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Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hey, hello everyone, I am Jeff. Welcome to History and Facto.
It's about today. Today is October the ninth. Hey everybody,
it's Leif Erickson Day. King.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Oh, hi, Kendrick, It's leish Erickson Day.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
There's a note SpongeBob went to get more giant paper.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Patrick hes happy leif Erickson Day.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Well, today is National leaf ericson day Leith. He was
a Viking. His dad was Eric the Red. Around the
year one thousand leaf in his career, they landed in Canada.
Now they were actually sailing to Greenland. Yeah, we got
blown off course there, possibly the first Europeans actually set
foot in North America. Now now he named it Vinland
because of all the grape vines that were growing all
over the place. They were on the northern tip of Newfoundland. Now,
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it was too late in the year to try and
get back to Greenland, so they just had to build
shelters and camp there for the winter. Well, when spring
hit they headed back to Norway. When they got home,
they told everybody wh would listen about this new place
that they found called Vindin. Now, quite a few of
those Norwegians Vikings. Yeah, they went out and checked it out.
So how are we supposed to celebrate leaf a Perrikens today? Well,
I guess we can go all Nordic and Viking. We
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can eat pickled herring and smoke salmon. We can pillage
our neighbors. It's a good excuse to drink though. So
there we go. Now, Leaf he didn't get to North
America five hundred years before Columbus, so we should celebrate him.
And then we were celebrating Columbus on Monday. All right,
less he's going on in entertainment on October ninth. It's
about to two thousand and nine. Number one album was
The Blueprint three by Jay Z. Black Eyed Peas had
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the number one song with I got a feeling, jump off,
Let's get it.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I know we'll have a ball and to get down
and just get it up. Still dress down a wall,
Let's go, Let's go away, Sank Down, Northern.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Knocking Toby Key that number country song with American Ride, Gotta.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Love this American Ride into the House, funny, how the
world keeps turny?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I Love this American. The number one book was The
Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. Top movie was Couples Retreat
for a Couples They go to a tropical island for vacation. Wow,
it turns out that island is actually a marriage therapy place.
Stars Vince Vaughn, Jason Bateman, and Kristin Davis. Yeah, I
hope a bunch more. All right, what happened on October ninth,
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eighteen o nine, American eye singer He invented that sewing
machine motor. Now, it was a big deal back then.
Remember pretty much everybody had a sewing machine that sewed
their own clothes. But see they had to pump it
with their foot in order to power the sewing machine. Yeah,
kind of like the Flintstones. Didn't have to do that
anymore thanks to Isaac the Civil War in eighteen sixty four,
the Union cavalry and Confederate out Confederate Calvary. Yeah, they
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went at it at the Battle of Tom's Brook. It's
in Virginia. Now. The Union whooped up on those rebels. Yeah.
The locals that were watching it, they called it the
Woodstock Races. See, the Confederates got on their horses and
they ended up running the Turning Tail like you would
not believe, with the Union right on their boats. Now,
it was not a significant battle, but what makes it
really interesting when the two officers that were in charge,
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See they were roommate at West Point. Now the Confederates,
they were led by Tom Razier and his former roommate
that was leading the Union soldiers. Yeah, George Armstrong Custer.
Nineteen thirty pilot Laura Ingall Loria Ingles, first woman and
to make a trans continental airplane flat across the United States. Nope,
not the Red Nineteen thirty six, the Hoover Daan began
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sending electricity to the Los Angeles. Today fifteen percent of
all the electricity produced by the Hoover dam Yeah, it
still goes to Los Angeles. Nineteen forty six, the first
electric blankets went on sale thirty nine dollars and fifty cents. Oh,
do you think that's not bad for electric banking? Remember
that was nineteen forty six. That today if you want
to blat about an electric bank for that six hundred
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and fifty bucks. Nineteen sixty one, members of the United
States Communist Party, they were told to report themselves to
their local police. Today they just throw things at the
local police. Nineteen eighty three. In Rangoon, Burma, it's me
and Marty Day, North Korea. They tried to assassinate South
Korea's president. Well, they didn't get in, but they did
kill twenty one people. That included nine South Korean government
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officials and presidential advisors, security team members, three reporters. Nineteen
eighty nine, Penthouse maggot and started selling a Hebrew edition. Yeah,
hit news stands today. There's a lot of kosher jokes
on that one. I didn't know this, but Penhouse they
actually stopped printing the Hebrew edition in two on twenty three,
along with oh yeah, all additions. Now, if you want
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to go to Penhouse, you apparently you have to go
to their website only. Nineteen ninety two, a fireball raced
across the sky above Peekskill, New York. Scared the hell
out of a stadium of people watching a high school
football game, especially when they heard the loud boom when
it crashed. Now, the whole town basically rushed where it.
We want to see what in the hell happened, and
luckily no one was hurt. Yeah, it was just a
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meteorite the size of a bowling ball. Now, it took
out the Nap family's nineteen eighty Chevy Melibou. Yeah, it
was parked in the family's driveway. Now the meteorite. It
was seen all the way from Kentucky. Yeah, all the
way to New York. People have been watching it. Twenty
twenty three in Oka, Minnesota, trav Is Geiner. He grew
the largest pumpkin in history. Weighed two seven and forty
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nine pounds. If you wanted to, he could have made
six hundred and eighty seven pumpkin pies from the joke joked, joked.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Joke, sharge thish shiver odayle gonna he left this shiver day.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
We gonna simple cars.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
He's like, is s birthday? You don't.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Let's check out. It was born in October the ninth.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I was to join The Meaning of Success.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
John Lennon. He was born in Liverpool, England, in nineteen
forty and he's fifteen. He started the band called the Quarrymen.
After a couple of years of that, Paul McCartney joined.
Of course, that led to the Beatles. Beetles, they are
right behind it, They're not right behind there behind Elvis
for the all time most records sold Beatles. This all
around six hundred million records. As he's like a billion.
John he sold between twenty three and twenty five million
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records solo. Now, he was married to a first wife.
They were married six years and they had that son,
Julian Leonard. Then John married Yoko Ono in nineteen sixty
nine and they had their son, son SHAWNA Wow. Today
is Shawn's birthday. Yeah, Shawn was also born on October
the ninth. Said he was born in nineteen seventy five.
So I mean Sean's fifty years old today. He was
five when his dad was murdered in nineteen eighty. At
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forty years old, she's got so she's so shine. Probably
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Jackson Brown, he's seventy seventy. He was born in Heiderberg, Germany,
in nineteen forty eight. His dad was in the military.
Jackson actually grew up in California. Started out in the
nitty gritty birt ban not for LOWNDO. He's more of
a songwriter for him than anything else, at least his
first album in nineteen seventy two. Some of his hits
are Running on Empty, Somebuddy's Baby, Lawyers in Love, Tender
as the Night. He had a son from his first
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wife and then she died. He had a son from
his second wife. He dumped her for Darrel Hannah Daryl
Hannon dated for ten years and then they broke up.
So yeah, Jackson. He's been with his girlfriend now since
like the mid nineteen eighties. Actor Tony Tony Shaloub. He
was born in Greenway, Wisconsin in nineteen fifty three seventy
two today now Tony first got known on The Second Wings,
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then he hit big on TV's Monk. Some of his
movies were A Galaxy Quest, Man in Black two, his
voiced Luigi in the Cars movies. He married actress brook
Adams in nineteen ninety two and they have two daughters.
Actor Scott Bakula. He was born in Saint Louis, Missouri,
in nineteen fifty four, makes him seventy one years old.
He's most known for TV. First start on Quantum Leap
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and then Star Trek Enterprise n CIS New Orleans. Some
of his movies were Necessary Roughness, Major League two, The Informant.
He had two children from his first wife. Married his
second wife in two thousand and nine and they have
two children. Actor Michael Parr sixty seven. He was born
in Brooklyn, New York, in nineteen fifty eight. He was
really popular in the nineties that nineties. He was really
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popular in the eighties. He had Eddie and the Cruisers
Streets of Fire Philadelphia experiment. Yeah, really big in the eighties.
But he's been busy. You might not realize it, Michael.
He's been in over one hundred and sixty movies.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
He married his third wife in nineteen ninety two and
they have one child.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Killing the man.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
You know one have always been.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
You came even.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
To love your songs?
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Now ever to one come song.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Country singer Scotty mccrarry's thirty two. He was born and
Garner Knew, North Carolina in nineteen ninety three. Now he
was sixteen years old in the auditioned for American Idol.
He was seventeen years old when he won the tenth
season of American Idol. After he won, he released his
first album. He became the only country artist in history
whose debut album actually hit number one on the pop chart.
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Win that debut so number one, Scotty mc songs are
five more minutes? This is it in between? Damn straight. Yes,
he did finished high school after he won American Nino.
Now he's actually going on on tour November sixth, Jack
and we'll be out there until the middle of March.
I'm married in twenty eighteen. Now their second son was
just born on September eighteenth, So congratulations to the McCleary family.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Says Leazer.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
He says, and he's he's far, he's good.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Host, he really happy.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Say that is twenty eight year old country singer Megan Maroni.
She was born in Savannah, Georgia, in nineteen ninety seven.
Now she's released two albums. He's just kind of starting
out and she has the hits Tennessee Orange, I'm Not
Pretty six months later, am I Okay? Now she's just
finishing up her to her she's only got a couple
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shows left. So but I have to wait till next
summer when she goes like, yeah, alrighty. Our quote of
the day it comes from Oscar Schindler, Yeah, the Shindler's
List guy. He died to day in nineteen seventy four.
It says sixty six years old. He says, if you
saw a dog was going to be crushed by a car,
wouldn't you help him? Well, thank you all for listening today.
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Today our Country Underground Radio artists of the Day. It
comes from Kelly in Madelibu, California. She wants to hear
Tiffany Grace the song drown My Requit drown my Regrets.
It's a brand new song, so you're almost hearing it.
This is the first week goes out. I don't know
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how Kelly even knew it was out, but hey, cool,
we do play it on Country Underground Radio. Do you
guys have an awesome day. We'll talk to you marrow
and make sure you come mind a Country Underground Radio
and you can hear Tiffany's new a song, Baby, I
think the news.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
In the mind The line him lasts. She told me
that you love makes me blind. I said, yell on
me and.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
The rest of me.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
You knew, girl seems to really hate me. I couldn't
tell you why I didn't see because you look me
in the eyes and light you listen to it and
now I think a last wine. But to her, trummrrygret,
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I'm bad, I said, I love. He asked me to
be it, but you don't miss me anymore. You're the
one that could have staid.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Baby.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Maybe I miss you at times, but I'd rather throw up.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Tess asked me to drive you home last night. I said,
does your girlfriend need lift? Funny that she seems to
really hate me. I have to tell you why I did,
and I'm honesty because you'll look me in the eyes
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lightiness cigarette and now I think the last one but
into her Traumlarry gret I find out said lovely asked
me to be it's but you don't miss me anymore.
I only ever wanted you while you seeing a girl,
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little gay