Jan 12th-Tex Ritter, Rush Limbaugh, Howard Stern, Ricky Van Shelton, The Spice Girls, Jeff Bezos, Kiss A Ginger

0:20 Welcome to history. In fact, it's about today. I'm Jeff. Today's January the twelfth. But you're sinking knocking home. Not just loose all control, because. Want to see one walking back. Jesus, I'll just traumast. Today is National Kiss a Ginger Day. For those of you not hip to urban slang, a ginger it means redhead, so kiss a redhead today. Now that means girls and guys a ginger. It became slinging for redhead from Gilligan's Island, even though Marianne was cuter. Only two percent of the population has natural red hair, so kissing the natural ginger might be a little way of a challenge. Thankfully there's hair dye and that counts today. Now, the one rule of today, the ginger has to want you to kiss them.

1:16 You can't just walk up and plant one without their consent. A cool thing to do and you know earn that kiss. Yeah, take them out to dinner or do something fun. Just enjoy your kissing a redhead or a ginger today. All right, this is going on entertainment. On January the twelfth, it was back to nineteen ninety three. Number one album was The Bodyguard movie. Soundtrack, which was pretty much all Whitney Houston waiting. He had the number one song with I Will Always Love. You so good that. Don't we both know I'm not with you? You mean.

2:03 Garth Brooks at The number one country song was Somewhere other than the Night, She. Needs to here, I love You, Somewhere other than she needs to know Uk, she wants. To know, she's needing, she needs to be help time. Somewhere other than. The number one book was Dolores Clay Burned by Stephen King. The top movie was Aladdin. A street urchin and a grand visor. They compete for a magic lamp that can make their wildest dreams come true. Voice by Scott Wagner, Robin Williams and Linda Larkin.

2:47 Got sight Jason and I said, Mama, I'm your last. That's your school fronts and comes up, shoe shot happen. And she. Come all night. Down and lands out law. In nineteen eighty one, for the very first time a rap song went up to number one. It was Rapture by Blondie. I guess that makes debray Harry the original O G all right? What happened On January of the twelfth seventeen seventy three, the Charleston Museum in South Carolina opened up. It was the first publican museum in the United States. Eighteen twelve, the first steamboat arrived in New Law, Orleans that had gone down all the way down the Mississippi River. Yeah, left Pittsburgh in September. Yeah, I was just carrying cargo, no passengers. Eighteen eighty five, in Waco, Texas, Dr Pepper went on sale. Yeah. It was created by a pharmacist, Charles Alderton. He was at the Morrison Old Corner drug store. Now he just called the drink Waco.

3:47 Then they changed the name to Dr Pepper. In nineteen oh fourth the World's Fair. Yeah, they put themselves up a boots and all that Canda stuff. Now. Dr Pepper is one year older than Coca Cola, which was also created by a pharmacist. In football in nineteen Ohio, they made the forward pass legal nineteen twelve and Wasshida, Iowa, they s let the state record a negative forty seven degrees. In the Soviet Union in nineteen thirteen, Joseph Duja Gavilli, he changed his name to Joseph Stalin. Now Stalin it means Matta Steele nineteen thirty two, had he care away. She was a Democrat from Arkansas, first woman elected to the United States Senate. Nineteen fifty four, in Austria, the world's worst avalanche in Austria's history killed two hundred people.

4:28 Then as they were digging out from the second avalanche game nine hours later, killed another one hundred and fifteen. In nineteen sixty seven, doctor James Bedford. He died from cancer and then became the first person to be crygenically frozen. Well he still is. He's just hanging out at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Arizona. So of all the places to keep people frozen, they picked Arizona. Okay. Nineteen seventy one, three reverends, two priests, and nine were arrested for aplyting to kidnapp us Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Now, that started out with the best bar joke of all time, but it had no punchline to it. Nineteen eighty one, Chester, Massachusetts got down to negative thirty five. That's still the Massachusetts record. Saudi Rabia in two thousand and six, on the last day of the Stoning of the Devil ritual at the Hajj something that Chuck caused. The whole pilgrim is the stampede. Three and sixty two of the Muslim pilgrims were killed. Twenty ten, a massive earthquake kid Haiti.

5:22 Over one hundred and sixty thousand people were killed there. The seven point zero earthquake lass for about thirty seconds. Twenty twenty three, in Australia, a cane toad was found in Conway National Park in Australia. They named it toad Zilla. Thing weighed five point ninety five pounds almost six pounds, largest toad ever found. Now Dossi's ended up killing it. Yeah, Todzilla was an invasive species, so they had to put her down. You thought the United States was tough on the legal immigration. Co co coat shot this shimarthdaynse, he left this shiver day. We want simple tage. He left this. It's your birthday. You know we don't do that's a.

6:02 Worthy Let's just check out it was born on January the twelfth. Oh, I may have done some food and this is why I himber why not against wurs jingle jangle jingle As I go riding merrily alone and they sing, oh wait you that you're single, and that song Ain't so Very Far Alone. That was Tex Ritter. He was born in Mervo, Texas, in nineteen oh five. Tex He was a country music pioneer, very popular singer and actor. Was in over seventy movies, sang on seventy six movie soundtracks for releast twenty one country albums. Got married nineteen forty one and they had actor John Ridder and his brother. Tex died in nineteen seventy four, sixty eight years old from a heart attack.

6:49 And the songs brewing in this horn sing resent dream. Man, that area, someone elsiz Now. You're not. Another country legend. Ray Price. He was born in Wood County, Texas, in nineteen twenty six. Fight as a marine in the Pacific during World War Two, came home and went to college. Yep, studied to be a veterinarian. Ended that moving country music closer to mainstream. Say, when the country music started out, it had a beat that everyone used. It was two to four ratio. He took it to a four to four ratio. Yeah, it didn't sound so hillbilly after that. Yeah, that's what changed country music forever. Ray He's sang from nineteen forty eight to twenty thirteen, even turned in a couple of songs in the late eighties. Now he had a son from his first wife, married his second wife in nineteen seventy ray. He died from patcreatic cancer in twenty thirteen at eighty seven years old. Radio icon Rush Limbaugh was born in Cape Gerardo, Missouri, in nineteen fifty one.

7:54 Hosted his nationally syndicated radio show from nineteen eighty eight to twenty twenty one most listened to radio talk show of all time. Nothing else is even close to it. Now. He was conservative, so if you were conservative, you loved the guy. If you were liberally, yeah, you hated the guy. Either way, he is a true legend, one of the best at what he did. Rush married his fourth wife in twenty ten, Elton John saying at her wedding reception, so not all liberals hated him. Rushi died in twenty twenty one. Is seventy years old from lung cancer. Actress Christy Alli. She was born in Wichitak, Kansas. In nineteen fifty one, hit Really Big playing Rebecca Howe on the sitcom Chairs. After that, she did Veronica's Closet. First movie was Star Trek two, The Rath of Khan. Then she had really a lot of success in the Look Who's Talking movies, and she was in Drop Dead Gorgeous. I think that's Kirstie's best acting job was in Drop Dead Gorgeous. Kirsty.

8:42 She got second place on Dancing with the Stars. She lost to Heinz Ward. He's a former football player now. She was born Kirsty Alley So. Her dad was named Bob Ali, her brother was named Bob Ally, and her first husband, who was he high school sweeteart, he was named Bob Alli. They weren't related, but after seven years they divorced. She married actor Parker Stevenson for fourteen years and they had a son and a daughter, Kirsty. She died from colon cancer in twenty twenty two at seventy one years old. From a Jack to Luokie, from Ollan to Senewally and wal Dewey with You.

9:24 A retired country singer Ricky Van Shelton is seventy four. He was born in Danville, Virginia, in nineteen fifty two. First hit in nineteen eighty six. Some of his number one songs are keep It between the Lines, I Am a simple man. I've created my last tear for you. From a jack to a king. Now Ricky he married nineteen eighty six. In two thousand and six, he surprised everybody, just out of the blue, he retired Noby Nobyron. Well. He gave a reason, said he wanted to spend more time with his wife. Oh kind, it seems right that Rush Limba and Howard Stern would share the same birthday. Howard Stern, he was born in Queens, New York in nineteen fifty four, makes him seventy two years old today. Started out gaining a cult like audience for his radio show in New York City that got him syndicated. So as popular as Rush was, yeah, Howard was too. Just a whole different kind of demographic. In two thousand and six, Stern guy five hundred million dollars deal from the Syria's XM satellite radio. Yeah, been there ever since. How He calls himself the king of all media. He has his own TV show, He's done pay per view specials, He's written some top selling books, did a couple movies. Now in Howard, he went from regular radio to satellite radio.

10:34 Yeah. On regular radio he had been finding two point four million dollars by the FCC. But on satellite, the FCC can't touch him, so he can say whatever he wants. Now. Him and his first wife, they were married over twenty years and had three kids. Married his second wife in two thousand and eight. Founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos is sixty tif born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in nineteen sixty four. Jeffy is the third richest man in the world. It's worth about two and and sixty billion dollars. Formed Amazon in nineteen ninety four. Lot of you might not be old enough to know this, but when Amazon started out, it just sold books. Yep, it was just an online bookstore. Yeah. They kind of diversified since then. Jeff, He's not really doing much with Amazon now, is No. He's really concentrating on Blue Origin. He's competing against Elon Musk and Richard Branson in the space industry. Dazos married his first wife in nineteen ninety three. They had four children and divorced in twenty nineteen. I just married his second wife in June.

11:45 That was Zach dil Aruca. He was a lead singer, a lead rapper for Rage Against the Machine. It broke up in twenty twenty four for the third time. Zach's fifty six. He's born in Long Beach, California, in nineteen seventy. Rage Against the Machine they formed in nineteen ninety one. Songs you might have heard were boson Parade, Gorilla Radio, Sleep, now in the Fire Testify basically Rage against the Machine. They were just a hardcore communist band. If their name means they represent the point of anger and frustration around social and political structure. Basically, they use capitalism to cash in on communism. Now Zaki's released a couple of solo albums out there. Yeah he's married. Tell Me what.

12:41 That song Wanna be? It went number one in thirty seven different countries. You can call her Melsei, you can call her Sporty Spice, or you can call her Mellow and e Chisholm. She's four fifty two. She's won in Wiston, England in nineteen seventy four. She became a spice girl when they formed in nineteen ninety four. She was called sporty size Sporty Spice because yeah, she liked to wear tracksuits and tennis shoes. Plus she was the only one who could do a back Handspring, Oh Mel, she's the least eight solo albums. She's about doing some touring this summer to promote it. I think like Australia and New Zealand and Europe that kind of stuff, not the United States. Mel. She has a daughter. Alrighty A Code of the Day. It comes from the world's all time best selling writer Agassa Christi sold there were two billion books. She died today in nineteen seventy six, at eighty five years old.

13:26 Agasa says, one doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late. Well, thank you all for listening today. Make sure you follow us on who you listen to us on so we're easy to find and check out the show description of all kinds of links, like the link to Country Underground Radio, our Country Underground Radio artist to day. It comes from Tara in Columbus, Ohio. She wants to hear Diana Cochran song. Then there's me. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. Mo Isa. Kitchen table, Babble, neighbor ladies, daddies working in the backyard on some old a reckon forty eight degrees.

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