Elevate Your Day : Jan 8, 2024

Elevate Your Day with Andi and Brian Hale

Today is January 8, 2024
This is Brian Hale and my wife and I have been in the media production and marketing business for 3 decades. Despite being around radio and streaming for so long, we never had our own morning show until now.
We start off with a quick look at weather, what's going on with Hale Multimedia, then we bring our our daily devotional, before rounding off with This Day in History.
We have a ton of fun, so we hope you will join us each M-F, right here on Digging Deeper.

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And so now it is time for our This Day in History.
Oh, I'm so mean.
Okay, here we go.
Here we go.
It is This Day in History.
So what do you have for us?
So in 1790, George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address.
Very good.
Very first one.
The president delivered it in New York City before a joint session of Congress.
Well, it's usually where they delivered, I think.
He's the one who set the standard.
Mm-hmm.
And in 1867, African-American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
In fact, it was Congress, again, who over-rode President Johnson's veto of a bill that extended
voting rights to all men in D.C. over 21.
Mm-hmm.
President Johnson, huh?
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
In 1901, the first National Bowling Championship is held in Chicago, Illinois.
Well, that's pretty cool.
I don't know why, but as a kid, I always flew through the channels and ended up on that,
you know, those two guys have left the against the righty.
And it was kind of funny.
Yeah.
They ended up watching a lot of bowling.
And, you know, found out that good old University in Nebraska, they actually are really good
at bowling.
They've won the National Championship before.
We skipped over a date, though.
We skipped over a date.
Yes.
Well, today is January 8th, 2024.
No.
What did we skip over?
Do you know when the last time is that the U.S. national debt was zero?
Oh.
The last time the budget was balanced.
Is that what you said?
The last time we gave an O?
Right.
No.
The first and only time.
Oh, okay.
That there was a zero balance.
Oh, I have no idea.
I think, I don't know.
I was guessing in the 60s before, but I was way off, wasn't I?
Yes, 1835.
Yeah.
1835.
That's the first and only time U.S. debt.
Was it zero?
Hmm.
Well.
That controls everything at this point.
Speaking of those who create a lot of debt and programs and all that, 1918, Woodrow Wilson
announces his 14 points plan.
This was a declaration of principles that would be the basis for negotiating peace following
World War I, which he said he was going to do everything to not get into and was never
going to get into and then got into.
And it actually was the establishment of the League of Nations.
Yeah.
Which became the United Nations.
Yeah, we're not happy about that.
Yep.
In 1968, the undersea world of Jacques Cousteau premieres on ABC.
Speaking of more classics on TV when we were kids, that was another one.
Jacques Cousteau.
And I didn't know this, but this is kind of interesting.
On this day in history in 1978, Harvey Milk is the first openly gay person elected to public
office.
Now, we normally wouldn't run stories on those who have this mental illness.
We believe it is.
Okay.
Sorry, but you know, hate me if you must.
But Milk had run unsuccessfully three times before being elected to the San Francisco Board
of Supervisors.
Well while in office, he was instrumental in passing the city ordinance for extended gay
rights.
So we have Harvey Milk to thank for that.
Milk for the gay naked parades in downtown San Francisco.
Now the disturbing part is that he was actually assassinated by the former city supervisor,
Dan White.
So wow.
Wow.
And he was last named White.
How about that?
And he just tens of thousands of people attended a candlelight vigil.
And Joan Baez and the San Francisco gay man's chorus sang there and guests who posthumously
awarded the presidential medal of freedom to them.
Let me guess.
Let me guess.
Obama.
Yep.
Yeah.
In 2009, he couldn't just wait.
You know, first year he got in, he had to go give Milk some honey.
In 2016, Mexican President Nieto announced a recapture of drug lord El Chapo.
El Chapo!
They got El Chapo.
They got El Chapo.
They got El Chapo.
We got El Chapo.
Well, that's a good thing.
Yeah.
Also in this day in history, a friend of mine was born.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
I remember from high school.
Her name is Jean and we'll just leave it at that.
Hi, Jean.
Happy birthday.
Happy birthday, Jean.
All right.
You have any one last things?
Oh.
Do we have one last thing?
Let's see.
Oh, one last thing.
Do we have any sports going on?
Hmm.
Did you know that to German astronomers Simon Marius independently discovered the first
three moons of Jupiter one day after Galileo.
Oh, people.
Oh, poor guy.
Oh, shoot.
They weren't in the same town.
So of course he wasn't copying him.
They just both solved.
Oh, okay.
Interesting.
Yeah.
That was a clear back in 1610.
So that's kind of cool.
And there's more coverage of our skies and different things that happen in the constellations
on our scanner page right there at Panhandle Scanner and also digging deeper.net.
That's of course where everything is digging deeper.net is the blog where you can go to
to get all the stories, all of our podcasts, articles, everything under one roof right
there and just type in moon or skies or something like that.
And you'll get all the different articles.
There are some interesting astronomical events coming up this year.
So you really need to stay tuned to what's going on in the skies.
Yeah.
Well, speaking of sports, let's do look at some sports.
I do remember in 1993, oh, Michael Jordan had a game high 35 points and Chicago won over
Milwaukee 120 to 95.
The strange thing about it, it was exactly two 20,000 points.
That's exactly what he ended up with after that game.
So he got to 20,000 points exactly.
And it was in his 620th game of his career, which is the second fastest to reach that
after of course the great Wilk to still.
Yeah.
Because he got there in 499 games.
That's just crazy.
Wow.
But Chamberlain was scoring close to 100 points a game.
Yep.
Yep.
Kind of like you get there quickly, don't you?
Yep.
All right.
So no more last things.
I think we're about done today, aren't we?
Yeah.
Well, today is National Clean Off Your Desk Day.
Okay.
I guess that's a good one.
Yep.
Mm hmm.
Yep.
And also National English Toffee Day.
Nice.
So if you get that desk clean, you can enjoy yourself some candy.
And then at the end of the day, take a bubble bath.
Yes.
If that's your thing, it's National Bubble Bath Day.
So we have some cool National Days for you there.
Yep.
All right.
I think that's going to do it now for our this day in history.
And all of our other stuff with Elevate Your Day.
We hope we're able to do so.
Thanks again for listening.
I'm Brian.
And I'm Andi.
God bless.