
She left in twenty eleven. She married her second husband
in nineteen eighty nine and they have one son.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
It's kind of.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
Cool, it's fast, so the jails, how funny?

Speaker 3 (10:12):
Was well January?

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Jeanne, is this a healthy?

Speaker 6 (10:19):
It is so kind of creepy. Chucky is.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
Ricky Lee Jones. She's seventy one. She was born in
Chicago in nineteen fifty four. Now she's going out on tour. Yeah,
at the end of January to check her out. She
was basically what was called R and B rock, pop, soul, jazz,
that kind of stuff. Now some of her big hits
are young Blood, Lucky, guy, Chucky's in Love. We Belong
Together Now. She married once for a couple of years

(10:49):
and she has a daughter from.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
It, that is Leaf Garrett. He's sixty four.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
He was born in Hollywood, California, in nineteen sixty one.
Started acting when he was eight, and they had him
start singing shortly after that and he became a huge
teen idol. First movie is in was Bob Carroll, Ted
and Alice. Then he was in the Walking Tall movies,
The Outsiders, thunder Alley as a singer as big as
That's Where I was made for dancing Sheila Field in Need.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
Now.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
He started using drugs at fourteen. Yeah, so you can
imagine spent a lot of time in rehab, jail and rehab.
The last time he went to rehab I heard it
was twenty ten. Then he han't gotten into trouble sentence,
so it looked like a must have taken, So hopefully
it did for him. Actress Courtney Thorne Smith is fifty
eight and she was born in Menlo Park, California, in
nineteen sixty seven. It's a suburb of San Francisco. She

(11:55):
had playing in Melrose Place, then she was in Alan McBeal.
According to Jim to a half Man. Biggest movie was
Revenge of the Urge two. Her and her second husband.
They have a son, but they are currently going through
a divorce. Actress Parker Posey. She was born in Baltimore, Maryland,
in nineteen sixty eight. She's fifty seven. It's considered the
queen of the indies. Indies guys. Yeah, she did a

(12:17):
lot of independent movies over there main Stram. You probably
know her from Dazed and Confused, Josie and the Pussycats,
Best in Show, A mighty wind Blade Trinity now for
a mighty win. She actually learned how to play the mandolin. Yeah,
she still plays it. She's actually played it in some
professional gigs.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
Even Parker. She has a twin brother. He's a lawyer.
Actress tar Raide.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
She's born in nineteen seventy five in White Coffew, Jersey.
Fifty years old today. Best known for those American Pie movies,
then Josie and the Pussycats, Fan Wilder, my boss's daughter.

Speaker 3 (12:48):
She has done well.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
She did what first six Heurt Sharknado TV movies. She's
never married, but she has been engaged five times. She

(13:13):
is country singer Laura and Lena. She's thirty one, born
in Rossville, Georgia, in nineteen ninety four. In twenty eleven
and she was runner up on the TV show American Island. Yeah,
she lost to Scottie McCurry. They were both seventeen at
the time. She has had big number one songs, doing
duets with Kane Brown for what If, Hardy with One Beer,
Dustin Ltz for Thinking About You. She didn't go number

(13:35):
one by herself with the show or the song road
Less Travel. She's gonna be out and doing some touring
in mid January. She got married early twenty twenty four
and they actually have a daughter.

Speaker 3 (13:45):
All right there. Quote of the day.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
It comes from Jeopardy Hills Alex Trebek. He died today
in twenty twenty and eighty years old. Alex says, I
don't gamble now. If I win one hundred dollars, it
really doesn't do anything for me. It's not like it
makes me happy anything. But if I lose a hundred dollars,
it really kisses me off. I thank you all for
listening today. Don't read to follow us under and you
listen to Son and check out the show's description for
all our connections, so to connect to like country Underground

(14:09):
radio dot com. That's what Claire did. She leaves out
in eastern Washington and she wants to hear the Ballad
of mid Julip by J C Clockwise. So I will
do that for you. Claire. You guys have an awesome
day and we'll talk tomorrow.

Speaker 7 (14:23):
I met her in December.

Speaker 3 (14:26):
Loved her at first sight.

Speaker 7 (14:28):
She was a winner romance. It started with the by
preparents seemed like me. Her sister did as well.

Speaker 4 (14:38):
But her roommate hated everything, especially my smell. They've been together.

Speaker 3 (14:47):
Ten long years.

Speaker 7 (14:48):
She got her as a puck, slept with her almost
every night, named her Minjula.

Speaker 1 (14:56):
However, time I.

Speaker 4 (14:57):
Made a move of a letter girl of mine, how
minu As, she would raise a bus.

Speaker 7 (15:04):
She's bark and she's whining.

Speaker 3 (15:07):
I tried to dribe her with bomb.

Speaker 4 (15:10):
I took her corner walk, I rubbed her belly a week,
play pitch. I even let her.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
Chew my sock.

Speaker 4 (15:17):
She slowly warmed up to me and greet me at
the door, But when I move in, poor kiss.

Speaker 5 (15:26):
She had pen me to the floor.

Speaker 7 (15:30):
I guess she saw me as a thread room. Maybe
just bad news. She had me on my own short leash,
singing the doghouse blues.

Speaker 4 (15:41):
One day when I came home and caught my girl
off guard. She was cheating with my friend and left
penty in the yard, and he.

Speaker 7 (15:52):
Just looked up to me with sad nod and eyes
and hopped inside of my truck as if to say,
I'm on your side.

Speaker 4 (16:02):
All that time I used to think that many hated me.

Speaker 7 (16:07):
Turns out she just knew the score and try to
make me so. My hearty was in danger.

Speaker 4 (16:16):
And many of my best friends was warned me there
all along.

Speaker 3 (16:21):
That love was doomed in.

Speaker 4 (16:25):
So now I give her all the bones and take
her for the locks.

Speaker 7 (16:30):
I rub her belly and we play betch I still
let her choose my socks.

Speaker 4 (16:35):
She always knows the trip of things with a wisdom
and her eyes.

Speaker 3 (16:40):
So many's been there all along.

Speaker 7 (16:44):
My angeline disguis
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