Dec 21st-Short Girls, Kiefer Sutherland, Ray Romano, Samuel L. Jackson, Frank Zappa, Jane Fonda, Nick Gilder

0:10 Happy first day of winter everyone, and thank you for listening to history and fact dud it's about today. Today is December the twenty first. Short girls, long hand get me a time. Short girls, long hand make me want to lose my mind. Today is National Short Girl Appreciation Day. Short girls they're invented by the Chinese back in the Ming Dynasty. I have absolutely no idea where I'm supposed to go with this today, Now show short girls. They sure are cute, though, I'll give them that. I guess you can celebrate today by getting something down from them off of high shelf.

0:54 Go. Yeah, I'm kind of digging a hole here on it. Now, if you have a shorter lady in your life, you gonna take a break from the holidays and have fun celebrating her today. If your lady is tall, I guess she has to wait till Christmas. Now. It's not written in stone, but women around five two are under are considered short. Some famous ones are Brenda Lee, Ariana Grand Kylie Minot, Judy Garland, Paula Abdel, Christina Aguilera, Little Kim Avril, Levine, Melissa McCarthy, Stevie Nicks, Lady Gaga. Just some of that short women that we all love. Now, do you think this is a coincidence that today is also the first day of winter, which is the shortest day of the year. Okay, this is going on in entertainment. On December the twenty first, nineteen sixty seven was the year. The number one album was.

1:35 Pisces Aquarius, Capricorn and Jones limited by the Monkeys. Monkeys had the number one song with Daydream Believer. Cheer Bitch. Gill Anderson and Jan Howard had the number one country song for Loving You. I never really lived before before loving you, And for loving you, my faith is a little stronger for a world that could give you to me couldn't be as bad as it's made out to be.

2:26 The number one book was That Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron Todd. Movie was The Graduate, a recent college graduate, He's in love with an older woman and her daughter. Stars Dustin Hoffman and Bancroft and Catherine Russ. Okay, what happened on December of the twenty first a YMCA instructor named James Nasmith. He has given two weeks to create a new game. Now. The new game was to calm rowdy boys down needed to be played indoors and keep athletes in shape, and it couldn't be rough. Nate Smith he created basketball. He called it that because when he asked for two boxes of the Jane Ride two peach baskets. Now the first game is played today in eighteen ninety one in Springfield, Massachusetts. Now it had nine players on each side. The basket still had the bottoms on them, so when somebody made a basket, they had to get a ladder out and then go get the ball out, and everyone that kind.

3:14 They ended up poking a hole in the bottom of the basket, and that way they could just use a broom handle to pop the ball out. They used a soccer ball. Now you can only pass, yeah, dribbling. It won't be invented in basketball for ten more years. As in nineteen oh one eighteen ninety eight, in France, scientist Pierre and his wife Marie Curry discovered radium. Pierre he got off easy, see he got run over by a horse and carried six years later Ray though she had a long, agonizing death because of her exposure to radium. But you did win a Nobel. Prize, so I guess you know Class half Full. Nineteen oh nine in Berkeley, California, they created the first junior high school grade seventh through nine. Nineteen thirteen, the New York World newspaper printed the first crossword puzzle instant hit.

3:56 Nineteen seventy Elvis Presley, he met Richard Nixon in the White House. Now the photo of those two shaking hands in the Oval Office. It is the most requested photo from the entire National Archives. Nineteen eighty eight as pan Am flight one O three, it was flying over Lockerbie, Scotland. A bomb planted on the plane by a terrorist exploded. All two hundred and fifty nine passenger on crew were killed. Eleven people on the ground were killed from falling debris. Libya did it. Joe joke joke joke show Dish Shivers Day. Please don't pause. He left this shiverfday. We got simple cars. He let Thish shibirth day. And you you don't do that? Worth to you? Okay.

4:36 Let's see what's born on December the twenty first TV personality Phil down to you. He's born in Cleveland, Ohio, in nineteen thirty five. Before there was Oprah, there was Phil. He started his daytime talk show back in nineteen sixty seven. It was the first TV talk show to actually include the audience for participation and that kind of stuff. Now, Phil, he was really liberal and he just loved to get liberals and conservatives to really go at it. But he we would even take the conservative side if he thought I'd get everything more fired up. His show ended in nineteen ninety six after twenty six years, and it was seven thousand shows. They couldn't compete with Oprah Now. He married his first wife for seventeen years and they had five children. Then he married that girl, Marlo Thomas in nineteen eighty. Phil he just died a couple months ago in August, following a very long illness. He was eighty eight years old. Actress Jane Fonda. She's eighty seven. She was born in New York City in nineteen thirty seven.

5:26 Her dad was actor Henry Fonder. Her brother was actor Peter Fonda. She's won two Oscars for Cloute and Coming Home. She was nominated for Oscars for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Julia the China Syndrome on Golden Pond The Morning After Now. In the nineteen eighties, she was the exercise Queen videotapes they had actually just come out, and she was one of the first smart ones. She jumped right on that band logging. Everybody owned Jane Fonda exercise videos. Now, she had a daughter from her first husband. Three days after that divorce, she had to marry the second husband because she was already pregnant with his kid. They had a son and a daughter before they divorce. Then she married Ted Turner for ten years dead. Handling all the lights. The man's too low, and she said with the two watch up well, Hus's old. Don't you weak that yellow snow? Watch up well, Hussy's old.

6:20 Don't you weak that yellow snow. That was frank Zeppa. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in nineteen forty. He released sixty two albums while he was alive. Since he died, his trust has released another fifty seven albums Now. He married a second wife in nineteen sixty seven and they had four children. He's probably heard Moon Unit and to Weasel. Frankie died from prostate cancer nineteen ninety three and fifty two years old. Now, frank he was one playing the concert in Switzerland that caused the band Deep Purple would write that song Smoke on the Water. Yeah, it was during his show that someone fired off the flare gun that burned that whole damn thing down. Enough is enough. I haven't had it with these munkey fighting snakes on this Monday to Friday fight. Everybody's strapping in.

7:02 How about the open some freaking windows. Shakespearean actor Samuel L. Jackson is seventy six. He was born in Washington, d c. In nineteen forty eight. Grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Get this. He was almost forty years old before he made his movie debut. It was a really small part in the movie Coming to America. Since then, he's been in over one hundred and fifty movies, and those movies have made twenty seven billion dollars. That makes Samuel L. Jackson the highest grossing actor of all time. He was nominated for an Oscar for Pulp Fiction. He married nineteen eighty and they have one daughter. I don't know game from what has game?

7:54 That's Nick Gilder. He was born in London, England, in nineteen fifty one. He's seventy three today. Grew up in Vancouver, Canada. Start out sing a lid for the glam band Swingty Todde. They had the big hit Roxy Roller. Then in nineteen seventy seven Nick wet solo he has Hot Child in the City, Here Comes the Night You Really Rock Me? And in two thousand Nick and the rest of the guys on Swey Time they got back together. They still are. If you want to go see him and just go up to Canada. They only they don't come to the States very often. Actress James because Merrick. She's sixty nine. She was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in nineteen fifty five. She's most known. For playing the mom and the sitcom Malcolm in the Middle. Some of her movies are Falling in Love, The Heavenly Kid, Vice versa. She was married for seventeen years and they had three children. You think.

8:40 Falling game. Country singer Leroy Parnell. He was born in. Abilene, Texas, in nineteen fifty six. Sixty eight year old got his first record deal in nineteen eighty nine, and he had a lot of success in the nineteen nineties. Some OF's biggest hits are what kind of fool do you think? I am? Tender Molent, I'm holding my own little Bit of You. Leeright married nineteen ninety. Actor comedian Ray Romelino. He's sixty seven. He's born in Queens, New York in nineteen fifty seven. Ray started out as a sixth seven successful stand up comedian.

9:21 Well he still is. I think he usually just plays Vegas though, but he does do a stand up act still, and he got his own TV show, Everybody Loves Raymond. After that he did a Parenthood and then gets Shorty. He's voiced Manny in all the Ice Age movies. Got married in nineteen eighty seven and they have four children. Actor Keifer Sutherland. He's fifty eight. He was born in Buddington, England, in nineteen sixty six. Now, his parents were both Canadian, so yeah, his dad was actor Donald Southern. His mom was actually a pretty known Canadian actress, so he grew up in Canada and California, mostly split his time there. Keifer. He made his acting debut alongside Matthew Broderick in the movie Max Dugan Returns. It also started his dad Donald. Then he did Stand by Me, Lost Boys, the Young Guns movies. Now I think he for his best movie is Phone Boot. Now he hit really really big on TV when he played Jack Bauer on twenty four He had a daughter from his first wife, married his second wife for about eight years now he's been engaged to what could be his third wife, but they've been engaged since twenty fourteen. Now, have you watched Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer yet this year? Well, if you haven't, or if you want to watch him again. The only elf in the entire show without pointy years is Hermie. Yeah, the elf that wants to be a dentist. All this ELF's pointy years except Hermie not so much. All right, thank you for listening today. Don't forget to follow us on.

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