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September 21, 2025 14 mins
National Pecan cookie day. Entertainment from 1956. Benedict Arnold turned traitor, Yes Virginia there is a Santa Claus printed, Stonehenge sold at auction. Todyas birthdays - H.G. Wells, Chuck Clark, Larry Hagman, Stephen King, Bill Murray, Dave Coulier, Rob Murrow, Faith Hill, Luke Wilson, Alphonso Ribeiro, Liam Gallagher, Jason Derulo. Walter Brennan died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran    https://www.diannacorcoran.com/ 
Pecan cookies - Muk Puh
Hound Dog - Elvis Presley
Crazy arms - Ray Price
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent   https://www.50cent.com/
I dream of Jeannie TV theme
Wild one - Faith Hill
Fresh prince of Bel-AireTV theme
Wonderwall - Oasis
In my head - Jason Derulo
Exit - Crazy - Bobby Cool      Bobby Cool webpage
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Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hi, I am Jeff, and welcome to history and fact.
It's about today today ex September the twenty first.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Come cookies and a plastic bag with a class of milk.
And I even have to ask it be come Potissa
in a plastic bag? Question every single poem. I just
don't eat it too fast? Come cookie sent a plastic bag.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Today is National Pecan Cookie Day. Pecans they're an algonquin word.
They mean not requiring a stone to crack. Now, pecan
cookies they're really good. They're soft and chewy. Yeah, they're
easy to bake too, if you're want to make yourself
instead of buying, because now they've been a little healthy
for you. So I said bad. They just grabbed yourself
some milk and some pecan cookies and just have a

(01:02):
great day. I want to go get some are Yeah,
go outside and do some button that's right. It's National
Miniature Golf Day. Also, so pecans and golf not a
bad sunday. All right, let's see an entertainment on September
twenty First, let's go back here. In nineteen fifty six,
number one album was Calypso by Harry Belafonte, Elvis Presley,
had the number one song with hound Dog.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
You ain't loving you, you old fridom Well I said.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
To right Price said the number one country song with
crazy Arms.

Speaker 4 (01:48):
Hurrysy Arms and reads two hold.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Somebody news or my Arny Hart Deep Save.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Not trouble Noson ton You with.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
The number one buck was Don't Go Near the Water
by William Brinkley. Top movie was bus Stop a Cowboy.
He falls in love with a saloon girl. Now he
wants to take her against her will, to get married
and never live on his ranks with him in Montana
stars Marilyn Monroe and Don Murray. Don he was now
many for an oscar for that movie, all right? What
happened on September the twenty first during the American Revolution

(02:33):
in seventeen eighty American General all Benedict Arnold. Now he
met with British Major John Andre and Arnold he gave
Andrea the plans of the United States for West Point. Well,
they got discovered, but Arnold he was able to escape
actually to the British side. Andre he just got busted.
They hung him later on. So over two hundred and
forty years later, ben in Nick Darnold, it is still

(02:54):
synonymous with Trader. Now ifhew wonder, if wonder why he
did it? His wife made him do it. They know Hamling.
She was an eight year old little girl. She asked
her dad if there really was a Santa Claus. He
told her, I write the New York Sun newspaper said
they would know. So she did. Today in eighteen ninety seven,
their editor, Francis Church, he printed a response to her letter.
It is now the most reprinted editorial in history. Francis

(03:17):
he gave a really eloquent response to it, and they
wrote the real famous line, Yes, Virginia, there is a
Santa Claus. Then he went on and talked about love, generoshity, devotion,
life's beauty. Francis were They became legendary all because her
dad didn't men up and do his job. In England
and Stone Ininge it might be the most famous prehistoric
monument in the world, at least nowadays. Back in nineteen fifteen,

(03:40):
it was just considered a night soore. No one wanted
that damn thing, so they tried to sell it at
auction to see he couldn't farm it and it was
just kind of a waste of space. Cecil Chubb, he
bought it. He paide sixty six hundred pounds for it.
That'd be about eleven thousand, five hundred dollars in the
yes at that time, now cecil. He bought it as
a present for his wife. He was all gushed with
pride about his little love token. Well she was impressed

(04:02):
at all. She didn't want anything to do with that thing.
She doesn't get rid of it. So after three years,
I mean trying to get her to like it and
trying to sell it, she didn't like it. He couldn't
sell us. He just gave it to the British people.
He said, here you go, you can just have it
out today. Over six million people a year ago. Vine
visits stone Chit every year. Now he got a good deal.
I mean, I didn't realize it was this big. Stony
is sixty five hundred acres. So he plaie a bucking

(04:23):
Acre nineteen seventy eight Monday Night football debut Grounds beat
the Jets thirty one twenty one, nineteen eighty one. Blaise
They got their independence from Great Britain.

Speaker 4 (04:34):
Coke joke joke, huge dish shibirth day. He's gonna pArg
He left this Shibf Day.

Speaker 5 (04:43):
We won't simple targe. He left this Shibirf Day and
you know we don't give up.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
Let work good. It was born September the twenty first
rider H. G. Wells. He was born in Bromley, England,
in eighteen sixty six. Now, along with Joel Verns, considered
the fathers of science fiction before any of this was invented.
Wells wrote all about airplanes, tanks, nuclear bomb satellite space travel.
Biggest books are The Time Machine, More of the World's

(05:09):
Island and Doctor Monroe.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
Wells.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
He married his cousin, then he divorced her for one
of his students. Yeah, he was a professor and they
had two kids, and then she died. Then he had
another son and a nodter from different women. So Wells
was a player. He died in nineteen forty six or
seventy nine years old from an unknown cast. Animator Chuck Clark.
He was born as Spokanne Washington in nineteen twelve. He
won three Academy Awards, But you don't really know him

(05:33):
for his movies. What he did do is he brought
you Bugs, Bunny, Daffy Ducks, Beaty Gonzalez, road Runner, Peppi Lipew,
Porky the Pick. He had about one hundred other characters.
Now he had Wen Chathan, his first wife, married his
second wife in nineteen eighty one. He died in two
thousand and two, eighty nine years old, from heart failure.

(06:05):
Now played that because the theme song for I Dream
Aginie he has a lot better than the song from Dallas.
Actor Larry Agman. He was born in Forward, Texas in
nineteen thirty one. He first hit on TV show I
Dream Agenie. Then of course he had huge playing Jr.
In Dallas, and his mom was a really famous actress.
Her name was Mary Martin. She was really big in
the forties and fifties. Larry married in nineteen fifty four

(06:26):
and they had a son and a daughter. Larry had
a liver transplant in nineteen ninety five. He lived until
he died from leukemia actually in twenty twelve, at eighty
one years old. Actor or actor author Stephen King is
seventy eight. He's born in Portland, Maine, in nineteen forty seven.
So there were three and fifty million books. It's written
over seventy novels and two and his short stories. Ninety

(06:47):
two of what he wrote has been turned into either
movies or TV shows. Called him the King of Horror Now.
His first book was Carrie. Then King Married nineteen seventy one,
so he get that pun. Now King of Horror, have
they They're still the They have one son and two daughters. Now.
Every year King he don it's four million dollars to
local libraries and fire departments that need to be upgraded.

(07:08):
Actor Bill Murray. He was born Evansville, evans stunt Illini
in nineteen fifty seventy five. Today started down on Saturday
Night Live nineteen seventy seven, nineteen eighty then in the
first movie is Meatballs. He's been nominated for an Oscar
one time lost in translation he lost. Bill had two
sons from his first wife, then he had four sons
from his second wife. Comedian actor David Coude. He was

(07:31):
born in Detroit in nineteen fifty nine. He's sixty six.
Started out doing stand up hit playing Joey on the
TV show Full House. He hosted America's Funny as People
of Course. David Lay. Yeah, he's mostly known for his voices,
though he does a lot of voice work, impressions and
that kind of stuff. Yeah, He's got a really big
resume for his voice work. He had one son from
his first wife. Married his second wife in twenty fourteen

(07:53):
after Rob Murrow. He's sixty three. He's born New Mischhell
in New York in nineteen sixty two. Most known for TVA.
First he was on Northern Exposure and then Numbers. Got
married nineteen ninety eight. They have a daughter now. He
and his wife they were both born on September twenty first,
and they got married on September twenty first, So that's
a big day in the Merrow house. So he better
not screw that one up.

Speaker 4 (08:15):
They said you can't leave.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
She said, you sid weird.

Speaker 5 (08:18):
They said, don't see him. She say his name is Baby.
She's so ruland soljes a Wow.

Speaker 4 (08:26):
With the angels Space, She's Warma Ching Sa Strace Sae
Wild one.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
It was the first song Faith Hill release. It was
back in nineteen ninety three. It's also her first number
one song, so good way to start Faith. She was
born originally Mississippi in nineteen sixty seven. She's fifty eight,
so there are fifty million records. She's won five Grammys.
Some of her other number one songs are peace in
my heart. It matters to me. This kiss breathed. Now
she's done some matching. She's in the movie The Stepford

(08:59):
Stepford Wives. She did a really good job in the
mini series eighteen eighty three. Now her maiden name is
actually Perry. But she married a guy named Daniel Hell.
They were married six years, but then after they divorced,
he actually kept his name. Then she married Tim mcgrad
in nineteen ninety six and they have three daughters. Actor
Luke Wilson's fifty four. He was born in Dallas, Texas,
nineteen sentye His older brother is actor Owen Wilson. Now Luke,

(09:22):
He's been in over eighty movies, Blue Streak, Legal, Leblond,
Old School, Vacancy, that some of them. Luke he hasn't
married yet, but he says he's looking. He wants to
get married and settled down.

Speaker 5 (09:34):
Now, this sis story all about it.

Speaker 4 (09:37):
I got slip turned upside down and I don't like
to take a manager.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
Sit right there? You how it became the prince of
a town called bel Air, all right. Actor TV host
Alfonso Roberro. He's fifty four. He was born in the
Bronx in New York. Started out acting as a kid.
He was on the TV show Silver Spoons for three
years and he was Carlton on The Fresh Prince of
maryl Are. Now he was working, but he really wasn't

(10:00):
doing anything big or anything. Then in twenty fourteen he
won Dancing with the Stars. That's right, his curt took
off again, kind of had a little resurgence. So he
holst in America's home videos. Been doing that since twenty
fifteen and for ten years he co hosted Dancing with
the Stars. Now he had a daughter from his first wife,
married his second wife in twenty twelve and they have
three kids.

Speaker 5 (10:20):
All we have took winding.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
A live Sunday alinding.

Speaker 5 (10:35):
Like save.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
That is Liam Gallagher who sings lead for the band Oasis.
He was born in Manchester, England, in nineteen seventy two.
Fifty three year old and his brother Noel. They formed
Oasis in nineteen ninety one. Then in two thousand and
nine and they broke up. They said they were never
ever ever getting back together again. Well they must have
run out of money because they're back together and they
got back together last year. So they're touring the world

(11:02):
right now. And I think they're done with all the
US show. So I think they're like in South America. Now,
now those guys have sold over seventy five million records,
but not in the United States. Only had like three
songs over here that did anything. Leami had a daughter
from a fling. His first wife was the actress Patsy Kinsett. Yeah,
they only married a couple of years and they had
a son. Then he had another son from his second wife,
and then he had a daughter from a fling. Now

(11:23):
both those flings were while he was married to his
Wife's Lee Baby.

Speaker 3 (11:28):
Now say's wordy you teecher saw you?

Speaker 4 (11:35):
You'll see the side of love you level, I see
Golden Town, Golden.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
Save, Chase, and Rulu. He's thirty six. He is born
in Mermart, Florida, in nineteen eighty nine. Now he sold
over thirty million records and has two and fifty million downloads.
Some of his hits are what you Say, my Head Talk, Dirty,
Wiggle Wiggle that was a snoop. Now he has one son,

(12:06):
alrighty Record of the Day. It comes from actor Walter
Brinlantt Brennan. He died today in nineteen seventy four to
eighty years old, Walter says, I'm not too old to
be a religious fellow. It appears to me that we're
losing something. A lot of people made a lot of
sacrifices for well, thank you all for listening. Don't forget
to follow us. I know you listen to his on
and don't forget on the bottom. He can come to
the show description or show notes or whatever I wrote it,

(12:28):
and you can see all the links to us and
all that fun stuff. All right, our country and a
ground radio artists today. It comes from Tyler out there
in Georgia. He wants to hear Bobby Cool song. Crazy.
You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (12:41):
So maybe young grandma it's drinking.

Speaker 4 (12:47):
She's waving out batle to mam, and maybe young brother
is that a fool? And she just like he grew
up in the bond.

Speaker 3 (13:06):
Well you don't.

Speaker 5 (13:07):
Well be bo my mama.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
Was she think?

Speaker 5 (13:15):
If only she knew? Baby, your family's crazy, but not
as crazy as I had about him. Go excig, your

(13:38):
uncle talk got wedding day to proposed to his future
fifth wife. You go, sons, guy joke saying at Shad
Bab and keep getting off of.

Speaker 4 (13:58):
My will you moron wom my daddy.

Speaker 3 (14:07):
Will be see to his poem.

Speaker 5 (14:15):
Baby, Your family's crazy, but now I'm crazys I bout
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