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October 12, 2025 14 mins
National gumbo day. Entertainment from 1959. 1st Oktoberfest, Rhyme 3 blind mice printed, Executive Mansion named the White House. Todays birthdays - Luciano Pavarotti, Sam Moore, Pat DiNizio, Hugh Jackman, Kirk Cameron, Josh Hutcherson. Robert E. Lee died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran    https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
Gumbo time - Sean Ardain
Mack the knife - Bobby Darin
The three bells - The Browns
3 blind mice - Cooco TV
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent     http://50cent.com/
Dalla Caruso - Luciano Pavarotti
Soul man - Sam & Dave
A girl like you - The Smithereens
Once before I go - Hugh Jackman
As long as we have each other - B.J. Thomas Dusty Springfield
Exit - Love like me - Highway 95    facebook page

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Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hi everyone, I'm Jeff and welcome to History and Factor.
It's about today, Today's October the twelfth. I don't smoke,
I don't shoot smack, but I got a spicy monkey
riding on my back.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Don't eat many, it's too much sugar round button.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
I will believe with gumbo, Yes, I will believe with gumbo.
Today is National Gumbo Day. Gumbo. It's West African for okra.
Traditionally gumbo it's a strong flavor of stock and then
they have beef, chicken, shellfish, vegetables. Vegetables are usually celery, belt,

(00:54):
peppers and onions. Then it's sticking up with okra and sassafras.
Then you serve it all over rice. Good eating stuff.
There came to be around the seventeen hundreds in Louisiana.
Now you'll find deals down there today. Down there. Rest
of the country, Yeah not so much. But if you
can't find any, have a fun fdnight tonight, just making
your own gumbo and just enjoy all right, this is
going on entertainment. On October twelfth, it was back to

(01:15):
nineteen fifty nine. Number one album was a South Pacific
movie soundtrack. Bobby Darren had the number one song with
Mac the Knife.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Now sat walked, Ooh sunny morning, lies about it?

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Just stoos in life? Get some one sneaking around the corner?
Could that someone of him?

Speaker 3 (01:43):
Mac the Knife.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
The Browns had the number one country song with the
three bells.

Speaker 4 (01:49):
There's Indeed in the Valley among the pine.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Trees, half Long and the honest.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Lettle Jimmy Brown was Boom boom boom.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
The number one book was advised and consent by Alan
dr Top movie was Pillow Talk. An interior designer and
a playboy songwriter. They share a telephone party line, kind
of get to know each other. Stars Rock Huts and
Doris Day and Tony Randall. All right, what happened on
October the twelfth, sixteen oh nine over in London, England?
The children's nursery rhyme Three Blind Mice. It was published now.

(02:31):
Although it is said as a children's nursing rhyme, it's
actually written with a hitting meaning.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
It's about three Protestants who were accused of plotting against
Queen Mary. Yeah so see it had him burned at
the steak.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
Sue blind and Rice. Sue blind and Rice. See how
they run?

Speaker 1 (02:50):
See how they run?

Speaker 2 (02:52):
They all run after the song his wife who come
off that tales with a coughing night, Did you come
and see such a sight in your life?

Speaker 1 (02:58):
As sweet blind? Now you know the farmer's wife was
the Queen. Seventeen ninety two in New York City held
the first Columbus Day celebration in the United States. Eighteen
ten over in Munich, Germany, the first Octoberfest began. Now
it was held to celebrate their future King Ludwig. He

(03:19):
was the Prince of Bellaria. Back then, well, Ludwig he
got us up married. He married Princess Trees, she was
a sexon. Well, that party went out for a week.
There was lots and lots of drinking, lots and lots
of food, dancing, horse racing. Everybody had so much fun.
They decided to make an annual event. But they decided
to move it up into September when it was a
little warmer and the days were a little bit longer.

(03:39):
Scotland in eighteen twenty three, Charles McIntosh he started selling
max Yeah, they were world's first raincoats. I know what
you're thinking now. The Macintosh computer is actually named after
the McIntosh Apple eighteen fifty three John Morrissey. He won
boxing's world championship title. Yeah, after the thirty sixth round,
the guy who was fighting Yankee Sullivan, he left the
ring to go slug some of Morrisey's fans. Eighteen ninety

(04:02):
two The Pledge of Leagians. It was first recited in
public schools day nep was the honor of Columbus Day.
Nineteen hundred, the first modern summary submarine went into service. Yeah,
it was launched by the United States Navy. It's called
the USS Holland Now his name for John Holland. He's
the guy who actually designed it. Nineteen oh one, President
Teddy Roosevelt he officially renamed the Executive Mansion as the

(04:23):
White House. Yeah, the Oval Office that won't be built
until nineteen oh nine. Nineteen fifteen, Teddy roosevele he criticized
all US citizens who identified by dual nationalities. See, there
had been a really influx of immigration during that time,
and he got tired of people who would come to America,
become Americans and still refer to themselves from their former country.
They said, up, you're an America and just stop it

(04:44):
right there now. I have never been to Brazil, but
I have seen pictures of the Christ's the Redeemer statue.
It stands on the top of cor Cavo, the mountain
that overlooks Rio Degeniro. That statute open today nineteen thirty one,
ninety eight feet tall. Now it's outstart armed, two feet long.
Catholic missionaries paid for it. Now that statue every year
is struck by lightning between three and six times, never

(05:06):
does any damage to it. New York City in nineteen
forty four, the Columbus State riot happened. Well, it had
nothing to do with Cleumbus Day and it really wasn't
a riot. See Frank Sinatra. He was scheduled to saying
at the Paradise Theater. Now it held thirty five hundred seats.
Thirty thousand, mostly teenage girls showed up. Yeah, the media
they made a big deal and they called it a riot.

(05:27):
The police did show up. It was just to kind
of get the screaming girls in check and all that.
While it really made was Frank Sinatra, the first pop
star Japan in nineteen sixty in the Hero Asinama. Now
he was the leader of Japan's Socialist Party. He was
a big support of the Chinese Communist Party. He actually
wanted Japan to model be modeled after the Chinese Communist Party. Well,

(05:47):
during a live debate on Japanese TV while he was speaking,
seventeen year old Otoya Yamagucci killed him with a samurai sword. Yep,
ran him right through right there on Life TV. Now,
he said he wasn't going to put up with that
common talk. Although nobody liked Acid Newman. Yeah he's still
They started to the rest of that kid though. Yeah,
he did it all live TV. So the kid actually

(06:08):
hung himself in jail three weeks later. If you're wondering
if that samurai sword meant anything, probably not. Since THENTO
World War two, Japanese citizens they're not allowed to on guns,
so that's probably all he had. In nineteen eighty in
Los Angeles, seven people were stabbed at a blood Sweat
and Tears Concertop.

Speaker 3 (06:24):
Stop Stop Coop stooped coot Dope shot this shimmer Day.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
Please, Donna, he.

Speaker 4 (06:31):
Left this shiver Day.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
We don't simple card.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
He let this shims Day and you know we don't
do you.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
Okay, let's check out it was born in October the twelfth. Yeah,

(07:04):
I know, obviously that was Dolla Cruso, sung by Luciano
Pavarotti Bavaratti. He was born in Medina, Italy in nineteen
thirty five. The most famous tenor of all time.

Speaker 4 (07:13):
Now.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
As a kid, he wanted to be a soccer player,
but he wasn't very well. He sucked, so for seven
years his parents sent him to school for vocal training.
Well it worked, I mean singing wise. I mean he
wouldn't have gotten so fat if he played soccer, but
it really gave him a lot of his parents and singing.
Became super famous for his opera performances. But then he
came mainstream when he formed The Three Tenors. Bavaratti sold

(07:34):
over one hundred million records. Now he has married to
his first wife for forty years. When they divorced, they
had three children. Married his second wife in two thousand
and three and they had one Giant Pavaratti. He died
from pincreatic cancer in two thousand and seven at seventy
one years old. Man the Sam and the Rock and

(08:09):
Roll Hall of Fame dol Sam and Dave well sam
Mar He's born in Miami, Florida in nineteen thirty five.
Now Sam and Dave prayed or they got together. In
nineteen sixty one. Sam sang the high notes, Dave sang
the low notes. Now some of their heads for a
soul man. Hold on, I'm coming when something is wrong
with my baby, I thank you. Now they call the
quits in nineteen eighty one. But Sam, he has success

(08:30):
touring Solar and then with other artists. He never retired. Nope,
all the way up until the end. He was eighty
nine years old. He said he's still come singing for
you if it gave him a little bit of money
and just asking him now. He died just January. He
was eighty nine years old. He married Joyce back in
nineteen eighty two.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
Fowl that was Pat Denisia I was singing lead for

(09:08):
the Smitherings.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
He was born in Plainville, New Jersey, in nineteen fifty five.
He helped form the smither Rains in nineteen eighty. Now
they got their name the smith Rains from Simney Sam cartoons.
You know you Simney Salmon walk around telling me he's
gonna blow him the Smitherings. You know, I would have
probably kept that out of the blme light, but now
only meaning girl like you blues after and before. That's
some of their heads.

Speaker 4 (09:30):
Now.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
He was with the band until he died in twenty
seventeen at sixty two years old. He had all kinds
of health issues. He had divorce once and had a
son from it.

Speaker 3 (09:38):
I'm sure I made the same mistakes that I can
make it through the pain and joys and ages. Back then.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
I would do it all. I'm doing all again before
I go. That was actor Hugh Jackman on Broadway. He
was on the Boy from Oz he was fifty seven.
He was born in Sydney, Australia in nineteen sixty eight.
Now he's won the Emmy, the Grammy, and Twotony Awards,
so he's an oscar away from winning the egot. He

(10:13):
wasn't nominated for an oscar for the movie Leylan Miss Rob,
but he lost to Daniel D Lewis and Lincoln.

Speaker 3 (10:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
He might probably best known for playing Wolverraine. He played
in nine movies. Got married in nineteen ninety six. They
had two children, then they divorced. Just got finally in
January or January. He just got finally in June. Bj

(10:50):
Thomas and Dusty Springfield saying the themes on for the
TV show Growing Bands Kirk Gamra and he's fifty five.
He's born in Panorama City, California, in nineteen seventy. That's
just a suburb of Ville.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
Now.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
As an actor, Kirk is most known for playing Mike
sever on Growing Pains. When he grew up, he grew
up an atheist, and then he was seventeen he became
a born again Christian. So after Growing Pains ended, he
just left mainstream Hollywood. He has his own ministry. He
puts out Christian movies. He's really popular on Christian TV.
His younger sister is actress Candice Cameron. Burt Kurkie married
actress Chelsea Noble nineteen ninety one. They have six kids.

(11:22):
Actor Josh Hudsonson and he's thirty three. He's born in
nineteen ninety two and Union, Kentucky.

Speaker 3 (11:28):
Now, he was in.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
Journey to the Center of the Earth and journeyed to
him the Mysterious Island. Then he hit really big in
the four Hunger Games movies. He was Peter. Now he
did so good in his movie Five Nights of Freddy. Yeah,
they're filming the sequel right now. If he saw Five
Nights of Freddy, you'll know what you're talking about all
right here. Quote of the day. It comes from Confederate
General Robert E. Lee. He died it day in eighteen

(11:50):
seventy at sixty three years old. He says, never do
a wrong thing to try and make a friend or
keep one. Pretty good advice. Well, thank you all for
listening today. Don't get to follow us. Whoever you're listening
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our country underground radio artists today because from Clayton in

(12:10):
New Mexico, he wants to hear Highway ninety five their
song love like me. You guys have an awesome day
and we'll talk tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (12:18):
Have you ever found love? Is someone you can't give us?

Speaker 4 (12:25):
What a fat person.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
Belong to?

Speaker 4 (12:29):
Someone? News? Do you tell? Delay all along?

Speaker 3 (12:37):
Land O, keep longed away, no long convened? What you
really had inside?

Speaker 4 (12:51):
Like the river of the wrong sody luck seeing the
taste so sweet with no wasting around some breeds, like.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
A mountain of peaks so hat like the bears on
the foot that you lae with all the beautiful things
you love to see heavy weather. Bata tell me one

(13:25):
way Rope, who the screws day? Bring that you every day,
But you're just a break to see, like a red
of the wrong sodie, like seeing the teeth so sweet

(13:50):
with no wasting the math.

Speaker 1 (13:53):
Some bb breeds.

Speaker 3 (13:57):
Like a mountain of peaks so high, like a bounce
on the book. To that, with all the beautiful things
you love to see, have you ever vana of that
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