Nov 2-Devil Eggs, Nelly, David Schwimmer, Great Australian Emu War, North & South Dakota Birthdays

0:19 Hello, I am Jeff, and welcome to History and Factoids About Today. Today is November the 2nd. I'm going to be honest with you, I'm a little surprised my co-host actually had time for all of us today. She's in academia, she teaches, she writes really killer fiction books, she has a totally awesome podcast, and she researches and writes about the paranormal, ghosts and hauntings and that kind of stuff. Oh, and she's a mom and a wife. Erin, thanks for being here today. Why don't you tell everybody a little bit about yourself? Well, thank you for having me. Yeah, you're You pretty much covered it. But yes, I am an author of both fiction and nonfiction, but I prefer my fiction if I'm not... If I'm being completely honest. I love fantasy and romance, you know, because of the woman. But I also...

1:05 I have my own show called Plot Twist Radio. When I'm not doing that, I am a professor of history and archaeology and an English teacher to a bunch of high school freshmen. So I've got a lot going on. You're right. Now that you think about it, it's kind of like, how am I doing this? Yeah, I wonder that a lot, actually. So if you could just sit down and just, okay, you have to just pick one. Could you pick one? Oh, see, I think I would stick with the plot twist radio. I actually like it. And I didn't think I would like it actually, cause I'm kind of an introvert, believe it or not, considering what my job is. But yeah, I think I would stick with the podcast.

1:48 And so you bring in people, you know, from all different walks of life and there's usually something in their life that changed and that's what you kind of focus on. Yeah. So, um, it started, it actually was an accident how it started. Um, It's kind of a crazy story. I was down in Disney World, of all places. I was writing one of my books called The Dudwich, and I kind of hit a brick wall. And I decided that I was going to go over to the bar and, you know, just kind of whatever, get, you know, the writer's block out of the way. I met this woman who was a PR person from California, and she's like, you know what, you should really do a show. And I was like, no, I don't do that kind of thing.

2:30 But I don't know if it was... the rum or what it was, but I became very ambitious. I decided to do a call for pitches and I woke up the next morning to 50 pitches, including one from David Zucker from, uh, uh, airplane and the naked gun and stuff. And I was like, okay, well, I guess I have to do this now. And, uh, the rest is history. So you're, you claim you're an introvert after all that. Yes, I know I am. I I'm working on becoming an extrovert. It's a work in progress. Well, rum helps. It does help. It helps a lot. Yeah. Okay. You're not going to believe this. And, you know, I like to have every guest trying to figure out, you know, something that they're going to take away that they learned. Do you know there are not many songs on deviled eggs?

3:18 It's the only one I could find. I can. See why. Today is National Deviled Eggs Day. Are you a Deviled Eggs fan? I do like them. Yeah, I do. I don't think about them. Right. In food speak back in the 1800s, deviled meant it was really zesty and spicy and that kind of thing. And the first deviled eggs, they were just made of peppers and hot mustard and that kind of stuff. Of course, today, deviled eggs are a lot less spicy anymore and all that kind of stuff. You know, they make good side dishes for potlucks and holiday parties and family get togethers. Now, you can buy them pre-made, but they're pretty easy to make.

4:12 Have you ever made them? I have. Yeah, I like them spicy. I'm not going to lie. Yeah, I think I need to just a little kick into them. But if you don't, you can just go on the internet and get a recipe. It's pretty easy. All you do is boil an egg. Well, a bunch of them. Then you cut them in half and take the yolk out. And then in that little cavity, then you just put your deviled egg thing in there. Now, I'm going to give you all a heads up, though, if you're at holiday parties and all that. Deviled eggs, they will make you fart or flatuate if you prefer. But it might make a dope party a little more fun anyway. Good. It absolutely could. So how often do these podcasts come out? It is usually twice a week. We're working on a big Halloween episode that's coming out tomorrow. So it'll just be one this week, but usually twice a week.

5:01 Do you have any... Because you do entrepreneurs, authors, actors. Do you have any... Do you just like the variety? Is there any kind of genre that you like most? I love the variety. I. I like when I have the athletes on there because I'm a big sports fan. So I was a White Sox fan back in 2005 when they won the World Series. So I had Jeff Blum who hit the game-winning World Series home run. So I love to talk sports a lot. But tomorrow I'm actually going to have the Crypt Keeper on himself. So that one's going to be kind of fun for me too. Well, since this is the holiday... Not holiday. Halloween season and all that kind of stuff. And you love researching paranormal.

5:48 Ghosts and hauntings and stuff. Yes. Yes, I do. I actually started hauntings around America... Back in 2020, during COVID, I just started it as a blog because of the historian in me. I like to write about history, but I also like ghosts. So I started writing as a blog under an anonymous name and it kind of blew up. And then we turned hauntings around America into a ghost hunting thing where people could come and join me all over the country and go ghost hunting. Do you go go studying? Because I know I looked on the website and you have different hauntings. And you have two from Colorado. You have the Molly Brown House and up in Estes Park, the Stanley Hotel. Did you actually come see those or just write about them and research them?

6:34 Those two I just wrote about, but I have investigated in 42 different states. Well, you don't have much going on, so I guess you have plenty of time for that. Yeah, exactly. So did you get some... do you try and solve them or do you just enjoy it? Do you like, this is fake or do you want to actually just kind of go with it and have fun with it? Just have fun with it. I mean, I, I like to debunk a lot of things, which means, you know, just see, you know, is it a door that just slammed because of the wind or whatever, you know, not everything is a haunting and more times than not, it's not a haunting, but there are some times where they are in my experience. And, I just like the excitement of, I like the history of it. I love diving into these places because a lot of them are, you know, 200 years old, especially up on the East Coast. I have gotten to do stuff in Salem. I've gotten to do stuff. Gosh, I've done battleships. I've done prisons. I've done tombstone. I've been to the tombstone. So just the history of it is the most exciting thing for me.

7:35 Well, I think it's because you teach history too. Yeah. Yeah. That has a lot to do with it, I think, yeah. A couple of years ago, I wrote a blog out and then my only one that's actually gone viral and I just started off is history is not dumb. You know, and I just talked about how basically the whole thing was that I'm not saying you, even though you're a history teacher, but I'm saying the whole thing is that history teachers got lazy way back in the day and they just wanted to just pound you with names and with dates and all that kind of stuff instead of getting the whole, you know, Just go circa 1850. You know, that's good and all they need to know. And then a couple of names and, you know, just get the whole story out there instead of just all these specific little facts that they would grade on.

8:17 Yes, exactly. And that is very, very common. I remember when I was getting my master's in history, they told us, you know, as a historian, you are going to have to kind of. Guesstimate, guesstimate. And I'm like, well, that doesn't seem like that's very historically accurate. So I have been kind of chasing those dates. I like to go through, I like to go to the old newspapers and all the contemporary stuff because I really like to make a whole picture out of it. So I'm sure my students are just like, get to the point. But yeah. Well, we're not going to go back too far. We're going to go back to 1995 and see what was going on in entertainment on November the 2nd.

8:58 Daydream. That was the number one album by Mariah Carey. She had the number one song with Fantasy. David Lee Murphy had the number one country song with Dust on the Bottle. The number one book was The Lost World by Michael Crichton. So if you have time to sit down and read, I'm guessing you like romance. Am I right?

9:45 I do like romance. Yeah. I think that'd be your, is that your favorite to write? It's my, I like to write comedy the best, honestly. Okay. The top movie was Get Shorty, a mobster. He goes from Florida to Hollywood, California to collect a date. Then when he gets out there, he finds out, you know what? The movie business is just as sleazy as the Miami crime syndicate. Stars Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, Danny DeVito, John Travolta. Do you like horror movies? As long as they're not gory. If they're just scary, love it.

10:28 So you like the mental, not the slasher. Exactly. So have you ever thought about turning any of your books into screenplays? Yes. I have, actually. I'm starting to come up with a little bit of it. And since I've now had a lot of the producers on my show, I'm starting to get a little bolder there. So I plan on getting the Jaded Knight out there. That's my fantasy one. I just skimmed over that a little bit. And the one that kind of really intrigued me was when I was just going on to get the overview. It's Professionally Unprofessional. Yes. Professionally Unprofessional is my only one that is not at all supernatural. It is a romantic comedy and the main character is essentially me. She is me.

11:18 Yeah. I see. Chaotic. So as a writer, do you ever turn it off or do you always kind of like have a like, well, this make a really fun character. This would be a cool name or man, that would be really funny if I change this around. I try and turn it off. And usually what happens is I will be in the most ridiculous place. I'll be in my car and I'll see a sign and I'll be like, you know what? That's a good name. Maybe I'll make that into something. Yeah. It's the most random things that kind of get my mind going. So now since you're a history professor here, I'm going to have to really be accurate today, huh? Well, it depends on the history. Let's just put it that way.

11:58 You spent much time in the Dakotas? I have been there, but not enough time. Say it's your birthday. Happy birthday to you. Say it's your birthday. Don't have a good time. Say it's your birthday. Happy birthday to you. It was today in 1889 that North Dakota became the 39th state. Wow. See, before signing the papers of statehood, President Benjamin Harrison, he actually shuffled the papers so nobody knows which one he signed first, making North or South Dakota the 39th state and the 40th state. So they were fighting over who got a bit. So he shuffled them and said, now nobody ever knows. But they're both technically the 40th state because of that. But because North Dakota comes first alphabetically, it's usually listed 39th. So they kind of won, I guess. North Dakota capital is Bismarck.

12:59 Highest point is White Butte, 3,506 feet. I've told the story. I might have climbed the top of that once. Really? Yes, in western North Dakota, which is just prairie, basically. And there's some mounds out there. And we said, hey, let's climb this. So we basically went up it. We got to the top, and there wasn't anything saying it. And we looked, and it was like, you know, there's about five hills that look about the same height. So we don't know if we climbed the right one or not. Yeah. So we were up. Coming from Colorado, it's really not that high. That's true, yes. All right, the North Dakota state bird is the Western Meadowlark. Fish is the Northern Pike. Flower is the Wild Prairie Rose. Mammal, the Nakoda Horse. Tree is the American Elm. State fruit is Choke Jerry. And the North Dakota state fossil is Petrified Wood. Some people born in North Dakota. Angie Dickinson, Lawrence Welk, Peggy Lee, Lynn Anderson, Louis L'Amour, Wiz Khalifa, Miss America 2018, Karen Mundt, That's just some of the people born in the Peace Garden State. Like I said, it's also South Dakota's birthday. Now, the reason there are two Dakotas. Now, originally, there was just going to be one big Dakota. But they could not stop fighting over where the capital was going to be. And they fought, and they fought. So finally, Congress got tired of it, and they just split it in half and said, here, so South Dakota, you get Pierre. North Dakota, they get Bismarck.

14:23 So. That's how it worked. The highest point is Black Elk Peak. That's 7,244 feet. Now, from Black Elk Peak east, all the way across the United States to the Atlantic Ocean, there's no point higher in the United States that's higher than Black Elk Peak. State of South Dakota, our state bird is ring-necked pheasant. Mammal is a coyote. Tree is Black Elk spruce. Fish is the walleye. State sport is rodeo. Now, some people born in South Dakota, Tom Brokaw, Becky Hammond, Mary Hart, Sparky Anderson, Brock Lesnar, January Jones. That's just some of the people born around Mushroom State. So who do you think has more people? Oh, goodness.

15:04 I'm going to say North Dakota. South Dakota has 919,000 people. North Dakota, 784,000. I was really wrong. Well, not too much. So did I get all that right? Yeah, as much as I know. I mean, I love that. I didn't know about the shuffling of the papers, though. I love that. Okay, so you already admitted that you're a huge sports fan, right? Yes. Okay, and you love some football? I love football. All right. I think this guy's mom might be proud of him or might have been proud of him. I don't think his dad probably was, though. In 1898, Johnny Campbell, he became the world's first cheerleader. It was at the University of Minnesota at one of their football games. He led the whole crowd in the cheer.

15:49 Rah, rah, rah. Skooma. Hoorah. Varsity, varsity, varsity. Minnesota. You know what? The Gophers still use that cheer. Do they really? Yeah. And the sad thing is, Johnny, he was sober when he did that. Well, he was just really into the team. I guess so. Dad's probably, shut up, kid. You should have been playing. Yes. Okay, do you think Elon would do this? This is kind of intriguing. This is back in 1907. You've probably heard of the bank panic in 1907? Yes, yes. Where the banks, they were teetering on collapse. It looked like the whole United States economic system was going to collapse.

16:32 They needed somebody to save the day. So they went to the world's richest man, happened to be J.P. Morgan. They said, okay, J.P., can you solve this? He said, yeah, I'll solve it. So what he did is he went and got the 40 top bankers all across the country to come to his house. Then he locked him in his library and told him, when you know how to solve this, let me know and I'll open the door and let you out. So they solved that problem pretty quick and he let him out and then the bank crisis was avoided. That's what we need to do now. Just lock him in there. Exactly. I love it. In 1917, James Grisham, Tommy Enright, and Merrill Hay, they were the first U.S. soldiers who were killed in combat in World War I. In World War I, 116,000, 500,000 soldiers roughly around there were killed. Now, I don't think people realize that they think World War I is like World War II.

17:19 It wasn't. We were only on World War I. That 116,000 soldiers, they died in less than a year of fighting. Isn't that insane? Well, you like animals. I know that. Love animals, yes. Do you like birds? I do, yes. Like emus? I do. They're very interesting. I'm not going to lie. I wouldn't mind having one just because they seem interesting. Well, then I know who you're rooting for on this one. It was 1932 in Australia. The Great Emu War broke out. See, the emus were trying to take over Australia. So the Australians, they got Major John B. Meredith. They had him lead a division of Australian army people. They had all the rifles, machine guns, over 10,000 rounds of ammunition. They were ordered to take out over 20,000 emus that were just ravaging the land and trying to take over. So they went to the town of Campion.

18:09 That's where they were getting hit the hardest. So they had to be liberated from those emus first. So they spotted around 500 emus out there, and they opened fire with soldiers' barrage of machine guns and their rifles and all that. Well, the emus, they were out of range, so they just kind of split into two forces, and then they ran off. Well, the Afis, they were able to track down one of those forces, and they killed a couple emus. But apparently the emus had received some intelligence that the Asis didn't know they had. The emus knew exactly where to stand, so they knew they were out of range. So now the Asis had to reassess their whole tactics. They said, you know, we have to get closer if we're going to get these emus. So they were able to set up an ambush. Worked perfectly. They killed 10 emus, but then they're machine gun jammed. Now, over the next couple of days, all across the area, there were sporadic battles between the emus and the Aussies.

18:54 But on November the 8th, the Australian Army, their command, they wanted a progress report. So the soldiers, they reported that they'd fired over 2,500 rounds and killed maybe 50 emus. But the good news is no soldiers were killed or wounded in the fighting so far. Well, that report, it made it all the way up to the Australian Congress. Congress, they ordered an immediate ceasefire and withdrawal. See, what was going on, the press was actually covering this too. And so nobody in command or the soldiers, nobody looked good. Man, these guys are losing to a bunch of emus. So what they did is they said, okay, you go regroup and all that. So if you want to know how the regrouping takes place, on November 13th, I'll tell you how the rest of the emu war of Australia takes place.

19:39 I'm very interested in this. I'm on the EMU side. I'm not going to lie. 2000, the first crew arrived at the International Space Station. Now, everybody who listens, you know I play clips and all that to get you. In the mood. I couldn't do it. I couldn't play this clip. 2020, Baby Shark became the most watched video in the history of the world at 7 billion views. Still the most watched video of all time at 15 billion. I believe that. I think I heard it 15 billion times. See, I was looking ahead. I knew that you did not want to hear that clip. Right. Thank you. So when you're writing, you said that sometimes you'll just all of a sudden we see a barrel bird or something. Do you just sit down and write and then something comes to your mind or are you thinking about it for a couple of days and then you sit down and start writing?

20:23 Yeah, I'll, I'll picture it in my head. I'm not an outliner at all. I don't plot, but I kind of like see it as a movie in my head. And then when I sit down, I really don't know where it's going to go. I just let the characters take me. So it's just, You know, it's kind of understanding your main character because that's usually how I start. I base it off of one character's personality and the tension between whoever they're with, whether it's romantic or just friends or whatever. And I let the story build around that. In your fantasy world, you know, that kind of stuff. Are you living out your fantasies through the pages or is this just total imagination?

21:04 Total imagination, yeah. I don't think I want to end up where my main characters are with all their battles and everything. I'm good here without the supernatural. So you said you like comedy the most. So I'm assuming like movies and books and all that kind of, you just prefer comedy overall, but then you're just, the fantasy and all that kind of stuff is just kind of like grady, I guess. Yes. I mean, as far as movies go, like I'm a big Lord of the Rings fan and Harry Potter, of course, as long as I can be Slytherin. Um, but I, I just, I love to laugh. I love movies like death at a funeral and stuff like that. I just love to sit down and just laugh. I just love it.

21:44 So you only made yourself the heroine in the one book then? Yeah. Yeah. And, and she was a disaster. So it made sense. But funny disaster. She was a funny disaster. And a lot of the things that happened in that book, there's one scene where, um, she paints a wall purple and she thinks it's going to be this beautiful lavender in the Looks more like, you know, the purple guy from Grimace from McDonald's. That happened to me. Yeah. So she is me. Well, is the fella, is that your husband? Yeah, somewhat. I mean, he's not a finance bro or anything like that. But yeah, there are a lot of elements of him in there.

22:27 That's probably a fun one to write then. It was. It was the easiest one. I wrote it in less than a month. The first draft. Well, cool deal. Should we see who was born on November the 2nd? Let's do it. Okay. James K. Polk. He was born in Pineville, North Carolina in 1795. He was a great politician. He was the 13th Speaker of the House of Representatives. He is still the only Speaker of the House of Representatives to actually go on to become President. Polk, he was the 11th President, served from 1845 to 1849. Now, when he was running, he said he had only won for one term. He kept his word. He left after four years. He was married in 1824. He died three months after he got out of office, 53 years old. I think he might have gotten cholera. Poor James. Do you know anything about Warren G.

23:13 Harding? Very little. I don't think he was very well liked during the time. Well, actually, well, okay. Now, Warren G. Harding, he was another career politician. He was born in Bloomington Grove, Iowa in 1865. He was the 29th president. He served from 1921 to 1923. Now, granted, they didn't have polls. I would think it would probably be George Washington once they kind of started. He was the most popular president of all while he was in office. What? You know, I've read that, but that I was reading some contemporaries and they were just talking so bad about it. And I'm like, I wonder how real that was. Okay, well, see what happened was he died from a heart attack after two years in office. He was 57. Well, that's when it hit the fan and everybody found out the truth about old Mr.

24:00 Harding. Dude was a horrible, horrible sleazebag. Now, he put up a hell of a good front, but he was really bad. He'd been having an affair for 15 years that resulted in a daughter, you know, between him and while he was out in the White House. Now, as a president, he had just surrounded himself with crooks and conmans and all that kind of stuff. He's the first president. He had a cabinet member go to jail for bribery, you know, that teapot dome scandal and all that kind of stuff. Then they found out he had more dirty deals and scandals going on behind the scenes than any other president before him or after him. And they don't even know if they found everything that he was doing that was illegal. So that's what you call a con man.

24:40 That's a con man. Yes. Yes. He was an interesting character. He had married in 1891. They didn't have any kids, but his mistress took care of that for him. Yeah. Actor Burt Lancaster. He was born in New York City in 1913. One of the greatest actors of all time. He started off as a circus. He was an acrobat. Then he went and fought in World War II. Came home, became an actor. Nominated four times for Academy Awards. Won one for Elmer Gentry. His last movie, do you know what it was? I don't. Feel the Dreams. He was that old doctor at the end of the movie. Oh, yeah. The one that shows up as like a ghost or whatever. Yeah. That's basically how it ends, pretty much. Is that how it ends? I can't remember.

25:21 It's been many years. I know. I know he... It ended for him because he couldn't go back anymore and play the abode. Because he was the little guy. They showed him as the young. Guy, right? And then all of a sudden he turns into the old doctor to save that kid. That's it. I didn't know that was him. He had five kids from his second wife. He married his third wife in 1990. He died in 1994 at 80 years old from a heart attack. Do you have one movie that was popular when you were in high school? That you kind of look back at high school and that one movie almost defines it. Hmm. Let's see. It's popular when I, Oh man, we had a lot of good ones. Um, I think 10 things I hate about you, but that would have been.

26:05 Well, that's actually kind of the line I wanted to do that kind of a movie. Okay. Yeah. That would have been a good one. That one or bring it on something like that. It was like 10 things I hate about you. You know, that casting of it was actually perfect the way they, you know, all those people just, sometimes they just cast just right. Do you know who wrecking actor Ray Walston was? I don't know. He was born in Merle, Mississippi in 1914. On TV, he played the Martian on My Favorite Martian. But I bet you know him best. He played Mr. Hand in the movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Oh, yeah. He was married in 1943 and they had a daughter. He died in 2008 at 86 years old from lupus. Do you like teaching college or high school more?

26:47 Um, I like teaching high school more just because, um, I get to interact with them more. Um, I get to watch them as they're growing and, um, you know, freshmen are, they'll keep you on your toes. Yeah. Probably have to work a little harder too. Uh, yeah, yeah. A lot harder. Yes, for sure. Just to, you know, please turn something in. Come on, you can do it. But so they're probably more engaged though. I would think, you know, usually. Well, it depends. They they seem to enjoy it. It's very different because in college I'm either teaching history or archaeology, which is kind of boring. But in high school, I teach English because I have a couple of degrees. I apparently just wanted to go to college for everything. Um, and, uh, so, you know, we just finished Edgar Allen Poe. So we get to dive into that or we get to do like Shakespeare and we get to make it really fun. So, you know, you have a lot more leeway to do.

27:48 Things, you know, we've talked about on their hauntings and that kind of stuff, research and all the history and all that kind of stuff. Do you do much with your archeology? Um, I haven't been on digs. Uh, I will say that it's an interesting concept, uh, but it's very boring. Um, um it's it's fun it's fun to dive in and see you know the past but um no i don't do a lot with that i'm a huge collector of like i'm a civil war historian the american civil war is my thing um so i have a lot of artifacts from the civil war and i've gotten to do one of those that i like a lot more than some of the more um blah you know and.

28:32 Well the you Well, okay. Civil war. That's perfect. Do you ever combine the two, like go down, down South or any battlefields, like with a metal detector or something like that? No, just because I'm, I'm very, very careful about that kind of stuff. And I don't like to disturb, but anything that has been, you know, brought down from like generations or was dug before there was implementations by like the national park service. I own a lot of that stuff. I own, you know, bayonets and rifles and uniforms, you name it, from the Civil War. I probably have it. Think you'd ever do a fantasy romance alternative fiction Civil War book?

29:17 Yeah, you know, I started on one. I actually finished it. I don't know if I'll ever submit it out, but it's actually like a time travel one because, you know, I have to do that. But it involves a Civil War soldier, which is really funny. It was my thesis project during my master's degree was on the 22nd New York State Militia. So I pulled a lot from those guys that I researched. That's pretty cool. This is way before your time. She belonged to Batman, Jose, and. I knew it.

30:06 That was Jay Black singing for Jay and the Americans. He was born in 1938. Some Jay and American songs you might have heard of or come a little bit closer. That magic moment after they broke up. Jay, he started just doing some solo stuff. He stayed busy. He ended up dying in 2021 from pneumonia. He was 82. He had one son. Now, before the Kardashians and the Hiltons and all those kind of people who were just kind of famous for being famous, there was actress Stephanie Powers. She's 84 today. She was born in Hollywood, California. She got her first movie contract when she was 16. Her biggest movie? Herbie Rides Again. She's best known for the TV show Heart to Heart. Yeah, she's two times divorced, longest relationship. She was with actor William Holden for 10 years when he died.

30:48 But yeah, she doesn't really have a very long resume, I guess you'd say, for all that year. I like William Holden. I remember him from that I Love Lucy episode. That's what I know him from. And ladies by the score. All dressed in satin And. Waiting by the door Ooh. What a lucky man he. Was That was Keith Emerson actually singing for Emerson, Lake, and Palmer. He was born in Todd Martin, England in 1944. Now, he hardly ever sang. He always wrote all their songs and played keyboard. But he sang that one. Married once and had two sons from it. In 2016, he used a gun to commit suicide. He was 71 years old.

31:40 It was all, he was just drunk and stupid. Always someone wants to break. And constant cravings. Katie Lang, she's 65. She was born in Edmonton, Canada. Katie stands for Catherine Dawn. She was discovered singing at the 1988 Winter Olympics. They had been held in Canada. And then they heard her singing and then gave her a record contract. And she hit pretty big. She is semi-retired, more retired than semi. She came out as gay in 1992.

32:23 So she was one of the first ones who actually came out and did it. So I guess you have to give her credit for that. Definitely. Okay. We already know 10 things about you. What was your favorite TV show during that time? I'm going to go with friends. I'm like everybody else, friends and everybody loves Raymond. Okay. Well, after David Schwimmer, he was born in Queens, New York today. He's 60 years old. I know Ross is 60. Grew up in Los Angeles. Of course, he's most known as Wayne Ross. Yeah, got really good reviews. Did you ever see the miniseries Band of Brothers? Yes, he was really good in that. Played a total ass. He did. Yes, he did. And he did a good job. He's a really good actor.

33:03 Yeah, he did a good job on that one. Some of his movies are The Paul Bearer, Six Days, Seven Nights. He plays Melman in all those Madagascar movies. Married once for six years, and he has a daughter from it. So as a writer, why don't you critique this? When you're trying to set a scene and you want everybody who's reading it just to know that it's just really, really hot, you know, and you, man, you just want them to almost feel the perspiration. Could you do better than Nellie? Nelly is 52. Oh no, he's 52. He's making me old.

33:57 He was born in Austin, but he actually grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. He started out in a group called the St. Lunatics in 1993. He went solo in 2000. Hot in here. Dilemma. Shake your tail feather. Ride with me. That's some of his big hits. He acts. He was in the movie The Longest Yard. In 2020, he got third place on Dancing with the Stars. And he lost to those celebrities that you never heard of who go to the show. So he was mad. He said he wouldn't do it again, even though nobody had heard of them. They had all basically done dancing their entire lives. So he thought he was, you know, he had never taken a dance class. So he thought he, I wouldn't do it again. He goes, they deserve to win. He goes, but I shouldn't have been on there with people who had dance class lessons. So fair point.

34:41 It's a fair point. Now he had two children from girlfriends. Then he adopted his sister's two kids. She died in 2005. He dated Ashanti for about 10 years. Then they broke up for like eight years. They got back together and got married in 2023 and they have a son. Oh, that's nice. I saw Nelly about 10 years ago. He's awesome. He just seems like a good guy. I mean, I don't really know anything about him, but when you look at the hip hop and rap, he just kind of, I'm sure he just seems like a good guy. I agree for sure. Now we're going to get everybody to start going out and buying your books. Do we want to tell them your pen name?

35:22 Sure, yeah. My pen name is Eliza Nevious. Eliza is my middle name. And Nevious is one of those soldiers that I actually wrote about in my thesis from the 22nd New York State Militia. So that's kind of like my ode to them. That's pretty cool. And we're going to have links so you can go. One, you want to check out her podcast. And two, you want to be able to buy the books, that's for sure. And please, you want to know all about the hauntings. She did a lot of work on that. Yes. Yes. I, uh, hauntings around America. I spent years doing that. I don't really do it as much anymore. I still do the big ghost hunts once or twice a year. Um, but yeah, there's a whole bunch of ghost stories if you're looking for ghost stories.

36:07 So, so we're going to keep you busy here. You guys got, not you, you're busy enough. We're talking to the listeners. We're going to keep them busy. All your work's got to pay off for you here. There you go. Okay. So did we get everything? Yeah. I think so. I think so. I'm an eclectic person. We'll just sum it up that way. I'm a chaotic, eclectic person. Well, somehow you're able to put it all together and it all works out. Yeah. Yeah. Quote of the day. It's going to come from playwright George Bernard Shaw. He died today in 1950 at 94 years old. George said, beware of fake knowledge. It's more dangerous than ignorance. He's not wrong.

36:47 No, he's not wrong at all. All right. So make sure you, I'm serious. Check out her books. They're all good. And her podcast is great. And when she talks to these people, for an introvert, she actually gets pretty cool. You can tell she puts them right at ease and gets right to the juxtaposition, I guess you'd call it. Yeah. That was one of our words this week with my students. So there you go. Good job. Did I get a star? Yes, absolutely. All right. Our Country Underground Radio Artist of the Day. It comes from Angela in North Platte, Nebraska. She wants to hear a Diana Cochran song, Therapy. I don't know what's wrong with North Platte, Nebraska. But you guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. From what I've seen, I can tell you one thing.

37:30 Everyone in this town is on something. One man's whiskey's another man's smoke. Oh, oh, oh. And the shrinks are all out there making a killing. We're on the couch sharing our feelings. Addicted to that. Hoped on this. We all got a monkey we can't kick. Oh, everybody in this town is in. Therapy If they're not, they probably should be They're on Xanax, we're born Pilates Anything to pull them through When the lights go down It's a three-way circus And all the clowns go berserk They're on Cloud nine, moonshine, white line Star high somewhere out in the blue While I'm on you, you