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So yesterday I started something in the presidential election. I mean the president
President's Day explosion, because your day was President's Day. We worked and I
found some stuff about the first fifteen presidents. It was kind of nuts.
I want to wrap that up here before we get to your talk. Yeah,
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President's Day Presidential Explosion. I learned it sload yesterday, Dame. We did
fifteen. We'll pick it up at sixteen of the ABE Lincoln. Did y'all
know that he was a wrestler? He many think in over three hundred matches,
he only lost one wrestling match. Lincoln. Yeah, he lost to
the honky talk Man at SummerSlam. If I recall correctly, Brody can verify
that for me suver Slam eighteen oh five or whatever. Keep your eyes open
to the talkback app Kevin for a late entry. Yeah, from maybe a
Lincoln cutting a promo. Yeah, I've always got ready so uh, honesty
you honesty this Sunday, honest ding dong. By the way, I must
say the the vibe in the studio, yeah, electric, just electrical,
due to the electricity of Ron Gilligan. If you missed the nine o'clock segment,
I'm not kidding. It may be one of my favorite most exciting segments
we've ever done. Catch up on the iHeart app if you missed it.
Just said we need Ron Gilligan's number we're gonna call him. It's one of
those game changing moments in radio history. We're always gonna take back to the
Ron Gilligan day. It was twenty years in the making on air, thirty
two years in my life. The re Union vindicated Vindaka. Should Andrew Johnson
seventeen publicly drunk during his inauguration? Okay, really love it? I had
a few. Although he said that he supported an end to slavery in the
sixties, it was a good time to do that politically for him, it
came out later that he was a white supremacist. In fact, after eighteen
sixty five, he wrote, this is a country for white men, and
by God, as long as I am president, it shall be a government
for white men. Andrew Johnson President seventeen. You're Andrew Johnson tattoo Now,
damn it. I thought he was at four. I got it wrong.
But he supported Ulyssesess Grant. He was supposed to be in Lincoln's theater box
on the night of his assassination. He changed his plans the last minute,
like Seth McFarlane. Did they check his hands for gunshot residue? No they
didn't. There you go interesting, he said. He Also, he couldn't
stand the sight of blood, even though he was a Civil War general and
fought a lot. He is credited with dismantling the KKK. All right.
Unfortunately they regrouped a few decades later. But he he did his job for
a little bit. Rutherford B. Hayes. Tell me more about him?
Yeah, something about him that we need to know. He lost the popular
vote by two hundred and fifty thousand votes, but he won on the electoral
college by a single vote, and he earned the nickname Ruther Fraud. You're
kidding. He was also they don't know that? Did you know? This
water cooler talk. His opponents called him Granny Hayes because he didn't drink,
smoke or gamble like a little bitch. That's your president, Bruther for behh
Behayes. James Garfield number twenty eating cats Get well? No, he got
shot a few months well maybe actually he gets shot a few months into his
presidency by an assassin. He died eleven weeks later, and they tried using
a newly invented metal detector by Alexander I'm sorry by Andrew Graham Bell to locate
the bullet, but the results were kind of untested at that point, and
it led doctors to cut in the wrong places. So they used a faulty
metal detector on him to find the bullet and he died. Yeah, yeah,
oh yeah because of the metal detector. Yeah, bad deal there.
Whoops. Doctors also introduced some bacteria into his body because they had, you
know, their unsterilized prying thing is it looking for the bullet because they didn't
know that you needed to wash your hands before surgery in the eighteen hundreds?
What year was that, That's early, that's probably eighteen seventy, I would
imagine right there for President twenty James Garfield eleven weeks and then shot and killed
a lot of presidents. Get shot Chester a Arthur fancy Man. He wanted
the White House completely redecorated, so he went to Gilligan's auctioneer house and sold
off twenty four wagon loads of historical relics, including a pair of Abraham Lincoln's
pants and one of John Quincy adams hats. He's selling them off, takes
the money and redecorates the White House with that money. Damn. He also
owned eighty different pairs of pants. It's a lot of pants. Yeah,
that's Chester Arthur. He's the grind Gilligan of his time. Sounds like he
might be the second gay president. Pants they're fun. Now he was president
the twenty one there is a thought it's of a conspiracy that he got his
people to assassinate James Garfield so he could be president. I believe it.
Little cool power playing that murderous little queen. Two Grover Cleveland. Grover Cleveland,
he became the legal guardian to his friend's eleven year old orphaned daughter.
Ten years later they were married at the White House. I knew the story
was going, making her the youngest first lady ever at the age of twenty
one. How was he old? Okay, she was beautiful and young and
she was over eleven, and Grover Cleveland looked like a walrus. He would
like Craig Staffer. Really, if you go look at the Golfer the walrus.
He got away with it, though it wasn't being hidden at the time.
People were happy about it. Now in hindsight we're like, oh,
I can't believe that happened. But it was the first presidential wedding in the
White House too. She was basically his daughter. Yeah, he also got
the nickname Big Steve because his real name was Steven and he was too one
hundred and fifty pounds. Back then, there weren't a lot of two hundred
and fifty pounded people didn't have a lot of food my house. Times have
changed. He's also the first person to serve twice in nonconsecutive years, and
it could happen again with Trump. It's he only happened once with him because
he was President twenty two and President twenty four. Grover Cleveland fascinating. Benjamin
Harrison was the president Oser was the grandson of President William Henry Harrison. Some
NEPO presidents they called him the human Iceberg because he had terrible anxiety and he
had no personality. First president to have electricity. He was so scared of
touching the switches on and off that he slipped with the lights on. But
they installed electricity in the White House when he was there. Yeah, and
he was terrifying at witchcraft. What is this what I just touched? What
is this one? Lever? So he just like lights on, sleeping with
the lights on? Where do they find these illumination demons? Fire? Filling
my White house with with light? The roof is on fire and it's out.
Now it's out. It's fine. One lever can't be Oh yeah,
now I told you Grover Cleveland was twenty two and twenty four. Turns out
his jaw is made of rubber. Just the confusions. Can't stop all this
fire, no fire, fire, roof on fire, no fire, roof
not on fire, on fire. Fascinating? Did they have all take it
in here? Just look at the roof, Look at the roof fire.
So it's backwards to it's always up. Should be so confused? Why is
it off? Who can fix it? They didn't have electricians back then.
It was Oh god. William McKinley twenty five, a man in the crowd
named Leon hoped to assassinate him at a speech in Cleveland. Leon concealed his
gun in a handkerchief and shot McKinley twice in the abdomen at close range.
Ouch, So that was bad. Ganggreen started growing on the walls of his
stomach and poisoned his blood. He died and off, Oh my god,
So how many have we had assassin? A bunch? Really, that's a
lot. I thought it was like two. Theodore Roosevelt twenty six when delivering
a speech. He was shot, but he kept going with a speech.
Yeah, hell yeah, he said, I don't know whether you fully understand
that I've just been shot, but I give you my word. I do
not care a rap about being shot. Not a rap, damn. He
finished his hour and a half speech with a bullet lodged in his chest,
even as blood started showing through his shirt. Also, teddy bears were made
in his honor. That is some that is hard. That is some tupac
stuff, right there, man, Not a rap, not so. An
old wives tale was that he refused to shoot a bear cub on a hunting
trip, so they made teddy bears after him, and teddy bears got famous
because of Theodore Roosevelt. William Howard Taft twenty seven. He supposedly gets stuck
in a bathtub. Bigums, big old guy, he was in here.
