Aug 1-Colorado B-Day, Grateful Dead, BTO, Def Leppard, Public Enemy, Coolio, Counting Crows, Jason Mamoa

0:10 Well, I am Jeff, and welcome to history. In fact, it's about today, presented by Cool Meeting Days. August the first, Today is National Girlfriend Day. But guys, you're off the hook. It's not for boyfriends. Nope, ladies, this is just and your girlfriends now. You might have made your girlfriends growing up together, might have met in college, work, or church. Sisters and mothers. They can be girlfriends now girlfriends. They enjoy spending time together, supporting each other, giving advice, celebrating success, laughing at secrets that they only know about, and of course talking about guys. Ladies, you just have a great day celebrating with your girlfriend's day, and you all know each other well enough to know how you want to celebrate. Now, guys, just don't ask any questions, keep out of the way, drink some beer and watch the Olympics. All right, that's just going on in entertainment on August. First, let's back to your two thousand and seven number one album was t I Versus t Ip by t I Plain White T's ad the number one song with Hey there, Delilah.

1:28 Hey there, Delilah, don't you worry about the distance right there? If you can lonely give. The song and other listen, close your eyes, listen to my voice. That's my discuies. Oh my your son. The number one country song was Never Wanted Nothing More by Kenny Chesney. The first Time's a. Long time feeling and I never wanted nothing done. Not sure it was on God I live, laugh, that's all.

2:11 The number one book was The Quickie by James Patterson and Michael Ledgwick. Top movie was The Bourne Ultimatum. As the CIA is trying to kill him, Jason Bourne is looking for why he became a trained killer. Stars Matthew Damon, Edgar Emirez, and Joan Allen nineteen eighty MTV. They went on the air and they actually played music videos and he guesses what the first video was that they. Played Star Star video Killed the. Radio Star by the Bugles. All right, that's it happened on August the first seventeen seventy four oxygen was discovered. Yeah, it was right into their noses, the whole English chemist Joseph Priestley, he was able to isolate the element oxygen. Yeah, oxygen is an element has a symbol oh and has number eight on your periodic table. Oxygen. That makes up one fifth of all rare. Seventeen ninety three, France became the first country to use the metric system. Well, they're the ones who actually created it. Now today only three countries do not use the metric system, the United States, Liberia, and Myanmar that used to be Burma. Eighteen thirty four.

3:26 In Britain they d his slavery well kind of see, they in his slavery and all their colonies and territories, but they only freed the slaves who are six years old or younger. Yeah, if you were over six, you had to be an apprentice until eighteen thirty eight. Happy birthday, Colorado it is today. In eighteen seventy six, Colorado became the thirty eighth state. That's why it's called the centennial state.

4:09 Colorado means color red. There's pretty much name for the red sandstone along the Colorado River. Capital is Denver. Highest point is Mount Elbert at fourteen four hundred and forty feet. State bird is a lark, bunting fish, green back, cutthroat trout, flower, the Columbine mammo, big range sheet trey, Colorado blue spruce. Dinosaurs the Stegosaurus in the Colorado State sport, back burrow racing, and you guys thought Broncos were big, all right. Some people born in Colorado, Tim Allen, Jack Dempsey, Kristin Davis, Supreme Courts, Neil Gorsich, MICHAELA. Shiffrin, Christian McCaffrey, Douglas Fairbanks, Trey Parker, Dog the Bounty Hunter, Me and pretty much Everybodel's here at cool Media. Just some of the people born in Colorful, Colorado. Nineteen sixty six, twenty five year olds childs of Whitman. He went to the top of the University Tower on the campus of the University of Texas in Austin, barricaded himself up there and started shooting.

