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. Come home, Come, I got that cat cat cat cat cat cat catfish beever. 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 side up, humans, we have between two thousand and four thousand taste buds catfish one hundred and seventy five thousand. All right, this is going on entertainment on June twenty fifth. It's back. In nineteen seventy four number one album was Sunden Down by Gordon Lightfoot, Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods add the number one song with Billy, Don't be a hero. Don't don't be fool, You're luck. Don't come back. He started to come, She.

1:47 Said, your head, nicky Gilly. He had the number one country song with Room Full of Roses. Your five cent of Rose to you, Hello, every time you mad me Blue Hell Blue. The number one book was Watershipped Down by Richard Adams. Top movie was Chinatown nineteen thirties Hollywood. A private eye is hired to expose an adulter. Well, he ends up in a huge mess and includes a murder. Stars Jack Nicholson, Fade Dounaway and John Houston. All Right, what happened on June the twenty fifth? Happy Birthday, Virginia?

2:55 This 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. I guess that's why Virginia is for lovers. Its capital is Richmond. Highest point is Mount Rogers at five thousand 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 Elliot, Gabby Douglas, Rob Lowe, Warren Baty with Wayne Newton. It is 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, Siue, Indians, led by Chiefs Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, they were able 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.

4:01 It was a guy's name. Nineteen thirty eight the United States the minimum wage log kind of went into effect. There. Yeah, it said you could only work forty four hours a week, no more, and he 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 by 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 wars 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 Kwait in nineteen ninety. How would you like to hold this record? Nineteen seventy seven, Virginia Park ranger Roy Sullivan. He was struck by lightning for the seventh time. He lived again. First time he was struck by lightning it was in nineteen forty two.

5:00 Joke Boop joked joke shot dish Shibbert day, Please Donna, he left dish shim day. We want simpleta let dish Shibbert's Day and you you don't. Do well, Let's check out a barn one June twenty fifth. Starring June Lockhart. You Riley John Provos says Jimmy and of course. Lastic actress June Lockhart. She started acting in nineteen thirty three when she's eight years old. June is one hundred years old today. She's born in New York City. She's one of the last surviving actors from the Hollywood Golden Nasier.

5:47 She wanted Tony Reward once, but she's best known for TV. She played Timmy's mom on Lassie two hundred episodes. Then she was on The Mom in Loston Spad. She was a doctor in Petticoat Junction. She retired from acting in twenty twenty one. At night six years old, said that was enough. Now she has twice divorced. She had two daughters from her first husband. Get this, June Huge David boyfriend. They be a So you probably think this song is about your. So do you think this song is about jo Je.

6:28 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 two. She's born in New York City. Her dad he co founded Simon and Schuster, that be publishing company. Carly she started out singing with her sister. They were the Simon's Sisters or sister quit in nineteen seventy one. Yeah, then Carly hit huge after that. Some of her ads are Mockingbird, that is 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. Comedian Jimmy Walker. He was born in Brooklyn, New York in seventy eight. Now he's still tours doing a stand up comedian act. Yeah, it's tours all the time.

7:36 So if you want to check him, he's probably coming to your town pretty soon. Best know 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 casts. He was able to get into the movies The Rabbit Trap, Concord Airport seventy nine, Going Bananas. Some time, shout out, that's no problem. Same up.

8:17 That was Tim Finn singing lid for the band Split Ends. He was born in New Zealand, seventy three years old today. He co founded Split Ends in nineteen seventy two. I Got You One Step Ahead, six months in a Leaky Boat and some of their 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. He was born in Reading, England. He's sixty four. The nineteen eighties is a new wave band. Yeah, they were called the Siona Dance. That didn't pay the bills though, so in the nineties and went in a stand up comedian and he co created the TV show The Office over in Britain. It was such a huge hit they brought to the United States. In movies, he played Doctor McPhee and Night at the Museum Movie. Most of his movies are actually voice Rolls. He was on the show The Office here in the United States for eight years now. He's been with his girlfriend since nineteen eighty two. Nope, they never had any entire desire to get married or have kids.

9:18 Gee waste. Yes. George Michael. His born is East Finchley, England. In nineteen sixty three. He and Andrew Originally 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 ate huge solo, sold over on hundred twenty five million records. Solo. Now he was with his boyfriend for four years when he died. See, George had a lot of trouble with drugs a long long time. Yeah, 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 you. Well, thank you all for listening. Don't forget to follow us on you listen to this on now. If you want to have a request from our country underground artists in the day. Yeah, I just got to a country undground radio dot com. On the bottom of the page. There's a little message button just at that and say what song you want to hear and where you're from. Our country underground radio artists today Today comes from tim in South Dakota. You want to sear Timothy Cragg and his song cigarettes and bad Decisions. You guys, have a great day and we'll talk tomorrow.

10:53 Hey, hey, not just what you're rafting. Everybody knows it's all. About the trip. He had been on. The highest mountain and preaching for the scars, got his quotes, syc. Good, get hit it up right and burned it out cold. I plied my hand up in and left the show. Should I go left when right's been all along? Should I head south back where. I came from? Now I'm on my way down? No provisions, smelling like cigarettes. Bad decisions.

11:46 He had nothing wrong with believing, following your heart, sticking to your guns, to go a ride with no phyme or reason. Got no wind, no walk away, no when you're done. Now I'm on my way down, no provision, I'm smelling my cigarettes. Bad decisions.