Dec 11-Indiana BDAY, Big Mama Thornton, Bread, Brenda Lee, Jackson 5, Motley Crue, Mo'Nique, Hailee Steinfeld

0:19 Welcome to history and fast. Joy's about today. I am Jeff. Today's December the eleventh. I love the mountains. I love the rolling house, I love the flowers, I love the dafa toils. I love the fireside when the lights are low. Boom diada boo diada boomdada boodiada. Today is International Mountain Day. Probably means more out here in Colorado than a lot of places. Twenty five percent of all the land on earth is basically mountains are mountainous. That makes sense to celebrate mountains to hitt the beginning of ski season. Now, mountains, they are awesome. You can drive through them and just hang out and enjoy the pretty sceoning. But you really experienced mountains, Yeah, you really need to get into them. Do some hiking, fish and skin climbing, mountain bikes, anything like that. Now, if you don't live near a mountains, yeah, today'd be a good excuse to planning a trip for the summer. Okay, this is going on entertainment. On December the eleventh that year, two thousand and eight, then one album was I Am Sasha Ferris by Beyonce, t I and Rana had the number one song with Live Your Life You Save, Zach Brown Band the number one country song with Chicken Fried.

1:49 And a little Bit of Chicken, Don't bere on Friday Night, A parans A Fit Just Right and the Radio I'm. A Lot of Sea, Some. See Love, Mamama's. Precious Child, and olm Vesna. The number one book was Cross Country by James Patterson. Top movie was The Day the Earth Stood Still. That was a remake of the nineteen fifty one classic movie where an alien and a giant robot come to Earth. Charles Canna raised, Jennifer Conley and Kathy Bates, all Right, what happened on Thember the eleventh? Happy Birthday Indiana Today?

2:53 In eighteen sixty in Indiana began the nineteenth state Indiana. It means land of Indians. It refers to the land that was here a botter taken from local Indian tribes. Capital is Indianapolis, which means Indian Nation. Highest point is Hoosier Hill at one and fifty seven feet Indiana. It's the thirty eighth largest state by area in the seventeenth largest by population Indiana. State bird is the cardinal flower, is a paeony tree, is a tulip, tree insect is the saves firefly. Indiana state food popcorn makes sense, or if a Redenbaker was born there and Indiana produces the most popcorn of any state. Some other people born in Indiana or Michael and the rest of the Jacksons, James Dean, Larry Bird, Colonel Sanders, David Letterman, Axel Rose, John mellencap Bank, Robber, Don Gillinger. It's just some of the people born in the Hoosier State. So what exactly is a Hoosier? Well, the official definition of a Hoosier is a countryfied person who is usually from Indiana. At least they're proud of it.

3:54 In nineteen oh five and Rivedvilla, Argentina temperature got up to one hundred and twenty degrees, still the hottest tim which were ever recorded in South America. Nineteen forty one, four days after Pearl Harbor Germany and Italy, they declared war on the United States to show support for Japan. Now Poland, God bless them. The western half of Poland was occupied by Germany. The eastern half of Poland was occupied by the Soviet Union Polish government they were hiding in exile. Poland declared war on Japan to show support for the United States. Kind of cute. All right, you Libertarians out there, you can party are today. Nineteen seventy one, The Libertarian Party was found in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Nineteen eighty three. John Paul the Second the first pope ever going to a Lutheran church, and it was in Rome.

4:37 Two thousand and nine, in the finished video game Angry Birds was released. The birds were probably angry because it's so cold up in Finland. Twenty fourteen. Doctors in Cape Town, South Africa, they performed the first penis transplant. So if you use that on your wife, would she be cheating on you? Twenty fifteen, Playboy magazine published their last issue with nude photos in it. Now, luckily she wasn't in it, but she Pam Maddelerson. Yeah, she was on the cover. Joke dopp joked joke, sharg dish Shiverthdayle's gonna pause he left this shiverthday. We gonna simple targe. Let this shibirthday. And you know we don't do that's. Her birthday, all right?

5:17 Check out who's born nine to seventy eleventh. Now this is how Elvis was supposed to sing it few She was Big Mama Thornton born in Ayrton, Alabama. In nineteen twenty six, she wrote that song hound Dog and went to number one for seven weeks on the R and B charts. Back in nineteen fifty three, she also wrote the song Ball and Chain that Janice Joplin turned into a big hits. Sadly, like a lot of black artists in the singer or in the nineteen fifties, Yeah, big mom, and she never received the money she should. She toured, did clubs and festivals. Now she was a major alcoholic.

6:09 Then all of a sudden, she just started losing weight, lost it really fast. She went four hundred and fifty pounds down in ninety five pounds. Yeah, heart and liver failure. She died nineteen eighty four. A fifty seven years old actress, dancer, singer, Rita Marino. She's ninety four. She was born at Hugh Macaw, Puerto Rico. In nineteen thirty one, moved to New York City when she has five. Rita she was the first woman to win the Egot Yeah, the Entertainment Grand Slam. She got two Emmys one Grammy. She won her Oscar for West Side Star and she wanted tony twenty one people have won the egot Rita. She has retired. She said she'll work if she was needed. She married nineteen sixty five. Her husband died in twenty ten and they had one daughter. Loves Fools Too ifty.

