Nov 19-Monopoly, Gettysburg Address, Meg Ryan, Jodi Foster, Billy Currington, Adam Driver, Pop Tarts

0:09 Hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history and factoids about today. Visit a bike, cool media. Today's November the nineteenth. Hell oh oh, come Monopolies, Monopoly, ol pol It's param. What if you fail. You tell? Today is National Play Monopoly Day. Now if you have an extra five to seven hours to kill, yeah, no better way to spend it than playing Monopoly. Nineteen oh three, Lizzie Maggie. She created a board game that she called Landlord's Game. The Parker Brothers bought her out and changed the name of Monopoly in nineteen thirty five, one of the most popular board games in history. Now there are over three hundred versions of Monopoly. You can even get one umbrail if you want Monopoly now. It does help with math and analytical skills. So put down those video games once in a while and grab your friends and family and play a rousing game of Monopoly.

1:12 All right? What happened on entertainment No November the nineteenth Let's back to nineteen eighty three number one album was Synchronicity by the Police. I'm a rich you have the number one song with all night long, You're gonna. Have a bone. Oh no, oh night. Yay Nice. Barbara Mandreu had the number one country song with One of a Kind, Pair of Fools. One of the cod one mast and.

2:04 One of the Kind. The number one book was pet Cemetery by Stephen King. Top movie was Emonyville three D. A journalist moves into the Amiteville murder House that's also haunted. Yeah, I didn't have a good time, but it wasn't. Three D star as Tony Roberts, Tess Harper, and Robert Joy. Nineteen ninety, the pop duo Milli Vanilli had their Grammy Awards taken away from him. Yeah, the Grammy's ever being real stricklers, they said that he actually had to sing in order to win a Grammy award. Yeah, Milli Vanilli, they didn't sing on their award winning album Girl. You know it's true. Now I can see how you could lip sync at a live concert or on stage. I don't see you slip sync in a record though. All right. What happened on November the nineteenth Today is National Discover Puerto Rico Day. This was a big party in Puerto Rico.

2:52 It was Christopher Columbus. See him and his men were the first Europeans to land on Puerto Rico today and fourteen ninety three. Now that was his second voice. So this time he had seventeen ships and twelve hundred men. Now I named it San Juan Batista translated into Saint John the Baptist. Sixteen twenty, the ship the Mayflower, it found Cape cod So now they had to start going up and down the coast looking for a place to come ashore. Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now that wasn't him, but it was today. In eighteen sixty three of the Yes, President Abraham Lincoln delivered as Gettysburg Address. The speech is only two hundred seventy words two hundred and seventy two words long. Yeah, but it's one of the most famous speeches in the United States history. Now, I gave the speech four and a half months late after the Battle of Gettysburg that was fought in Pennsylvania. Yeah, he was dedicating that battle side is a national cemetery. Now, on the three days of fighting in Gettysburg, there were fifty one thousand casualties between the north and South. Thirty two hundred Confederate soldiers were buried there, but not with the honors. So in the seventies, Southern veteran groups they moved the remains of the Confederate soldiers the cemeteries in Virginia, Georgia, and the Carolinas. But not all the Confederate soldiers actually got moved. There's still a few buried up there in Gettysburg with their Northern bredlyn. Now everybody knows how the speech begins, but do you know exactly how long four score and seven years is? Yeah, eighty seven years. A score is twenty years. Eighteen ninety five in Philly, Frederick

4:23 Blaisdell he invented the self sharpening paper pencil. Today we call it the China marker. Yeah, the one at the string. Nineteen sixty five, pop tarts were invented. Sixty one percent of all of us eat pop tarts without toasting them, you know, we just eat them out of the box. Nineteen sixty nine, aboard Apollo twelve, astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean became the third and fourth people to walk on the moon. Now, as Conrad stepped down to the moon, he yelled, whoop be man. It might have been a small step for Neil, but that was a big one for me. Who see now that is cool. That is showing a motion. I mean you're on the moon for crying out loud. A lot better than mol stup real good. Nineteen ninety seven in Des Moines, Iowa, Betty mccaffee, she gave birth to the first steptuplest to survive infancy. That's seven babies. Now. The four boys and three girls are all twenty seven years old today. So I guess we might as well do birthdays.

5:15 J joke, joke, show dish SHIVERBF day, were gonna pu he left this shiverthday. We want simple targe. He like this shibirthday. And you know we don't give birthday o guys. He was born on November the nineteenth. James Garfield is born in Moreland Hills, Ohio in eighteen thirty one. He was a lawyer and then we gave me a Union general during the Civil War. He was the twentieth United States President, Sir from March fourth, eighteen eighty one till September nineteenth, eighteen eighty one. On July second, Garfield. He was waiting for a train at a station in New Jersey. Total nut job walked up behind him and shot him in the back of the arm. Garfield he suffered for over two months before finally died. Now, that nut job that shot him, he had never met Garfield, they didn't know each and he had absolutely no qualifications for any government job. Well, he had written Garfield, you're asking for a job in the government. When he didn't get an interview, he thought Garfield screwed him over. That's why he shot him. Garfield.

6:12 He is forty nine years old. When he died. He left a wife and seven kids. Now, even though they deal that that guy was crazy, yeah, they still executed him. Ted Turner's eighty six. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in nineteen thirty eight. Started out on billboards, took over his dad's billboard company, then became a medium mogul, started CNN, TBS, TNT, TCMAH, a whole bunch of them. He is the fourth largest landowner in the United States. He owns over two million acres his land. He owns his are in the states from New Mexico, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Montana, raises bison mostly has fifty thousand head a bison. That's the largest private bison heard in the world. Ted he had two children from his first wife, three children from his second wife. Then he married Jane Fonda for ten years. Yeah, that pretty much put him off marriage. Actor Dan Haggerty is born in Pound, Wisconsin in nineteen forty one. He was this big, burly bearded guy. Now helped build the motorcycles for the movie Easy Rider, and he kind of dug it, so he decided he was going to go into acting.

7:07 Best know, I'm playing Grizzly Adams on TV. He had two daughters from his first wife. He had two sons from his second wife. Now. She died in a motorcycle accident in two thousand and eight. Dan he died from spinal cancer in twenty sixteen and seventy four years old. Actress Kathleen Quinland she's seventy. She was born in Pasadena, California, in nineteen fifty four. Her first movie was American Graffiti at Airport seventy seven, The Hills Abbes. She was nominated for an Oscar for Apollo thirteen. She was married twice or she married twice and divorced twice. She had one son from her second husband. Actress Alison Janey.

7:54 She was born in Boston in nineteen fifty nine. She's sixty five. On TV, she starred on The West Wing and then Mom. She's been in an over sixty movie is best one I think was drop dead Gorgeous. She did win an oscar for Itania. She's been nominated two times for Tony's for the work she does on Broadway. Actress Meg Ryan. She's sixty three. She's born in Fairfield, Connecticut in nineteen sixty one. Start out on the daytime soap opera Has the World Turned. Then she hit in the movie Top Gun when Harry met Sally sleepless in Seattle. You've Got Meal Meg. She was married to actor Dennis Quaid for ten years and they had a son. After the divorce, Meg she adopted a daughter in two thousand and six, Now Meg. She was originally offered the role that Jody Foster took in the movie Silence.

8:34 Of the Lamb. Yeah, Meg turned it down. Now Speak of the Devil. Jodi Foster's sixty two today. She was born in Los Angeles in nineteen sixty two. She started out as a model when she was three years old. Then when she was twelve years old, she was nominated for an Oscar for Taxi Driver. She's also been nominated for Oscars for Nell and Nyad. She won Oscars for The Accused and Silence of the Lamb. Now, I guess my favorite Jodi Foster movie would be Maverick Jody. She had two sons from a long time girlfriend and then she married her wife in twenty fourteen. Pt Lea's scene of you don't think that is true? Won't you to love me like my don't do me when I come home? Won't you to just go crazy?

9:18 He never looks to me like he mine? Heye me? Won't you to love like my dog? Country singer Billy Currington was born in Savannah, Georgia, in nineteen seventy three. He's fifty one. He said over about a dozen number one country songs. Some of them are must be doing something right, good directions, pretty good at drinking beer. I don't hurt it, don't hurt like it used to do. I make you want it now, Billy, He's gonna be out here next summer if you want to go check him out. I wasn't married yet, but he does have a dog. Forty one year old actor Adam Driver was born in Funtanic, California, in nineteen eighty three. Grew up in Indiana. He had big playing Kylo Wrenn in the Star Wars sequel trilogy movie. Now he has nominated for Oscars for Black Clansmen and Marriage Story. He married in twenty thirteen and they have a son and a daughter. Now, Adam he founded Arts in the Armed Forces.

10:09 It's a nonprofit that performs theater for all branches of the military here at home and abroad. So that's pretty cool. I want to talk more about Monopoly now, more Monopoly money is printed each year than real US dollars. Well, thank you for listening to us, and no I forget to follow us. Whoever you listen to is on Come see us at coolmedia dot com. That's cool with three us and it's just going out on the other podcasts, the radio stations and all that fun stuff. Let's end the country singer Mel tillis, as. You said, you're just a cold, cold cow mowing. You got a slud smile and Robert Redford head.

10:53 Let you walt to chrousy my heart luck it was Texas. Hell died today in twenty seventeen, at eighty five years old. He says, everything was fine growing up, and then when I went to school, I found out I couldn't talk. Well, if you don't know, Mel, he stuttered. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow