Aug 23-Cuban Sandwich, The Drifters, The Who, Rick Springfield, Shelly Long, Survivor, Jay Mohr, Scott Caan

0:10 Hi, I am Jeff, and welcome to history. In fact, it is about today visited by cool Media. Today's August the twenty third. Gimme a Cuban sandwich. It's got a tucastle, pig, meat, ham. And no sports and a slaze of wine cheese in the shap. So it's on a pickle. Picklep go home, sat el Comano. That's a Cuban sandwich. It is National Cuban Sandwich Day. A Cuban sandwich, ham roasted pork, Swiss cheese, pickle, yellow mustard between white bread. Now that's the way they are today. The original Cuban sandwiches, they were made by the Tanano tribe that inhabited Cuba, way before the European showed up.

0:56 They would use fish and birds to make their sandwiches. But then this bandies arrived by pigs, so no more fishing birds. I don't know what they used for a pickle though. Nineteen thirty four are the Cuban sandwich, and made his way to Tampa, Florida, start off in a couple of restaurants and then exploded popularity. Now there are a lot of deals going on in Florida day, but everywhere else, Yeah, not so much. But if you go to Cuba and you want one, just order sandwich. They'll know what you want, all right. What happened in entertainment on August at twenty third, It's got to year twenty ten. Number one album was The Suburbs by Arcade Fire. Eminem Henrihanna had the number one song with Love the Way You Lie. I'm a slave when it's past So I'm just so same. Who's that to? I don't even know his name? I lay hey so them.

1:38 I never stooped. Alma Jane, I guess I to the old Tree, just got stand. Blake Shelton had the number one country song with all About Tonight. They had a head Climbing Head Smart Downtown. It's sold a thousand. Ninety two times. In the music. Into the Band, the number one book was The Room brandt Affair by Daniel Silva. Top movie was Takers A Detective He screws Up the plot of a gang of bank robbers, stars Matt Dillon, Hayden Christianson and Chris Brown.

2:26 All Right. What happened on August the twenty third the year fifteen hundred, Francisco d Bobbidia. He arrived in the Caribbeing to take over as governor of the Indies Islands. His first order of business was to arrest the current governor, Christopher Columbus. Well he did. He put Christopher Columbus into chains and send him back to Spain. Now, the myth was that Columbus was being punished for how he treated the natives there. Nah, the Spanish didn't give a crap about them. What he was being punnished for was how he was treating the Spanish settlers. When he got back to Spain, Columbus he did spend a couple months in jail, and then King he just let him go, kind of saying no, no harm. Seventeen eighty four are the people of East Tennessee. They declared that they were seceding from Tennessee. They didn't want anything to do with the Western tennessee Ers. They were calling themselves the state of Franklin. That's right, they named themselves after Ben Franklin. It took a year within the United States Congress stepped in and said no. In nineteen oh four, the tire chain driver's car in snow It was invented by New York or Harry Weed. Now he had seen drivers wrapping rope around their tires for added grippin, so he came up with the tire chain. World War two in nineteen forty three, it was the largest tank battle in world history. Lasted fifty days, ended today with the Battle of Kursk. Took place in the Soviet Union against the Germany. Now the Soviets. They did win the battle, but because they had so many more tanks and men than Germany had. See Germany, they lost one thousand tanks.

3:48 Soviet has lost six thousand tanks. Soviet has lost seven hundred thousand men. Germany lost two hundred thousand men. But that Soviet victory did keep Germany from advancing into farther into the Soviet Union. Germany they never were able to recover from that either. Those losses are two great So basically the war on the Eastern Front, yeah, pretty much turned at that point. Nineteen fifty two, Kitty Wells she became the first woman to have a number one song on the Country and Western chart. As I listen words you are safe, it brings memories when. Our was a trusting. It wasn't God made allky talk games due it wasn't God who made Honky tonk Angels stay number one for fifteen weeks. Africa. In nineteen sixty in Equatorial Guinea, they got the largest frog ever was twelve and a half inches long away seven point three pounds. But then they found out that frog was part of a whole species of frogs, so they named him the African goliath bullfrog.

