April 26-Pretzels, Chernobyl Disaster, Carol Burnett, Jet Li, Kevin James, TLC, Channing Tatum

0:19 Hey, hello, and welcome history and factoids about today. I am Jeff and today's April the twenty sixth. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I really like bretzels. I eat pretzels all the time. Yumen, yummy, yummy, yumy pretzels. I like you eat them a lot. It is National Pretzel Day. Pretzels. They were created by Christian monks around the year six ten. Now, back then, when people prayed, they didn't fold their hands like we did today. They crossed their arms across their chest, and the pretzel is supposed to symbolize that. Now, pretzels they were popular in Europe when they were back to the States and the early eighteen hundreds. First pretzel bakery opened up in eighteen fifty in Pennsylvania. Now Pennsylvania is still the pretzel king of the United States. More pretzels are made in Pennsylvania than anywhere else. And get this, Pennsylvanians yate twice as many pretzels as anyplace else in the United States. So whether you go with a hard one or soft, just enjoy some pretzels today. All right, let's see what was going on in entertainment on April twenty sixth, let's back to nineteen fifty seven. Number one album was Calypso by Harry Belafonte. Elvis Presley had the number one song with all Shook Up.

1:32 Well the bless some hussle, What's wrong with me? I'll mitching comment on the fuzzy tree. My friend say, what is a book? I'm in alone? I'm all shook up? Yay. Ferlin Husky add the number one country song with gone, Ugh, What. Manta? Since the number one book was The Escape Goat by Daphne d mor Here, the top movie was Funny Face of doing a fashion shoot at a bookstart. They discovered that the story clerk is really hot and turn her into a model. Stars Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire. All Right, let's see it happened in the world on April twenty sixth, eighteen fifty nine. Dan sickles. He was a rich, dirt bag, spoiled brat. He just coasted through life on his family's money.

2:43 So of course he went into politics. He was in the United States House represented representing New York. Now he was married, but it was well known that he had a prostitute as a mistress. Then he found out his wife was having an affair with Philip Barton Key. Yeah, he was the son of Francis Scott Key. In February, in the middle of the day, across the street from the White House and Loffy Square, Sickles whopped up the key and shot and killed him. He was arrested for murder. But then he put together a defense dream team that would have made OJ Simpson jealous. Yeah. His late attorney was Edwin Stanton. He's the guy who ended up being Secretary of Warren or Lincoln. Now they played this Sickles that actually killed Key because of temporary insanity. He or some sickles. He said that when he found out about the affair, he just freaked out. Now his wife did admit to having the affair. So today, in eighteen fifty nine, he became the first person ever to be found not guilty by temporary insanity. Yellowstone It was the world's first national park, and then in eighteen seventy nine Royal National Park in south of Sydney, Austro became the second national park.

3:51 Nineteen forty one, the Chicago Cubs began the baseball tradition of having an organ play at baseball games. Nineteen fifty four, the first mass trials began for the Jonahs Soak polio vaccination first Shots for giving the kids in Fairfax County, Virginia. Over the next three months, four hunred and forty three thousand children will received vaccines for polio. Polio was a racad from the United States in nineteen ninety four. Nineteen eighty three, Standford quarterback John Elway was the first pick in the NFL draft. Was drafted by the Baltimore Colts, then traded to the Denver Buncles. Nineteen eighty six, the world's worst nuclear disaster happened, and that the Soviet Union's Chernobyl nuclear plan. It's in the Ukraine now reacting Number four exploded. Sylvia has said thirty one people were killed. Now, that might have been initially what happened, but it's plated that a couple of thousand actually died from it. Co co co coat coat coat shot this shivers day.

4:43 We're gonna pause. He left this shiver day. We don't simple cause he left this shib day. And you know we don't get. All right, Let's check out it's born on April the twenty sixth. I'm so glad we had this time together just to have a laugh. Force listen. See sweet just get started. That was Carol Burnette and she's ninety three today. She's born in San Antonio, Texas, in nineteen thirty three. She's best known for The Carol Burnett Show, ran from nineteen sixty seven and nineteen seventy eight over the air as Carol. She's won six Emmy's, won tony one Grammy and seven Golden Globes. Her biggest movie was Annie. She had three daughters from her second husband and they divorced after twenty years.

5:31 She's been married to her third husband since two thousand and one. Oh Wow, I'm going on tream down. Wow, I'll get you. You you got everything. That was Bobby Rightdell. He was born in Philadelphia in nineteen forty two. Start out at fourteen years old as a drummer. Well that band didn't go anywhere, but Bobby got a solo record deal from it. Some of his biggest hits were Valare, Swinging in School, Kissing Time, Wild One so al over twenty five million records. Start Out as a teen idol, he performed all the way up until he was seventy eight years old. His first wife died after they'd been married for thirty five years. They had two children. Married his second wife in two thousand and nine. They were together until Bobby died in twenty twenty as seventy nine years old from pneumonia. Get this Bobby.

