Dec 3rd-40 ft. Flying pig over England, Ozzy Osbourne, Daryl Hannah, Julianne Moore, Brenden Fraser, Illinois BDAY

0:19 Welcome to history and factoids about today. I am Jeff in today's December the third. I need a hug, and that's how the cars got. Hug. You need a hug, needs a hug. My dad needs a hug, needs a hug. And Joss needs a hug and he needs a hug, Like, give me a hug. Today is National Let's Hug Day. I guess it's because the holiday season is fast approaches and things can get a little hectic and crazy. But why not spend a day giving out hugs Today it's cold, so people won't be all sweaty. Now, hugs are cool. They can strengthen the bond between two people. It definitely cheers somebody up, but needs it gets a muss when you're trying to make up. Now, hugs they release hormones and lower your blood pressure. Hug is actually short for an Norse term, yeah, hugger. It means to comfort. So if you're want to celebrate giving out hugs today, just don't make it creepy, all right? This is going on entertainment one December the third, It's a Bauck. In nineteen seventy seven, them one album will Simple Dreams by Linda Ronstadt.

1:23 Debbie Boone had the number one song with You Light Up My Life and You. Dolly Parton she had the number one country song with Here You Come Again. Just went out in the bat to Marive.

2:06 Number one. The number one book was a Silmarian by J. I. R. Tolkien. That movie The Star Wars. Yeah, they released it for the holidays, all right? What happened on December the third, fifteen eighty six, Thomas Harriet He arrived back in England from his excursion to South America. Brought back some really good stuff from Columbia. Potatoes. Yeah. Thomas introduced the potato to the British people. They didn't take to it right away. It took him almost twenty years before the potato became a staple in their food system. Sixteen eighty nine and Basil, Switzerland. A surgeon Johanna's video he performed the first successful separation of conjoined twins. He was able to separate Elizabeth and Catherine Midjeern. I don't know where they were conjoined. Happy Birthday, Illinois Today. In eighteen eighteen, Illinois became the twenty first state. Illinois.

3:22 It's algonquin term. It means Warrior. Now it's the twenty five fifth biggest state in area, sixth biggest in population, capital of Springfield. Highest point is what is it? Charles Maund? I believe it's at one thirty five feet now. The Illinois state bird that's the cardinal fish is the bluegill flower is violet mammal is white tailed deer tree is a white oak. Illinois state food is popcorn. Some people born in Illinois Betty White, Ronald Reagan, Robin Williams, Harrison Ford, Ernest Anyway, Charlton Neston, Jim and John Belushi, Mister t Rockael Welch, the Union bomber, Ted Kazinski, mass murder, Jane Willing Geese just some of the people born in the Land of Lincoln. In France in nineteen ten, at the Paris Auto Show, Neon lights were used for the very first time Canada. In nineteen seventeen, they finally did it.

4:14 It took twenty years of construction in two complete collapses, but the Quebec Bridge was finally ready to open for traffic. Who do you think they got to go across for first nineteen thirty one alkasolser went on sale nineteen sixty one, a Dutchman Anton Deesik. He became the first non Japanese judo world champion. There's a lot to think about there. England. In nineteen seventy six, the band Pink Floyd. Now they were taking pictures for their new album cover. Now they had a forty foot inflatable pig flying over a power station. Well it was ted under ground, but it broke loose. Yeah, the pig made a run for it got up to about eighteen thousand feet. A call went out to out pilots flying over England by the Aircraffic Control said to watch out for a big flying pig. Another pig made it thirty seven miles before it landed. Now, the day before was when they were actually doing the shoot and ban.