4:50 Now those frogs, they were huge, and then in the nineteen eighties, this dude brought a whole bunch of them back to the United States. I started entering into a frog jumping contest. Yeah, I know, those African gliah they jumped ten feet. The American bullfark right around five feet. It's really pissing off a frog jumping contest. Now, since we're talking about frogs. The South African sharp notes frog, now that's the fog that can actually jump the farthest. You can get out to eleven feet, but that little guy's only three inches long as let be the equivalent of a human jumping two hundred feet. In two thousand and five, a tropical depression formed over the Bahamas. It will develop into a Hurricane Katrina twenty seventeen, the driest place on Earth. The Attakaima desert over in Chile. It was booming. Yeah, it had some unexpected rainfall. See it rains there every five to seven years. This time it rained after only two years. So thank god for climate change.

5:37 Coat coat coat, coat, coat, goat shage. This shiverf day. Were gonna pause, he left, this shiver day. Were gonna sit with targe. He like this shivers day. And you know we don't give up because that's Earth Day. Okays, check out it. It's born on August the twenty third. M s Yes in the rain, what a goorious feel. And I'm fair again. I'm laughing at clock. Singer dancer actor Gene Kelly was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, nineteen twelve. Consider one of Hollywood's biggest stars of all time. Now he's probably the most famous dancing in movie history. Was him singing and dancing to Singing in the Rain. Oh, that'd be at least until Magic Whyte came out?

6:34 Now. Not only was Jane one of Hollywood's top dancers back in the day, yeah, he was one of the top choreographers too. Some of his all time classic movies were on the Town an American in Paris cover girl taking me to the ball game. He had one child from his first wife. He had two children from a second wife. Married that third wife when he was seventy seven years old. She was thirty back in nineteen ninety. Remember that was eight years before five Agar came on sale. Jane died in nineteen ninety six from a stroke at eighty three years old. Now it ain't close it. I don't smoke myself, I don't reckon. They hinder your help. I've smoked them all my life. I'm i ain't dead yet. But Nicodeen slaves are all the same as a pet and party or a poker game. Everything's got to stop while they have that cigarette.

7:16 Smoke smoke, smoked that cigarette. Didn't you smoke yourself again? Now that was tex Williams. He was born in Ramsey, Illinois, in nineteen seventy. Yeah, texts Williams. He never lived in Texas. Now. That song smoke, Smoke, Smoke. Back in nineteen forty seven, it was the number one song on the pop charts for sixteen weeks. Now, the rest of Texas hits, they were all country songs. The California Poker. What I like about the West never treated a woman batting. That's his summer. He was married when he died from pancreatic cancer in nineteen eighty five at sixty eight years old. Actors Barbara Eaton, She's ninety three. She was born in Tucson, Arizona, in nineteen thirty one. Probably is still most known for playing Genie and I Dream in Genie. Her first TV series was act back in the late nineteen fifties, was How to Marry a Millionaire. Her biggest movie was Harper Valley Pta.

8:05 She was also in the movie Voice to the Bottom of the Sea Chattanooga, Chuchu. Now. She started opposite Elvis in Flaming Star Barbara. She's been married to her third husband since nineteen ninety one, and she did have a son from her first husband. And let me tell you now, when I go tired, I go up. Willis sweet. That was Rudy Lewis singing lead for the Drifters. Rudy was born in Philadelphia in nineteen thirty six. He joined the Drifters in nineteen sixty. He replaces Benny King as the lead singer for the Drifters. Some of their big heads with Rudy singing We're some kind of wonderful up on the roof. Please stay on Broadway Now, nineteen sixty four, everyone was waiting in the recording studio for Rudy to show up so they could record the song under the boardwalk. Finally they just went out looking for him. Sadly, yeah, they found him. He was dead in the hotel room a couple of blocks away. Died from a heroin over.

9:08 He is a twenty seven years old. Leave off Join put us to time Jan just with Charles, We get around around jan shoes and do the com. Show five Time Control Get Old. The original drummer for the man who was Keith Moon. He was born in Wimbley, England in nineteen forty six. Now he was the first to make the drums more than just a background instrument. He wanted people to watch him as he drummed, so he did all kinds of antics to try and get their attention, like setting off explosions that got Pete Townsend to go deaf in one air and that kind of stuff.

9:48 You know what. Though, but he would not perform drum solos. Drum solos and concerts though now he thought drum solo's life. They were actually born. Now he had a lot of trouble with drugs and alcohol, then the law, then drugs and Alcohl. He married nineteen sixty six in nineteen seventy five and they had a daughter. But drugs finally got Keith in nineteen seventy eight, thirty two years old. That body, I'm just not yesshold who resolves late night? No one, we said. Rex spring fayout. He's seventy five. He's one of Guildford, Australia.

10:32 In nineteen forty nine, now he was having success in music in Australia and even had a top ten hit. So then it was time to come to the United States to it really big. He recorded an album and then the record company wouldn't release it. Oh, I need a money. Recky took a job playing Noah Drake on the soap opera General Hospital. Then once he became a big soap opera star, Yeah, the record company released his album. Some of his biggest hits Jesse's Girl, Don't Talk to Strangers. I've done everything for you loved somebody right now? I know next week he's coming out here to Denver and then up to Greeley. But he's in a tour toe about Thanksgiving. If you want to go see him, he sh'll probably have a shot. Ricky married nineteen eighty four and they have two sons. Sometimes you want.

11:12 To go every and knows your name. Always came. You want to be with you can see. Se you want to be everybody knows your name. Actor Shelley Long. She's also seventy five. She was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Now he's sure you had big playing Diane Chambers on the sitcom Chairs. Then she had a recurring role on Modern Family from twenty nine to twenty eighteen. She must have pissed somebody off because they killed her off on that show. Her first big movie was Night Shift and then Irreconcilable Differences, The Money Pit, Outrageous Fortune.

11:54 She's Carol Brady in a Couple of Brady Bunch of movies. She has twice divorced and had a daughter from her second husband. To myself. That was Jimmy Jamison and singing lead for the Band's Survivor. He was born in Durant, Mississippi, in nineteen fifty one. The people in the music business called him the voice. They believe he had one of the best voices of all time. He did a lot of collaborating and singing with other artists, had a lot of success doing it.

12:36 He joined Survivor in nineteen eighty four. He did not sing Iya the Tiger. No, that was Dave Bickler. That was before Jimmy joined the band. But Jimmy sang every other hit that they had, which would be what I Can't hold back, High on You, The Search is over burn an art He had a daughter from his first wife and a son and daughter from his second wife, and Jimmy died from a stroke at sixty three years old and twenty fourteen. Three foot four inch Actor Ed Gael was born in Plainwell, Michigan, in nineteen sixty one. He's sixty three today. Started off playing Howard the Duck. Then he was Chucky in the first three Child's Play movies, then he was Dink and Spaceballs, and on TV he played a dinosaur on Land of the Loss. He just retired in twenty twenty. Actor River Phoenix. He was born on Madras, Oregon, in nineteen seventy. He was the oldest of those acting Phoenix family members. Let's see his sisters are Rain Liberty. In summer and his brother is joking.

13:29 River's first movie was The Explorers, then stand By Me Mosquito Coast. When he was eighteen, he was nominated for Best Actor Oscar for Running on Empty. Then he was In My Own Private, Idaho and Sneakers. He died from a drug overdose in nineteen ninety three at only twenty three years old. Actor comedian Jay Moore. He's fifty four. He was born in Verona, New Jersey, in nineteen seventy started out as a successful stand up comedian. First movie hit Pretty Big It was Jerry Maguire, then The Suicide Kings, Pay It Forward on TV. He hosted Last Comics Standing, and then he did sports talk radio. He had a son from his first wife and his second wife, she was actor as nicky Cox, and they had a son. Just last year, he married Geenie buss Yep. She's the owner of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team. Actor Scott conn He was born in Los Angeles in nineteen seventy six.

14:16 He's forty eight. Father James Gunn Scott. He might be most known for probably playing Dano on TV's Wif I Have Oh Did It? For ten years now. He's on Alert Missing Person's Unit. Some of his movie is Varsity Blues Gone in sixty seconds, all those Ocean movies Ocean eleven, twelve, and thirteen. Scott and his girlfriend, they have a daughter. Okay, that's my win. You bet rain drops? How fast do you think they fall? Fifteen to twenty miles an hour? Well, thank you for listening. We sure appreciate you coming and listen to us. Don't forget to follow us on whoever you listen to us on and come see us at coolmedia dot com. That's cool at three yohs. Actor Ruleolph Valentino died today in nineteen twenty six and only thirty one years old. Rudolph said a man should control his life minus control rolling me. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

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