6:23 He had received a kidney and liver transplant back in twenty twelve. After that he went back to performing in Vegas six months later. Gary Wright he was born in Cresville, New Jersey, in nineteen forty three. He gets credit for being a pioneer and bringing the synthesizer into rock and pop music. Started out in the heavy metal band Spooky Tooth to fuck call him heavy metal, but then he went solo and a lot more mellow. He had the head's dream Weaver Love Is Alive, Really Want to Know You.

7:07 He did summer reunion tours with Spooky Tooth, and he played in Ringo Star as All Star Band. He had two sons from his first wife, married a second wife in nineteen eighty five and they were together until he died just last September at eighty years old from dementia. And Parkinson's actor Jet Lee's sixty three. He's born in Beijing China in nineteen sixty three. Started out as a martial artist champion. Then he became a huge movie star over in China, so of course he came to the United States. First American movie was Leave the Weapon four, then Romeo mus Die Kissed the Dragon the One. He had two daughters from his first wife, married a second wife in nineteen ninety nine and they have two daughters. Comedian actor Kevin James. He was born in Minneola, New York in nineteen sixty five. It makes him sixty one today. Started out as a successful stand up comedian. Then he started on TV's King of Queens and then Kevin Can Wait.

7:51 Some of his movies where I now pronounce you, Chuck and Larry. He did the Paul Blart Malcott movies. He did the grown up movies Here Comes the Boom first, Frank Stangning in all those Hotel Transylvania movies. Got married in two thousand and four and they have four children. I don't want to give you miner I don't want to leave you. Don't let. A straight trying to envy TLC's tune Watka and she just goes by t bos. She's fifty six she's going in Demonio in nineteen seventy. She'll formed tl C in nineteen ninety had Chili, Thomas and Lisa left Eye Lopez, Lisa she died, but t Bos and Chili. They're going out on tour this summer and then do a whole bunch of shows with Salt and Peppa, so that should be fun. Now they've sold sixty five million records. That is second all time to the Spice Girls for the most records sold by an all girl group. Some at TLC's bigger said, baby, Baby, Baby, creep, waterfalls, no scrubs, a tea boss. She's fat, sickle cell anemia since she was seven, and she beat brain tumor back in two thousand and six and she's still going strong, a tough woman.

9:04 She married once for four years and has a daughter from it, and then she adopted a son in twenty sixteen. Actor Tom Welling. He was born in Putnam Valley, New York, in nineteen seventy seven. He's forty nine. First hit on the TV show Smallville. He played Clark Clint. Then he was in Lucifer, then a couple Cheaper, about a dozen movies, then he did Draft Day Tom and his second wife have two sons. Actor Stanny Kattick is forty eight. She's born in Hamilton, Canada, in nineteen seventy eight. She made a lot of TV appearances before she finally hit starring in Castle for seven years. Some of her movies are The Librarian, Curs of Judy Dallas, Stileto For Lovers Only, Tanna. She got married in twenty fifteen and they have one child. Actor Tenning Tatum. He's forty six, born in Coleman, Alabama, nineteen eighty. Now, he dropped out of college and became a stripper. Well that worked out well, really helped him in the movie Magic Mike. Now, the first time he got paid for acting was in the video She Bang for Ricky Martin. Her first movie he was in was Coach Carter. But the first movie actually got known for was She's the Man. Then he did a couple of g I. Joe movies, White House Down. There were actually three Magic Mike movies that he did. He did Dog.

10:06 His first wife was actress Gene Dwynn and they had a daughter. Okay, quote of the day, it comes from Lucille Ball. She died to day in nineteen eighty nine, at seventy seven years old, Lucille says, I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done. Oh thank you all for joining us today. Don't get to follow us on who you listen to this on our country underground radio artists today because from Toby out there in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, you want us to hear West Ryan song. She got that you guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. She walks in like a breeze in July, Son in her hair, then looking her loo's clicking on the hardwood for every hit, turning like what was she here for?

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11:30 I say, like, who's that girl with the yell all day? Yeah? She got that every move like a radio song. Two step honey, just floating along, laughing like she don't care who. She's pulling every bit of gravity towards me. She's a red light there a green light girl. That girl's got something in her so hey stealing the spy lies mouth, even the juke box, don't know to due. She's got this barking, she's firing on cue and I'm like, whoa look at that view man. Yeah she got that oh a little bit of don't you there? Look away that sweet sea, draw me the twister, Hey, shaking me up like a back roll. Bas got me going, Yes, she got that smile, got that swig, gotta me tripping over everywhere. And I say like, who's that girl with the air all day