Nov 25-Play with Dad, Ricardo Montalban, Percy Sledge, John Larroquette, Amy Grant, Christina Applegate

0:09 Happy Monday, everybody. I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factor. It's about today, presented by Cool Meeting. Today is November the twenty fifth day. This could be the. Best my life, an dream day. That about the fun weel exus mean and you doing what I'm always wanting to. Today is National Play with Dad Day. Today it's to encourage dads to take an active role in their children's lives and spend some time with their kids. Now that's not a judgment by society. The dads don't spend enough time with their kids. See sixty three percent of all dads phil they spend two little times with the kids.

0:56 So today is just a reminder and I go do what you truly want to do. Let's be with your kids. It's make it simple. Dad's kids go out together and have a really fun and great day together. I think the day was actually created by moms. All right, listen happened Entertainment on November twenty fifth. Lests Back to Your nineteen ninety four number one album was MTV and plugged by Nirvana. Boys to Men had the number one song with I'll make Love to You, So it to you. I Will do anything you need only like you and I'll hold you.

1:41 Clay Walker had the number one country song with if I could make a living. Breaking my back just maga up, wishing I was in your I can make a living that love being are In a week two I'd be doing. The number one book was Insomnia by Stephen King. The top movie was The Santa Claus a man he makes Santa fall off his roof, so then he has to be magically transformed to take care of Santa's job on Christmas Eve, stars Tim Allen, Judge Reinhold, and Wendy Crusen.

2:22 Ah what happened on November the twenty third, seventeen fifteen female American inventor Sabella Masters. She became the first American to receive a patent from England. Now she had invented a more effective way of processing corn. After that, she patented a process for making hats. Eighteen seventeen, Sana Sama. He came all the way from India to New York City to become the first sword swallow to perform in America. Well, how do we know that? Well, they painted a picture of the historic event. It's actually hanging in the Valentine Museum of Art in Brooklyn. Eighteen thirty nine, a huge psychone it slammed into eastern India, leveled the city of Cornega. The forty foot storm surge started over twenty thousand boats and killed over three hundred thousand people. Eighteen eighty five, can I add Canada. Yeah, they've created their first national park.

3:07 It was Brandif National Park. It's in Alberta. Nineteen twenty in Philadelphia, they held the United States first Thanksgiving Day Parade. Yeah. It started out being called Gimbals Thanksgiving Dating Parade and Gimbals it was a department store, so that's why Macy's. Yeah, they didn't start their own Thanksgiving Day parade in nineteen twenty four in New York City and they added Santa Claus now Philly. They still do have their own Thanksgiving Day parade, but it's not Gimbals anymore. Now it's the dunkin Donus Thanksgiving Day Parade. Two nineteen forty Woody wood Peckery made his movie debut in the movie Knock Knock. Been in over two in one cartoon since now. The Woody wood Pecker Balloom, Yeah, I made his debut and the Macy's Day Thanksgiving Parade eight nineteen eighty two. In nineteen sixty one, the aircraft carre of the USS Enterprise was commissioned. It was the first nuclear powered aircraft carrier.

4:00 Had eight nuclear reactors. Well, they quickly realized that that was overkill. So since then all aircraft carriers they only have two nuclear reactors. Now, the Enterprise, it was decombitioned and taken out of service in twenty seventeen. It's par It's parked basically in Newport News, Virginia right now. It's waiting to be recycled. I mean, we give them ten books. I'll let her walk around on it. Nineteen sixty seven, the airline started getting pissed so Puerto Rico. It was placed in the Atlantic time zone. Say, before then it was kind of in its own time zone. It was just one of those ocean ones where no one lives at. Yeah. Nineteen seventy three, to try and conserve energy in the United States set a fifty five mile an hour as the Mexican's feed limit. Now that wasn't for the Interstates. That was everywhere. No one was allowed to drive over fifty five miles an hour to conserve energy. So how much energy conserve THEO it didn't do anything, but it took it till nineteen ninety five to get rid of that law. Now it was kind of like marijuana though.

4:53 See most of the states had already up their speed limits. Yeah, regardless of what the federal government said. Now, in the Ridge movie Planet of the Apes, you have to go all the way back to nineteen sixty eight. If you've seen it now, the day that the astronauts land on that planet that's ruled by the Apes was today November twenty fifth and thirty nine, seventy five. So we have plenty of time. JP joke, joke, show dish Shimert Day's gonna he left this shimf day. We want simple cage. He left this Shiburt day. And you know we don't do. So we was born on November the twenty fifth. Actor Ricardo Montebaum. He was born in Mexico City in nineteen twenty acted for almost seventy years. In nineteen sixty seven, he played Kahn on a TV episode of Star Trek. Well, they brought him back in nineteen eighty two to star in the Star Trek Rotha Khon, but by then he'd already starred in all the Planet of the Apes movies.

5:47 He was Mister York on TV's Fantasyland Riccardo. He had married back in nineteen forty four. Him and his wife from Mary until two thousand and seven when she died. They had four kids. He died in two thousand and nine at eighty eight years old from heart failure. Checked even midel nothing. Then he changed the world. The thing final. She can see, she long That was Percy Slaves. Percy was born in Leyton, Alabama, in nineteen forty. Now, besides pop, he also sang R and B gospel and soul music.

6:30 Bigger say it was that one when a man loves a woman also had with warm and tender love. Take time to know hehere. It tears me up. Now, I'm gonna try and make this really simple, Okay. Now. He married his second wife from nineteen eighty until he died in twenty fifteen. Now they had one child and Percy. He had twelve children in total, and none of them were his first wife. He's seventy four when he died from liver cancer. Actor John larrikettis seventy seven. He was born in New Orleans in nineteen forty seven, starred as Dan Fielding on the TV show Nightguard. Now it ended in nineteen ninety two, but they brought it back just last year or so. Yeah, he's back on it. He's the only original cast member still on that show. He's actually the only original cast member still alive. In the nineteen seventy he was on Bob Bob Baksheet. Recently he was on the Librarians for four years. First movie nineteen seventy four. He was the narrator for the original Texas Chainsaw Camp Massacre. Then he narrated the two thousand and three and twenty twenty two Texas chain Massacre movies. It was also in Stripes, Meatballs, Tube, Blind Date. Johnny got married nineteen seventy five and they have one daughter and two sons. The Queena Christian pop Amy Grant. She's sixty four.

8:14 She's born in Augusta, Georgia in nineteen sixty grew up in Nashville. Some of her cross overheads where baby Baby, That's what love is for Every heartbeat, think us till it was next time I Fall with Peter Sittara Now. She was married to her first husband for seventeen years and they had three children. Two thousand, she married country singer Vince gil They have one daughter. Now, if you happen to be in Nashville over the holidays, from November twenty ninth, they December twenty first, Amy and Vince, they're putting on the Christmas at the Rhyman in Nashville. You want to go check out their Christmas show. Lolan Marriage, Lolan the marriage going again like a horse and carriage this school. I tell you, bro, you can't have without the lover.

9:04 Marrigal actress Christina Applegate. She was born in Los Angeles in nineteen seventy one. She's fifty three. She was on a daytime soap prop The Days of Our Lives when she was one years old, but she was actually on her first TV commercial when she was three months old. It was for Plateech baby bottles. She was in her first movie at ten years old. It was Jobs of Scetan. That was just sixteen. She hit ban Kelly Bundy and married with children. Some of her movies Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter Is Dead, The sweetest thing all those Anchorman movies. Christina married her second husband in twenty thirteen and they have a daughter. In twenty twenty one, Christina, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Then last year she said she can't work in front of the camera anymore, but she's willing to do voice work. You know what, this is pretty interesting Finland. It is the only country in the entire world where fathers spend more time with their kids than the mother's new Well, thank you for listening to us today. Never get to follow us on whoever you are listening to us on. Never be out country in ground radio. It's everywhere. The Play's Internet radio station. It's the best independent country music out there. Cuban dictator Ifiel Castro died today in twenty sixteen at ninety years old now, and Castro took over as dictator at Cuba. He was such a pure core, hardcore socialist and he was so opposed in anti cadinem capitalism that he ordered that all monopoly board games on the island of Cuba be destroyed.

10:22 You guys, have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow.