July 11, 2025

July 12th-Pecan Pie, Longest fingernail Milton Berle, Bill Cosby, Cheryl Ladd, Christine McVie, Gin Blossoms

July 12th-Pecan Pie, Longest fingernail Milton Berle, Bill Cosby, Cheryl Ladd, Christine McVie, Gin Blossoms
July 12th-Pecan Pie, Longest fingernail Milton Berle, Bill Cosby, Cheryl Ladd, Christine McVie, Gin Blossoms
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July 12th-Pecan Pie, Longest fingernail Milton Berle, Bill Cosby, Cheryl Ladd, Christine McVie, Gin Blossoms

National Pecan pie day. Entertainment from 1966. Etch a sketch went on sale, Guy with longest fingernails got em cut, Ellis Island bought. Todays birthdays - Milton Berle, Bill Cosby, Christine McVie, Cheryl Ladd, Robin Wilson, Michelle Rodriguez, Kimberley Perry. Dolly Madison died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
Pecan pie - Bobby P
Paperback writer - The Beatles
There goes my everything - Jack Greene
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent https://www.50cent.com/
Fat Albert TV theme
Tell me lies - Fleetwood Mac
Hey Jelousy - Gin Blossoms
If I die young - The Band Perry
Exit - No thanks - Brinley Addington https://www.brinleyaddington.com/

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0:19 Welcome to history and factor. It's about today. I am jeff in Today's July the twelfth. Give me a P, Give me an E, give me a C, give me a hey, give me an give me a P, give me an eye. Give me COMPI come pie, pea COMPII. Today is National Pecan Pie Day Pecans. They are native to North America and Pecans by themselves, they're actually very healthy for you. Pecan pie. Yeah, not so much. Now, that's kind of hot. Outs. I had to be bacon today. But if that's your thing, hey, go for it. Rest of us. I guess we'll just go out and enjoy some peacon pie. But we can't eat too much. No, we want to look good. Today is International Skinny Dipping Day.

1:04 All right, this is going on entertain around July twelfth. Back to your nineteen sixty six number one album was What Now My Love by Herb Albert and his Tjana Bass. The Beatles at the number one song with paperback writer. Res jump. Jack Green had the number one country song with there goes My Everything. Darling, This will be good pine ever more smiries, there go.

2:02 Oh My. The number one buck was Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Suzanne. The top movie was Torn Curtain, an American scientist. He defects East Germany, but it's actually a secret mission to steal it formerly and bring it back to the United States. Stars Paul Newman and Julie Andrews. It was today, nineteen sixty two the Rolling Stones played their first gig. Yeah. The show was at the Marquee Club in London. The band got twenty five bucks for it. Not a piece, the whole band got twenty five you know what. It was probably pounds though, if it was over in London. All right, let's see what happened on July the twelfth, sixteen thirty. The governor of New Amsterdam, which is New York today, he bought Goal Island from a Native American tribe today that is Ellis Island. Eighteen fifty nine in Manchester, Massachusetts, William Gooddeal. He invented a machine for making paper bags.

2:48 Kind of impressive, but I wonder where he got the paper now. The legend of wild Bill Hitcock began today in eighteen sixty one. It was a Rock Creek, Nebraska. He shot and killed David Mcallis. Yeah, he was later found not guilty murder. Yeah, the jury said that it was self defense. But his legend began nineteen hundred and Bitter Creek, Wyoming and got up one hundred and fourteen degrees still the Wyoming state record for hottist temp. Now this was way before Ice. Even in nineteen seventeen of miners they went out strike in Brisbee, Arizona. Vigilanties kidnapped and deported thirteen hundred of those striking miners. Now the trucking industry eras revolution to ied today. In nineteen forty Frederick Jones had been in an air conditioning unit for trucks. Yeah, so now we could actually ship all kinds of food across the land for long haul. Nineteen fifty seven, Dwight Eyes noow I became the first president of Fly in a Helicopter. Now, well he was doing that his a surgeon general. His name was Leroy Bernie. He became the first federal and public official in the United States to acknowledge the connection between smoking and lunk cancer. Theyro he's actually a heavy smoker. Today it's actually National Etches Sketch to Day. Also in nineteen sixty that just sketch went on sale. Nineteen seventy sax on TV Family Feud, Yeah, hosted by Richard Dawson. Yeah, debut back in nineteen fifty two over in India, Shihar, Chilella. He stopped growing his finger in else So now he had to fast forward sixty six years to twenty eighteen. See now he is sixty eighty one years old and now his hands had disfiguremente.

4:09 They were deformed, had NERD damage, loss of function. Yeah, so what they did is they took some power songs to cut off all those fingernails. Yeah, they were record setting, as you can probably imagine it's all together. They measured three hundred and fifty eight inches long, so that's almost thirty feet. Now one of his thumbs, that nail was the longest. It was seventy eight inches longer, about six and a half feet. Sounds pretty gross, right, but you can actually go see him up. They're on this play hit the Ripley's Believer or Not Museum in New York City. Jokejkejke gop joke joke shuge thish shiverth day. We gonna pause. He left this shiver day. We want simple carge. He like this shiverth day and you know we don't give up Birthday. Good born on July the twelfth, Comunitian actor Milton Burrow.

4:52 He was born in mad At in New York in nineteen oh eight. He was in show business over eighty years. He started out as the Breuster brown boy in shoe advertise. Then he did vaudeville, theater, radio, TV movies. Nineteen forty eight, Milton he became the first big TV star. Yeah, he hosted the Texico Star Theater every Tuesday night. He had ninety percent of the share of the audience. I think that there might have only been one channel that ran for eight years. He played Vegas a lot over the years. That was kind of his big thing. The last acting really did was in two thousand was on Keenan and Kill. He formed the Friar's Cub and he's hanging around on was Entertainment Friends. He married and divorced his first wife twice. They had one child each time they were married. He had one child from his next wife nineteen ninety one, he dialed ninety He married his third wife fourth time. Anyway.

5:38 They were together until he died from coman cancer in two thousand and two. Ninety three years old, and I want. To sing a songboy, you. Show your hands upon now with me game. Private job. Well, since he served his time in prison, I think we can talk about him again. Comedian actor Bill Cosby's eighty eight and he's one of Philadelphia. He ran track and played football for Temple University. Started doing stand up in nineteen sixty one. Now he is still one of the most successful stand up comedians of all time. Whether you like I Run On. He released still over twenty country albums or comedy albums and videos. Now the first series on TV he was on His Ice Spy. Then he voiced Fat Aubert. He had turned in sixty episodes on The Electric Company. Hit absolutely huge in the nineteen eighties with The Cosby Show. The nineties he just did Cosby.

6:39 He received seventy two honorary doctorates from college and universities, sixty two of him rescinded Yeah when he was convicted of sexual assault basically a rape day he got married nineteen sixty four. I had five children. His only son he was murdered, and one of his daughters, she died waiting for a kidney transplant. So that was Christine McVie singing for Fleetwood Mac. She was born Perfect. Yeah, her name was Christine Perfect. She's born in nineteen forty three in Greenot, England. She started out in the band Chicken Shack.

7:26 Then in nineteen seventies she loved Chicken Shack and joined Fleetwood Mac. Now she didn't sing lead a lot, and she mostly played keyboard and did backup singing, but she did a lot of their songwriting. Yeah, she wrote her cover pretty much all her has I mean eight of the ten songs that are on Fleetwood Max's Greatest H's so yeah, she wrote them. She married John mcvee for eight years, then she married her second cousin for seventeen years until they divorced. Christine she died from a stroke in twenty twenty two. It's seventy nine years old. Actress show Lad. She's seventy four. She's born a here on South Dakota. Started out as a singer. Yeah, she started singing and tour with the group The Music Shop. Then she sang in that cartoon Josie and the pussy Cats, those around nineteen seventy. Then she started hitting getting regular acting jobs. So she did that hit really big on the TV show Charlie's Angels. Yeah, she replaced pharrelph Fawcett.

8:09 After that, she was on the TV show Lats Vegas. Biggest movie probably Poison Ivy Charles. She had a daughter from her first Sasin. She married her second husband in nineteen eighty one. Robin Wilson sings late for the Jin Blossoms. Robin sixty today, He's Bunny Detroit. Grew up in Tempe, Arizona. Now they're actually on tour right now. I know they in August. If you want to go see him, you go see him with your hair as hey jealousy found out about you till I hear it from you. Follow you damn Now. The singer for the band The smither Rings.

8:55 He died back in twenty seventeen. H Robin. He fills in for the Smith Rains every once in a while. His wife is actually the state manager for Saturday Night Live and they have two kids. Actress Michelle Rodriguez is forty seven. She's born in San Antonio, Texas. On TV, she started a loss, then she started playing left Your T's and all Those Fast in the Furious Movie Fans franchise movies. She was also in a couple of resident evil movies Swat Avatar Now Michelle she didn't know she didn't have a driver's license when they started filming that very first Fast in the Fist movie. Yeah, they made her go get one, you know, since the movie is kind of all about like driving cars. Stuff. Time. It's Saturday, very mean, Sandy, blame me down on the jet Roses sat.

9:43 Side away. That was Kimberly Perry singing for the band Perry. Kimberly is forty two. She's born in Jackson, Mississippi. Now, she and her two brothers. They formed band Perry in two thousand and five. They had to hits If I Die Young, You Lie All Your Life Better Dig two. Now they've been on hiatus since twenty twenty three. I mean they can't break up. I mean that would make Christmas and thanks Giving really weird. Kimberly, she's released a solo album since then, and she's been married to her first her second husband since two twenty twenty one, and they just recently had a son. Alrighty, Our quote of the day is gonna come from the fourth first Lady of the United States, Dolly Madison. She died to day in eighteen forty nine, at eighty one years old, Dolly said, it is one of my sources of happiness. Never to desire knowledge of another person's business. Well, thank you all for listening. Don't forad to follow us on? Who you listen to us on? Comes here as a cool media dot com that's cool with three yohs our country underground radio artists Today. Comes from Jen out there and Here's Burg, Pennsylvania.

10:41 She wants to hear Brinley Addington song. No thanks you guys, have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. No me, no smoke, no cold beard, no thirty jokes, no contracutings, no cheating drinks, no good no use o things. I wanna go where the knive's gonna go. Juke box on a band play in solid country, gold gap, feeling big city Gone, getting nitty gritty all with the pretty cherry. Bomb on the dance floor. I wanna feel the wind makes me feel when the good times rug ain't renvent the WI. Now, I gotta say, that's in my kind of place. So if it is a malling, if it ain't no thing.

11:40 Bout service v IP over reach there you asked me dj S been feel in the blank. Thank you kind of let it do no things. I wanna go where the knives gonna go. Juke box on playing solid country. God yeah, were in the big city, all getting ditty gritty, all with the pretty Jerry go on the danceport. I'm on the Bill, the Wind mix with Bill when the Good. Times Road ain't when that little video now, I gotta say that's Mick got play.

12:21 So if it is morning, if it ain't, no take