5:04 Over the next ninety minutes, he shot and killed sixteen people and injured another thirty one more. Police were able to break through that barricade and kill him. Now, the night before he had actually stabbed his wife and mother to death. And they don't know if this is the reason for it or not. But when they did the autops on him, yeah, they found out that he had a brain tumor. Kurt Russell played him in the movie Francis Gary Powers. He was that CIA pilot who flew the U two spy plane over the Soviet Union and got shot down in nineteen sixty cost all kinds of international trouble. Today. In nineteen seventy seven, he was flying a new helicopter out there in Los Angeles. Yeah, crashed it and killed himself and the cameraman. In twenty twenty, the government of Egypt, they public announced the world and to Elon Musk specifically, they said, Elon, the pyramids that were built in Egypt were not built by Aliens, as you had tweeted. Well, Musk said, well, what kind of proof do you have that I weren't built by aliens? Egypt said, well, we don't don't have any, but still.

6:03 Got cop goatge this shibf day, we're gonna parge he left, this shibirth day. We gonna sit potage he left this shibirth day. And you know we don't get because that's the birthday, all right. It was born on August the first half of Wilson Clark. William Clark was born in Lady Smith, Virginia, in seventeen seventy. Now. He was a lieutenant in the United States Militia fighting in the Northern Indian Wars. Retired at twenty six years old in seventeen ninety six. Yeah, I need the health issues. Eighteen oh three, Merriweather Lewis recruited him to co lead the expedition to the Pacific Ocean. Now Clark he was mainly responsible for drawing the maps, and he was in charge of all the supplies, so he had to lead all the hunting parties and that kind of stuff. When he got back, they made him governor of the Missouri Territory.

6:48 From that they put him in charge of all Indian affairs. He had five children from his first wife. Then after she died, he married her first cousin and they had three children. Then she died. Then Clark died himself in eighteen thirty eight, sixty eight years old from natural causes. Was So Brad a toyline. Run the United States national anthem or the Star Spangled Banner. It was sung by Linda Ronstadt. It was written by Francis Scott Key. He was born at Frederick County, Maryland in seventeen seventy nine. During the War of eighteen twelve and eighteen fourteen, Key he watched from a distance. He asked the Brilli British shell the hell out of Fort McHenry. Now, they did it all night long, and when the sun came up, Key was so stunned that he saw the American flag so flying. He was so inspired that he wrote that poem, The Defense of Fort McHenry. Now it became a very popular poem. People all across the country knew it. Then someone added a British drinking songs.

7:56 Music to it. Yep, that's how you got your national anthem. Now it was. It actually did take a while. In nineteen sixteen it became the national anthem for the US Armed Forces. Nineteen thirty one, then it became the nation's national anthem. Kay. He became a lawyer after the war. He married, had eleven kids. He died in eighteen forty three, a sixty three years old from Plercy. That's a thing to do with your lungs writer Herman Melville. He was born in New York City in eighteen nineteen. He's most known for writing Moby Dick Now. The book is based on a real story about the sinking of the Wayy ship to Essex and call me Ishmael is considered the most famous opening line in the history of literature. Melville. He had had some success as a writer. Then he released the book Moby Dick in eighteen fifty one and his career went to pot. Yeah, that bug just bombed. He was a huge failure. It only sold thirty two hundred copies while he was alive. Then after he died, yeah, it became an all time classic. Was married in at Fort's children when he died in eighteen ninety one at seventy two years old from heart failure.

9:15 Founding member, lead guitarist, lead singer, main songwriter for The Grateful Dead was Jerry Garcia. He's born in San Francisco in nineteen forty two. And yes, Jerry Garcia. I scream is his name for him. The Dead they formed in nineteen sixty five. Now they're pretty much a jam band. You know. They'd play each song for like thirty and forty minutes. They put on a two and a half hour concert and only played like five or six songs. So yeah, they really weren't on the radio very much. I mean that song we played, Touch to Gray, that's pretty rare to hear a Dead song they could play on the radio. So there were thirty five million albums, had a very loyal following all those deadheads. Now Jerry, he had a daughter from his first wife, then he had another daughter. Then he had two children from his second wife. And he married his third wife in nineteen or nineteen ninety four. Then he died in nineteen ninety five.

10:00 I have at fifty three years old. He had a heart attackle he's in a drug rehab center. Now they're grateful dead. It means the soul of a dead person showing gratitude to a person who arranged their burial. You were nurstcha saving chumping gains your games. Never again, nor himself. Working nothing all day. I've been taking care. That was Tim Bachman singing for Bachman Turner Overdrive or bt O. Tim. He was born in Winnipeg, Cannon in nineteen fifty one. BTO.

10:40 They formed in nineteen seventy three. The Bachman was Tim and his two brothers, Fred Turner. He was the Turner sold over thirty million albums. Some of their heads were taking care of business. Let it ride. You ain't seen nothing yet down on the highway now. Tim left the band in nineteen ninety one. Yep, just retired. Didn't wan anything to do with music anymore. Became a sold real estate. He died of cancer in twenty twenty three at seventy one years old. No Saturday. The lead singer for def Leppard is Joe Elliott.

11:28 He's sixty five, born in nineteen fifty nine as Sheffield, England. Helped form def LEPPERD in nineteen seventy seven. This sold over one hundred million records. They're actually out on a stadium tour right now. They have Steve Miller and Cheap Trick opening up for him. Joe, he just loves music. Then he will play and sing with anybody who let him. He even does cover bands with guys just to have fun. Joe. He is married to a second wife since two thousand and four and they have three daughters. Swinging, swinging the kidney, know about nowhere, Black bands in the river, rowing a dim We want y'all kill. Freedom, Freedom up deft.

12:08 We got to fighting the powers that be, Fighting the power that was Chuck d rapping for Public Enemy. He was born Carlton Ritten Hour in Long Island, New York, in nineteen sixty sixty four. Today, he and Flavor Flave formed Public Enemy in nineteen eighty five. Some of their It's sorry, ma UZI weighs a lot rebel without a pause, fight the power. He had two children from his first wife, and he has one child with his current wife. The TV treated like a problems. You're no best son heard of ship had a white child. You're talking and well you're walking? Are you? And yours? My live chalk. I really hate the trip, but I gotta lope. As they call him, I see myself with being the pistol smoke pool on the kind of treat.

12:51 Of little home He's want to be like on my knees in the night, ten prayers in the street. Line Rapper Culio. He was born in Manessa, Pennsylvania, in nineteen sixty three. He is born artists Iave. He is junior. Grew up in Compton, California. He had the Big It's Fantastic Voyage, Gangster Paradise one, two, three, four, something New, See you when I get there, kile On. They married for four years once and they had a daughter. Then he had nine other children from nine other women. He died in fIF and fifty nine years old in twenty twenty two from an accidental fetinose overduels. Yams the Favorite count right Lights.

13:44 The County Crows. They're out on tour right now until the end of September. They just played Red Rocks up here the last two nights. Adam Dunner Dirretz. He is their lead singer. He's sixty born in Baltimore, Maryland, in nineteen sixty four. Counting Crows formed in nineteen ninety one. They've had the it's mister Jones round here hanging around American Girl yellow or big yellow Taxi. Now Nope, he hasn't married yet and he's still single. Actress Tempest butled So. She's fifty one. She's born in Chicago in nineteen seventy three. First got famous playing Vanessa on The Cosby Show. When the show ended, she went and got her degree in finance from New York University, but she still does some acting. She's been an actor. Dare Liam Ball since nineteen ninety three.

14:27 Actor Jasis Mamoa. He was born in Honolulu in nineteen seventy nine. He's forty five. First got known on the TV show Baywatch Why, But of course he's better known for movies. Played Conanne the Barbarian when they remade the movie Beggest role, though he's played Aquaman and what at least five Aquaman movies. He had a daughter and a son from actress Lisa Bonet. See. They got together in two thousand and five, had the kids, then they got married in twenty seventeen. Now their divorce was final just earlier this year. All Right, I'm gonna say this and then I'm never gonna think about it again, or I will have issues. The average person sweat twenty six gallons in their bed every year. Well, thank you for joining us today. You know we appreciate you listening to us. Comes here that Colmedia dot com. That's called three Others and see what we're doing on the radio station and the other podcast. That's end with actor Wilfred Brimley. He died to day in twenty twenty and eighty five years old.

15:16 He said, I have a lot of admiration for anyone who can start with absolutely nothing and make something out of it. Guys, have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow. No. No,