August 19, 2025 • 25 mins
A book from 1995 lists a ton of fun facts about our state of Florida!
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
And welcome back to our veteran's worst radio showing, Ralph Nathan.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Alcome, it's about Florida. Let's done.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Yes, it is, this is this is Florida. We're talking
about the three fs of Florida, Florida. Fun facts. I
left with the question, what international headquarters for a Hamburger
chain is still located in southern Day County. Yes, yeah,
what Hamberger joint?
Speaker 4 (00:29):
That's gonna be Burger Camp started in Miami.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Very good? All right, this is one that would be
shocked if you knew. I knew it only because I
drove there at the season. All right, What tasty fruit
is the subject of a festival every year in Plant City?
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Plant City famous for their strawberries.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
There go, Yeah, you're great.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
I was gonna say mangos, but then plant strawberries. Good.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Okay, I think we're going to go to now number three?
All right, people, all right, people, Okay, who wrote you know,
everybody knows this. Everybody who wrote drank fish and lived
the tropical lifestyle at his home in Key West?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Say it again.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
What famous author wrote drank fished and lived in Key West.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
That's Ernest Hemingway. Very good, yeah, yes, And he's still
got the cats relatives stuff cats.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah, six cats there supposedly the Vera Beach Book Center,
they had a cat that was called what was his name?
He was supposedly one of the Hemingway cats, but his
name was Hemingway.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I want to say I was in HEMI.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Okay, some of these are there's so many artists. Wise
the museum to what eclectic mastachioed modern painter is in
Saint Pete is it?
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Yeah, that's a great museum.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Very good. Uh, what black actor raised in Miami made
film history by coming to dinner? Very good? I love this.
I love the way you guys know these things. Okay,
what half of one of America's most beloved comedy couples
(02:18):
attended Miami High.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
School Comedy Couples, Lucy?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Okay, all right, when he went to Miami High School?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Yes, Patrick's in Miami Beach Catholic School.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Well, Crampton have a Miami background too, Ralph Cramdon, he's
in the book.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Okay, I'll give you the answer. What is he? By
the way, he was phenomenal. He's one of the most
talented character actors. People don't appreciate how good an actor
it was. Yeah, here's a very interesting one. No clue
what world prominent preacher was baptized as a young man
(03:10):
in Silver Lake, west of Palatka, Florida.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Was it wasn't Billy Graham?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yes, it was very good.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Just this.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
He was just at the uh prayer breakfast this year
at the prayer breakfast.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
That's that's the sun.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
No, he was Billy Graham was there? I think?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Wasn't it?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
You had to be the son had to be this
time whatever you call it.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
So Billy, there's somebody else that's iconic like him?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Then?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Okay, I can't think of it.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Who is a co founder of Standard Oil? We knew
one of them already.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
It was the other one, you said, Flagler?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
That was one, and the other it's.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Karn isn't Carne, that's Steel Rockefeller?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Okay, yes, what famous inventor winterd in Fort Myers. I'll
make it easy, mean Edison? Correct? And who was his
friend living right next door Ford? Very good?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
That one, that's kind of iconic.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
He was the third of the triumvirt that lived in
the area. By the way, that's interesting in today's something
I read about they're they're calling musk unless he did
it himself that he's the modern day Thomas Citizen with
all his inventions.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Well his interesting not to get political, but his whole
mindset of bringing Tesla to the forefront goes back to
that the vehicle.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Okay, this is what famous gangster lived in Miami Beach
and on Palm Avenue in a near Miami Beach.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
It was al capone, very good, correct, I know, lot
of criminals.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Okay, I'm not touching that one. You didn't hear that, everybody?
What did black pioneer Mary McLear Bethune found in nineteen
oh four in that dilapidated cabin Dakona Beach?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah, yeah, the college? Right, Okay, this was number Uh,
we're going to go to number two, which is politics.
Oh no, advanced a couple of these already. Wow, that's interesting. Okay,
here's one that's unbelievable. Now we established their sixty seven
(05:36):
counties in Florida, right, yeah, Have any of Florida's sixty
seven counties been formed in this century? Nineteen hundreds? Yes?
How many of the sixty seven?
Speaker 4 (05:47):
About twenty right on the buttons, a right.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
On the Wow, that's amazing. Now that's between nineteen eleven
and nine twenty five, and you're truly via Beech and
there's a Saint Clucie County county, but.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
It's just Mosquito County at one point, right.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Really that that's amazing. That's interesting that you knew. That
really is amazing. Okay, what Gimmick did Laws and Childs
employee in nineteen seventy while running for the US Senate.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Gimmick, I don't know his gimmick.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
He was from Florida.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Isn't he walk in Lawton? He walked the whole state
of Florida. That got him into the Senate and then
he retired and went back and elected governor. Uh, I'm skippy.
I'm going from the book.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Uh does Florida have a state motto? Does it have
anything like that?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
And I didn't see anything about that. No, Okay, I
know everybody knows. I what is the occupation of sixteen
of the twenty two governors elected in nineteen hundreds as
governors of Florida?
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Usually lawyers?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Lawyers. Here's interesting, though, the son of what former president
was mayor of Miami Beach in the nineteen sixties. I
had no.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Clue who is it? Son in law?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
The son of a former president.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Son of a former president was a mayor in the Fortes.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
In the nineteen sixtiest Elliott Roosevelt, son of Franklin. Oh,
I don't know that. Where did President John F. Kennedy
spend the last Sunday of his life? Sorry?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
People, but Palm Beach?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Very good?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Yeah? Family, you had a place down there?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Wow? Very good? Okay, that was number two. So we
did number three. So where's number four? Here's number I
don't know where number four. Where'd you go number four?
Number four? Is business them to know we did number four.
So if I did two and three and four and five.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Go to seven.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Okay, we'll go to seven. Seven Is that's history.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I don't know that we throw threw it out?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
What cargo did the providentia spill when it's direct on
what is now Palm Beach? Palm Beach? What did it
have on the cargo?
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Coconuts?
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Very good, coated to the shore people got them and
planted them. And that's how you got coconut palm trees
in Palm Beach.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Pop.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Yeah, okay, I have a question for you, and then
you could you might know that you might not. It's
a little bit different Okay, okay, so we have the
infamous boiler and now it's like the fourth of July,
swim to the boiler from the Braconshire, the wreck off
the coast right the wreck off the ocean grill or
the walls or what. So it's named the Breconshire, and
(09:02):
the boiler is the part that you can still see
most of the time at low tide. What was the
cargo on that ship when it run aground?
Speaker 4 (09:11):
I'm gonna say steal, I'll say gold. I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Potatoes, potatoes.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Everybody thinks it's like the Spanish Ignitts or something like that.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Yeah, okay. What famous military squadron commanded by a future
president assembled in Tampa for war at the end of
the nineteenth century meaning late late eighteen hundred.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Times Spanish American war time?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Okay? And what was the name of the squadron run
by what but to become a president?
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Run by Teddy Rose Roosevelt.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
The rough Riders, the rough Riders in Spanish American War.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Nice.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
And we just did a show about that, Yeah, we did,
And I will stand that. I still think that we Americans,
and it's buried with the main and in the archive,
we sunk the ship. It was our excuse, but we
also knew about Pearl Harbor, not realizing that severity of
the consequences. And leave all this with you. October twenty
(10:21):
twenty three, the Gazahamas attack. That is Israel's Pearl Harbor.
I will leave that hanging on you. Okay, Barefoot Mailman,
Now you guys remember what that is, right? Okay? What
route did the famed Barefoot Mailman follow to complete their
appointed rounds? Where did they run they?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Was it a one A or it was the beach?
Speaker 3 (10:47):
The beach, the beach the Barefoot Mailman. You've heard in
the eighteen sixties, the Pony Express, you know, the horses,
the rider get off one horse, get on another or
another writer with another words would take the mail badge
and keep going. Yeah, okay, well they did that before that, yeah,
with the Barefoot Mailman. And they were mainly Indian American
(11:10):
Native Indians.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Man, they found that they could run on the beach
without a lot of interference because the sand would support
their running all right, and they were able to run longer.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
That's a very interesting story.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
I think they ran from Jacksonville to Miami, or not Miami,
but supplace north of Miami. It's a beautif there's a
book about it. The Barefoot Mailman interesting, it's really yeah, yeah, okay,
this is this this.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Yeah, set one up and then we'll go on break.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
On May fifteenth, nineteen twenty two, twenty two, the Tampa
Times got Florida's first license to do what.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
The Tampa Times got the first license to do what
the cell produce alcohol?
Speaker 3 (11:56):
No, okay, the first radio station state of Florida.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
What's the call letters? Does it sack?
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Yes? W d AE am like William Dale Alpha epsilon.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Dae DA So with this dae, I have no club.
Look it up.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Nineteen twenty two. Yeah, okay, we're going to take a
break for the last one, the third break. Hey, we're
doing great, we really. I hope everybody appreciates that. We're
trying to add a little bit more mystery and fun.
How many of you out there knew some of the answers?
How many of you none? How many many answers? And
you know, it doesn't make you smarter or dumber. It's fun.
(12:40):
That's what you need to enjoy it with. And now,
but now you're smarter because of Cindy Jesse, Ralph and
Elliott Kleinberg, who wrote the book Florida on Facts in
nineteen ninety five. We'll be right back.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
I'm doctor tim Anitas, a Treasure Coast Dermatology, A Treasure
Coast Dermatology. We believe in the prevention and early detection
of skin cancer. We are medical doctors and we focus
on the medical aspects of dermatology. You don't need a
sales pitch for botox, collagen or wrinkle creams. You needed
a doctor that cares about you and the health of
your skin. We feel by not trying to do too much,
(13:16):
we can do more for our patients.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Call Tolfree eight seven seven eight seven zero dirm that's
eight seven seven eight seven zero three three seven six.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
Meet Norma Howell, patient of Florida I Institute. My sight
to me is top priority because you lose your sight,
you lose ology independence and so with me it was scary.
After meeting doctor Schuemate, I had a joy. I knew
I was going to be okay. My life is just
one hundred plus percent. Are you ready to experience truly
(13:50):
exceptional patient care Florida I Institute.
Speaker 7 (13:57):
Hey, did you hear the latest about our We're a
high Woman? No what there's a new high Woman art
gallery and Vero Beach. Really where eighteen seventy two Commerce
aven you Wow?
Speaker 3 (14:08):
When's it open?
Speaker 7 (14:09):
Seven days a week?
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Called nine five four five five seven six two two
six for an appointment any time, No kidding, Just call
for your appointment nine five four five five seven six
two two six and then go to eighteen seventy two
Commerce AVENU. Wow, that's good news.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
A member of the iText trading community. Your I text
dollars are.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Welcome and welcome back to our under the Swiss radio
showing Ralph Anthonoko Ralph, you're beating along the drum?
Speaker 3 (14:37):
What's there? What's the beat? What's the expression on that?
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Dance to a beat of a different drum?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Right? Well then you know that's right, but talk about
the different drum. Florida I Institute one of our sponsors. Yeah,
is so good? Yep that if you followed the commercial,
did he give you their phone number? And I've mentioned
the two of them says that we got enough. The
more referrals were so good, and you know, humbly speaking,
(15:04):
is so good that they're more most of the business
to get the referrals. And you know that's I know
my business with the collectibles. More than half my business
is referrals.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Yeah, word of mouth.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Yeah, like, so we do something right about doing it.
For sixty five years, Florida I Institute the phone number,
and you can't forget it, seven seven two, of course
to that local five hundred. That's batting half half right,
one eye, one eye twenty twenty. So remember five hundred
twenty twenty seven seven to two, five hundred twenty twenty
(15:36):
half half the two eyes twenty twenty for perfect vision,
which is what the Florida I Institute will try to
help you. Okay, Sports sports, current professional sports teams, Okay,
name the baseball team, all.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Right, in Florida. You've got the Tampa Bay Rays and
the Florida and the Miami Marlins.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Actually it's Florida Marlins, isn't it. They're knocked to Miami.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Yeah, and they moved to Miami.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Hockey, Oh, the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Florida Panthers
two times Stanley cullge, Yeah, Orlando Magic, Miami Heat.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Okay, football, I'm getting to the last one that's going
to be the tough one. Okay, football, all right?
Speaker 4 (16:21):
You got the Miami Dolphins, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and Jacksonville
Jaguars and soccer team soccer.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
You should know that.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
I know it. Intero, Miami, right right, that's uh. And
then Orlando City very good.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Wait a minute, did we miss one the Magic Orlanto.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
That's basketball?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Basketball? We said that, Yeah, yeah, I did.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Okay, okay, what basketball? What baseball legend reportedly hit a
record breaking over run in Tampa in nineteen nineteen.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Nineteen nineteen baseball, baseball end, you got it, Tampa the
baby roof. Yeah, it must have been a spring training game,
pre season.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Yeah, five hundred and eighty seven feet. Wow, I think
that thing's still going. I remember Forth Lauderdale where we
lived in Broward. We went to one of the games
in the Fort Lauderdale of the Yankee preseason.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
And I'm sitting my wife and I met my three kids,
sitting about the fourth and fifth row left field of
literally between Hope plate and third base, and Reggie Jackson's
up for the Yankees. He hits a liner turns out
to be foul the third basement and you have to
(17:51):
you have to look at what I'm doing. The third
basement did a forty five degree and all you heard was.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Like a woosh.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Now that's left field.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Right.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
The very next pitch, Reggie Jackson hit the ball over
right field, over the field in the stadium, and we
walked out of there thinking, how long will the peep
before it comes down?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
It's still still going.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
That's an easy one. What's the nickname of Florida's spring
training operations for Major League Baseball teams?
Speaker 7 (18:27):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (18:27):
The Grapefruit Leaders?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Good, Yeah, this is very interesting. I bet most people
don't know this, but it's true. What military leader who
chased the seminoles in the Everglades in eighteen fifty seven
would later gain fame for creating a sport with a
big Florida connection. Who was it and what sport.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
It Wasn't Andrew Jackson, No, General Abner Doubleday.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Okay, yeah, he had the game. There's still questions about it.
But the game was around them, And if I'm not mistaken,
wasn't it at Doubleday? Also in the Civil War?
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Do you remember, I don't know, I don't remember.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
That, Okay, uh, sports, I don't want to give some.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Yeah, doua general. Yeah, I learned something new every day.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
What what's Florida's largest major football stadium? This is nineteen
ninety five, so I can't say it still holds through. Okay,
in nineteen ninety five, what field and what city? Yeah,
I had the biggest football stadium, Gator Bawl. Right, yeah,
very good?
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:49):
And what was the runner up? And by the way,
it wasn't called the Gator Bowl. And you know why
it wasn't called the Gator Bowl. The Gator Bowl is
in Jacksonville. The Gator Bowl is now renamed the Gator Bowl.
Is where UF played Georgia IVY here right for a
long time. Yeah, so the names are inconsequential. But whoever,
(20:12):
you're right that it was in Gainesville.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
So the game, yeah, Florida Field and yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Okay, oh that's funny. What annual sporting event in Jacksonsville.
Gator Bowl has been dubbed the world's largest outdoor cocktail party.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Yeah, the Florida Georgia Gaming Yeah what now?
Speaker 3 (20:28):
This is? This is everybody, you gotta know this, This
is honest, This is really reality. What National sports drink
was invented at the University of Florida Gatorade for the
for the dehydration problem for their athletes. Right, Okay, what
did the Miami Dolphins do on January fourteenth, my birthday,
(20:51):
nineteen seventy three. Yep, that no NFL football team has
ever done before or since.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
They completed their perfect season?
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Correct, Yeah, they won the Super Bowl. So instead of
being seventy two zip, I mean seventeen zip to no
sixties zip, went to seventeen zip. The Super Bowl was
the last. It was sixteen zero and there was seventeen zero. Right,
so yeah, yeah, unbelievable. Okay, January twelfth, By the way,
(21:22):
you got to listen to the question, because the answers
are there. January twelve, nineteen sixty nine, at Miami's Orange
Bowl long gone unfortunately, three days after saying I'll guarantee it. Yeah,
an athlete did what he promised and forever changed the
face of his sport. Who was he and what did
(21:43):
he do?
Speaker 4 (21:45):
What was it guaranteed? He'd won the Super Bowl with
the Jets. He did it, He stepped down, He did it.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
That was nineteen sixty nine. I lost ten dollars because
I was in New York.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
You weren't illegally betting were you're.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
As no way anybody gonna beat Uniteds. Yeah, i'll give
you ten one odds. Ye, sure, I'll show you, Joe,
thank got it. Look the best ten dollars I ever lost,
never been on anything again.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
If you're not sure, don't bet, and if you are sure, don't. Okay,
here's a cute one. Where do you find Golf's blue monster?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Oh, Golf's blue Monster.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
I'll give you a hand, yes, with President Trump? Okay,
not because of it?
Speaker 4 (22:37):
All right?
Speaker 3 (22:39):
George cuts the Club Miami. Very interesting. Sarasota claims to
be the American birthplace of what's sport?
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Sarasota is the American birthplace of what's what's sport?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Tennis?
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Highlight?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Both of you wrong? I thought horse racing, no golf? Okay, unbelievable. Yeah,
just Sindy. You guys did super Thank you so much.
I enjoyed doing it, and I hope that you're doing everybody.
Someday we'll do something else similar. If you have any
ideas as to what kind of games we can play
like this every so often, let me know, and of
(23:19):
course I'll listen to you. But at this point I
want to thank the High Women Gallery and located eighteen
seventy two Commerce Avenue, open on Saturdays from ten to three,
available seven days a week, called nine five four five
five seven six two two six, and we'll share. We'll
(23:40):
show you the greatest, the largest inventory of High Women
paintings and landscape paintings in Florida.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Lots of beautiful artwork there.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Thank you, Thank you. You said it just like I've
wrote it for you, man and everybody. Thank you for
being there with us.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Michael Mickey, Herron, Coast Guard Reserves.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
With Cilia Otis Cullum, Army.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Coorea, Milo James Miller, Army.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Robert Lewis Thompson, Army Corea.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Michael William Scottie, first responder in.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
All of our and your fallen heroes, our brothers and sisters.
Thank you, Thank you for your service, Thank you for
devotion to our country in the world. We'll probably salute you.
Rest in peace forever.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Yeah II BI
And welcome back to our veteran's worst radio showing, Ralph Nathan.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Alcome, it's about Florida. Let's done.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Yes, it is, this is this is Florida. We're talking
about the three fs of Florida, Florida. Fun facts. I
left with the question, what international headquarters for a Hamburger
chain is still located in southern Day County. Yes, yeah,
what Hamberger joint?
Speaker 4 (00:29):
That's gonna be Burger Camp started in Miami.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Very good? All right, this is one that would be
shocked if you knew. I knew it only because I
drove there at the season. All right, What tasty fruit
is the subject of a festival every year in Plant City?
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Plant City famous for their strawberries.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
There go, Yeah, you're great.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
I was gonna say mangos, but then plant strawberries. Good.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Okay, I think we're going to go to now number three?
All right, people, all right, people, Okay, who wrote you know,
everybody knows this. Everybody who wrote drank fish and lived
the tropical lifestyle at his home in Key West?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Say it again.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
What famous author wrote drank fished and lived in Key West.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
That's Ernest Hemingway. Very good, yeah, yes, And he's still
got the cats relatives stuff cats.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah, six cats there supposedly the Vera Beach Book Center,
they had a cat that was called what was his name?
He was supposedly one of the Hemingway cats, but his
name was Hemingway.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I want to say I was in HEMI.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Okay, some of these are there's so many artists. Wise
the museum to what eclectic mastachioed modern painter is in
Saint Pete is it?
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Yeah, that's a great museum.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Very good. Uh, what black actor raised in Miami made
film history by coming to dinner? Very good? I love this.
I love the way you guys know these things. Okay,
what half of one of America's most beloved comedy couples
(02:18):
attended Miami High.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
School Comedy Couples, Lucy?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Okay, all right, when he went to Miami High School?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Yes, Patrick's in Miami Beach Catholic School.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Well, Crampton have a Miami background too, Ralph Cramdon, he's
in the book.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Okay, I'll give you the answer. What is he? By
the way, he was phenomenal. He's one of the most
talented character actors. People don't appreciate how good an actor
it was. Yeah, here's a very interesting one. No clue
what world prominent preacher was baptized as a young man
(03:10):
in Silver Lake, west of Palatka, Florida.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Was it wasn't Billy Graham?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yes, it was very good.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Just this.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
He was just at the uh prayer breakfast this year
at the prayer breakfast.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
That's that's the sun.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
No, he was Billy Graham was there? I think?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Wasn't it?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
You had to be the son had to be this
time whatever you call it.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
So Billy, there's somebody else that's iconic like him?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Then?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Okay, I can't think of it.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Who is a co founder of Standard Oil? We knew
one of them already.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
It was the other one, you said, Flagler?
Speaker 3 (03:47):
That was one, and the other it's.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Karn isn't Carne, that's Steel Rockefeller?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Okay, yes, what famous inventor winterd in Fort Myers. I'll
make it easy, mean Edison? Correct? And who was his
friend living right next door Ford? Very good?
Speaker 2 (04:10):
That one, that's kind of iconic.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
He was the third of the triumvirt that lived in
the area. By the way, that's interesting in today's something
I read about they're they're calling musk unless he did
it himself that he's the modern day Thomas Citizen with
all his inventions.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Well his interesting not to get political, but his whole
mindset of bringing Tesla to the forefront goes back to
that the vehicle.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Okay, this is what famous gangster lived in Miami Beach
and on Palm Avenue in a near Miami Beach.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
It was al capone, very good, correct, I know, lot
of criminals.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Okay, I'm not touching that one. You didn't hear that, everybody?
What did black pioneer Mary McLear Bethune found in nineteen
oh four in that dilapidated cabin Dakona Beach?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah, yeah, the college? Right, Okay, this was number Uh,
we're going to go to number two, which is politics.
Oh no, advanced a couple of these already. Wow, that's interesting. Okay,
here's one that's unbelievable. Now we established their sixty seven
(05:36):
counties in Florida, right, yeah, Have any of Florida's sixty
seven counties been formed in this century? Nineteen hundreds? Yes?
How many of the sixty seven?
Speaker 4 (05:47):
About twenty right on the buttons, a right.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
On the Wow, that's amazing. Now that's between nineteen eleven
and nine twenty five, and you're truly via Beech and
there's a Saint Clucie County county, but.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
It's just Mosquito County at one point, right.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Really that that's amazing. That's interesting that you knew. That
really is amazing. Okay, what Gimmick did Laws and Childs
employee in nineteen seventy while running for the US Senate.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Gimmick, I don't know his gimmick.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
He was from Florida.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Isn't he walk in Lawton? He walked the whole state
of Florida. That got him into the Senate and then
he retired and went back and elected governor. Uh, I'm skippy.
I'm going from the book.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Uh does Florida have a state motto? Does it have
anything like that?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
And I didn't see anything about that. No, Okay, I
know everybody knows. I what is the occupation of sixteen
of the twenty two governors elected in nineteen hundreds as
governors of Florida?
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Usually lawyers?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Lawyers. Here's interesting, though, the son of what former president
was mayor of Miami Beach in the nineteen sixties. I
had no.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Clue who is it? Son in law?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
The son of a former president.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Son of a former president was a mayor in the Fortes.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
In the nineteen sixtiest Elliott Roosevelt, son of Franklin. Oh,
I don't know that. Where did President John F. Kennedy
spend the last Sunday of his life? Sorry?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
People, but Palm Beach?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Very good?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Yeah? Family, you had a place down there?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Wow? Very good? Okay, that was number two. So we
did number three. So where's number four? Here's number I
don't know where number four. Where'd you go number four?
Number four? Is business them to know we did number four.
So if I did two and three and four and five.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Go to seven.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Okay, we'll go to seven. Seven Is that's history.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I don't know that we throw threw it out?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
What cargo did the providentia spill when it's direct on
what is now Palm Beach? Palm Beach? What did it
have on the cargo?
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Coconuts?
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Very good, coated to the shore people got them and
planted them. And that's how you got coconut palm trees
in Palm Beach.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Pop.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Yeah, okay, I have a question for you, and then
you could you might know that you might not. It's
a little bit different Okay, okay, so we have the
infamous boiler and now it's like the fourth of July,
swim to the boiler from the Braconshire, the wreck off
the coast right the wreck off the ocean grill or
the walls or what. So it's named the Breconshire, and
(09:02):
the boiler is the part that you can still see
most of the time at low tide. What was the
cargo on that ship when it run aground?
Speaker 4 (09:11):
I'm gonna say steal, I'll say gold. I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Potatoes, potatoes.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Everybody thinks it's like the Spanish Ignitts or something like that.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Yeah, okay. What famous military squadron commanded by a future
president assembled in Tampa for war at the end of
the nineteenth century meaning late late eighteen hundred.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Times Spanish American war time?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Okay? And what was the name of the squadron run
by what but to become a president?
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Run by Teddy Rose Roosevelt.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
The rough Riders, the rough Riders in Spanish American War.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Nice.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
And we just did a show about that, Yeah, we did,
And I will stand that. I still think that we Americans,
and it's buried with the main and in the archive,
we sunk the ship. It was our excuse, but we
also knew about Pearl Harbor, not realizing that severity of
the consequences. And leave all this with you. October twenty
(10:21):
twenty three, the Gazahamas attack. That is Israel's Pearl Harbor.
I will leave that hanging on you. Okay, Barefoot Mailman,
Now you guys remember what that is, right? Okay? What
route did the famed Barefoot Mailman follow to complete their
appointed rounds? Where did they run they?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Was it a one A or it was the beach?
Speaker 3 (10:47):
The beach, the beach the Barefoot Mailman. You've heard in
the eighteen sixties, the Pony Express, you know, the horses,
the rider get off one horse, get on another or
another writer with another words would take the mail badge
and keep going. Yeah, okay, well they did that before that, yeah,
with the Barefoot Mailman. And they were mainly Indian American
(11:10):
Native Indians.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Man, they found that they could run on the beach
without a lot of interference because the sand would support
their running all right, and they were able to run longer.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
That's a very interesting story.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
I think they ran from Jacksonville to Miami, or not Miami,
but supplace north of Miami. It's a beautif there's a
book about it. The Barefoot Mailman interesting, it's really yeah, yeah, okay,
this is this this.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Yeah, set one up and then we'll go on break.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
On May fifteenth, nineteen twenty two, twenty two, the Tampa
Times got Florida's first license to do what.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
The Tampa Times got the first license to do what
the cell produce alcohol?
Speaker 3 (11:56):
No, okay, the first radio station state of Florida.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
What's the call letters? Does it sack?
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Yes? W d AE am like William Dale Alpha epsilon.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Dae DA So with this dae, I have no club.
Look it up.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Nineteen twenty two. Yeah, okay, we're going to take a
break for the last one, the third break. Hey, we're
doing great, we really. I hope everybody appreciates that. We're
trying to add a little bit more mystery and fun.
How many of you out there knew some of the answers?
How many of you none? How many many answers? And
you know, it doesn't make you smarter or dumber. It's fun.
(12:40):
That's what you need to enjoy it with. And now,
but now you're smarter because of Cindy Jesse, Ralph and
Elliott Kleinberg, who wrote the book Florida on Facts in
nineteen ninety five. We'll be right back.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
I'm doctor tim Anitas, a Treasure Coast Dermatology, A Treasure
Coast Dermatology. We believe in the prevention and early detection
of skin cancer. We are medical doctors and we focus
on the medical aspects of dermatology. You don't need a
sales pitch for botox, collagen or wrinkle creams. You needed
a doctor that cares about you and the health of
your skin. We feel by not trying to do too much,
(13:16):
we can do more for our patients.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Call Tolfree eight seven seven eight seven zero dirm that's
eight seven seven eight seven zero three three seven six.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
Meet Norma Howell, patient of Florida I Institute. My sight
to me is top priority because you lose your sight,
you lose ology independence and so with me it was scary.
After meeting doctor Schuemate, I had a joy. I knew
I was going to be okay. My life is just
one hundred plus percent. Are you ready to experience truly
(13:50):
exceptional patient care Florida I Institute.
Speaker 7 (13:57):
Hey, did you hear the latest about our We're a
high Woman? No what there's a new high Woman art
gallery and Vero Beach. Really where eighteen seventy two Commerce
aven you Wow?
Speaker 3 (14:08):
When's it open?
Speaker 7 (14:09):
Seven days a week?
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Called nine five four five five seven six two two
six for an appointment any time, No kidding, Just call
for your appointment nine five four five five seven six
two two six and then go to eighteen seventy two
Commerce AVENU. Wow, that's good news.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
A member of the iText trading community. Your I text
dollars are.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Welcome and welcome back to our under the Swiss radio
showing Ralph Anthonoko Ralph, you're beating along the drum?
Speaker 3 (14:37):
What's there? What's the beat? What's the expression on that?
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Dance to a beat of a different drum?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Right? Well then you know that's right, but talk about
the different drum. Florida I Institute one of our sponsors. Yeah,
is so good? Yep that if you followed the commercial,
did he give you their phone number? And I've mentioned
the two of them says that we got enough. The
more referrals were so good, and you know, humbly speaking,
(15:04):
is so good that they're more most of the business
to get the referrals. And you know that's I know
my business with the collectibles. More than half my business
is referrals.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Yeah, word of mouth.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Yeah, like, so we do something right about doing it.
For sixty five years, Florida I Institute the phone number,
and you can't forget it, seven seven two, of course
to that local five hundred. That's batting half half right,
one eye, one eye twenty twenty. So remember five hundred
twenty twenty seven seven to two, five hundred twenty twenty
(15:36):
half half the two eyes twenty twenty for perfect vision,
which is what the Florida I Institute will try to
help you. Okay, Sports sports, current professional sports teams, Okay,
name the baseball team, all.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Right, in Florida. You've got the Tampa Bay Rays and
the Florida and the Miami Marlins.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Actually it's Florida Marlins, isn't it. They're knocked to Miami.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Yeah, and they moved to Miami.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Hockey, Oh, the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Florida Panthers
two times Stanley cullge, Yeah, Orlando Magic, Miami Heat.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Okay, football, I'm getting to the last one that's going
to be the tough one. Okay, football, all right?
Speaker 4 (16:21):
You got the Miami Dolphins, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and Jacksonville
Jaguars and soccer team soccer.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
You should know that.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
I know it. Intero, Miami, right right, that's uh. And
then Orlando City very good.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Wait a minute, did we miss one the Magic Orlanto.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
That's basketball?
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Basketball? We said that, Yeah, yeah, I did.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Okay, okay, what basketball? What baseball legend reportedly hit a
record breaking over run in Tampa in nineteen nineteen.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Nineteen nineteen baseball, baseball end, you got it, Tampa the
baby roof. Yeah, it must have been a spring training game,
pre season.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Yeah, five hundred and eighty seven feet. Wow, I think
that thing's still going. I remember Forth Lauderdale where we
lived in Broward. We went to one of the games
in the Fort Lauderdale of the Yankee preseason.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
And I'm sitting my wife and I met my three kids,
sitting about the fourth and fifth row left field of
literally between Hope plate and third base, and Reggie Jackson's
up for the Yankees. He hits a liner turns out
to be foul the third basement and you have to
(17:51):
you have to look at what I'm doing. The third
basement did a forty five degree and all you heard was.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Like a woosh.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Now that's left field.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
Right.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
The very next pitch, Reggie Jackson hit the ball over
right field, over the field in the stadium, and we
walked out of there thinking, how long will the peep
before it comes down?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
It's still still going.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
That's an easy one. What's the nickname of Florida's spring
training operations for Major League Baseball teams?
Speaker 7 (18:27):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (18:27):
The Grapefruit Leaders?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Good, Yeah, this is very interesting. I bet most people
don't know this, but it's true. What military leader who
chased the seminoles in the Everglades in eighteen fifty seven
would later gain fame for creating a sport with a
big Florida connection. Who was it and what sport.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
It Wasn't Andrew Jackson, No, General Abner Doubleday.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Okay, yeah, he had the game. There's still questions about it.
But the game was around them, And if I'm not mistaken,
wasn't it at Doubleday? Also in the Civil War?
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Do you remember, I don't know, I don't remember.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
That, Okay, uh, sports, I don't want to give some.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Yeah, doua general. Yeah, I learned something new every day.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
What what's Florida's largest major football stadium? This is nineteen
ninety five, so I can't say it still holds through. Okay,
in nineteen ninety five, what field and what city? Yeah,
I had the biggest football stadium, Gator Bawl. Right, yeah,
very good?
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:49):
And what was the runner up? And by the way,
it wasn't called the Gator Bowl. And you know why
it wasn't called the Gator Bowl. The Gator Bowl is
in Jacksonville. The Gator Bowl is now renamed the Gator Bowl.
Is where UF played Georgia IVY here right for a
long time. Yeah, so the names are inconsequential. But whoever,
(20:12):
you're right that it was in Gainesville.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
So the game, yeah, Florida Field and yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Okay, oh that's funny. What annual sporting event in Jacksonsville.
Gator Bowl has been dubbed the world's largest outdoor cocktail party.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Yeah, the Florida Georgia Gaming Yeah what now?
Speaker 3 (20:28):
This is? This is everybody, you gotta know this, This
is honest, This is really reality. What National sports drink
was invented at the University of Florida Gatorade for the
for the dehydration problem for their athletes. Right, Okay, what
did the Miami Dolphins do on January fourteenth, my birthday,
(20:51):
nineteen seventy three. Yep, that no NFL football team has
ever done before or since.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
They completed their perfect season?
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Correct, Yeah, they won the Super Bowl. So instead of
being seventy two zip, I mean seventeen zip to no
sixties zip, went to seventeen zip. The Super Bowl was
the last. It was sixteen zero and there was seventeen zero. Right,
so yeah, yeah, unbelievable. Okay, January twelfth, By the way,
(21:22):
you got to listen to the question, because the answers
are there. January twelve, nineteen sixty nine, at Miami's Orange
Bowl long gone unfortunately, three days after saying I'll guarantee it. Yeah,
an athlete did what he promised and forever changed the
face of his sport. Who was he and what did
(21:43):
he do?
Speaker 4 (21:45):
What was it guaranteed? He'd won the Super Bowl with
the Jets. He did it, He stepped down, He did it.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
That was nineteen sixty nine. I lost ten dollars because
I was in New York.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
You weren't illegally betting were you're.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
As no way anybody gonna beat Uniteds. Yeah, i'll give
you ten one odds. Ye, sure, I'll show you, Joe,
thank got it. Look the best ten dollars I ever lost,
never been on anything again.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
If you're not sure, don't bet, and if you are sure, don't. Okay,
here's a cute one. Where do you find Golf's blue monster?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Oh, Golf's blue Monster.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
I'll give you a hand, yes, with President Trump? Okay,
not because of it?
Speaker 4 (22:37):
All right?
Speaker 3 (22:39):
George cuts the Club Miami. Very interesting. Sarasota claims to
be the American birthplace of what's sport?
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Sarasota is the American birthplace of what's what's sport?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Tennis?
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Highlight?
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Both of you wrong? I thought horse racing, no golf? Okay, unbelievable. Yeah,
just Sindy. You guys did super Thank you so much.
I enjoyed doing it, and I hope that you're doing everybody.
Someday we'll do something else similar. If you have any
ideas as to what kind of games we can play
like this every so often, let me know, and of
(23:19):
course I'll listen to you. But at this point I
want to thank the High Women Gallery and located eighteen
seventy two Commerce Avenue, open on Saturdays from ten to three,
available seven days a week, called nine five four five
five seven six two two six, and we'll share. We'll
(23:40):
show you the greatest, the largest inventory of High Women
paintings and landscape paintings in Florida.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Lots of beautiful artwork there.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Thank you, Thank you. You said it just like I've
wrote it for you, man and everybody. Thank you for
being there with us.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Michael Mickey, Herron, Coast Guard Reserves.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
With Cilia Otis Cullum, Army.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Coorea, Milo James Miller, Army.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Robert Lewis Thompson, Army Corea.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Michael William Scottie, first responder in.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
All of our and your fallen heroes, our brothers and sisters.
Thank you, Thank you for your service, Thank you for
devotion to our country in the world. We'll probably salute you.
Rest in peace forever.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Yeah II BI
Popular Podcasts
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.