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October 7, 2025 14 mins
National Taco day. entertainment from 1989. 1st pictures of the backside of the moon, Biggest football blowout, Columbus changed course. Todays birthdays - John Mellencamp, Yo-Yo Ma, Michael W. Smith, Simon Cowell, Toni Braxton, Thom Yorke. Edgar Allen Poe died

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran     https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
Raining tacos - Parry Gripp
Miss you much - Janet Jackson
I go dreams - Steve Wariner
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent     http://50cent.com/
I need a lover - John Mellencamp
Appalechian Waltz - Yo-Yo Ma
Place in this world - Michael W. Smith
Unbreak my heart - Toni Braxton
Creep - Radiohead
Exit - I cry - Lena Page    https://www.instagram.com/lenapaigemusic/?hl=en

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Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hello, I am Jeff, and welcome to history. In fact,
it's about today. Day's October the seventh.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Who is strain and tacos frum out of the sky tacos.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
No need to ask why, just open your mouth and
close your eyes and strain and taaco safe stream.

Speaker 4 (00:44):
Taco Today it is National Taco Day. Now.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
They started making tacos in Mexico and Central America around
three thousand years ago. Then at fifteen twenty Herman Cortez
he named the flatbread that they were using tortillas. Now,
they made their way up to the United States in
the early nineteen hunders.

Speaker 4 (01:01):
Nineteen eighty nine.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Taco Johns they trademark Taco Tuesdays that they really don't
enforce it too much. In fact, National Taco Day, Yeah,
it's always on the first Tuesday of every October. Now,
I'm gonna make this pretty easy for you. Basically, everybody
who sells tacos is Evan deals today, from Taco Bell,
Taco Johns, Chipotle, del Taco, Jack in the Box seven

(01:23):
to eleven, even Taco Johns. Yeah, we'll let their fish tacos.
So go get the tacos you I can just enjoy
some tacos today. Now, if you need something to Washington down,
it's also a national frop by day. All right, this
is going on entertainment in October seventh, It's back to
nineteen eighty nine. Number one album was Forever Your Girl
by Paula Abdul Janet. Jackson had then ms on with
miss You Much.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
I Tell Him.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Steve Warner he had the number one country song with
I Got Dreams.

Speaker 4 (02:10):
Shouts two years and uber.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
I want to Keep on cry on slip given I
Got Dreams, Say you Don't Love It? One of these sings.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
The number one book was Clear and Present Danger by
Tom Clancy. Top movie was Black Rain. To New York
City cops, they arrest a violent gang member and now
they have to escort him back to Japan. Stars Michael Douglas,
Andy Garcia and Ken Takamira. Now in Japan, it was
nominated for Best Foreign Film and there Japanese Academy Awards.
All right, what happened on October the seventh. Now we

(02:52):
all know that Christopher Kalumbus never set foot on or
even saw America. But today in his logbooks it shows
that in fourteen ninety too, he actually changed his original course.
Now had he stayed on that course, yeah, he had
to run right into Florida. Fifteen seventy one, the Battle
of Lapento is one of the most important naval battles
in world history, was fought. Now Muslims and Christians. They'd

(03:14):
been fighting since six twenty two. Then by fifteen seventy one,
the Muslims, they were led by the Ottoman Empire, that's
basically in Turkey. Now they controlled pretty much all the
Middle East, North Africa, the Balkans, that's southeast Europe. But
now the Muslims out their site set on Europe and
all of Europe. So Pope Pius a fifth he organized
a coalition of the states in Italy and Spain and

(03:37):
pretty much Austria and Germany and that whole thing to
try and stop them. So the Christians and the muslim
they met off of Greece. Now, the Ottomans they did
not know that the Christians had actually improved their ships. Yeah,
they add a technical advantage there. So the Christian fleet
was led by a twenty four year old he had
Don Juan. Yeah he wasn't a real guy. He was
from Austria. I know naval power, but Usian leaders and officers.

(04:01):
After years of just getting crushed by the Muslims, they're
pretty hesitant to go into battle.

Speaker 4 (04:05):
Not done one.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
He simply said, gentlemen, this is not the time to discuss.
It is time to fight. Then he ordered the attack. Now,
don and the Christians ships put a major.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
Butt whooping on the Muslims.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
In five hours, over thirty three thousand Muslims were killed,
eight thousand Christians were killed. Now, it would end up
being the deadliest one day battle up until World War One.
So that's a long time ago. Now it was the
last battle that was fought by or powered ships.

Speaker 4 (04:30):
That's kind of cool.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
Now that Ottomans they pretty much lost most of their navy,
so they were really never a power again after that.

Speaker 4 (04:37):
Now, get this on the ships for sinking all that.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
They ended up getting twelve thousand Christians who were actually
being held as slaves on those ships that were sinking. Now,
before that battle, Pope Pious the Fifth, he and other
paper leaders and Christian leaders and stuff, they asked for
a prayer for all of Europe to try and help
bless the soldiers, and so a lot of the Catholics
they were playing or praying the rosary.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
So it worked.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Stop the Muslim and that's why if you're Catholic. Yeah,
October is national Rosary run, so you're supposed to say
the Rosary a lot this month. Seventeen fourteen, Alkma, Netherlands,
one of the biggest riots in the history of the
Netherlands took place. See the citizens they were told that
the government was going to start taxing beer. Yeah, the
people went back crap crazy. Seventeen thirty seven, a cyclone

(05:21):
it hit Calcutta, Indy, came to shore with forty foot waves,
killed over three hundred thousand people. Eighteen oh six, Ralph
Wedgwood in London, England. He invented carbon paper. I don't
know how many of you are old enough to mirror
that stuff. They pretty much stopped using carbon paper in
the nineteen eighties.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
But he was to go buy it. Yeah, some people
still use it. I don't know what for.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
In college football, in nineteen sixteen, Georgia Tech now they
were coached by John Heisman, the guy that the trophy
is named after. Well, they beat Cumberland College two hundred
and twenty two to nothing. That's the most lopsided score
on football history. Nineteen fifty nine Soviet spacecraft Luna three.
It took the first pictures of the back side of
the moon, or the far side of the moon. Some
people call it the dark side of the moon, but

(06:01):
it gets just as my sunlight as the side that
we see now, the two sides of the moon, they
are different in appearance wise. See, the far side of
the moon is really covered in craters of all different
sizes and all that kind of stuff, and the crust
is thicker than the side that we see.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
Now.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
This record still stands. It was nineteen sixty five and Omaha,
Nebraska at the tenth hole in Miracle Hills golf Course
a fifty mile an hour wind gust. It helped Robert Matira.
He had a four hundred and forty seven yard hole
in one. He has still the longest hole in one
ever hit. Nineteen ninety six, Fox News went on the air,
my dad, most of the people over seven.

Speaker 4 (06:34):
You're pretty happy today two thousand and three are No.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
Schwarzenegger is elected governor California.

Speaker 4 (06:38):
Yeah, he served eight years.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
Two years ago in twenty twenty three, that's when Nahamas
attacked Israel and a horrible terrorist attack. Now suppose it's
Israel's equivalent to the United States is nine to eleven.

Speaker 4 (06:49):
Is what it is.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
But as today it sounds like what if. According to
Fox News and some others, looks like the fighting might
finally be over. So I guess we'll pay attention for
the next couple of days being kind of dashed for though, joke, dope.

Speaker 3 (07:02):
Joke, joke joke, show this Shiverthdayle's gonna pause.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
He left this shiverday.

Speaker 4 (07:10):
We gonna simple target this shibirthday. And you know you
don't give up.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
That's birthday.

Speaker 4 (07:17):
Check out.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
It was born in October the seventh to Now I

(07:41):
need a lever. That was the first hit sign that
John Mellencamp ever recorded, released it back in nineteen seventy eight,
but under the name John Cougar. See John. He's seventy
four today. He was born in Seymour, Indiana, nineteen fifty one. Now,
he actually did start out as John Cougar, but his
recording company they didn't like the name Mellencamp at all,
but John like, so as soon as he got big enough,

(08:01):
he changed it to John Cougar Mellencamp and then by
nineteen ninety one he is big enough he could just
be John Cougar soldo over sixty million records. He has
three times divorced. He had one child from his first wife,
two from his second, and two from his third. For

(08:29):
those of you who don't know the cello, yeah, that
is really good.

Speaker 4 (08:33):
That was Yo Yo Ma.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
He is an American cellist who was born in Paris,
France to Chinese parents. Seventy years old today now Yo
Yo now Yo Yo Ma in China has pronounced ma
yo yo Now. He is most known famous cellist of
all time, probably the cellist.

Speaker 4 (08:49):
Anybody ever knew. Now.

Speaker 1 (08:50):
He was a child prodigy. He was performing by the
time he's four and a half years old. He's recorded
ninety two albums when nineteen Grammys. Now he goes music.
It goes from traditional Chinese melodies to American bluegrass to
Argentina diango, everything in between. And he does perform classic
orchestra stuff. He's on tour. Yep, you're gonna see him'll
beible too. He's on tour till June, so you can

(09:11):
check him out. Got married in nineteen seventy eight and
they have a son and one daughter.

Speaker 3 (09:20):
Looking for e.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
Ninety five My pa world.

Speaker 4 (09:36):
That was Christian singer Michael W. Smith.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
Now he took that song place in this World up
to number six on the pop chart. Yeah, he's considered
a contemporary Christian singer.

Speaker 4 (09:44):
Michael. He's sixty eight.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
He's born in Canovo, West Virginia, nineteen fifty seven. He's
won forty five Double Awards, three Grammy's. Thirty three of
the songs have gone to number one on the Christian chart.
Now he's also written fourteen books. Now he kicks off
his yearly Christmas tour on November twenty eighth. It's gonna
be a good show. He's with CC Winings and Amy Grant.
Ends December twenty first. Now, Michael he married nineteen eighty

(10:06):
one and they have five children. No, he's not Catholic,
He's Protestant. Simon Kall he's sixty six. He was born
in Lambeth, England in nineteen fifty nine.

Speaker 4 (10:15):
Now he was a maybe a.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
Semi successful record producer talent Scott kind of except then
he had huge with the idea of TV talent shows.
Started off with The X Factor in Britain and then
Britain's Got Talent, then of course American Idol. Now that
American Idol franchise. They have shows all over the world
like Canadian Idol, Australian Idol, Iraq Ido, Brazil Idol, Pakistan Idol,

(10:38):
Taiwan Idol, all that kind of fifty six different versions
of American Idol. Well, yeah, so it's quite the franchise.
Old Simon's got going there now. He's been engaged since
twenty thirteen and him and his fiance have one son.

Speaker 4 (10:53):
To walk down the door down.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
By Fine the many nights.

Speaker 1 (11:08):
On Tony Braxton. She was born in nineteen sixty seven
and seven Michigan, fifty eight years old today, she's sold
over seventy million records.

Speaker 4 (11:19):
You Make Me High and Break My Heart. He Wasn't man.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
Enough Breathing In That's some of her biggest hits. And
she had a reality TV show he ran from twenty
eleven to twenty twenty. It's called Braxton Family Values.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
Now.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
She had two sons from her first husband. She married
her second husband just last year.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
It's a beautiful I wish how special, so full special.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
That's Thomas Jork. He is the lead singer for the
band Radiohead. He is born in well Borrow, England, in
nineteen sixty eight fifty seven year olds helped formula Radiohead
nineteen eighty five. This will over thirty million records. Some
of their hits over here in the United States are
creep Pie and Dry No surprises Now. He does a
lot of solo stuff on the side, and it's nothing
like Radiohead. His solo stuff is all electronic. Ye have

(12:18):
no instruments, just all electronic. He had one son and
one daughter from his first wife. Married his second wife
in twenty twenty. Alrighty, our quote of the day. It
comes from writer Edgar Allen Poe. He died today in
eighteen forty nine at forty years old. He says, if
you want to forget something right away, make a note
that you have to remember it well. Thank you all
for listening today. Make sure you follow us now you
listen to this hun check out today's show descriptions, you

(12:41):
can figure out how to connect with this. Our country
underground radio artists Today comes from Misty in Sarasota, Florida.
She wants to hear lean it page this song. I cry,
he guys have an awesome day.

Speaker 4 (12:50):
We'll talk tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
I cry settled, I cry have some cartoon. I cry
every week when I don't even know the bride over.

(13:13):
I cried when dogs had puppies. I cry at funerals too,
So tell me, if you can, you rip it much, omen,
Why did not cry over you? Why was I shuting

(13:36):
Hellujah when your tail has disappeared down street?

Speaker 3 (13:44):
Why was I dancing.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
On the table drinking house a queer street? Why was
that kissette to strangers saying thank you Lord, last time free?
So tell me, darling, Why was I laughing when I

(14:12):
found you again yourthing? If I'm so tender hearted, I
should have died when.

Speaker 3 (14:20):
You the party so wide?

Speaker 2 (14:23):
Did I cry when you said goodbye?
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