Turn the fire on fire immediately. Now he have a lubricant, was like,
oh, teddy bears are popular now, so he tried to market his
own little tafties. Billy Possum shut up. Yeah, really, boy,
how disappointed would your kid be? We couldn't afford a teddy bear, but
we got you this now This comes from one night they had. He scarfed
down a huge possum dinner one night. Billy Possum did not catch on,
while Teddy bears continued to catch on. Woodrow Wilson twenty eight. He had
a lot of stress and he had a lot of strokes, paralyzed, almost
blind, but he stayed in office two years after that, with his wife
Edith just kind of helping him. Edith was a descendant of Pocahontas. Whoa
damn nuts as that Woodrow Wilson Warren G. Harding Here we go. He
died in office of a heart attack, but he was known to have a
bit of a wondering eye for the ladies. He had an affair with his
wife's close friend Carrie, which hey man, hey bubba bubba, hey go
hubba, you'll go buying the whole. I won't do it. This was
revealed through a series of love letters. There's also another woman named Nan Britton,
and Nan wrote a book called The President's Daughter Over Time about how her
daughter was Warren G. Hardings Now. She claims in the book that they
had sex in the closet near the Oval office with secret Service agents posted to
ward Off intruders Ben Roethlisberger style. In twenty fifteen, DNA test at ancestry
dot com confirmed that Warren G. Harding was the father of Elizabeth the woman,
well, the daughter who god oh lady wrote the book Elizabeth. They
got him, They did full ancestry, which I'm like, how is Mary
still have a show if we have ancestry dot com. Calvin Coolidge he had
a morning ritual like Danny does, of having someone rob vasoline on his head
while he eats breakfast. Danny every day, every single day. That's been
how I've been wearing a lot of hats lately. And look at the hair.
I don't know the results, don't lie, Mikey. That's our best
name to president. Toovin Calvin Coolidge ship. He also had two pet raccoons
named Reuben and Rebecca. How does he have a name like Calvin Coolidge?
And he's not our first African American president? That is the most African American
name ever? What about Herbert Hoover? Though a pretty good name too,
right, Herb Hoover? He had two pet alligators oftentimes will run around the
White House grounds. No alligators? Are you sure all these are accurate?
Yeah, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roosevelt, he was obsessed twice a dog.
Now he made his dog an honorary Army private during World War Two.
Okay, this is like that cat that got all this stuff at the wheel
reading and the Chewy commercial. This says, MGM made two movies about the
dog. I love that old man got the Lake housecial. You're not gonna
make it through your only FDR no I got. I'm gonna get through all
of them. Are we gonna have part three tomorrow? No, we're done
Part three? Part three? We're done three three. That's it. You
stop abruptly at FDR. Yep. Why Talkback's brought to you by advanced hair
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today, Now morning down. Here's my personal top five annoying people in grocery
stores. Number one the mom who's soft pairing their screaming five year old,
The short grandma who can't reach to the workers, grosser year old hag.
Number three, the fat guy in the motor wheelchair with no spatial awareness for
the vegan whose side eyes you for getting steak. And five the manager Lisa
who won't more term. My phone calls all weird soft year old. I'm
like, yeah, it's me began judging people at the at the butcher counter.
No, you should get some of that washable paint and draw the number
three on the side of Kat's car for the whole week as well, kind
of like a zombie land. Okay, okay, that's pretty good. We'll
let you trade one of your other three payoffs that you owe for for a
washable paint. Do that, now, just do that, anyone. Let's
do that for fun. Well, a very successful Valentine's Day with a downbeat
singing box of chocolate. I'm looking ahead, man, I'm looking I'm getting
ready for your down beat singing pot of gold and down beat singing Easter basket
and down beat singing uh Juneteenth basket and the down beat July the fourth flag.
Hey, he's pretty much spot on. I think it's the singing commemorative
World Series ring. It might serve us to skip over the six month Please,
let's do the juneteen. Let's I don't know, let's we try to
be quite shocking in those songs. Certain, Yeah, I'm not scared scared.
