Dec 27th-Fruit Cake, 1st Female Rabbi, Howdy Doody, John Amos, Walker Hayes, Haley Williams, Dan & Shay

0:10 Happy Friday everyone. I am Jeff, and welcome to History and Factoid's about Today, presented by Cool Media. Today is December the twenty seventh. What's your macon fruitcakes? What's your bacon? Fruitcake? Candy cherries, Red and Guy number two, Green. Cherry Spring One's two. It's fruitcake. It's fruitcake. The cons or walnuts citrus field. Today is National Fruitcake Day. Fruitcakes, they get a bad rap. They're not that bad. They're actually pretty good. I mean they're dried fruits, nuts, sugar laced with booze that can't be all back in it now. They found fruitcakes back in ancient Egyptian tombs. I'm guessing they're probably a little dry now. If you give somebody a fruitcake for a gift, tell them it's really healthy for him. That way, they won't get maddief you're giving them a fruitcake. They'll get mad because you think they're fat and need to get in shape. Just enjoy yourself some fruitcake today, She's going on and entertainment. On December of the twenty seventh's back to Your twenty eighteen number one album was Skins by Triple X Tanise on Aria Grand. She had the number one song with thank You.

1:18 Next Oh so amazing love tis that's not what seeks. Look what I go, look on me Lo that I. Stanky Spanky, Dan and Shay had the number one country song was Speechless. It's really looking read with those days. That's just standing there in mat. Chress w Stent's Homie Hate a Secret, Flashing you is all I can do.

2:04 The number one book was A Blood and Bone by Nora Roberts. Top movie was Aquaman, The Human air to the underwater Atlantis and he tries to prevent a war between the land people and the water people. Stars Jason Momoa, Amber Heard and William Dafote. It happened on December of the twenty seventh, eighteen forty five and Jefferson, Georgia doctor Crawford Long he is the anesthetic ether for the very first time for childbirth. Yeah, they'd used it for our dental procedures, but nope, he is the first one to use it for childbirth, used it on his wife. Nineteen thirty five, in Germany, Regina Jonas became the first woman ever ordained as a Jewish rabbi. Now she wrote her thesis on there were no Jewish laws stating that women couldn't be rabbis. Now, after she was our dained, she stayed in Nazi Germany and she believed that's where she was needed most. She continued to do our rabbi duties until nineteen forty two. That's when the Nazis finally yeah, they got her, arrested her and senator to Auschwitz. She ended up dying there. Then Regina's was forgotten from history.

2:59 Then in nineteen ninety one, after the Soviet Union fell, a researcher was going through some papers that had been kept in the former East Germany. He found her orientation papers or dissertation and some personal documents. So now everybody knew all about the first female rabbi, Regina Jonas and how she performed her duties with honor ended up dying from him. That's her picture he used today on the podcast cover photo, Hey. Kids, what time is it?

3:39 Nineteen forty seven, Nawty Duty Show became the first nationally televised children's TV program. Howdy He was just a voice character. Yeah, you didn't see Howty Duty. But the show became so popular that they got this guy named Francis Barres to create a puppet to be Houdy. He did, and then the show even got bigger, so they started merchandising the puppet. Well, Francis, he didn't like that at all. See they paid him to make the puppet. He didn't have any rights to it. So the bigger Howdy Do he began, the more and more money that came in, and the matter and matter Francis got. He got so mad that during a live show, ran on stage, grabbed the puppet of Outy Duty and ran off stage. Well, the producers, they were pretty sly about how they handled it though. They said that Howdy Duty he was having plastic surgery so that he would be more handsome when he ran for the president of all the kids in the United States. Well it worked.

4:23 Another puppet was made. It looked a lot better and became even more popular. The first puppet was kind of creepy looking nineteen eighty three Pope jump all. The second he pardoned mehmet alii agga, that's the guy who shot him twice. Stop joked joke shuge thish shibf day. We're gonna pu he left this shiverf day. We want simple tage. He like this Shibf Day, and you know we don't give birthday. Oh. Cuss is born on Decemular twenty seventh. Chemist microbiologist Louis Pesteur. He was born in Doul, France, in eighteen twenty two. People thought he was crazy. See Louis, he had this theory that diseases were caused by these little, tiny organisms you couldn't see. I mean, yeah, we know about it now, but back then they had no idea where gyms were.

