(2024) July 27-Scotch, Bill Engvall, Maya Rudolf, Bugs Bunny, Bobby Gentry, Gary Gygax, Bob Hope,

0:10 Hello, I am Jeff and welcome to history. In fact, it's about today, presented by Cool Media. Today is July the twenty seventh shot. It is National Scotch Day. Now. In order for it to be Scotch whiskey, it has to be made in Scotland, no way around that. And it has to be fermented malted barley. It has to be aged in oak barrels at least three years, and it can't have a higher than ninety four point eight percent alcohol content. Now, Christian monks, they must have been borrored.

0:56 They invented scotch in the twelfth century. Oh maybe they just started drinking one. But I'm giving you a heads up today. This isn't like our national beer days. No to celebrate scotch today. You sip it, you chug it. But it is Saturday, so enjoy yourself some scotch, all right? What happened to entertainment? On July twenty seventh In the year nineteen sixty six, number one album with Strangers in the Night by Frank Sinatra, Tommy Tommy James and the Chandell's had the number one song with Hanky Pinky, My Babe. It does the hanky Panky.

1:45 Jack Green had the number one country song with there Goes My Everything, Oh My. Dream there Cole Smile. The number one book was Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Suzanne. The top movie was Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf a college professor and his wife. They used alcohol to ruin the party. Guest Tonight Big Time stars Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Siegel, and Sandy Dennis. All Right, what happened on July the twenty seventh, fifteen eighty six Walter Raleigh.

2:33 He brought the first load of tobacco to England from the American colonies, well Virginian be more specific. Eighteen sixteen, the United States Army destroyed a seminole Indian fort in Florida called Fort Appalachicola. Now is to punish the Indians for harboring runaway slaves. Today, in eighteen thirty seven, the United States Mint in Charlotte, North Carolina opened up. Today. In eighteen forty four, fire destroyed the US Mint in Charlotte, North Carolina. Now, I want why this didn't get a lot more popular. Eighteen eighty eight, Philip Prapp, he invented the first electric tricycle nineteen oh nine, orvile right he tests flied the world's first military are plane called the Right Flyer. I flewed around for an hour and twelve minutes.

3:14 Crank dre up to forty miles an hour. And what's up dock. Bugs? Bunny's eighty four years old today? Yay. He appeared in a cartoon back in nineteen thirty eight, but he was just an unnamed standing today. In nineteen forty he got his first starring role in the movie A Wild Hair. Now what Mickey Mouse is for Disney, Yeah, that's what Bugs is for Warner Brothers. Been in over one hundred and sixty seven in short films, cartoons, and movies. Last movie was Space Jam, A New Legacy, just a few years ago. Now. Critics they say that Bugs he doesn't look any different than he has over all these years. He's aged really well. Nineteen fifty three of the Crean War ended South Korea, and the United States signed an armistice with North Korea that ended all the fighting. D Miller Taryer his own.

3:57 It was created on the border between the two countries. Our ministice. It did in the fighting, but a peace treate. He has never been signed, so technically the war is still on, but the United States never officially called the Korea a war. So yeah, they're all kind of semantics. So I just hope that everything stays cool. Nineteen sixty five, President Lyndon Johnson he signed a law that required all cigarette makers to print warning labels on their packs of cigarettes YEP, warning of the effects of smoking. Nineteen ninety six, at the Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, a pipe bomb exploded at the Olympic Park. Two people were killed, one hundred and eleven were injured. A security guard named Richard Jewel he was blaming for it, although he claimed he had nothing to do with it, and an authorities never did have any kind of proof that he did add anything to do with that. Well, it ruined his entire life. Then, oh sorry, Richard. This total nut job named Eric Rudivalt did it. But Clint Eastwood, he did make a movie about how Richard Juell got screwed over, so he's got that. Two thousand and seven, at Phoenix, Arizona, had two news helicopters, one from KNXV and the other from k TVKE. They were covering a high speed police chase. Yeah, they fling away into each other. No survivors. Where stave is aviation disaster in Phoenix history. In twenty fourteen, Palestinians were shooting missiles into Israel. United States President Barack Obama, he wanted to clarify that the US policy was that Israel does have a right to defend itself. Then he condemned Israel for returning fire. Now, this is a cool story.

5:23 Singer Neil Diamond. He had retired from singing after his diagnose with Parkinson's disease. Neil, he lives up here in the mountains near Basalt, Colorado. In twenty eighteen, Since July third, over four and fifty firefighters had been fighting a twenty square mile forest fire up there. Now, it took him twenty four days, but they were finally able to get that fire under control. So once it was under control, Neil grabbed his guitar and went to the fire command center gave an imprompted concert for all those firefighters. He has his way of saying thank you for saving his community. Coat. Coat, coat, show this shimmer O day we're gonna pull he left this shivery. We won't sit patage. He's like this ship birthday, and you know we don't because that's a birthday.

6:06 All right. It was born on July the twenty seventh. Alan Breed. He was born in nineteen twenty seven in Chicago. It's what Alan did. Oh, he invented your car's airbags. Now, well, actually a Swedish guy invented the bag itself. See Allen. He invented the censor that causes the bag to deploy. Now the bags are nice and noll, but without that censor to deploy him, they're pretty much worthless. He died in two thousand and seventy two years old. They very rich men. Yeah, that's a hard one. It's from the sitcom Coach. Actor comedian Jerry Van Dyck was born in Danville, Illinois, in nineteen thirty one. Yes, he was Dick Van Dyke's younger brother. Now you might know Jerry Bess for playing Luther the TV show Coach. He was assistant coach. His first acting job was on The Dick Van Dyke Show. Yeah, it was a real stretch. He had to play Robert Petrie's brother in several episodes. His first starring role on TV was in the Show My Mother the Car that is considered the worst TV show ever. He had three children from his first wife. He married his second wife in nineteen seventy seven. He died in twenty eighteen at seventy six years old from heart failure. Gary Guy GaX He was born in Chicago in nineteen thirty eight. Now.

7:32 Along with his friend Dave Arness, they created the role game Dungeons and Dragons Yeah nineteen seventy four, and Gary Inn stopped there. He created Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. Then Gary, he really shocked the world, might be the first D and D guy ever who actually got girls. Yeah. He got two of them. Married. The first one she was married for twenty five years and they had two kids. After they divorced, he was able to marry another girl in nineteen eighty seven and they. Had four kids. Gary. He died in two thousand and eight at sixty nine years old from an abdomino ajortic aneurysm. And Mama hollered at the back door, y'all remembered, wipe your feet, and then she. Said, I got some neooze this morning from chock Tovridge.

8:18 Today. Billy Joe McCallister jumped off the Tellertchee Bridge. That was singer Bobby Gentry. She's eighty two. She was born near Woodland, Mississippi, in nineteen forty two. She was one of the first women to be able to write and produce her own music. Some of her heads were Oh to Billy Joe, let it be me fancy, she related to her last album in nineteen seventy one, then nineteen eighty two, and she was thirty nine years old. She just retired from music completely, said she was tired of it and didn't want to do it anymore. So she hasn't recorded, performed, or done an interview since. She has three times divorced, never lasted longer than two years. Her third husband was Jim Stafford. He's a dude who sang that song I Hate Spiders and Snakes. They did have one daughter.

9:00 I saw eighty on TV this week. I was watching one of those animal shows on the Discovery Channel. There was a guy inventing a shark bite suit. There's only one way to test, man, you gotta get bent by a shark. The guy was invented one doing the test, and he had his buddy helping him. Out. That's the conversation I want to be in. Jimmy, come here, all right, Jimmy got that shark suit on. Looks good. Man. What we gonna do? We gonna strap dead fish all over your body. Comedian Bill Ingwall sixty seven. He's winning Galveston, Texas in nineteen fifty seven. Started doing stand up in nineteen eighty eight. He retired at the end of twenty twenty two. Most known for us Here's Your Signed stuff hit huge on the part of the Big Blue Collar Comedy Tour, in the movies and all that kind of stuff. He did have the bill Ingwall TV Show for a couple of years, and he was on the Jeff Foxworthy TV Show for a couple of years. At least nine or eleven comedy albums and twenty thirteen he got fourth place on Dan with the Stars.

10:01 Pretty impressive. Uh well, he really sucked, but see the fans kept voting him through. They just thought it was funny as hell, and it really pissed off the judges. Bill he married in nineteen eighty two and they have one son and one daughter. Actor Julian McMahon. He was born in nineteen sixty eight in Sydney Astraa. He's fifty six. His dad was the Prime Minister of Australia in the early nineteen seventies. Julian first got known on TV first the Profiler charm Nip Duck, best known for playing Doctor Doom in the Fantastic Four movies. His first wife was singer Danny Minogue. Yeah, she was the younger sister for Kylie Minogue. They were married for one year, married his second wife for two years, and they had a daughter. Been married to his third wife since twenty fourteen. Comedian actress Maya Rudolph is fifty two.

10:43 She's born in Gainesville, Florida, in nineteen seventy two. She was on Saturday Night Live from two thousand and two thousand and seven, been on Big Now since twenty seventeen. I guess he's won a bunch of awards for that. Some of her movies she did the grown up movies Bridesmaids. She voiced on Angry Birds. She's been in I'm in law, married since eleven or two thousand and one, and they have four children. Now. I want to wish my dad a very great and happy birthday today. He wants to spend it working out on his land, but we might be able to convince him to come inside and have a barbecue. He likes to listen to the show, he said, puts him to sleep, gives him a good nap. So happy birthday, Dad. Now, in honor of my father, my mom picked out today's factoid that will win you a beer. The average person farts between fourteen and twenty times a day. Well, thank you for being here, and now don't forget about the podcast Let's win you a beer where me and Rachel we talk about stuff just like that, stupid stuff that will win you a beer. All right, let's end with Bob hope.

11:38 Than all the memory of sentimental verse nothing in my verse and chuckles when the preacher said for better or for worse. Bob Op died today in two thousand and three, at one hundred years old. He said, when we recall the past, it's the simple things, not the great oktions, that give off to the greatest glow of happiness. You guys, have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow. No no no, no no no no no no no no