I'm not worried about it. As the guy who picked a bubble Wallace
to win. That's true, Mike Kyle Larson over there. I want to
encourage everybody to do their part to spread the word about the Downbeat. Last
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was able to tell them, hey, don't worry. Mike's aroy from the
Downbeat inspired me. This week, I'm doing what I call the Downbeat double
take. As I walk out of the grocery, I grab the cash register
from the girls, only to say, no, I'm just teaching you about
safety, you dumb bitch. Listen to the Downbeat. We'll take most any
promo your talk rack. We're not going to talk about how cub Scouts get
the short end of the stick in terms of the food they sell. Girl
Scouts sell cookies. Cub Scouts, on the other hand, sell popcorn that
by the time you get it, it's stale. I remember selling that popcorn,
and I was jealous of the Girl Scouts selling their delicious cookies while I'm
sitting here with stale popcorn. It's stronk, Is that right? The Cup
Scouts sell popcorn. I was never a cup Scout, and it never had
to work up those ranks, thankfully. The kennel of you just look at
them like I tackle like that thing that's been sitting on Julie's desk for a
year and a half. Yeah, yeah, this is John And that was
Dingu's scout master. And I just wanted to say that, even though he
didn't get his Eagle Scout badge, Dingu, You're always a You've always been
an Eagle scout in my book. You were good at blowing that horn,
if you know what I mean. No, he didn't have to have the
last part. We saw where you were going, like when you know the
thirty seconds is about up and oh Mixceroy sounds like me when I would have
two friend groups to meet each other for the first time, Like hey,
hey, if you beat over on Man, he might say I stole some
golf balls or golf clubs or something from a tennis legend. I did not,
I promise, And he's gonna say I might have broken old man's favorite
chair family heirloom. I didn't do that either. I didn't do that either.
It's all a lie. All lie, guys. Do you think Aubrey's
chair was a family heirloom. I don't know. It look very old.
It could have been been funny. I'm not ready for them to do the
testing over here because all you see over Facebook, you know the next door
app? But old people, did you hear that bomb going on? No,
it's just another airplane. Shut up. Yea, yeah, they're gonna
be testing the uh the big X fifty nine plane in Fort Worth. Talk
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Hey guys, it's Stephanie in the colony. Little fun fact for you.
Twenty three years ago, on February eighteenth, at four eight pm,
while Dalernhardt Senior was driving in turn three, my son was born. So
at the my bragging montage. Yes, raise hell, praise Dell. Pretty
amazing. His spirit left his body and entered your womb. Yeah, and
always remember Dale's not dead, He's just one lap ahead. Good morning,
fellas, your boy, Mike and Grapevine. Hey, just wanted to say
that, uh Me and the wife started Fargo season one last week and we
just got through this weekend and now we're on season two. So thank you
fellas. So far so good man. Can't wait to get the five number
five anyways, don't have you and Kati love you, buzz baby, keep
crushing. Fargo Season two is a little slow, but it's I think it's
the best one of the five. They're all great and coming to you live
from six flags. There's what that's galloping to? What is that? What
a hey? Days? Come on inside. That's right. All the rides
hang out with me because I'm a horse. It's terrible, terrible, I
do like a daily horse. The entire world sitting on the edge of their
seats today waiting on a phone call to a guy named Ron Gilligan. None
of us have ever heard of him before yesterday, and apparently he owns an
auction house with a website from nineteen ninety eight. But still we can't wait
to see what he has to say about a pit pass some by two NASCAR
legends. I agree. I can't recall ever having been as excited. I
have done radio with Valve Kilmer standing behind me, and I turned around and
I said, oh hi, val Kilmer didn't know he was there. That
to me was more exhilarating than having help Kilmer stepped it up. Okay,
just speed around sweet stage and with the big hole in the roof and I
sun shine in through the window. You are show being nurse, so tugging
it once a day. There goes daily Baylists taking another bathroom break pride.
I think Tizzle is really focused on succession. But I think you got to
remember this thing might be half righteous gemstones. It is amen, check it
out. I gotta get pross to JJ. She got me pretty good when
she plays scream and grove, I had to look behind me thinking it was
someone about the ruin me screaming goat idea for a new show. Hey there's
been a murder. Don't worry. Detective Ron Gill again is working the case.
Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts, just the facts.
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