Nov 4-Common Sense, Will Rogers, Ralph Macchio, Jeff Probst, Mathew McConaughey, Delbert McClinton

0:10 Hi, I am Jeff, and welcome to history. In fact, it's about today present in Bay cool Media Day's November the fourth. Common sense, Ain't that coming anymore? Seems common sense is past tense, just like the dying soul. Political correctness is God a lot to answerables. Common sense ain't that coming anymore? Today? Is National common Sense Day? Now, it's every November fourth, not just because it's before the election. Now we celebrate common sense today because it's Will Roger's birthday. We'll talk about him later on in the show. Will was once quoted for saying, common sense, ain't that coming? A common sense?

0:54 It is inherent in all of us. It's to help us from making bad decisions and avoiding danger. But dude, the popular culture, social media woke political correctness. A large number of people don't use their common sense today. They rather give in to peer pressure. Today, make a starting point and trusting yourself, use your common sense, you know, do what you think is right. Believe in yourself and don't give it damn what other people think. You'll be happier and safer. All right, this is going on and entertainment on November fourth, Let's beat your nineteen ninety one. Number one album was Roping the Wind by Garth Brooks. Karen White had the number one song with Romantic. Alan Jackson had the number one country song with Someday.

1:55 Shit Shine Straight and she Said to What's Dumb. The number one book was Scarlett by Alexandria Ripley. The top movie was Curly Sue. A homeless man and his young companion. They make a living basically connon people. Well they end up conning a woman and all of their lives changed. Jim Belushi, Addison Porter, and Kelly Lynch all start in it all right. What happened on November the.

2:35 Fourth, sixteen forty six, Massachusetts the enacting a law that if you denied that the Holy Bible was the Word of God, yeah, you would be executed. Eighteen forty one. Now this was before gold was found out there. The first wagon train arrived out in California. It had left Missouri, took about five and a half months to travel at seventeen hundred and thirty miles and across the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Now they arrived in northern California. See they weren't. This was the first wagon train. So yeah, there weren't any cities in towns yet. Eighteen forty five the first election day was held. That was on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. It had been that way ever since, this kind of chaotic before eighteen sixty two, in Indianapolis, inventor Richard Gatling, he invented a hand crake machine gun called it the Gatling Gun. Now, I got the whole dial from an invention he made for planning Seeds eighteen seventy nine and Dayton, Ohio. James Riddy, he owned a saloon. He ended up venting the world's first cast register. He's trying to keep his bartenders from stealing from him. All The cast register worked so well, he sold his bar and just sold cash registers.

3:37 He called them Riddy's Incruptible Cashier. And Egypt. In nineteen twenty two, Howard Carter he discovered the unopened tomb of the pharaoh Tuton Common. Now, I wasn't allowed to open it, so he had to wait until this guy, Lord Carnavon. Yeah, he's the guy who financed the whole thing. They had to wait for him to get here, so he had to just sit there for three weeks while he was coming from England. So I guess we'll have to wait till November twenty sixth to see if they find anything. Nellie Ross and Wyoming and Miriam Ferguson in Texas were elected governor of their states today. Now Nelly, she will be sworn in one day before Miriam, so Nelly and Wyoming get credit for having the first female governor in the United States today. In nineteen seventy eight, Iranian army soldiers opened fire on anti Shah student protesters outside of Tehran University. Nineteen seventy nine, in Tehran, over five hundred college students raided and took over the United States embassy. Took ninety hostages, but they released those who were sick and those who were black, now fifty two US hostages. They were held for four hundred and forty four days. The students they were loyal to Ayatola Commane and they blamed the United States for supporting the former Shah of Iran. When the Shah was overthrown, he came to the United States for cancer treatment. The students wanted him brought back to Iran so they could execute him before he died from the cancer. Did I tell you it's National Commons sense today? Nineteen ninety three in Britain, Elton John He was awarded five hundred and eighteen thousand, seven hundred bucks from the Sunday Morning newspaper.

5:01 Yeah. In court it was proved that the newspaper lied. Yeah, they'd done a story about what Elton ate and his what his diet was. They were way wrong. Joke joke, joke, joke, show dish. SHIBIRF Day's gonna pause. He left this shibf day. We want simple tage. He left this shibirf Day. And you know we don't do that. Sus born on November the fourth as promised humorist, social commentator, writer actor Will Rogers. He was born in Oohliga, Indian Territory that's Oklahoma, in eighteen seventy nine. He made fifty silent movies in twenty one talking. He was one of the highest paid actors in the early nineteen thirties. He also had a syndicated newspaper column.

5:42 That went nationwide. He made political and humoro sque commentary about what was going on, wrote over four thousand commons. He once said, I joked about every prominent man in my lifetime, but I never met a man I didn't like. Now. He traveled the world three times. He ended up dying in an airplane crash in Alaska in nineteen thirty five, fifty five years old. He had married in nineteen oh eight and they had four children. Jackie Gleeson. A Honeymooner with the stars, Art Jarney. Art Carney. He was born in Mountain Vernon, New York.

6:22 In nineteen eighteen, got famous played Ed Norton on the TV show The Honeymooners. He won an Oscar later on for the movie Harry and Tonto. The last movie was starting the Last Action Hero. He married his high school sweetheart and they had three children. Then they divorced after twenty five years. So we went and married another woman for eleven years. Then he went back and married after they divorced. Yeah, he married that first wife all over again in nineteen eighty. He died in his sleep from natural causes in two thousand and three, eighty five years old. Actress Dora Roberts. She was born in Saint Louis, Missouri, in nineteen twenty five. She added for over seventy years. I know her best for playing the mom on the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond. She did a whole bunchery during TV shows over the year. Her first recurring role was on the TV series Remington Steel. Her biggest movie was Christmas Vacation. She played Clark's wife's mom, so basically his mother in law.

7:10 Doris. She had a son from her first husband, married a second husband in nineteen sixty three. He died in nineteen eighty three. Doris. She died in twenty sixteen from a stroke at ninety years old. Actress Loretta Sweat. She is eighty seven years old. She was born in Passaic, New Jersey. In nineteen thirty seven. She played Major Margaret hot Lips Hulahan on the TV series Match. Won two Emmys for playing her. After Match, she did a lot a lot of game shows. She married once for twelve years. Blues rocker and country singer Delboah McClinton. He's eighty four. He was born in Lebtt, Texas, in nineteen forty. Still plays on a party cruise every January.

8:18 The one he's on this year schedule from the twelfth to the nineteen it's sold out, so maybe next year. He's at least twenty seven albums. His biggest hit was with Tanya Tucker Tell Me About It. He also had He's Giving it up for Your Love shockgun Rider. If you really want me to, I'll go. In the early nineteen sixties, Delbert he was touring with a bunch of other American artists over in Europe and this guy came up to him named John Lennon. He asked me, if you teach him how to play the harmonica? Delbert He got that, yeah, whatever, I'll help you out. Gave the guy a couple lessons. Lennon. He is what he learned to play the harmonica on the Beatles song Love Me Do. Delbert. He's married and they have a son. Actress Marky Post.

9:06 She was born in Polo Alto, California, in nineteen fifty started out on the TV show The Fall Guy. Then she hit pretty big on the sitcom Night Court. Her biggest movie was There's Something About Mary. She played Mary's mom. Marky married her second husband in nineteen eighty two, and they had two daughters. She died from cancer in twenty twenty one at seventy years old. Actor Ralph Maccio. He's sixty three. He's born in Huntington, New York in nineteen sixty one. His first big movie was The Outsiders. Then he hit huge playing Danielson in the Karate Kid movies, and he did Cross Rows my cousin Vinnie. He's been playing Daniel again since twenty eighteen on the TV show Cobra Kai Ralph. He married nineteen eighty seven and they have two daughters. The host of the TV series Survivor Jeff Prost. He was born in Wichita, Kansas, in nineteen sixty one, makes him sixty three. Also, he's been doing The Survivor since it started in two thousand. That's forty six er seasons. Been married to his second wife since twenty eleven. Actor Matthew McConaughey's fifty five is one of Yuvalde Texas. In nineteen sixty nine now his first paid acting job. It was for the music video for walk Away Joe for Trisiery Eward. The next year he was in Dazed and Confiaz. His first starring role was in A Time to Kill and Then We Are Marshall Lincoln Lawyer, Magic Mike What an Oscar for Dallas Buyer's Club. Matthew he married in twenty twelve and they have one daughter and two sons. I don't know what I'm supposed to say about this guy now. He hasn't been convicted, but he's charged with some pretty serious and messed up stuff.

10:32 Sean Combs or Puff Daddy or p Diddy or Puffy. He's fifty five. He's born in New York City in nineteen sixty nine. Says he got the name puff as a kid. He would huff and puff whenever he was angry. You know what, Let's go back to that movie of the Outsiders that we talked about with Ralph Maccio. It was released to nineteen eighty three. So look at this cast of characters. These are all unknown actors at that time. See Thomas Howe, Ralph Macchio, Matt Dillon, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Tom Cruise, Diane Lane Leaf Garrett then people a small parts in the movie where Sophia Coppola and Nicholas Cage, Melanie Griffith and flee from the Red Chili Peppers. On that quite the cast.

11:12 Well, thank you for listening today, and don't forget to follow us on whoever you're listening to us on, come see us at coolmedia dot com and see what's going on the radio station and the podcast and the Cool Castle's End with writer Michael Crichton. He died to day in two thousand and eight at sixty six years old. Michael said politicians are focused on as if they can do something. They never focus on if they should do something. You guys have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow.