Classic Radio 10-16-26 - Barbells of Scotland, Jack's Cold, and Friendship

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Now, the greatest radio shows of all time.

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Suspense, The Shadow Node, Washington Calling, David Harding, Counter-Spy, Classic Radio Theater, The Great Gildersleeve, Fibber McGee and Molly, Dragnet, Gunsmoke, The Lone Ranger.

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Now, step back into our time machine with your host, Wyatt Cox.

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Good evening, friends of the NSXN.

Wyatt Cox (0:39)

Comedy on this Friday with episodes of The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show, The Lucky Strike Program starring Jack Benny. We'll also have Our Miss Brooks starring Eve Arden. And we'll have our regular episodes of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar and Lum and Abner. That's all straight ahead on this Friday. This is the 16th day of October, 289th day of the year, 76 days left in 2026 Portland, Maine burned by the British on this date in 1775 George Washington captured Yorktown, Virginia on this date in 1781 after the siege of Yorktown. Marie Antoinette, the wife of King Louis XVI, was guillotined at the height of the French Revolution. John Brown led the raid on Harper's Ferry, West Virginia on this date in 1859 And Brigham Young University founded in Provo, Utah on this date in 1875 Margaret Sanger founded Planned Parenthood on this date in 1916 by opening the first birth control clinic in America.

The Walt Disney Company founded by Walt and his brother Roy on this date in 1923 And the Cuban Missile Crisis began on this date officially in 1962

Exploding on the record charts on this date in 1966, the Beach Boys hit Good Vibrations.

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Good Vibrations was just something that came up out of our subconscious or group consciousness. Wyatt has always been uncannily timely in that respect with his music and with his feelings.

Wyatt Cox (2:22)

That's Mike Love on the process of recording the hit record. The song's successor in the Beach Boys, a Grammy nomination for Best Vocal Group Performance in 1966 The record eventually inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1994

Good Vibrations voted number one in Mojo's Top 100 Records of All Time and number six on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. And it was included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 songs that shaped rock and roll. US athletes Tommy Smith and John Carlos kicked out of the USA team at the Olympics on this date in 1968 for performing a black power salute during a medal ceremony.

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I represented black America. I'm very proud to be a black man and also to have won a gold medal. And this I thought that I could represent my people by letting them know that I'm proud to be a black man.

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That's Tommy Smith speaking to Howard Cosell. He finished first in the 200-meter dash finals at the Mexico City Olympics. In 1978, Pope John Paul II elected in Rome.

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Cardinal Boisewa. He is his eminence, the most reverend Lord Cardinal Boisewa. He be nomin impasuit, Ioannis Pauli.

And the Pope has chosen the name John Paul II.

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Cardinal Karl Wojtka, elevated to Pope after Pope John Paul I died just 33 days after he was elevated. He was the first Pope ever from Poland. Now, I was a big news guy back in college. And at the time of all of this going on in 1978, I was a graduate student at Wichita State University.

And I ended up having to relay to my fellow graduate students in our morning meeting that we had a new Pope, and it was Pope John Paul I. And then a month later, I had to say, well, he died this morning.

And I always got, oh, yeah, sure, sure. And then when Pope John Paul II was elected, they all looked at me, a Polish Pope? They didn't believe me. They did in the evening. Pope John Paul II elected on this date in 1978 Desmond Tutu awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on this date in 1984 And a sad event on this date in 1991 in Colleen, Texas, George Hennard ran amok in a Luby's cafeteria in Colleen, driving his pickup truck through the window of that Luby's cafeteria and started shooting. This man got out alive.

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He was just randomly walking across the restaurant. You could see he had the gun down, just shooting people, had an automatic and just as fast as he could pull the trigger, he was shooting people.

Wyatt Cox (5:49)

Twenty-three people killed, twenty wounded. Among those, another person talked of the time that this happened.

They had a weapon. They had left it in the vehicle at the request of management. 1995, the Million Man March occurred in Washington among the speakers, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.