Jan 9th-Connecticut Birthday - Richard Nixon, Gilligan, Crystal Gayle, LA Guns, Dave Matthews, Backstreet Boys

0:20 Welcome to history. In fact, it is about today. I am Jeff and today is January the ninth, a break. Break apri. Today is National Apricot Day. It seems a little early in the air, but I guess you can eat apricots, fresh or dried apricots. They're related to beat His cherries, that whole stuff. Now China they're responsible for giving us apricots.

1:04 Alexander the Great he brought some Africans back to Europe after one of his escapades to the Far East. Arrived to the United States around the seventeen twenties. Now Patterson, California. It is considered the apricot capital of the world. Yeah, they grow the most apricots anywhere. Apricots. They are very very healthy for you. Now, somehow dried apricots are actually healthier than the fresh ones. Don't know how that works. They're high in fiber, vitamin A, they've got all kinds of you know what. Daven have an antioxidant that will clear. Up your skin if you need it. It's I guess you can consume some wet apricots, so that's called apricot liquor. Probably have some little anti inflammatory benefits. Still in there now, however you consume them days, just enjoy some apricots? All right, less, who's going on entertainment? On January of the ninth, It's back to twenty twelve.

1:44 Member one album was Christmas by Michael BOBBLEI LMFAO had the number one song sixty and I Know. It workout Spot, I ain't no praise, show it. Show with, show it, show it. I'm sex seeing, I know it. Zach Brown Band had the number one country song with keep Me in Mind. Take your Time and now Me Awaiting, keep me in. Someone down the Road to My getting Only, keep me in and pray some day and you in love me Only.

2:35 The number one book was seventy seven Shadow Street by Dean Kons. Top movie was country band to save his brother in law from a drug lord. A former drug smoker, he goes to Panama. ITA's still millions of dollars in counterfeit bills. Stars Mark Wahlberg, Giovanni Rabusy, and Kate Beckinson. Nineteen fifty one, over in London, England, the movie Life After Tomorrow debut. It was the world's first X rated movie. All Right, what Happened on janeynywhere the ninth, thirteen forty nine, the Black Death massacre took place over in Basil, Switzerland. Now, the Black plague, it was just raging all across Europe, and the people in Basil, they noticed that the Jewish people they had a lot lower rate of catching it. And he also knows the Jewish people never drank from the city well, so they put two and two together.

3:18 Yep. The Jews were poisoned in the city well and getting everybody sick. So they burned to death over seven hundred Jews. They took one hundred and forty children Jewish children, converted them to Catholicism, yep, and banned any more Jews from actually moving into Basil. But now we know that the lower infection rate for the Jewish people was because of hygiene. Now, the cleanliness and standards of the Jewish religion. Yeah, it kept them from actually contacting the plague as often as non Jews. Plus they were Kosher, and since animals drank from that, well, they wouldn't. Fourteen ninety three, Christopher Columbus and his crew they saw mermaids. Yeah. Columbus even wrote about it in his journal. He said the mermaids, and him and his men saw they were not even half as beautiful as the mermaids they saw him paintings. In fact, they were actually ugly. Oh, that's because they saw manatees. Happy birthday, Connecticut today. In seventeen eighty eight, Connecticut became our fifth state. Connecticut is an Algonquin word. It means land beside the long tidal river.

4:35 Now It's capital is Hartford highest point. It's on the border of Massachusetts, on the south slope of Mountain Frizzle two three and seventy nine feet. Connecticut is the forty eighth largest state in area, twenty ninth in population. Connecticut state bird is the robin, The fish is the shad, flower is the mountain laurel. Mammal is the sperm whale, trade charter roke. Connecticut state song is Yankee doodle. Some people were born in Connecticut Katherine Nipburn, Meg Ryan, Karen Carpenter, Glenn Close, Christopher Lloyd, Ernest borgnine, Michael Bolton, Seth MacFarlane, and some of the people born in the Constitution state. Eighteen sixty eight, the last British ship arrived in Australia carrying convicts that ended eighty years of the British ship and their criminals over to Australia nineteen fifty four at the Northigh station in Greenland and got down to negative eighty seven degrees.

5:24 Yeah. Still, Greenland's called the temperature ever recorded. We might want to remember that if. We buy it. Nineteen ninety eight, people in Copenhagen, Denmark could breathe a sigh of relief the decapitated head of their little Mermaid statue was returned. Two thousand and seven, Steve Jobs he announced that Apple has coming down with a new product. He called it the iPhone. Said it was going to go on sale in June. Now, honestly, outside of some nerds, no one really paid any attention to. That cop Copjake show this shibbday. Please he left this shiver day. We won't sit potage this shiver we don't give. Ohkay. He was born on January the ninth. Richard Nixon.

6:07 He's born in Yorba Linda, California. In nineteen thirteen, he fought in World War Two with the Navy over in the Pacific Gay Mom and went right into politics. He was vice president under Eisenhower for two terms. Became the thirty seventh President of the United States and served from nineteen sixty nine to nineteen seventy five. He is the only president to resign the office. Now his legacy is actually changing. Yeah, not the Watergate park, but historians are really looking back at Nixon and as a president, Nixon gets really high grades for what he did Watergates, he gets failing grades for what he did. But there Gaxtali coming too kind of a conclusion that Watergate it's really not that bad when you compare it to what president's before him and after him. It is done now Nixon, he got married nineteen forty and her and Pat had two daughters.

6:50 Now. She died in nineteen ninety three. He died less than a year later, at eighty one years old. His friends all said, this from a broken heart, technically is from a stroke. Josh Bright fact, Daniel here, I'm at told. I started from this topic board a board. This tidy ship was am I a sailor man listening to Rave and show my passenger set sail. That's day for a three hour. Two Actor Bob Denver. He was born in Newshaw in New York in nineteen thirty five. First got known on TV playing a beat Nick Yeah and the Many Loves Adobe Gillis. Then he became Gilligan on Gilligan's Island. You know, Gilligan was actually his last name. His first name was Willie.

7:33 Willie Gilligan. Now Bobby had two chilling from his first wife, one from his third wife. Married his fourth wife in nineteen seventy nine and they had one John. Bob died in two thousand and five at seven years old from throat cancer. And what brings nice? She's like me next time, that's not you need just. Country superstar Crystal Gale is seventy five. She's born in Paintsville, Kentucky, in nineteen fifty one. Now, she was the youngest of eight children. She was the only one of those kids born in the hospital. The other seven were all born in the family cabin. Moved to Wabash, Indiana when she was four. Now, our oldest sister was country singer Loretta Lynn Loretta. She was nineteen years older than in Crystal.

8:28 Some of Crystal's number one songs are talking in Your Slave. It was like we never said goodbye. Too many lovers going to make my brown eyes blue. Now her eyes are actually blue. Her hair. It is supposedly still long, but not to the floor link like it was back in the day. But it's still long. It's a blow her waist. Now you can see for yourself. She's gonna go out on tour on February twelve. Crystal. She married nineteen seventy one and they have one daughter and one son. Actor JK. Simmons. He's seventy one. He's born in Gross Pointe, Michigan in nineteen fifty five. Probably best known for all those commercials he's done for farm Insurance, but he does act. He actually acts a lot. He won an oscar for Whiplash. He played Jay Jon and Jamison in the first three Spider Man movies. Nominated for an oscar for Our Being The Ricardos did a lot more of that. He's like got like two hundred credits for movie shows, movies and TVs.

9:15 Now. He married nineteen ninety six and they have a son and a daughter. It's time in the Snow now with me, Yes, give me Wins. So Phil Lewis. He sings lead for the Bad La Guns. Phil. He's born in London, England, in nineteen fifty seven. Sixty nine. A day now. He was educated at the private Royal Russell School in Surrey, England. Now as soon as he graduated, he started a rock band called Girl. He started with Phil Collin and that Phil he left to start the band def Leppard. After they had a little bit of success, Sa Lewis, he just game to the United States. He joined the band called La Guns. Their lead singer had just quit. His name was Axel Rose and that was before they got a record deal. Some La Guns hits are Ballada Jane, kiss Me Goodbye, It's over now. Lewis he was married.

10:14 He has actually currently married to a second wife, actress Jolie Richardson. She was born in maryl Bone, England, in nineteen sixty five. She's sixty one. Her mom is actress Vanessa Redgrave. Her sister was Natasha Richardson. Jolie she was on the TV show Nip Tuck for seven years. Some of her movies are The Event, Horizon, The Patriot, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. She married for once for nine years and has a daughter from it. Sweet Shoo, Sweetshoo, Lost for You'm. Soon, Call for You, You't have fun?

11:00 Sometimes just say hey, who's the lead singer of the Dave Matthews Band. It's Dave Matthews. He's fifty nine. He's born in Johannesburg, South Africa in nineteen sixty seven. After high school in nineteen eighty five, he moved to the United States to avoid be drafted in the South African Army. Co founded the Dave Matthews Band in nineteen ninety one. Now they have sold thirty eight million records, but they're actually known more as a live band. They sold over twenty five million concert tickets. Day Be married back in two thousand and they have twin girls and a son. Actress Joey Lauren Adams. She's fifty eight. She's born in North Little Rock, Arkansas, in nineteen sixty eight. She first got noticed in the movie Dazed and Confused and then she hit and Maul Rats Chasing Amy Big Daddy. She got married in twenty fourteen. Backstreet boy Hey J. McLean is forty eight. He was born in West Palm Beach, Florida, in nineteen seventy eight. When he was in middle school, he was in a couple of shows on Nickelodeon. He became a backstreet boy when he was fifteen, Yeah, head Huge, then a Backstreet Boys. It's a little over running thirty million records. They're gonna be playing the Severe out there in Las Vegas for two weeks coming up in February.

12:19 Now a Jan and his wife. They divorced after thirteen years just last year. They have two daughters. Alrighty are of the Day. It comes from comedian actor Bob Saggitt. Bob died to day in twenty twenty two at sixty five years old. Bob said, I'm going to meet someone about my age. She's gonna be smart, and she's gonna be beautiful, and I'm gonna date her daughter. Wow. Thank you all for listening today. Don't forget to follow us on how you listen to us on and make sure you check out the show descriptions. We have links so you can always find like Country Underground Radio, our Country Underground Radio artists. Today. It comes from Cody out there Rapid City, South Dakota. Cody wants to say here the West Ryan song three words away. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. We've been dancing around the edges something we both know.

13:02 Your hand fits mine just right, like a sun set on a back road, or I don't want to scare the moment or say too much too soon. But I can't help think about saying this to you. Ever it smile, ever, it's up just pulling me closer to that. I'm just three words. Away for falling all the ways. There and every hobey. I ain't sure how long I can wait. I've been holding back the baby. I don't want to play it safe. I'm just three words, three words away.

13:55 I hear thee man, the quiet, you're drifting off to sleep, they're dancing all my lips. Shit, you leaning close to me, You laugh and say I'm quiet, but you don't know the over inside. Every look you give me just pushes me to cross that line. Every second, every side, I'm closer to letting it fly. And I'm just three. Words a way for falling all the ways there in every harby. I ain't sure how long I can wait. I've been holding back the baby. I don't want to play it safe.

14:41 I'm just three words, three. Words a way. I could whisper it tonight, wait for a better time. The baby deep inside, it's already yours. And yeah, I'm just three words away from falling all the ways there and every. Hard beat and I just canlaculate a bard. Holding back the girl I'm done playing and saying come done, holding on, I love you There, Satday.

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