June 25th-Catfish, Carly Simon, Jimmy Walker, Split Enz, Ricky Gervais, George Michael, Michael Jackson

0:19 Hey, Hello, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factor. It's about today. This is June twenty fifth. I do like cat cat cat cat cat cat catfish bever Trumbo. I got that cat cat cat cat cat cat calffish beanver. Today is National Catfish Day. Catfish. They're named after their long barbels that look like cat whiskers. Catfish. They're one of the most eaten fish in America. You can have them breaded, fried, grilled, smoked. Now Catfish Farm and it's exploded over the last thirty years. They're really healthy for you. But if you do want to go to a restaurant, you can go catfish. Yeah, they're really fun to catch.

1:01 The biggest catfish ever caught in the United States was a blue catfish. It was got Virginia in twenty eleven, one hundred and forty three pounds. So I have joined some catfish today, just a siding up humans. We had between two thousand and four thousand taste buds catfish one hundred and seventy five thousand. Let's see what's going on in their team. Nine June the twenty fifth, Let's go back to two thousand and six number one album was December Underground by Afi Shakira and white Cliff Jean. They had the number one song with hipstone line. Maybe when you're talking on the woman gomes so be waning beating them onto log four stone line I'm starting talking here.

1:42 This train track attempts to see if they did kiss shit. Kenny Chas and he had the numb one country song was Summertime, ship Shades. And a tough Are You the bottle of the Our big song on the radio single colls Want we Know a smile, It's a kiss, It's a simple. Time. The number one selling book was The Husband by Dean Konz. The top movie was Click Adam Sandler. He finds a remote control that allows him to fast forward and rewind over different parts of his life. Well It, I'll go South from the remote kind of takes over and overrides what he decides to do. Also stars Kate Beckhamsale and Christopher walkin All Right, What Happened on June the twenty fifth Happy Bert David g It's Today. In seventeen eighty eight, Virginia became our tenth state. It's named after England's Queen Elizabeth. She is known as the virgin Queen.

3:08 I guess that's why Virginia is for lovers. It's capital is Richmond. Highest point is Mount Rogers at five thy seven and twenty nine feet. Virginia state bird is the Cardinal fish is brook, trout, flower and tree are the dogwood. Mammal is the Virginia Big eared bat. State drink in Virginia Rye whiskey. Eight presidents have been born in Virginia. That's the most of any state. Some other people born in Virginia Sandra Bullock, Patsy Klein, Chris Pratt, Missy Elliott, Gabby Douglas, Rob Lowe, Warren Baty with Wayne Newton just some of the people born in the Old Dominion state. Now, it was Custer's last stand today in eighteen seventy six at the Battle Little Big Horn in Montana, Sioue. Indians, led by chiefs Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, they ale to kill Custer and all Turner in sixty eight of his men. That included two of his brothers, his nephew, and his brother in law. Nineteen ten, the United States passed the Man's Act that said that women could not cross state lines for immoral purposes. Now Man was m Ann.

4:06 It was a guy's name. Nineteen thirty eight the United States, the minimum wage log kind of went into effect there. Yeah, they said you could only work forty four hours a week, no more, and you were guaranteed twenty five cents an hour. Nineteen fifty the Korean War began North Korea. They wanted the whole country to be communists, so they attacked South Korea with over sixty thousand troops. But China and Soviet Union they jumped in on North Korea sign some of the United States and the United Nations jumped in on South Korea. Sign A ceasefire was signed in nineteen fifty three, but technically the war's still going on. See no peace treat he has ever been signed, just that truce nineteen sixty one. Over in Iraq, they declared that Kuwait is part of Iraq. Kuwait declared, no, we aren't. That's the rationale that Saddam Hussein used to invade Kuwait in nineteen ninety.

4:51 How would you like to hold this record? Nineteen seventy seven, Virginia park ranger Roy Sullivan. He was struck by lighting for the seventh time. He lived again. First time he was struck by Lightning was in nineteen forty two. Jo stopopop joke shug, dish Shivers Day, Please gonna pu he left dish shiver We got simple potage. She's like dish shivers Day. And you know we don't Birthday. Well, let's check out a barn on June twenty fifth, starring June Lockhart.

5:32 You Riley. John Provo, says Timmy and of course last actress Jim Lockhart. She started acting in nineteen thirty three, when she's eight years old. June was born in New York City in nineteen twenty five. She just died last ye October, one hundred years old. She's one of the last surviving actors from the Hollywood Golden Nasier. She wanted Tony Reward once, but she's best known for TV. She played Timmy's mom on Lassie Juned Up too So then she was on the mom in Lost in Space. She was a doctor in Petticoat Junction. She retired from acting in twenty twenty one at ninety six years old. Said that was enough. Now. She has twice divorced. She had two daughters from her first husband. Get this Jim Huge David boyfriend.

6:15 They be ab So you p this song is bad your So do you think this song is about. Dog? Now? Carly says that all three verses of that song are about different guys. Now the first verse, yeah, it is about Warren Baby. Carly Simon's eighty three. She's born in New York City in nineteen forty three. Her dad, he co founded Simon and Schuster, that been publishing company. Carly, she started out singing with her sister. They were the Simon's Sisters. Her sister quit in nineteen seventy one. Yeah, then Carly hit huge after that. Some of her ads are Mockingbird. That was with James Taylor. You're so van vain, nobody does it better Jesse. She still releases music. If you want to go, hit up her website. She was married to James Taylor for eleven years and they had two daughters. She is married to her second husband for twenty years when they divorced. Now, Carly she has a breast cancer survivor since nineteen eighty eight, so that's cool.

7:37 Comedian Jimmy Walker was born in Brooklyn, New York, in nineteen forty seven, and he's forty nine now. He's still tours doing a stand up comedian act. Yeah, it's tours all the time. So if you want to check him, he's probably coming to your town pretty soon. Best No, not for playing JJ on the sitcom Good Times, but on the show he got a really famous catchphrase final Yeah, that kind of got him pretty type cast. He was able to get into the movies The Rabbit Trap, Concord Airport seventy nine, Going Bananas, Sweet shout out. That's no problem. He's the same.

8:21 Towns. That was Tim Finn singing lid for the band Split Ends. Tim was born in New Zealand in nineteen fifty two seventy four today. He co founded Split Ends in nineteen seventy two. I Got You One Step Ahead six months in a Leaky Boat and similar songs now and they broke up. He joined his brother in the band Crowded House. That didn't work out so well, so he's raised eleven solo albums since Tim He's married and they have a son and a daughter. Comedian Ricky Gervais is sixty five. He's born Reading, England in nineteen sixty one. The nineteen eighties is a new wave band. Yeah. They were called the Siona dance that didn't pay the bills though. In the nineties went into stand up comedian and he co created the TV show The Office over in Britain is such a huge hit they brought to the United States. In movies, he played Doctor McPhee and Night at the Museum movies. Most of his movies are actually voice rolls. He was on the show The Office here in the United States for eight years. He's been with his girlfriend since nineteen eighty two. Nope, they never had any entire desire to get married or have kids.

9:30 Waste. George Michael His born is East Finchley, England. In nineteen sixty three, he and Andrew Riginally they formed Wham in nineteen eighty one, sold over thirty million records. Then they went their own ways. In nineteen eighty six, of course, George hit huge solo, sold over on hundred twenty five million records. Solo. Now he was with his boyfriend for four years when he died. See, we had a lot of trouble with drugs a long long time. Yeah. I finally got him at twenty sixteen, at fifty three years old. All right, our quote of the day, it's gonna come from Michael Jackson. Michael died today in two thousand and nine at fifty years old. He said, I will never stop loving and helping people the way Jesus said to thank you for listening today, and don't forget to follow us whenever you listen to on check out the show notes that has off the links so you can find us forever we're doing Our country und ground radio artists Today comes from tim in South Dakota. He was there, Timothy Craig song cigarettes some bad decisions. You guys have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow. Hey, hey, it's not just what you're raffing. Everybody knows.

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11:49 He had nothing wrong with believing, following your heart, sticking to your guns. Looking to go a ride with no phyme or reason, got no window. I way, No when your done Now, I'm on. My way down. No provision, thanks, smelling my cigarettes. Bad decisions.