Aug 16-Rum, Kool & the Gang, Madonna, James Cameron, Angela Bassett, Steve Carrell, The Fighting Girlfriend

0:10 Hi, I am Jeff, and welcome to history. In fact, it's about today. Visit a boy cool Media Days. August the sixteenth. Drinking Room. I drink Podrinking Room, Pol Drinking Room. I drinks come, I think sweet Man, Pull Twrinking Room. I drink pul drinking rum. I pull twrinking rum. Ire. Hey, it's National Rum Day and it's on a Friday. Even a type of rum, it started being made about three hundred BC. Wasn't until the sixteen hundreds though, when the kind of rum that we drink today started being made. Yeah, they needed the sugarcane from the Caribbean in order to do that. Rum is the number two selling liquor. It's behind vodka. Now beer and wine aren't considered a liquor. Surprisingly, sales of white rum and dark rum, yeah, they're almost even.

1:05 I would have thought it would have been dark rum would have sold a lot more. So, how do you want to celebrate today? You got Pinnacolatta, Dakery rum and Cooke Mudo, my tie, Hurricane Long Island iced tea. You know, there are so many different types of run drinks you just to find one you like. So if you like to drink enjoy some rum today and it is Friday after all? All right, what happened on entertainment on August the sixteenth, Let's go back the year twenty nineteen. Number one album was care Package by Drake Little nas X had the number one song with Old Town Road. I Ain't on the track lean all in my Blood, chat on my Buddy, you can't go away my life. Here is a move boy riding and mooves cowboy hat from Boo.

1:46 Ryan, go on my boot, can't Nobody. Jill Luke Coombs had the number one country song with beer Never Broke My Heart, Blacking down as. A foot Fountain, sataris. Lord, Lacking Me and dream and just don't know Me bars in this guitar longs. The number one book was One Good Deed by David Baldacy.

2:29 Top movie was Good Boys, three sixth grade boys ditch school and then accidentally Carrie Stolen Drugs, stars Dve, Jacob Trimley, Keith L. Williams and Bratty New. Now, normally we give a quote from a person at the end of the show who had died that day, but August sixteenth, this actually had a lot of people pass on us, So we're just going to do it right now. Elvis Presley, he died in nineteen seventy seven at forty two years old. Babe Ruth died in nineteen forty eight at fifty three years old. We lost Aretha Franklin in twenty eighteen and seventy six years old. Miss Kitty from gun Smoke. Amanda Blake, Yeah, she died nineteen eighty nine at sixty years old. And Margaret Mitchell, the lady who wrote Gone with the Wind, She was hitten by a car and died nineteen forty nine at forty nine years old.

3:11 All right, what else happened? On August the sixteenth, eighteen fifty eight, the first Transatlantic telegraph was sent English's Queen Victoria. She sent it to US President James Buchanan. She congratulated him on the mutual success the two countries achieved by being able to employ that telegraph across the Atlantic Ocean. It opened up such exciting potential possibilities with technology in the future. No one wrote it down but Buchanan. He just kind of replied back, what it could happen? And since eighteen sixty five over in South America, Yeah, they had been fighting. What they'd called the Triple Alliance. It was Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay versus Paraguay. Yeah, that was pretty much just slaughter. But Paraguay would not surrender.

3:53 So today, in eighteen sixty nine, at the Battle of Acustanneu, twenty thousand Brazilian and Argentine truths faced off Paraguay's three thousand troops. Everyone at Paraguay and trips they either killed, injured or taken prisoner. I probably should have mentioned that all Paraguay trips were boys between nine and fifteen years old. You know what. Paraguay, there's two would not surrender. They had no one left to fight. But nope, they weren't going down. Nineteen thirty the first sound and color cartoon was released. It was Fiddlesticks. Now it wasn't by Disney, but it was by a guy who used to work for Disney. It was about Flip the Frog. He was a feature performer at a nightclub in the forest. All the forest creatures love to come see him dance and play piano. Nineteen fifty four, the first issue a Sports Illustrated went on.

4:35 So nineteen sixty nine, now yesterday we talked about how Richie Havens opened up Woodstock. So you want to know who played on day two? Santana, The Grateful Dead, Creten's clear Water Revival, Janis Joplin Sling the Family Stone, the Who Jefferson Airplane. Yeah, that was the best day if he were going to go to any tomorrow's closing. Yeah, I don't really has this. Jimmy Hendricks and shan On a nineteen seventy two King of Sin, the King of Rocco. He was flying in his personal seven twenty seven airplane and when a coup took place down in his country, some of his own air Force fighter plays they attacked his jet. Yeah, in order to get him to stop shooting. The King grabbed the mic and screamed into the radio, stop shooting. The tyrant is dead. We killed him. Well, the air force pilots kind of said cool and just flew off. Well, the King was able to land safely, and yes, he was able to crush that coup. Due to international pressure.

5:24 In twenty seventeen, Lebanon they abolished their Article five point twenty two of their penal clue. Yep, it's one of the laws. Now. That law said that rapists would not be prosecuted if they married their victims. And twenty twenty one and the worst military and foreign policy decision in US history took place United States President Joe Biden. He gave the Taliban Afghanistan the airport that the Taliban didn't even want, and he gave them billions upon billions of dollars of military equipment, weapons and supplies. Yeah, they didn't ask for that either, and he wanted to make it all worse. Yep, thirteen US soldiers were killed. Go got go coat coat, goat show.

6:06 This shiverf day, we gonna pause. He left this shiverf day. We gonna sit with caage. He left this shibf day. And you know we don't get the. Birthday well hood born on August the sixteenth. Mariah Octabuskaya. She was born in Crimea, Russia, in nineteen oh five. Now, during World War Two, she found out that her husband and kids killed fight in Germany. So she sold everything she owned and she offered to use that money to buy a tank for the Soviet Army with two conditions. One she got to drive it, and two the tank would be called the Fighting Girlfriend. Sylvia said, okay. So it turned out that Maria had. She was actually really good battle after battle, she even promoted Ally up to sergeant. She was totally kicking butt.

6:46 Then in January nineteen forty four, in a battle, her tank was hit by an anti tank shell and knocked off the track. So under heavy fire she hopped out and with rifle fire going around and artillery dropping all around her, Yeah, she was able to fix that track. But Sally, she was crawling back in her tank. Yeah, she was hitting the head by some shrapnel. She was in a coma for two months before she died. She was thirty eight years old. She did receive the Hero of the Soviet award. That is the highest award that the Soviets gave out for bravery in battle, kind of like our Medal of Honor. One of only two women to get it. Shine swaying too, I let him let him go.

7:37 She's Edie Gourmet. She was born in the Bronx, New York in nineteen twenty eight. Now she had hits on the pop and Latin charts and after all her success as a solo artists, she's best known for performing with her husband, Yeah, Steve Lawrence, Steve and Edie. They had a lot of success, so lots of records played Vegas a lot. They performed together for fifty five years. Then they also had two sons along the way. She died six days for eighty fifth birthday in twenty thirteen. Shames a. Shame. That was Gary Luiso. He was singing for American Breed.

8:26 He was born in Chicago in nineteen forty five. American Breed they're around from nineteen sixty two to nineteen seventy. Bin Me Shape Me, Yeah, that was their biggest hit. But after they broke up, that's when Gary had his biggest success in music, started his own record studio. Just some of the people who recorded there sticks Reo Speedwagon, Bad Company, Lies in the La Tenacious Dan Nelson. I had a lot more too. Gary had two children from his first wife, and he did get remarried in nineteen eighty eight his first wife had died. They had two children. Gary died from pancreatic cancer in twenty sixteen at seventy years old. Actor in O reginaldvill Johnson. He's seventy two. He's born in Queens, New York, in nineteen fifty two. Biggest movie is Where the first two Diehard movies. Remember he played Aul. He was also in Turner and Hoochs Crocodile Dundee. Biggest success was on TV, start on Family Matters. He was that copp that was named Carl Winslow. Went to high school with porn star Ron Jeremy. Don't know if they hung out it.

9:24 How are you gonna do it if you really don't want to day by standing? Tell men, how are you gonna do it if you really don't want to? Dance by standing? That was James J. T. Taylor singing for Cooling the Gang. He's born in Laurence, South Carolina, in nineteen fifty three. He's seventy one. He joined cool In the Gang in nineteen seventy nine, pretty much sing lead on all their songs. He sang from seventy one to nineteen eighty eight like what Ladies' Night Celebration, Get down on it your name and he sang it. He had come back for a couple reunion shows. Then JD has done some solo stuff, did a little Broadway. He's married.

10:05 Hey you all flying? Oh she all from a crmeche. You think someday she'll comety. You betiful jet. That was heavy metal singer Kathy Lee Gifford yep She was born Kathy Lee Epstein. Also she's also seventy one. She's born in Paris, France. First got known singing on the game show Named That Tune. Then she was with Live with Regis and Kathy Lee from nineteen eighty five to two thousand. Then she did Today with Kathy Lee and Hoda from twenty and eight to twenty nineteen. She also released sixteen albums over the years. Her second husband was Frank Gifford. They married nineteen eighty six. They had had a son and a daughter. They were together until Frank died in twenty fifteen. Filmmaker James Cameron seventy years old.

10:57 He was born in Kapa, Lansing, Canada, in nineteen fifty four. He did finish high school out in California. He made three of the six movies that had made over two billion dollars, both Avatars and Titanic. His first hit movie was Terminator and he followed that with Aliens. His fourth wife was actress Linda Hamilton. They had a daughter, then he left Linda for his fifth wife. They got married in two thousand and they have two daughters. And one son. No Chime Tuesday.

11:39 Back in nineteen eighty two. That song Everybody, It did not chart in the top one hundred, but it did getting up to number three on the dance chart. That was Madonna's first single. She was born Madonna Chakon in Ba City, Michigan, in nineteen fifty eight. Sixty six shells sold. There were three hundred million records. That makes her o the world's best selling female artists of all time. She's also made nineteen movies, but we won't talk about those. Her first usband is actor Sean Penn for four years, and then she had a daughter from a fitness trainer and she married her second husband. He was filmmaker Guy Ritchie, and they had two sons. After they divorced Madonna, she's adopted three little girls, actress Angelo is It. She's also sixty six. She was born in New York City. Some of her movies were Malcolm X, Waiting to Excel, The Avengers. She's nominated for Oscars for What's.

12:23 Love Got to Do with That? And Black Panther Waconda Forever on TV. She has done a lot of American horror stories. Angela married nineteen ninety seven and they have a son and a daughter. Actor Timothy Hutton. He was born in nineteen sixty in Malibu, California. Sixty four year old. He is the youngest actor ever to win a Best Supporting Actor Oscar went for when he was twenty years old for Ordinary People. Some of his other movies Taps, The Falcon and The Snowman, Made in Heaven, Everybody's All American. His first wife was actress Debra Winger for four years and they had a son. Then he is married to a second wife for nine years and they had a daughter, actress Steve Carrell. He was born in Concord, Massachusetts, in nineteen sixty two. He's sixty two. First guy known and as a correspondent on The Daily Show with John Stewart. Then he was on the TV show The Office. Some of his movies The Anchorman movies, Forty year Old, Virgin, Get Smart, voiced in the Despicable Means movies All One. Got married in nineteen ninety five and they have a son and a daughter.

13:19 Beside s in sky susing Size one, Passman by Busy. One thousand Miles by. Night. Butanessa Carlton. She's forty four She's born in Milford, Pennsylvania. In nineteen eighty she graduated from the American School of Ballet. Then she died and she didn't want to dance, so she went into music. Some are hits, one thousand Miles, Ordinary Day, White Houses, Hands on Me. She married in twenty thirteen and they have a daughter. Stevie Nicks actually performed her wedding ceremony. All right, let's talk some more about Rum now. The difference between lark light and dark room.

14:04 It's only the aging process. Yeah, light rum is not aged as long. Oh, thank you for following us and come in and listen to us at Comedia dot com and all that good stuff. What we're gonna do today is we're just gonna end with my mom's all time favorite Elba song. I'll never know, have an awesome day, and we'll all talk tomorrow. Stars are in the sky. I'll never know what firelight the firefly, I never know what happens to it's time.

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