Nov 29th - Square Dancing, Garry Shandling, Enos the Space Chimp, Howie Mandel, Don Cheadle, NKOTB

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Hello, I am Jeff. Welcome
to History and Factoids about today psent about

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cool Media. Today is November the
twenty ninth. Turn your partner right hand

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around and a look for the corner. Allamanleft where to stay right a partner

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right, a left, right hand
over hand around you go. When you

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meet your partner, turn back half
way around, go the other way back,

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go the other way around when you
meet your owns if you have a

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right hold by an alaman left from
the corner. Got It is National Square

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Dancing Day. It's not American.
No, it actually started over in Scotland,

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Ireland and England in the sixteen hundreds. I'm betting you know the rules.

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Four couples, They stand in the
square, boy girl, boy girl.

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Then a caller tells the dancers what
they're supposed to do. You know,

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embarrassing, it's actually kind of fun. Now you danced up beat music

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that's played by fiddles, guitars,
accordions, bagpipes, whatever you prefer.

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Square dancing is really good exercise for
you. Yeah, that's a nice way

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to be sociable and meet new people. Now, whether you're gonna wing it

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or take some classes, get squared
dancing a shot. Probably enjoy it more

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than you thought you would. Now. Square dancing is also the state dance

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of nineteen different states. All right, this is going on in entertainment.

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On November the twenty ninth, It's
back. In nineteen seventy two, number

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one album was Catch a Bullet for
by Kat Stevens. Johnny Nash had the

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number one song with I Can see
Clearly Now con se Rain I can see

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you all. I'm stas in my
way going on the handy Blind Freddie Hart.

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He had the number one country song
with I've Got the all Overs for

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You. The number one book Jonathan
Livingston Seagall by Richard Bach. The top

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movie seventeen seventy six. Now it's
the story of the Declaration of Independence,

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but they for some reason break into
song and dancing during the story. Stars

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William Daniels Howard to Silva and Ken
Howard. Let's see what happened in the

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world. On November twenty ninth,
seventeen seventy five, James J. He

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invented invisible ink. Yeah, he
was a doctor. His brother John Jay

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was a congressman in the Continental Congress. He later became the first Chief Justice

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of the United States. Supreme Court. Well. Invisible ink was a way

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for the two to communicate it as
James's contribution to the fight for independence.

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See he really wasn't for it,
but he just wanted to help support his

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brother. Invisible ink is actually pretty
easy to make. All you need to

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do mixed two tablespoons of baking soda
with two tablespoons of water. Then he

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is in swabs or a toothpick,
and then you write your message. Then

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you let it dry. Then in
order to read the message, Yeah,

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you just dab gripe juice on it. Yeah, so now you're a super

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spy or a drug dealer. Eighteen
sixty four, here in Colorado, the

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Sand Creek Massacre took place in the
southeast Colorado. Six hundred and seventy five

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men of the third Colorado Cavalry.
They attacked their Rapo and Cheyenne Indian camps

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on Sand Creek, killed over one
hundred and fifty, mostly women and children.

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Started the Colorado Indian Wars. It's
now a San Creek Massacre Historical Site.

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It's about one hundred and seventy miles
southeast of Denver. Eighteen seventy seven,

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Thomas Edison, he demonstrated his newest
invention, a hand crank photograph or

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a record player. Nineteen twenty nine, American pilot Richard Byrd He was the

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first person to fly over the South
Pole. They were so happy about it.

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He was made a rear admiral in
the United States Navy for it.

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He had forty one years old.
He is still the youngest admiral ever in

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the United States Navy history. I
guess it doesn't matter now, but bird

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he actually missed the South Pole by
one hundred miles really pissed people off.

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Nineteen forty two, due to World
War Two, the United States started coffee

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rationing. Yeah, every family was
allowed one pound of coffee every five weeks.

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Now, there was actually plenty of
coffee in Latin and South America.

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They were having record harvest down there. But see how the ships are being

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used for the war effort, so
there was no way to haul that coffee

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up here to the United States.
Nineteen sixty one. Now he had trained

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for one two hundred and fifty hours
for this critical mission. Now it was

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go time, Enis He was launched
in his space. Yeah, the five

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year old chimpanzee began the first chimp
to orbit there, actually orbited it twice.

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He was he was recovered safely.
Yeah. It was just a test

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flight for what John Glenn was going
to do in about three months. So

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when John Glenn became the first American, I guess we had to say he

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was the first American person to orbit
there with don't now the Soviets they didn't

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use a chimp to test. They
didn't test anything. They just launched your

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Gagarin up there. Yeah, they
did it the previous April. Now Ain't

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just died a year later from dysentery, but they said it wasn't because of

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the space flight, which makes sense. I mean, if he's gonna crap

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himself to death, he would have
done it when he was in the rocket.

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Nineteen seventy two and Sunny Vale,
California, Andy Caps Tavern Atari they

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put in their first video game,
pun It became the world's first successful video

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game. That's huge hit. Three
years later they made us you could actually

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play it at your house. Co
Co cot Co cop Coat show. This

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shibf day, were gonna pause he
left this shiverthday. We gonna simple car

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He's like, it's shibirth day,
and you know we don't give us birthday.

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You know, if you were born
today, you were most likely conceived

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on March the eighth. Something to
think about all r unless he was born

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on November the twenty ninth. Actress
Diane Ladd. She's eighty eight. She's

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born in Laurel, Mississippi, in
nineteen thirty five. She started out as

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a New York City chorus girl.
Been an over one hundred and twenty movies

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and TV shows. She was nominated
for Oscars for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore,

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Wild at Heart, Ramblin Ropes,
some movies that you might have actually

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seen, China Down, Christmas Vacation
goes to Mississippi. Her first husband was

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actor Bruce Dern. They had two
daughters, one of them is actors Laura

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Dern. Laura and Diane. They've
been in five movies together. Diane.

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She's been married to her third husband
since nineteen ninety nine. Actors comedian Gary

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Shandling was born in Chicago in nineteen
forty nine. Started off riding sitcoms Yeah

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Sanford, Son and Welcome Back God
Or were a couple of them. Then

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he became a very successful stand up
comedian, got his own TV shows The

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Gary Shanling Show and The Larry Sanders
Show. He was his biggest movie.

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He was probably What Planned to You
From? Yeah, Gary. He was

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a lifelong bachelor. Died from pulmonary
embolism in twenty sixteen at sixty six years

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old. Comedian Howie Mendel He's sixty
eight. He was born in Toronto,

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Canada, in nineteen fifty five.
He really big as a stand up comedian.

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Then he went into movies. He
was the voice of Gizmo and Grimlins

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and then walked like a Man,
a Fine Mess, Hansel and Gretel.

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On TV, he played us straight. Yeah. He did the drama Saint

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Nosewhere for six years and Hedvice Bobby's
were all and then he hosted Deal or

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No Deal. Been a judge on
America's Got Talent since twenty ten. How

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He's been married since nineteen eighty and
they have two daughters and one son.

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Actor Andrew McCarthy. He was born
in nineteen sixty two in Westfield, New

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Jersey. Sixty one year. He
was a member of that Brat pack back

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in the nineteen eighties. Some of
his movies Saint Elmo's Fire, Pretty in

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Pink, Less than Zero, Weekend
at Bernie's and all those movies. He

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had one child from his first wife, married a second wife in twenty eleven

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and they have two children. Actor
Don Cheito. He's fifty nine. He

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was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in nineteen sixty four. First starring

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role was in the movie Hamburger Hill, then Boogie Knights, Traffic, Ocean's

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eleven, twelve and thirteen movies,
nominated for an Oscar for a Hotel Rwanda.

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He has played war Machine and six
Captain America and Avenger movies. Don

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He's been with his wife almost thirty
years and they have two children. Don't

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born on because they won't take you. Gonna put you in the change with

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the funky sauce, but you're not
gonna be He might not be as popular

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as his younger brother Jordan, who
is the lead singer. But Jonathan Night

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he's fifty five today. He's born
in Boston nineteen sixty eight. He was

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an original member and New Kids on
the Block, and they started in nineteen

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eighty four together until nineteen ninety four. Yeah, they broke up. They

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were all gonna have huge solo careers. Well that didn't happen, so the

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New Kids. They've been back together
since two thousand and eight. For your

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interested, they're actually gonna go back
out on tour in June. Jonathan he

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has his own TV show on HTTV. It's called Farmhouse Fixer. He restores

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all old farmhouses and makes him look
really cool. He was out it for

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being gay in two thousand and nine, said he didn't care. He's been

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with his husband since two thousand and
eight. Actor Chadwick Boseman. He was

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born in Anderson, South Carolina,
in nineteen seventy six. First Really Got

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None playing Jackie Robinson in the movie
forty two, then did Draft Day,

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played the Black Panther in four movies. He's nominated for an oscar for Ma

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Rainey's Black Bottom Way. He was
diagnosed with colon cancer in twenty sixteen.

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No one outside of this family knew
about it. Fired at for four years.

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Died from it in twenty twenty at
forty three years old. Actress Anna

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Faris. She's forty seven. She's
born in Baltimore, Maryland, in nineteen

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seventy six. On TV, she
played the baby surrogate for uh Chandler and

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Monica on the TV show Friends.
Then she starred on Mom, most known

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probably for starring in the Scary Movie
franchise. He's also in Hot Chicks,

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Southern Bells, The House Bunny Overboard. Her second husband was actor Chris Pratt.

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They were together for nine years and
had one son. She married her

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third husband in twenty twenty one.
All Right, today's factoid that'll win you

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beer. A two by four board. Yeah, it's actually one and a

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half by three and a half.
Well, thanks for being here today.

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We appreciate you. Good a chance. Stop by coolmedia dot com. That's

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Let's end today with George Harrison.

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It's cooling, same old precious times. Take the patient sometimes to do it,

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to do it, to do it, to do it, to do

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it, to do it. I
got my mindset the former Bill. He

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died in two thousand and one at
fifty eight years old. You've when you've

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seen beyond yourself, peace of mind
is waiting there. You guys, have

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an awesome day, and we'll talk
tomorrow.