6:53 Dream won this two. I won't Make It with You. That was Dan Gates singing for the band Brett. He's eighty five. He's born in Tulsi, Oklahoma. In nineteen forty he had small success as a solo artists, and he helped form Bread in nineteen sixty eight. Now he did most of the singing, but Jimmy Griffith did do some of the singing. Some brad hitswear make it with you? It doesn't matter to me, baby, I'm gonna want to broke up in nineteen seventy eight, David he dan't movie soundtracks after that, retired in two thousand and seven. Now, all those years he was out touring with Bread. Back in the day, David used that time to study cattle ranching.

7:34 Then when Bread broke up, meh I bought a fourteen nine Daco count ranch out in Washington State, him and his wife. They love being retired and living on their cattle ranch. They got married nineteen fifty nine. I had four children. Three of the kids are lawyers and ones that cardiothoracic surgeon. He lucking around Christmas Street and Plicious Mammary House. Please away, you can't see he's a foot for chart. Mister stuff locking r Christmas. Tree, last chastleas late. Brinda Lee recorded that when she was thirteen years old. Now it went to number one just two years ago. For the first time. She was seventy nine, so that means she's eighty one today. She's born in Atlanta in nineteen forty four. Her father died when she was eight and by the time she was ten and she was a portant. Whole family bite her singing. The nineteen sixties, she had forty seven hit songs. That ranks her fourth for the most hit songs in the nineteen sixties. She's behind Elvis, the Beatles and Ray Charles. Sold over on a million records. Some of her non Christmas hits are I'm Sorry, I want to be wanted. That's all you gotta do now. Our little nickname is little Miss Dynamite. Yeah, she stands four feet nine, Branda. She married Ronnie in nineteen sixty three and they have two daughters. Branda's in That Rock and Roll Country and Rockabillya. Hall of Fames actress Terry Garr. She was born in Los Angeles in nineteen forty four. Now she danced in five of what Elvis movies. But her speaking girl was in a monkey movie called the You Know the Monkeys. Yeah, it was called the Head First got none though in the movie

9:05 Young Frankenstein. Then Close Encounters the third time, her third kind Mister Mom. Now, she was nominated for an oscar for TUTSI. Now she went on David Lederman thirty two times. That's most of any guests that he had on Now. She kept it really hidden, the really private that she had multiple sclerosis. Yeah. I was a secret for a long time. But when she couldn't hide it anymore, Yeah, she had to retire in twenty eleven. She's not diagnosed with the mess. In nineteen eighty two, while she was filming the movie Tootsy. She married once for three years and they had a daughter. Terry died from her MS last year, seventy nine years old. I know what you're thinking, and you're wrong. That was actually Jermaine Jackson. Yeah, him and Michael sang on the song I'll Be There. Jermaine seventy one. He's born in Garyan, Dana in nineteen fifty four.

10:05 He is the fourth oldest of the Jackson's ten kids. Now they led Jermaine singing every once in a while just so Michael could take a break during the shows. Jamian, though he did release fourteen solo albums over the years, retired in twenty twenty two. He had three children from his first wife, two sons from a girlfriend, and she had two sons from his second wife. Then he married a third wife for twelve years. Nicki six. He wrote that song Kickstart in your Heart after he overdosed on drugs that he has the paddles to get his heart beat again. Nicki sixty seven today, he's born in San Jose, California, in nineteen fifty eight. For Motley Crue in nineteen eighty one.

10:59 Now he writes a there and plays bass guitar. Now, Madley, they're gonna be going out on tourga in the summer, and they start off in July sometime. Now. Nikki had three children from his first wife. He had a son from his second wife, married his fourth wife in twenty fourteen and they have a daughter. I'll get this Nicki. He has been cleaning sober for twenty four years, so that's pretty cool for Nicki. Comedian and actress Monique She was born in Woodlawn, Maryland, in nineteen sixty seven. Fifty eight year old. She's a very yeah, she's a huge stand up comedian. She first really got known though, as a member of the Queen's of Comedy if you remember that, and on TV she starred on The Parkers. She won an Oscar for the movie Precious Now. She did get Yeah, she should have won an Oscar for soul Playing. But next she had two sons from her first husband. She married her third husband in two thousand and six and they have two sons. Twenty nine year old actress Hailee Steinfeld was born in Tarzana, California, in nineteen ninety six.

11:50 It's a suburb of Ella Now, and Hailey was fourteen, she was nominated for an oscar was for The True Get. Then she started in Romeo and Juliet, some of the pitch perfect movies. She in Bumblelee, Bumblebee, and she voiced some of the Spider Verse movies. At least. She just married Buffalo Bill's quarterback Josh Allen on May thirty. First, all right, here, Court of the Day. It comes from writer and Rice, she wrote those vampire movies. She died it in twenty twenty one and eighty years old. She says, we are frightened of what makes us different. Well, thank you all for listening, and don't forget to follow us and who you listen to us on It makes it easy to find us and check out today's show description for links on how to get to us and some of the people that we talked about. All right, our country and the ground ready artists today. It comes from Liz out there in Georgia. She wants toy her royal Wade Kimes a song Missiletoe. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

12:38 Let's take a try down on the square. I heard saying I just might be the hey baby, but let's go. We'll find some missile who told you kiss me one, kiss me twice. It don't matter a lot of all of y'all nights. It's Christmas and you're with me. Water, you know, that's missing. So slide over here. I turn the radio on.

13:50 It's Christmas music. We can sing out along. We'll have a couple of jokes. I want to miss it too. Kiss me once, kiss me twice. It don't matter about Molly. On nine, it's dress, my seed and you go with me. Wad you know that's missing too,