5:08 Eighteen eighty five, Louis created the vaccination for rabies. Of course, he's best known for the heating of food for our preservative. Perservative preservation calls that pastorization. Married in eighteen forty nine. They had five kids. Louis he died from a stroke in eighteen ninety five at seventy two years old. Look never one, what am I like? Colly. That was actress Marlene Dietracht. She was born in Berlin, Germany, in nineteen oh one. She started out becoming a big star when she made twenty five silent movies. Yeah, they couldn't hear her sing. Then she made thirty seven talking and then she became super huge because of that. Then she released forty one records. So what we just heard, and I don't think they could have sold many of them now. She performed from nineteen nineteen to nineteen eighty four.

6:04 She is considered one of the greatest female Hollywood legends of all time. She married in nineteen twenty three and they had one daughter. They were together and to her husband died nineteen seventy six. Wow. Now that is a remarkable Hollywood love story. Only problem is that, see Marlane. She was very well known for sleeping with almost every man and woman in Hollywood, and she was not as great about it at all. She didn't care what anybody thought. She d'ver dined from kidney failure in nineteen ninety two at ninety years old. Actor John amus He was born in Newark, New Jersey, in nineteen thirty nine. Graduated from Colorado State University. Is a star football player up here. Oh he went fast enough for the pro so he ended up going into acting.

6:59 Got Nump and the weather man on Mary Tyler Moore Show. Then he hit big on his own show Good Times. He played the older Kuntikine and the miniseries Roots. Some of his movies were coming to America one and two Beast Master die Hard too Now Johnny divorced twice. He had two children from his first wife. He just died in August at eighty four years old from congestive heart failure. So are you old enough to remember when that cute little blonde girl said that in the movie Polter Guys, she was Heather or Work. She was born in San Diego nineteen seventy five. She was six when she was in Poltergeys. Then she did Polter Guys two, Pulchter Guys three. Then she died when she was twelve in nineteen eighty eight. She had been born with some really goofy thing to do with her intestines.

7:41 Yea we fancy like apple peas on a day night, got some barmestery you stayed with the oil shake, Get some will crane on the top, two two shots on shot God, I got you Boji like Naty then star far sweet Squeaking and at Outaway. Country singer Walker Hayes is forty five. He's born a Mobile, Alabama in nineteen seventy nine. Some of it as big as hits? Are you broke up with me? Fancy? Like aa you girl? I guess he's kind of more pop country. He's still country now. He's got a few shows scheduled. I'm sure he probably adds some more as the summer gets closer. Got married in two thousand and four and they have been busy. They have seven kids since.

8:22 That airplanes nicecoy like shreaming stars. She really using with shrend now shred now shred now that airplanes the nice skull like sheering stars, she really use her mis shrend now shrend now shrend now now. She normally sings for the band Paramore, but in that song, she's sang it with the rapper Bob Now. That song Airplanes went up to number two on the pop chart. That's her biggest hit now. She is Hailey Williams. She was born in Meridian, Mississippi, in nineteen eighty eight. She's thirty six now. She started off writing songs at fourteen years old. They even signed her to a professional songwriting contract with one of the big labels. Then, when she has sixteen, she formed the band Paramore. They've had their heads Ain't it fun? Still into you? The only exception and she married once for a year and a half.

9:13 What say she, baby? I still see Cut Up the Fours, Road Sea Shift, The Semoney, a sky roun list dressed to guess the battle, Sweet Little Battle Baby, I never lead, I remember have a bad Lead. That was the Shay in the Country Due Dan and Say. It was born Shaye Mooney in Natural Dan, Arkansas, in nineteen ninety one. Thirty three year old does most of the singing. Him and Dan. They got together in twenty thirteen. Some of their number one songs are Nothing Like You, Tequila Speachless, ten thousand Hours Now. That was with Justin Bieber.

9:54 They released their first Christmas album this year. Jay He got married in twenty seventeen and they have three boys. Okay, let's go back and talk more about fruitcakes. In the early nineteen hundred is the term nutty is a fruitcake? It first appeared, It meant that somebody was crazy. Why do you start using it? Well, who would think that you could bake cake with fruit and nuts? You'd have to be crazy? All right, Well, thank you all for listening to and we sure appreciate it. Don't forget to follow us whoever you listen to us on you don't forget about Country Underground Radio, the best independent country radio music. There is anywhere. You can find it anywhere go to Country Uderground Radio dot com. Actors Carrie Fisher. She died today in twenty sixteen at sixty years old. Carrie said, instant gratification takes too long. Now, I don't know where Princess Leigh was going with that, but you guys all have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow