ep 100 - Colin Quinn is WILD!
The only other St. Paddy's Day parade that happens in New York happens in Park Slope.
ep 69 - Reading PA Is WILD!
Reading, Pennsylvania, famous and named after the Reading Railroad Company, which was immortalized in the Monopoly game. There you go. So there's a little HHFOD for you. So is that where Monopoly came from, Reading, Pennsylvania? It didn't come from there, but the Reading Railroad Company is from there. And the city was named after that railroad company because, you know, once they got rid of canals, canals used to be the way they move shit around. Right. On the water. They used to do it on the water. Yeah. Even in D.C., there's a lot of canals that they filled in. Yeah. So Reading Railroad Company, you know, Reading was strategically located between Philly, New York and Harrisburg, which is the capital.
March to the sea
November 15, 1864: Union General William T. Sherman began his famous "March to the Sea" during the American Civil War
Republicans vs Democrats where it all began
Do you know that Donald Trump is only the second president in history to serve his second term, not back to back? Not consecutively, yeah. Do you know who the second one is? And this is the fact I've just known since I'm a little kid. And I only know it because it was the high school that was zoned where I went, where I grew up. James Madison. Grover Cleveland. Whoa! Grover Cleveland is the other one and I know that because I just knew a lot of weird facts about Grover Cleveland because I would have went to high school if I didn't do what I had to do with Father Bill to get into Archbishop Malloy. That's what had to happen. What it is because I did it for this country. You did it for the country and that's what you call an HHFOD right there so then the... Oh yeah history is back to the day!
the holland tunnel
November 13, 1927: The Holland Tunnel opens as the first vehicular underwater tunnel connecting New Jersey and New York City
The night the stars fell
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November 13, 1833 – An extraordinary Leonid meteor storm lit up the sky. Estimates suggest as many as 240,000 meteors were visible over nine hours. People thought the world might be ending.
The Holland Tunnel
November 13, 1927: The Holland Tunnel opens as the first vehicular underwater tunnel connecting New Jersey and New York City
Ellis Island
November 12, 1954: Ellis Island officially closed as an immigration station after processing more than 12 million immigrants since 1892
Mayflower Compact
November 11, 1620 (Mayflower Compact): Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower signed the Mayflower Compact while anchored in Cape Cod, establishing the first self-governing framework in what is now the United States.
1989 Berlin Wall
November 10, 1989: The demolition of the Berlin Wall began, signaling the collapse of the Iron Curtain
1989 – Historic U.S. Elections
November 9, 1989: David Dinkins becomes New York City's first Black mayor, and L. Douglas Wilder is elected the first elected Black U.S. governor in Virginia.
ep 16 - Tesla was WILD!
Polar bears are underneath the white fur? Yeah, underneath the white fur. Wow, they're biracial.
ep 103 - The Crusades Were WILD!
Fanta was started by Coke to sell soda to Germany during World War II
ep 33 - Childbirth was WILD!
The chainsaw was originally invented to aid in childbirth. It was invented to saw open the pelvis bone to aid getting the baby out. Yeah. Which is wild.
ep 30 - Tobacco is WILD!
John translated into Greek is Giannis. In German, Johann. It's one of the saints in the Latin name, you know, everyone's got a translation for John.
ep. 162 - Come See You in a Different Way! The Mafia is WILD!
Omerta, the code of silence all began in Sicily around the 16th century as a way of opposing Spanish rule.
WEPA in the Morning - Ellen DeGeneres is a boss!
On July 30th, 1965, too bad today's July 31st, you're franks and beans. But President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare, a health insurance program for elderly Americans. You got to listen up, Yanni. It's a law. And at the bill signing ceremony, which took place at the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri, former President Harry S. Truman was enrolled as Medicare's first beneficiary and received the first Medicare card. So work for Medicare today, 1965 is when it happened.
Taking a bite out of Ireland
The Irish potato famine, which you said, 1845 to 1852, the British government, who was ruling Ireland, continue to export massive amounts of grain, meat, and dairy out of Ireland to Britain while millions of Irish peasant starve. Ireland had the food to feed their own citizens, but they being forced to send it to England. Yeah, it was basically – Ireland was like a plant – So they killed their own people
WEPA in the Morning - REVENGE OF MEDIOCRE
On July 17, 1955, the $17 million theme park was open, and guess where that theme park was? Disney World.
WEPA in the Morning- KANYE MY PRESIDENT!
On July 9th, 1877, Wimbledon began. So the All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club began their very first tournament in Wimbledon in the outer suburb of London, which I heard is fucking cute. Yes. This was the creation of a sport that was intended to only be played by white people. But then black people came and started dominating it. Yeah, it's what it is. Actually, I didn't know this. Tennis has its origins in a 13th century French handball game called jeu de paix