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October 21, 2025 13 mins
(2024) National nut day. Entertainment from 1989. 1st parachute jump, FDA bans red M&M's, Scientists sentenced to prison for not predicting an earthquake in Itlay. Todays birthdays - Christopher Lloyd, Bobby Fuller, Annette Funicello, Jeff Goldblum, Shaggy, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Michael Fishman, Zack Hanson, Jonathon Lipnicki, Dylan Scott,

Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard     http://defleppard.com/
I'm a nut - The Kilboomers
Miss you much - Janet Jackson
High cotton - Alabama
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent      http://50cent.com/
I fought the law - Bobby Fuller
Tall Paul - Annette Funicello
It wasn't me - Shaggy
Roseanne TV theme
MMM Bop - Hanson
My girl - Dylan Scott
Exit - In my dreams - Dokken    https://www.dokken.net/
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Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Facto.
It's about today. Day's October. The twenty first apples.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Were men too taste just dandy. Apples were men for us.
Sweat after you try and there's just no deny. And
then apples handmade bumbles, tasty trees.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Today is National Apple Day. Apples they evolved around ten
million years ago, that the apples we eat today. Yeah,
they started eating those around ten thousand years ago in China.
Now the only apples that are natives to North America. Yeah,
those little crab apples, so you can't eat them. But
now there over twenty five hundred different types of apples
in North Yerk of the you can eat, so everybody
should be able to find one kind of apple they like. Yeah,

(01:03):
they're really healthy for you. Now they are a little
high in sugar, even though it's natural sugar. For those
of you who are trying to avoid sugar apples, have them.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
Get this. Apples.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
They can make you fart too or past gas if
you're fist to gated. But that's just out there. Something
you might want to think about it if you're going
on a first date. Now, the skin, it's the healthiest
part of the apple. All right, everybody, just enjoy your
apples today.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
This's going on on.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Entertainment in October twenty First, let's go back to nineteen
eighty one. Number one album was Tattoo You by the
Rolling Stones. Christopher Kross had the number one song with
Arthur's theme The Best that You Can Do Charlie Pride.

(01:54):
He had the number one country song with never Been
So Loved.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
I've never been, I've never fell.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
The team.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
Turn rise, I've never liked.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
The number one book was The Hotel New Hampshire by
John Irving. Top movie with Chariots a fire. Two British runners,
one Christian and one jew They battled to win the
gold medal in the nineteen twenty four Olympics, stars Charles
Farrell and Nigol harrim Haves. All right, what happened in
October twenty first three thirty five Roman Emperor Constantine the
Great He told the Jews they could no longer circumcise

(02:39):
their Christian slaves, and then he expanded said the Jews
were not allowed to circumcise any non Jewish slaves. Fifteen
twenty eight, Fernamadgellen and his ships. They raised that Cape
Virginny's it's at the tip of South America, so that
made them the first European is actually sailing in the
Pacific Ocean, and they were actually sailing through right now
is the Straight of Magellan. In baseball, the first World
Series wasn't it played until nineteen oh three, but in

(03:02):
eighteen eighty seven baseball decided they needed a World Championship,
so Detroit and Baltimore went at it. Detroit one eight
games of three and a fifteen game series, so Detroit
they became the first baseball World champions. At that time,
no other countries actually played baseball, maybe a couple people
up in Canada nineteen seventeen. In World War One, the
first American trips were sent to the front lines and

(03:22):
saw action. They joined the fight in France near summer Va. Yeah,
they were actually in a French command. Nineteen sixty six
and South Wales at the town of Aberfann. It was
a coal mining town and if you've seen those spoils,
you know where they had those great big piles of
all the junk that they can't do or anything with.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
Well, they had one of those up above the town.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
What came crashing down in an avalanche today took out
a farm, a bunch of houses in the school. Hundred
and sixteen kids and twenty eight adults were killed. Twenty twelve.
Katerina Teciwortha. She was Canada as a Saint pat Pope
Ben Indict the sixteenth. She is the first Native American saint.
Now I talk all about her actually in the podcast
Catholic won on one. If you want to hear about her, yep,

(04:00):
I will put a description on the show descriptions so
you can link you right over there. Today twenty nineteen,
near Abu Dhabi, scientists they announced that they had found
the world's oldest pearl, eight thousand years old. I have
no idea how you date a pearl. I guess like
you w uld her sister Opal.

Speaker 4 (04:19):
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Speaker 3 (04:25):
He's gonna pause.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
He left this shimf Day.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
We want simple cars.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
He let thish shibirf Day.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
And you you don't do to all right.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
It was born on October twenty first, Alfred Noble. He
was born in Stockholm, Sweden in eighteen thirty three. Big
time chemist and inventor held three hundred fifty five patents.
Biggest one we had dynamite. Now he figured out how
to harness natri glissering. In eighteen sixty seven he invented dynamite,
actually for the mining industry, but it didn't take the
world long to figure out how you could use dynamite
as a weapon. Alfred he made a lot of money

(04:57):
off of it. But then he got a conscious Yeah
he did. He realized his legacy was gonna be that
he had created a death device. So when he died,
he left pretty much all of his fortune into creating
the Nobel Prizes. He died in eighteen ninety six from
a stroke, sixty three years old. Never had time to Mary.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Come up.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
Big band leader, trumpet player singer, Disney Gillespie was born
in Cherross, South Carolina, in nineteen seventeen. Famous for his
puffy cheeks, possibly the greatest trumpet player of all time,
especially with jazz trumpany now, he was really instrumental in
the creation of scat and bebop music. He was a
big band leader from nineteen thirty seven in nineteen ninety two,
got married back in nineteen forty now him his wife.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
They didn't have any kids, so Disney. Yeah, he might
have had one on the side.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
He died from pancreatic cancer in nineteen ninety three, seventy
five years old. He performed right up until he died. Yeah,
he was performing only a going through cancer treatment.

Speaker 4 (06:06):
Jackie Gleeson a Honeymooner with the stars Art Varneie Ldrey Meadow,
and Joyce Randolph.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
Now Joyce Rouandolf, that's what we want to talk about.
She was born in Detroit in nineteen twenty four. She
played Tricksie on the TV show The Honeymooners. She was
Art Carney's wife on the show now The Honeymooners. They
were only on there for one year, thirty nine episodes.
Ye have been still one of the most famous TV
series of all time. She really got typecasts from it. Yep.
Nobody could see her as anything but Trixie, so she
couldn't get a job for nothing.

Speaker 4 (06:43):
Now.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
She married nineteen fifty five. Her husband died in nineteen
ninety seven. They had one son. She died just January
twenty twenty four, ninety nine years old. Now thirty years

(07:11):
before Tom Cruise started making Mission Impossible movies Mission Impossible.
It was a huge hit on TV. Start Peter Graves.
Peter is born in Minneapolis in nineteen twenty six. Now
he was born Peter Arness, but he went by Graves
because he didn't want to get compared to his older brother,
actor James Arnest.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
Yeah, the guy who played Marshall Dylan on Gun Smoke.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
Peter.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
He started on Mission Impossible from nineteen sixty seven to
seventy three. Later on he's on TV show seventh seven.
Was in over seventy movies, sadly, is probably best known
for being the Pilot and they Airplane movies.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
Now.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
He married nineteen fifty and they had three kids.

Speaker 5 (07:42):
Peter.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
He died from a heart attack four days before his
eighty fourth birthday in twenty ten.

Speaker 4 (07:48):
That she was just walking down the street, singing, shuttling.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
Singing.

Speaker 5 (08:02):
You look good, look fad.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
That was Man for Man the band Paul Jones. He
sang lead for Man for Man Now Manfred Man. He
was actually born Manfred Lubowitz in Johannesburg, South Africa in
nineteen forty, seventy four years old today.

Speaker 3 (08:19):
Now.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
He became Man for Man and started the band in
nineteen sixty four.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
Do I Diddy Sha La La, The Mighty Quinn. That's
some of their hits.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
Then they broke up in nineteen sixty nine, so dude,
I legal reason. He became man Ford Man's earth band.
That's back in nineteen seventy one. Now their biggest song,
blinded by the Light. That was the only song that
Manford he actually sang lead on. Yep, he never sang
on another record ever. But yeah, he was normally just
hung out, you know, kind of like played a guitar
a little bit, maybe something just like Jay Giles. Yeah,

(08:47):
pretty much. Sys how Man for Man was now the
Man for Man earth Band. They're still out their tour.
He had two children from his worst wife and he
had one job from his second wife. Actress Carrie Fisher.
She was born in Burbay, California, in nineteen fifty six.
Her parents were singer Eddie Fisher and actress Debbie Reynolds.
Carrie was twenty one years old when she started playing
Princess Leiah on the Star Wars movies. Other than the

(09:08):
Star Wars movie, she was in the Blues Brothers A
Man with One red shoe handing her sisters. Now, she
wrote a novel. It's called Postcards from the Edge. It
was the best selling book. They turned it into a movie.
The movie was a huge hit. Yeah, they wouldn't let
carry act in the movie. She was married to singer
Paul Simon for one year. Then she had a daughter
from a boyfriend. Twenty sixteen, Carrie was on a commercial

(09:29):
airplane flight and as she had a heart attack, they
tried CPR. They couldn't rescitate her and see her heart
had it was gone. She had had so many hardcore
drugs over the years. Yeah, her heart couldn't be saved.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
Only sixty years old. Stone the girl.

Speaker 4 (09:48):
It was just sweet.

Speaker 5 (09:49):
Some christ.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
You know, Callway.

Speaker 5 (09:54):
Just like a band.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
I can't tell I'm told you Wayne in love with him?

Speaker 4 (10:03):
Bring Up with Sail.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
Matthew Ramsey. He sings lead for the country band Old Dominion.
He's forty eight today. He was born in Buchanan, Virginia,
in nineteen seventy seven. Now he was a very very
successful songwriter in Nashville before he formed Old Dominion in two.

Speaker 3 (10:16):
Thousand and seven.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
Some of their number one songs are written in the
Sand Hotel Key one man band, break up with Him.
The act on a world tour right now. I think
they're the end Like in next may or something like that.
They have some American shows. If you're gonna go, try
and check him.

Speaker 5 (10:29):
Out'noun Mississippi too, Mississippi whiskey?

Speaker 3 (10:38):
Are you wait's gmc way you become kiss me ho g.

Speaker 5 (10:42):
Way hoivy too, Mississippi three and the molly will be
on how.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
Country singer King Brown is thirty two. He was born
in Chattanooga, Tennessee, at nineteen ninety three. Now he got discovered,
he would post himself singing cover songs on Facebook.

Speaker 3 (10:59):
It worked.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
In twenty seventeen, he became the first artist in history
to have one song on five different Billboard charts all
at the same time. That song was what IFFs yep
be singing with Laura Alana. But see it was on
his album. That's why he gets credit for it.

Speaker 3 (11:12):
Right now.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
Some of his other number one country songs are famous friends.
One Mississippi I Like I Love country music, Thank God.
Now that was with his wife. They got married in
twenty eighteen and they have two daughters and one son.
All right here Quota to day. It comes from writer
Jack Kirouak. He died today in nineteen sixty nine at
forty seven years old. Jackie says, offer people what they

(11:34):
secretly want and they will immediately become panic stricken. Well,
thank you all for listening today. Don't forget to follow
us and you listen to a song, make it easier
for you to find us and check out the description
on today show. But like I said, I'll put that
link over to the Catholic one on one podcast and
the radio station and all that. Speaking of the radio station,
country underground radio artists today, it comes from Amanda in

(11:56):
South Dakota. She has Sir Kirsty Kraus a song Gotta
do you guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (12:02):
I'm handing bo living other people's lives. Feel it's home
leg and never am and trying.

Speaker 3 (12:10):
I hear these.

Speaker 5 (12:11):
Calling him call him be to wear an and be
my honly tut it's a trusting leave being. These crazy
bird coming on me. I hear these call him calling
me to wear Annie and beer. You get to baby

(12:38):
watching Gallant to want somebody hanging me in all the fields?

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this Corona calls radas.

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