Aug 11-Hop Hop, Popsicle, Steve Wozniak, Hulk Hogan, Joe Jackson, Viola Davis, Joe Rogan, Chris Hemsworth

0:19 Hi there, I am Jeff and welcome to history and Factoids about today, presented by Cool Media. It is August the eleventh. I said it Hill the Hill Hopy, you don't stop the rocking to the band name, we can say, oh justin bring it to the rhythm. Of the virgin to beat. Now what you hear is not a task Tom Rabbit to the bet and me the crew and a friends are gonna try to do your feet. See hi Camel, what no? My God? I love to say hello. Today is National hip Hop Day. Now, like every type of music, hip hop evolved from other music styles. Nineteen seventy three, in the wreck room of an apartment building in the Bronx, New York. It was at his sister's birthday.

1:01 Hip Hop was born at Jamaican DJ Coolhirk. He had borrowed from back in Jamaica and mixed it with some New York street music practice for over a year. Yep is waiting for a party big enough to bust it out, so he busted it out today. Now he would talk over the songs as he played him. And he had two turntables, and he put the same mount song on and then switched back and forth, and then he would stretch out the percussion section of a song. It's known as the break. Now he stretched out really long, and they noticed that that's when the people would really dance. So he called him his bee boys and bee girls for break boys and break girls. Yeah, break dancing. Well, it exploded all over New York City. Wasn't called hip hop until nineteen seventy nine. So break out your sweatsuits, your baggy pants, your sneakers, your beanie spin cap. Just have fun celebrating and hip hop today. Well, what's happening on entertainment on August eleventh. Back in nineteen eighty three, the police said the numb one album with synchronicity. The police said the number one song with every breath you takee.

2:01 Very move, every fond, every step you take watches. Your song. Never wach you see. Jenny Frickey had that in one country song with He's a Heartache. He's a. Step action, ste awful, timbers faction. If you try to hold out.

2:45 The top selling book was The Number of the Rose by umberto Echo. The top movie was National Lampoon's Vacation. What Chriswald He drives his family across the country to go to Wally World. That's a big amusement park. Starts Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo imaging Coca, Randy Quay, whole bunch more. All right, what happened on August the eleventh, eighteen sixty six, the world's first roller skating rink opened up? And he guesses where in the world? That was Newport, Rhode Island. Now, a lot of people they give Thomas Edison credit for inventing the light bulb. Yeah, that's good and all, but what good is the light bulb really? Now? Henry Abbell, he was the man in eighteen ninety six he invented the light bulb socket and that little pul chain and turn it on and off. Starting background eighteen sixty eight around there off of San Francisco, Alcatraz Island, it was used as a military prison. Then over the years they made improvements to it, so by today, in nineteen thirty four, it was supposed to be the most secure prison in the country. So they switched it over from military prison to federal prison. It's where they were going to house the worst of the worst criminals in the country. The Watts riots broke out today in nineteen sixty five, twenty one year old motorist Marquette Fry. He was pulled over in Watts California. It's a neighborhood in southern LA. They got it for reckless driving. Then he failed the field sobriety test. His brother was riding in the car with them, and they said, oh, you can just go home and no big deal. So he walked back to the house and told their mom what was going on. Well, she went to see what was happening, and Marquette he was still there. He was just waiting to be transported to jail. Well,

4:16 words were exchanged and she attacked a police officer. So now Marquette, his mom and brother were all sitting on the curb in handcuffs, waiting to go to jail. Of course, a crowd formed, and then the rumors started to fly. Then the crowd formed and the rumor rumors started to fly. One big rumor was that his mom had been attacked and beaten up by the police officers and the suns so they were trying to protect her. Another that a pregnant girl had gotten kicked in the stomach. The crowd began to grow, the rumors began to grow. Finally, the rioty relupted. YEP lasted six days and they had bringing another two thousand National guardsmen to stop it along with the sixteen thousand police they already had. Thirty four people were killed, one thousand and thirty two people were injured in three thousand and four, and thirty eight people were arrested.

4:58 Nineteen eighty four, President Ronald Reagan, now he was getting ready to do his weekly radio broadcast to the country that he did every Saturday morning. Now he thought he was still off the air. He didn't know they'd be hitting any buttons. Get so he jokingly said, I just signed a bill outlaw in Russia forever. We're gonna begin bombing. In five minutes. Somebody in the booth realized he was live, so they killed it. So that's all anybody heard, including the Russians. Yet the Soviet military went in a full alert. Took him a half hour before they found out the whole thing was a joke. Go coat coat, goat shog this shiverth day, were gonna pause. He left, this shiver day. We don't simple car he this shibirth day, and you know we don't do that the birthday.

5:43 Okay. He was born on August the eleventh. Frank Keeperson he was born in Willows, California, in eighteen ninety four, except by San Francisco. Now before bed one night, eleven year old Frank he made himself a drink. He made it with flavored pot or powdered soda mix and in water. Then he stirred it with a wooden stick. He left the stick in the glass, and he put the glass in his window, sell and went to sleep. Next morning it was all frozen solid. Frankie had invented the popsicle. Now when he first started selling his creation, he called him the epicicle. Ended up making a lot of money. Married, they had a son. Frank died nineteen eighty three at eighty nine years old. Now he didn't, but wouldn't be kind of cool if he wanted to be frozen. Good night. Tab That long man in My Little Girls line all man in My Little Girl lone.

6:41 That was Mike Douglas. He was born in nineteen twenty in Chicago. Started out as a big band singer. In the nineteen fifty movie Cinderella. He did all the singing for Prince Charman. Now The Mike Douglas Show. If it wasn't it was one of the biggest daytime talk shows of history. Ran from nineteen sixty one to nineteen eighty one. One of his guests was two year little boy showing off his golf skins. Yep, little boy was Tiger Woods. Mikey married nineteen forty three and they had three daughters. He died in two thousand and six on his eighty sixth birthday. God's his death was he was dehydrated for playing golf. I'm just a common man. Rather common man my dog and got a pet.

7:21 By him, my shack. Stay that way. I I'm round people there, Sanity a. Common man is what I mean. By the time he was ten years old, he was singing tenor for a barbershop quartet. John conn is eighty years old today. He is born for Sales, Kentucky in nineteen forty six, still tours and released his new music. Started back releasing his first album nineteen seventy eight. Some of his biggest hits are Lady Laid Down, As long as I'm rocking with you, common Man, I'm only in it for the love. Got married nineteen eighty two and they have two daughters and one son. Now, when you think Apple Computers, you pretty much think of Steve Jobs, but he did have a partner with him all along the way as they co founded Apple. Steve Wozniak is seventy six. He was born in San Jose, California, in nineteen fifty. Nineteen sixty nine, Wozniak was a freshman at the University of Colorado. He got expelled. Yeah, the people in Boulder got a little upset when he hacked into their computer system. So he went home to California, hooked up with Jobs and they started a nice little computer Companysniak's second wife, she was an Olympic gold medal canoeist.

8:28 They had three children together. Then he married his fourth wife in two thousand and eight. Now, obviously that was the wrestling boot Band. Their lead singer was Terry Bala. Terry, of course, he's best known as Hulk Cogan. Holk died last year at seventy one years old. Born in Augusta, georgianet fifty three. Now, he was definitely the most popular professional wrestlers in the nineteen eighties and nineties, might be all time, but the Rock's probably up there. With him in his prime. The hook was six seven and weigh three hundred and two pounds. He began wrestling professionally in nineteen seventy seven. I think he did his last matcher on twenty ten. He only released that one album. Thankfully, he says he's still an actor though biggest movie was Rocky three on TV. He had the reality show Hogan Knows Best. Married his first wife for twenty six years and they had a daughter and a son. Married his second wife for eleven years.

9:33 Going Going, I was known to see this songthing going wrong around here. Joe Jackson, he's seventy two. He's born in nineteen fifty four and burdened upon Trent, England. He's released twenty one albums. Some of his it songs are stepping Out, you can't get what you want right? Wrong? Is she really going out with him now? Joe was married to his wife Ruth for two years. He got done. He said it was just a total disaster. Now he would never explain why his marriage to his wife Ruth was a disaster, but anyway, after they got divorced, he was able to be with his boyfriend Joe. He did live in New York City for a lot of years, but he moved to Berlin, Germany because of New York City's anti smoking lungs.

10:20 The triple count of acting it is winning the Oscar, Emmy and Antonia Awards. Actress Viola Davis has done that. Viola was born in Saint Matthews, South Carolina, in nineteen sixty five. She's sixty one. Actually won two Tony's. She won her Emmy on How to Get Away with Murder and she won her Oscar for Fences. Now, if you're throw in the Grammy, they're called the egots. Only twenty people have done that. Yep, she's one of them. She joined that club. Last year. She won a Grammy for Best Audiobook Narration. Viola got married in two thousand and three and they have a daughter, and she has two step daughters that she's up in race. Joe Rogan he was born in Newark, New Jersey, in nineteen sixty seven. That makes him fifty nine now as a teenager, he has a really big martial arts guy, really into taekwondo and kickboxing entertainment. He started out as a stand up comedian and then he hit on the sitcom news radio.

11:07 He host did Fear Factor, and since two thousand and nine he's been hosting the Joe Rogan Experience podcast. It is the number one podcast in the world. Joe married in two thousand and nine and they have two daughters, and he also adopted her daughter from an earlier relationship. Actor Chris Hemsworth is forty three is born in Melbourne, Australia in nineteen eighty three. He was a soap opera actor over in Australia and in the United States and he'd huge. He's pled thor in like eleven movies. He was in Cabin in the Woods and then a couple of Huntsman movies Ghostbusters. Chris he married twenty ten and they have a daughter and twin sons. Thank you all for being with us today. We sure appreciate you listening. Don't read to follow us on whoever you listen to his own? Is it easy to find us and check out the links into the show description that'll get you to the other podcast the radio stations. Yes. The August Puzzle book about National Days, it's out. It's not really good.

11:57 People starting to like the new format of it and they like matching puzzles more than crosswords. So we get more matching puzzles, actually over a hundred puzzles in the whole book. All right, Our country and the Ground radio artist today comes from robbing out in Hawaii. Shes there Wes Ryan song three words away. It's a good one. So you guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. We've been dancing around the edges something we both know. Your hand fits mine just right, like a sunset on the back road. I don't want to scare the moment, say too much, too soon, but I can't help think about saying this to you. Ever, it's smile, Ever, it's up just pulling me closer to that.

12:49 I'm just three ways. Away for falling all the ways there in every hoby, I ain't sure how long I can. I've been hauling back the baby. I don't want to play it safe. I'm just three words, three words away. I hear them in the quiet. You're drifting off to sleep, They're dancing all my lips. You leaning close to me.

13:30 You laugh and say I'm quiet, but you. Don't know the over inside. Every look you give me just pushes me across that line. Every second, every side, I'm closer to letting it fly, just. Three words away from falling. All the ways they're in every hardy. I ain't sure how long I can wait. I've been haul in back, baby, I don't a lot to play it safe. I'm just three weeks, three words away.