April 27-Prime Rib, Casey Kasem, The Main Ingredient, B-52's, KISS, Sheena Easton, Fall Out Boy, Ulysses S Grant

0:20 Well, hi everyone, I am Jeff, and welcome to history and factoids about today. Day's April the twenty seventh. I hate it. When I get prime rib and there's tons and tons of. Fat on it. I just I just want the beef. Sometimes I get prime rib and like half of it is fat. I just want to eat. The red meat. I just want to eat the red meat. Today is National Prime rib Day. A prime rib it is a cut of beef between the sixth and the twelfth rib. Now, a grade is given to every cut of beef, you know, Choice, Select, Standard, Prime. It's only given to two percent of all the grades that are given out for beef. So, yeah, he probably won't get that at your local grocery store, but it makes it a good excuse for going out on a date night to your local steakhouse or upper end restaurant. Now, if you do want to make prim rib at home, what you do is you buy ribbi roast. Now, it is the exact same cut as prime rem. It's just not great at prime. So there, so they enjoy primary or ribbi roast. Yeah, and just have a good meal today. Alright, let's see what happened in entertainment On April twenty seventh, Let's back to nineteen ninety eight. Number one album was the Titanic movie soundtrack. Next had the number one song was Too Close, What You.

1:50 Hold, The Songs That Ful Fine. Nine twin the number one country song with You're Still the one. Still He's Still, He's Still one Army. The number one book was The Long Way Home by Danielle Steele. The top movie was He Got Game. A basketball player's dad has to convince him to go to college so he can get a shorter prison sentence. Stars Denzel Washington, Miller Joviovic, and Ray Allen. In Night in two thousand and two, it was the first time since nineteen sixty three there were no British acts in the Yes Billboard Top one hundred chart. USA. All right, listen, what was going on? On April the twenty seventh United States Army officer Zebulen Pike. Back in eighteen oh six, he was exploring out west. That's when he came across the named Pike's Peak and what is Colorado today? But today?

3:00 In eighteen thirteen, in the War of eighteen twelve, General Pike he led his men into battle and defeated the British were able to capture what today is Toronto, Canada, Saturday Pike. He was killed in the battle thirty four years old, eighteen sixty one West Virginia. They seceded from Virginia after Virginia seceeded from the United States to join the Confederacy. Now this is still the worst maritime disaster in US history. Eighteen sixty five. Now, the Civil War had just ended. The North they needed to get their prisoners being held down South back up north. So the North said that they would pay any steamboat two dollars and seventy five cents for every enlisted man and eight dollars for every officer they brought back north. Wow the steamboat. The Sultana said, Aah, that's no problem. We have a capacity of three hundred and seventy six people. Well, the ship's captain. He bribed local authorities. Then he headed off up north with over two thousand former prisoners of war, the crew, and some people who were just catching their ride.

3:53 Four hundred and twenty seven people were on that ship. Wow the steamboat didn't like that. Three of the four boilers exploded, killed over eighteen hundred of the people who are on board the ship. That's a lot more than the Titanic even, but they're not sure. They don't know if the boat just couldn't handle it, or if somebody sabotaged it. But in any case, horrible accident. Can you imagine he survived the war and then he had blown up going home? Have you heard the riddle Who's born in Grant's tomb? Well the answer is no one. He Grant and his wife. They aren't buried in that tomb. No, say, they're actually in matching sarcophaguss so they're actually above ground, not below. So nope, no one's buried in Grants too. Now Grants too. It was completed today in eighteen ninety seven, twelve years after Grant had died. It is the largest mausoleum in North America. It's in New York City. Now, this is actually kind of surprising. Nineteen thirty one, at Pahala on the Big Island in Hawaii, temperature hitt one hundred degrees. That is still Hawaii state record for hottest tamp Ever. Yes, the only time that it's hit one hundred degrees on any of the Hawaiian islands, at least that's been recorded during World War Two, Paulin's White told Pelecki, Now he volunteered to let the Germans capture him and send him to show It's concentration camp. That was back in September of nineteen forty. Now he did it to get information about what was actually going on in there, and he was able to smuggle out some of the intelligency.

5:10 He was able to gather over the ears. But today, in nineteen forty three, he escaped so he could come tell everybody what was going on. Yeah, face to face and let him know what was going on. Dude was a real stud. Now he survived all that. Then the Soviets they executed him in nineteen forty eight. Yeah, he was opposing their communist regime over there in Poland. Nineteen fifty three. Professional wrestler Freddie Blazing. He coined the term pencil neck geek. Nineteen eighty four. In Red Lake, Montana, they had seventy inches of snowfall this late in the year nineteen ninety nine. At the Nevada State Museum, they had this mummy on a shelf in one of the back rooms. They don't even know how long it was there. It was there forever Finally someone said, hey, do you think we should do something with that mummy? So they had a radio carbon dated ninety four hundred years old.

5:53 It's the oldest mummy in North America. Dish Shibirf Day were gonna he left this shibof day. We got simple tage. He left thish Shibirf Day. And you know we don't do. Birthday, okay. He was born on April the twenty seventh, Ulysses S. Grant. Now he was born High Room. Ulysses Grant say when he went to West Point, his name was written down wrong on all his paperwork. He just went along with it as Ulysses S. Grant, So obviously the s doesn't mean anything. He was born out in Mount Pleasant, Ohio in eighteen twenty two, ended up as a commanding general the Human Union Army in the Civil War. Then he served as eighteenth President of the United States from eighteen sixty nine eighteen seventy seven. When he married in eighteen forty eight, neither of his parents would attend the wedding. They refused to go, say his future wives family they owned slaves, And his parents say, yeah, they didn't go for that at all. Now, his wife. She was from Missouri, but after the wedding, Grant he took her back to Ohio so they could meet her. They actually accepted her all that. They had four children. Grant.

6:55 He died in eighteen eighty five at sixty three years old from throat cancer. Now we already talked to about his burial. Actor Jack Klegman. He was born in Philadelphia in nineteen twenty two. Most known for TV. He was Oscar Madison on The Odd Couple and then he was Quincy Quincy Metal Examiner. He actually did quite a bit of a theater you and thing, Jack Klegman, whend had done that? Yep, theater guy. His first wife was actress Brett Summers. They had a daughter and a son. They divorced after twenty four years. Married his second wife in two thousand and eight. They were together until Jack died from prostate cancer in twenty twelve, ninety years old. And my name's Casey Cason, reminding you to keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars. Casey Cason. He was born in Detroit, Michigan. In nineteen thirty two, hosted American Top forty on the radio. He counted down the top forty songs every week from nineteen seventy to two thousand and three. Ryan Seacrest took over when he retired.

7:47 Now Casey he also voiced Shaggy on Scooby Doo. He did that from nineteen sixty ninety two thousand and nine. Now do you know what Shaggy's real name is? Shaggy? His real name is NorVa Rogers. Yeh, Norvol Rogers is Shaggy. Now Casey he was vegan and then in the nineteen nineties they were gonna have Shaggy voice a whole bunch of burger ging commercials. Well, Casey he quit. He wasn't gonna do Shaggy anymore. He refused to do. A couple of years later they brought him back, and then they made Shaggy a vegetarian. Casey had two daughters and one son from his first wife. Married his second wife in nineteen eighty and they had a daughter. Died in twenty fourteen and eighty two years old from sepsis e players sometime.

8:31 There's no shi. That was Kuba getting senior singing for the band the main ingredient. He's born in New York City in nineteen forty four. Well, if his name sounds familiar, yeah, it's Kuba getting Junior is dead. As Senior, he took over singing lead for the main ingredient in nineteen seventy two, saying their hits everybody plays the fool, just don't want to be lonely. Happiness is around the bin. He married Junior's mom in nineteen sixty six. They had one daughter and three sons, and then divorced in nineteen seventy four, but nineteen ninety five they remarried. Yep, they were still together when Senior died from just natural causes one week before seventy third birthday in twenty seventeen. Well, the redhead in the B fifty two, this is Kate Pearson. She's seventy eight. She's bought to Weehawk in New Jersey in nineteen forty eight. She helped co found the B fifty twos in nineteen seventy six. Now she's their keyboard player and of course she's sing backup vocals. Now. The name B fifty twos it actually comes from the B behind hairstyle, you know, with the one that goes straight up. See in the South they call it B fifty twos instead of the be Now Kate and Cindy that is the

10:02 blond one. They actually were beehive her hairstyles for the first ten years that the band was out there. You can actually see him in their old B fifty two videos. Now the B fifty two is the last four years. I've had four farewell tours. This year they're not even playing around. They're just saying, yeah, we're still going. Yeah, they got scheduled all year wrong. Now Kate, she's been with her wife since two thousand and three. In the band Kiss, he was known as the Spaceman. Hey, he's freely.

10:49 He was born in the Bronx, New York in nineteen fifty one. Helped found Kiss in nineteen seventy three, then he left in nineteen eighty two, went back to Kiss in nineteen ninety six, left again in two thousand and two. Now Ae he gets credit for designing the Kiss logu as he just died last year at seventy four years old. He married once and has a daughter from it. She Easton is sixty seven. She was one of Bell's Hill, Scotland in nineteen fifty nine. In nineteen eighty she had this really big hit song over the Q the UK. Yeah, it's called nine to five. Now, they wouldn't release it here in the United States because at the exact same time, Dolly Parton had the number one song over here called nine to five. So Sheena and her team they switched her song around. Yep, it became Morning Train. So she became the first Scottish female singer to go number one in the United States for Your Eyes Only, We've Got Tonight.

11:59 That was Do Have Kenny Rogers, Strut, Sugar Walls, some of her other number one songs. She and she has divorced four times and she's adopted two children. Going. The lead singer for the band follow Out Boy is Patrick Stump. He's forty two pointed Evanston, Illinois in nineteen eighty four, helped form follow Out Boy in two thousand and one. They were all still in high school now. They took the name Fallout Boy from Radioactive Man's sidekick on the TV show The Simpsons. Some of their hits are Sugar, We're Going Down, Dance, Dance, This ain't the scene, It's an arms race, my songs know What You Did in the Dark. Patrick. He got married twenty twelve and they have two kids. I had our quote of the day. Well, we already talked about Zebel bike dying, so we'll end with zebulon bike he said, smoke the peace by birth of tomahawks and become one nation. Well, thank you all for listening today. Do we get to follow us? I know you listen to us on you guys going to the cool media dot com. That's cool for you and see if it's on the other podcast and the cool casts and all that stuff. Okay, cut your underground radio artists.

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