5:02 They actually had a marksman there, so if something happened, they were going to shoot the pig down. But they didn't have any problems. And then during the night they said we you know, we needed a couple more pictures and they didn't want to pay that marksman. Again, Well, I don't know how you get a job as a pig marksman. Okay, But pig Muster realizing he took a chance. Now we had a couple of sad stories. Nineteen seventy nine and Cincinnati at Riverfront Stadium, I had a Who concert. Eleven people were trampled to death after the opening the gates. Everyone stampeded trying to get to the best seats. That's why you really rarely ever see festival seating now, Yeah, that's why all the seats are usually reserved. Nineteen eighty four and the Bobol disaster in bow Ball, India. A Union car Bye Peste Pesta side plan at least forty five tons of toxic gas into the air, killed two hundred and fifty nine people right off the bat. Over time, they think sixteen thousand people died from it. Et and Carbuye they got off fan foury and seventy million dollars in restitution. Kind of depressing to end with those stories.

5:55 So let's talk about love. Nineteen eighty four in Wisconsin, one hundred three year old Harry Steven's married eighty three year old Themba Lucas that makes Harry the oldest groom in history. Pulled it off ten years before Ryagara released. Joke Dope, joke, joke, dope, Sharge Dish Shivers Day, Please gonna pause. He left this shiverday. We gonna simple tag he like dish Shivers Day. And you know we don't give up. That's birthday, all right? Check out who was born on December the third.

6:37 There goes the one of my dreams. He was country singer fromlin Husky, born in Gumbo, Missouri, in nineteen twenty five. Started singing for Money in nineteen forty five, singing til twenty eleven. Now his song Dear John Letter, that's when he did the Geene Shepherd and his song Wings of a Dove. Yeah, they crossed over and were number one songs on the pop charts. LANDI was one of the first country singers to get a star on the Hollywood Walker theme. He married four times and through them he had six daughters and three sons. From all them, women fly and he died from congestive heart fellure in twenty eleven, eighty five years old. It's the most wonderful time with the kids jingle belling and everyone telling you be of good chee. It's the most wonderful time.

7:35 We're gonna hear that a lot coming up there. Andy Williams. He was born in Wall Lake, Iowa, in nineteen twenty seven. Andy sang for seventy years, start out performing with his brothers. In nineteen thirty eight. He went solo in nineteen fifty three, released forty three albums, sold over forty five million records. He had his own TV show, The Andy Williams Show. Yeah, I went from sixty two to seventy one. Nineteen ninety one he opened up a theater down there in Branson performed there until a year before he died. He had a bladder answer in twenty twelve, at eighty four years old. He had three children from his first wife. Married his second wife in nineteen ninety one. I'm going how many of you know the Prince of Darkness's first name? It is John, Just John. Ozzy Osbourne was born in Marston Green, England, in nineteen forty eight nineteen sixty seventy helped form Black Sabbath.

8:38 They fired him in seventy nine. Yeah, they were tired of all his drug and alcohol antics and all that Ozzy. He just took it straight. I said, all right, I'll this go solo. So between Black Sabbath and So Ozzy sold one hundred million records in the two thousand and he became a reality TV star when him and his family were on MTV. Now Ozzy he started his farewell tour, The No More touris stores nineteen ninety two. Now he finished it on July fifth, twenty twenty five. Then he died on July twenty second. Yeah, he was seventy six years old. They had a heart attack. But he had all that wrong with him. He married his first wife in nineteen seventy one and they had a son and a daughter. But Ozzy, he was so drugged up and such just a bad dad. He didn't know anything about those kids. Yeah, in twenty eleven he was asked what their birthdays were. He had no clue. Him and that wife they divorced in nineteen eighty one. Nineteen eighty two he married his manager Sharon. Yeah, they had two daughters and one son. That was Mickey Thomas singing for Starship.

9:54 He's seventy five, born in nineteen forty nine and Cairo, Georgia. Now he started out and they have a bishop man. By nineteen seventy nine, he was off for the lead singing gig for Jefferson Starship. Yeah, he took it. You know, they even kept him when Grace Slick came back in nineteen eighty one. They let em stay. On nineteen eighty five a court made him changed their name to just Starship. They couldn't use Jefferson anymore. Now some of us number one Starship songs are we built this City, Sarah, Nothing's gonna stop us now now great. She left again in eighty eight, so that left just Mickey as the lead singer. So since then now Starship, they're called Starship featuring Mickey Thomas. Yeah, this soap tour. Mickey had Wen Chiltham his first wife, and he married a second wife in two thousand and six and they have two kids. Actress Derl Hanna. She's sixty five. She's born in Chicago in nineteen sixty and she was seventeen. She was in the first movie It's called The Fury and then Splash Roxanne Steeve Magnolia's The Grumpy or Old min Movies, The kill Bill Movies. Anna.

10:48 She married singer Neil Young twenty eighteen. Actress Julian Moore, she's sixty five. Also, she was borred at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. Started out on the soap opera as the World turns. Since she's gotten a movie. She's been nominated for Oscars for Boogie Knights, The End of the Affair. Far from having the Hours, she did win an Oscar half for still Alice Julian. She married her second husband in two thousand and three and they have a son and a daughter. That was the Lone Rangers and their song Degenerated Yeah. They were featured in the documentary Airheads.

11:40 The lead singer was the actor of Brandon Fraser. He was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, to Canadian parents. Now he has dual cities shift. He's fifty seven to day. First got None of the movie and Sino Man, then school Ties, George of the Jungle did the Mummy movies. He won the Best Actor Oscar for The Whale just a couple of years ago. Brandon he married once for eleven years and has three sons from it. Actress Anna Schlimski. She's forty five. She was born in Chicago in nineteen eighty. She started acting as a kid. She was in the micro movies, then you went to college. After college, she was on HBO's veep for seven years. Although seven years six years. She was nominated for a Prime Time Emmy for it Now on college you met her husband. Yeah, they got married in two thousand and eight and they have two daughters. But she got to keep you ahead up, collects your hand down. You gotta keep you your head up, collect your hand down. No, whit's to remember sometimes, but she gotta keep your head up the collect your head down, Andy Grammer. He was born in Los Angeles nineteen eighty three, forty two years old to day now. He got discovered as a street performer. Hein hen singing for tips on the street. Some of his hits are Honey, I'm good, keep your head up fine by me. Yeah, he's just kind of a happy, upbeat guy there.

12:59 Now. He married twenty twelve and they have two daughters. Actress a Man of say Fred. She's forty. She was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in nineteen eighty five. She started modeling at eleven. At fifteen, she was on the soap operas of the World Turns. Her first movie was Mean Girls, then Mama Mia, Lame Miss a Rob One Million Ways to Die in the West. She was nominated for an Oscar for the movie mank a Man Is. She married in twenty seventeen. And they have a son and a daughter. Alrighty here quote of the day. It's coming from Robert writer, Robert Lewis Stevenson. He's a guy who wrote Treasure Island and Doctor Jacko and Mister Hyde. Robert died in eighteen ninety four at forty four years old. He said, don't judge he's day by it's harvest that you read, but by the seeds that you plant. Okay, Well, thank you all for listening today. I had no forget to follow us and on you listen to us on something easy to find us. Check out today's show, the script, somebody to give you some links to us and all that kind of stuff. You want to go to country and a ground radio or country underground radio artists. Today it comes from Holly Ip in Idaho. She was sa here cowboy Roger Logerson song. Whatever it takes you guys, have any I said, Dan, we'll talk tomorrow. I tried go with.

14:04 Fishing with the fishes wooden't by. I sat cold, know me in a duck blind that daylight. I tied down on the rack water, jammed my hat down tight. He made short work with me. Her and free was the one thing killing my. Night, after a week of getting nowhere, I dragged myself in town.

14:47 I did lunch, I didn't go. I did coffee, and in my head she could still be found. I went and spent a little time. At the seashore, but she followed me around some more. I had that enough. It's time to get tough. So I walked in the far and said, for whatever it takes to take a memory, leave it far behind. Whatever it takes, cause I need to race the woman from my mind. I've been trying my best, but I can't get no risks butting of a goodness seek Just call me.

15:34 A shock curse, ready or not. Got to do whatever it takes, whatever it takes.