Nov 18-Apple Cider, Mickey Mouse, Kevin Nealon, Kim Wilde, Owen Wilson, Duncan Sheik, Calvin & Hobbs

0:10 Happy Monday, everybody. I hope you had an awesome weekend. This is history. In fact, it's about today, presented by Cool Media. I am Jeffing. Today is November the eighteenth. Apple Today is National Apple Cider Day. Apple cider it goes way back to three thousand BC is created by the Celts in England. Now, it wasn't really like it was today now because back there the only apples they had were cranapples. Yeah, they were pretty bitter. But then in fifty five BC the Romans invaded England. They kind of liked the apple cider, but those cran apples I had to go. So the Romans they brought in their own apple trees. Yeah, started growing apple orchis over there.

1:05 The good thing is apple cider is a lot better. Bad thing is, though, if they're planting trees, they ain't leaving now apple cider that really hasn't changed that much since around fifty five BC. Now, not the hardsider, but apple cider is actually really healthy for you and drinking applesider it kind of makes it feel like fall in the holiday time of year. So enjoy some apple cider today. Now, today's also National Princess day, So if you have some little girls at home, you can have fun with that. All right, this is going on entertainment. On November the eighteenth, it was back to nineteen ninety three number one album with Versus with Pearl jam Me lo If had the number one song with I'd Do Anything for Love, But I won't do that No. No too.

2:00 Mark Chestnut had the number one country song with almost Goodbye. Shooting many. Say, but you long. Was loading. It by. The Number one book was Slow Waltson Cedar Band by Robert James Waller. The top movie was Adam's Family Values to Adams Family, they try to rescue Uncle Fester from a psycho chick, stars Raoul Julia, Angelica Houston, and Christopher Lloyd. All Right, what happened on November the eighteenth? Now, according to legend, it was today in thirteen oh seven in Switzerland that William Tell refused to honor the king. His punishment, he had to shoot an apple off of his son's head with his bow and arrow. Now, the story goes that Tell successfully shot that apple, lost des on net.

2:56 Then that started a whole chaining reaction events that ended up with Tel killing That was king. That he'd refused to owner. Sixteen twenty six, in Rome, Saint Peter's Basilica was consecrated. Say, this one was built on the original Saint Petersburg's Basilica spot that they built there and around three twenty six in the year then. But they had to tear that one down in fifteen oh five. So they started building this one in fifteen oh six, finished it today sixteen twenty six. That's the one that they that's still standing today. Now, when a church is consecrated, that means it's basically formally open for religious and divine purposes. Now, back in the day, every city in town went by their own time zone. Yeah, they picked what time it was and that was it. That made railroad travel a real bitch.

3:39 Then in eighteen eighty three of the United States and Canada they agreed on four standard time zones. Those four would replace over one hundred time zones that were already being used. They went with Eastern, Central Mountain and Pacific time zones. The rest of the world saw what was happening in North America. Hey, that's a pretty good idea. Within months, the entire world was going by standard time zones. Now it starts at the prim Radio which passes through Greenwich, England. That's when you hear Greenwich meantime. Now the Primardian that is zero on the longitude line, and that's where all the starting point is. Nineteen oh two. A toy maker in Brooklyn, New York, Morris Mitchitan. He named the stepp Bears. He was selling Teddy Bears after Yes President Theodore Roosevelt. Nineteen sixteen and World War One, a British general named Douglas Haig. He called off the Battle of the soul Over in France. The battle had been raging since July first. Now with every result dug in in those trenches the front line, it only moved five miles that entire time. Now it's one of the bloodiest battles in history between England, France and Germany. One million, one hundred and twenty thousand men were either killed or wounded. Haig, he said, this is just stupid. He was able to stop the whole thing. Nineteen sixty one, President John Kennedy, he said, eighteen thousand military advisors the south of Vietnam.

4:49 That won't end. Will In nineteen sixty three, the first touchdown telephones went into service started out in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. If customers wanted a touchdown the phone instead of a rotary dove, it costs me extra dollar fifty a month. Now for you young listeners. See back when when you got a phone in your house, you rented the telephone from the telephone company. Yeah. See, it wasn't until nineteen eighty three that you could actually go buy a telephone and plug it into your house. So yeah, before then, pretty much everybody's telephones all looked the same. You pretty much had the choice. You could have one on hanging from the wall, you could have one sitting on your desk. Nineteen seventy eight, the Jonestown massacre happened in Guyana at a religious cult called People's Temple, was led by Jim Jones.

5:31 Yeah, Jim. He ordered all the members to commit suicide by drinking the cyanide Lays grape drink basically kool aid. Nine and eighteen members died, That includes Jones. The few who didn't drink. Yeah, they got killed. Guyana. It's on the northeast coast of South America. And if you're wondering all those cult members, yeah, pretty much all of them from the United States that fled to Guiana to get away from the American government. It was after him for being nuts. Nineteen eighty five, the best comic strip of all time, Calvin Haws, was published for the first time, created by Bill Waters, about a six year old boy, Calvin, and his best friend at Tiger named Hobbs. Any idea what Calvin's last name is Jacobsen joke joke, joke.

6:12 Joke, dish shibert Day. We're gonna he left this shibthday. We want simpletage. He's like this shibirth day and you you don't. Give Let's see. It was born out November the eighteenth. In the original National Lambood Vacation movie, where chevy Chase takes his family to Wally World, they have to give a ride to Aunt Edna, who dies on the way. Well. She's played by I'm a Gene Coco. She was born in Philadelphia in nineteen oh eight, started acting in nineteen twenty five. Now she stayed busy acting her entire life. She was nominated for Tony and when She's eighty years old. She was nominated for the sixth time for an Emmy. Yeah, it's for an episode of moonlighting. Her first husband died after twenty years of marriage. Her second husband died after twenty seven years of marriage. She died in natural causes in two thousand and one at ninety two years old. Astronaut Alan shepp He was born in Darry, New Hampshire. In nineteen twenty three, he was the second person and the first American to go into space.

7:06 Ten years later, in nineteen seventy one, he was a fifth person to walk on the Moon. He's the asternat that hit the golf balls up there. He got a little trouble for that. See, he had to sneak the head of a six iron and the golf balls out of the spacecraft. Yeah, that was a big no no. But when he didn't get caught and he landed on the moad, he attached the six iron head to a dirt sample scoop andle. Yeah. You would have thought that those golf balls would have sailed like crazy up there, but because of that big bulky soup and those huge Asz gloves. Yeah, his first shot on he went twenty four yards and his checond shot only went forty yards. Alan he got married nineteen forty five and they had three daughters. He died from leukemi in nineteen ninety eight to seventy four years old. Now today is also National Mickey Mouse Day. Yeah, it's Mickey's ninety sixth birthday. Hey there, Hi, there, Hold there.

8:05 In nineteen twenty eight, the first Mickey Mouse short film was released, Steve Boat Willie Walt Disney. He's always Mickey. For the first nineteen years, Mickey actually being started being called Mortimer Mouse. It was Walt Disney's wife and assisted. To be Mickey. That was a good call by her. Now Mickey is a first cartoon character to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Now he wears white gloves so you can see his hands. See without those, you couldn't see his hands, and they just kind of bleed in with the rest of his body. Mickey. His full name is Michael Theodore Mouse. Actress Linda Evan. She's eighty two. She was born in Hartford, Connecticut in nineteen forty two. Best known for Ted. He first got known on The Big Valley, then she hit huge on Dynasty. Her first husband was movie director John Derrick.

8:46 After six years of marriage, he left her to go marry seventeen year old bo Derek Linda. She did marry a second husband for four years and then she dated Yannie for ten years. John Parr he was born in Worksop, England in nineteen fifty two, makes him seventy two. Some of his hits are naughty, naughty, magical, Blame it on the radio. That a song sant Almos Fireman in Motion that made it off the lift number one. Johnny has two sons. One of the sons is a big time soap opera star over there in England. Actor comedian Kevin Naland's seventy one. He was born in Saint Louis, Missouri, in nineteen fifty three. Started out as a stand up comedian.

9:42 Still is he's still tours. He's on tour right now. He actually had show scheduled all the way until May. If you want to go see him. He was on Saturday Night Live from nineteen eighty six to nineteen ninety five. Then he was on Weeds for seven years. Been in almost every Adam Sandler movie. I mean, he did Daddy Daycare about Adam. Kevin he married his second wife and two thousand and five and they have a son, sixty four year old Kim wib was born in just Wick, England in nineteen sixty and Breton Kim. She was the most started female singer of the nineteen eighties. Some of her hits on This Side of the Pond or Kids in America, You Keep Me Hanging On, Say you really want Me?

10:37 You came Now. She released his new music and she touris but only in Europe as she gave up on the United States. She was married for twenty five years and they had a son and a daughter before they divorced. Actor Owen Wilson. He was born in Dallas, Texas in nineteen sixty eight and he's fifty six. His younger brother is actor Luke Wilson. Oh, and he's made around seventy movies. Some of them are did those Zuolander movies? Behind in Me, Lines, Wedding Crashers, all those fucker movies. Done a lot of writing. Yeah. He was actually nominated for an Oscar for Best Screenplay for the Royal tenhem Bumps. He has three children from three ex girlfriends. Me a cap you see, I See.

11:19 Behind, Sion cap Behind, Yeah, don't know, life in Iagin You? Yeah, that's duncan Chike. He's fifty five. He's born in Mountclair, New Jersey. In nineteen sixty nine. He was going to college at Brown University. He played guitar in a band with a fellow student named Lisa Loebe. After they graduated, they went their separate ways. Some of his solo hits are barely Breathing, Reason for Living, wishful Thinking, on High. He composes a lot of music for movies and Broadway shows. He's in Won two Tonyes, Duncan him and his girlfriend. They have a daughter. Let's talk some more about Mickey now Mickey and Minnie Mouse.

12:02 They are married on screen and in real life. Wow's that well? Mickey and Minnie. They married nineteen thirty three nineteen eighty six Wayne Alwine, he voiced Mickey. He married Russi Taylor, who voiced Minnie. So they got it all covered there. Well, thank you for listening today. I don't forget to follow us on whoever you listen to us on any want to hear the best independent country music anywhere. Don't forget about country underground radio. And I was good at Country underground radio dot com. But it's everywhere. The twenty first President of the United States, Chester A. Arthur He died today in eighteen eighty six, at fifty seven years old. Chester said, many men have died, but the fabric of a free institution remains unshaken. I have no idea what that means, but you all have yourselves an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow