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

0:10 Hi there, I am Jeff, and welcome to history and factoids about today, presented by Cool Media. It is August the eleventh, said the hill to. The himmit, Hi, hope you don't stuff the rocking to the band man, we can say, oh justin f to the rhythm of the binga to beat. Now what you hear is not a tap tom rappin to the beat, and me, the crew and a friends are gonna try to your feet. See I am one, 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. Hip Hop was born a Jamaican DJ, Coolhirk.

0:56 He had borrowed from back in Jamaica and mixed it well from New York Street and 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 as 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, all right? What happened to entertainment? On August the eleventh and nineteen fifty eight, the number one album was Chaikowski Piano Concerto Number One by Van Cliburn. Ricky Nelson had the number one song with poor Little Fool.

1:53 I used to lay around the cart. Call went out that little girl. That I was fall. Oh yeah, Johnny Cash he had the number one cut or Yeah, number one country song with Guess things happened that way? You asked me a mile forgetting my baby. I guess I will some day. I don't like it, but I. Guess a way. You asked me a mile get along, I guess I will some way I don't like.

2:39 It, but I guess way. The number one book was Anatomy a Murder by Robert Traver. Top movie was The Vikings, A Slave and a Viking Prince Fight for the Love of a Princess stars Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borg nine, Janet Lee. Who do you think the princess was? All? Right? What happened? On August 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 Obell he was the man in eighteen ninety six he invented the light bulb socket and that little pul chain to 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. Yeah, 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 we 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

4:10 to jail. Well, 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 sun, 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 releupted. YEP lasted six days and they had bringing another two thousand National guardsmen that 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. 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.

5:03 He didn't know they'd been hitting any buttons yet, so he jokingly said, I just signed a bill out law 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. Let the Soviet military went into full alert. Took him a half hour before they found out the whole thing was a joke. Got coat, cot coat, goat shage this shiverth day, were gonna pause. He left this shuverday. We gonna sit with tar. He like this ship birthday and you know we don't get use. That's the birthday, okay. He was born on August the eleventh, Frank Jeperson. He was born on 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 pat or powdered soda, MiGs and in water. Then he stirred it with a wooden stick.

5:56 He left the stick in the glass, and he put the glass in his window sill 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 Love.

6:36 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 Jarmon. 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 a two year old little boy showing off as golf skins. Yep, little boy was Tiger Woods. Mike married nineteen forty three and they had three daughters. He died in two thousand and six on his eighty six birthday. Cause his death was he was dehydrated for playing golf. I'm just a common man, rab common man, my dog and got a pet.

7:17 Sat stay that way time round people, the sanity the common man. That is what I mean. By the time he was ten years old, he was singing tenor for a barbershop quartet that was John conn That. He's seventy eight today. He's born in 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 found at Apple, Steve Wosniak. Yeah, Wollsniak.

8:03 He's seventy four today. He was born in San Jose, California, in nineteen fifty. Nineteen sixty nine, Wosniak 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 company. Wosniak's second wife, she was an Olympic gold medal canoeist. 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 hul Cogan, Yeah, the Hoke. He's seventy one today. Born in Augusta, Georgia in nineteen 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.

9:05 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 and the Hook. He just married his third wife last year. He's still a honeymoon. Going a going Don't I known the seemen of this?

9:46 Something going wrong around here? Joe Jackson, he's seventy years old. He's born at Burnton upon Trenty, England, in nineteen fifty four. He's released twenty one albums. Some of his songs are stepping out, you can't get what you want right and 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. That's why he's touring Europe right now, in not the United States. 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 fifty nine. She 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.

10:47 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 helping rates. He was born in nineteen sixty seven in Newark, New Jersey. He's fifty seven 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. He hosted 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 Ensworth. He's forty one.

11:30 He was born in nineteen eighty three in Melbourne, Australia. He was a soap opera actor over in Australia and in the United States, and he'd huge He's fled thor in like eleven movies. He was in Cabin in the Woods and then a couple of Huntsman movies, Ghostbusters. Chris. He married in twenty ten and they have a daughter and twin sons. Oh okay, it's goat to roller skating. The first roller skate. It was actually made in France in seventeen sixty. Well, thank you for being here today, and nope, you have a great Sunday. Don't forget to follow us whever you listen to Sonic Comes see us at Comedia dot com. Robin Williams he tied the day in twenty fourteen, at sixty three years old. Robin said, never pick a fight with an ugly person. They have nothing to lose. You guys, have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

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