ON THIS DAY - April 1st
The Big Honker Podcast
Andy Shaver & Jeff Stanfield
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
In this series, Jeff and Andy look at historical events that took place on this day.
Today in history, the only six man football player to be inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame passes away, a famous stockbroker with scandalous financial schemes is born, and an incident so wild it might be fiction takes place underneath the Golden Gate Bridge.
This series is brought to you by the great Boss Shot Shells.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | Phaar! Thank you. Boom. |
| 0:47.6 | Three, two, one. |
| 0:51.2 | Boom! |
| 0:52.5 | And welcome to today on the Big Honker podcast podcast brought to you by Boss Shot Shills. |
| 0:56.8 | I'm Jeff Stanfield with the world famous Andy Shabber. |
| 0:59.6 | Dove season's closer than you think. |
| 1:02.4 | Everything's closer than you think, actually. |
| 1:04.2 | It's April. |
| 1:05.5 | Yeah, we're into April now. |
| 1:08.3 | Goose season starts, crazy to say, starts in September for the northern states. |
| 1:13.3 | So head over to Boss Shot Shels. Get your shells shipped to you right now. |
| 1:17.4 | Two months of tornado chasing for me, three months of miserable summer, and then back to my favorite time of year, September through January. |
| 1:23.1 | That's right. |
| 1:23.8 | Okay. My today is, person born today is a gentleman named James Fisk Jr. known as Big |
| 1:29.7 | Jim, Diamond Gym, and Jubilee Gym. Fist was born in the hamlet of Pownow, Vermont, in Bennington County in 1835. |
| 1:37.1 | After a brief period in school, he ran away in 1850 and joined the Van Amberg's Mammoth Circus and |
| 1:42.2 | Menezeray. Later, he'd become a hotel waiter and |
| 1:45.0 | finally adopted business of his father, a peddler. Fisk applied what he learned in the circus |
| 1:49.8 | to his peddling and grew his father's business. He then become a salesman for Jordan Mosh and |
| 1:53.9 | Boston, a Boston dry goods firm. A failure as a salesman, he went to Washington, D.C., in 1861, |
| 2:00.1 | to sell textiles the government. |
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