Aug 24-Waffles, Potato Chips, R2D2, Molly Hatchet, David Chappelle, Peebles, Steve Guttenberg

0:19 Hi everybody, I am Jeff. Welcome to History and Factor. It's about today days August the twenty fourth. Yes, yes, delicious waffle. I like to pull maple syrup on my waffle. I like to pull me cream on my waffle. Yeah yeah, yeah, yummy, yumy waffle. Today is National Waffles Day. Waffles. They've been around since the thirteen hundreds. That was today eighteen sixty nine when Carnesie has sport work and then at the waffle iron he was up in Troy, New York. Say that handling, you just put it over the open file. Then in nineteen eleven ge they started selling electric waffle irons. Nineteen fifty three, Freak Dorsa, he changed everything. He came out with frozen waffles, called them eggos.

1:11 Now. The difference between waffle batter and pancake battery is waffle batter has a little more fat in it. Biggest deal today's that's going on to a place called waffle house. For some reason, they're going all out, you paill the fight. Waffle deal's pretty much wherever you have for breakfast today. All right, this is going on entertainment on August the twenty fourth. It's Got Your twenty twenty two number one album was on Verno Sentee by Bad Bunny. Jonce had the number one song was Break My Soul. I won't breaking my song, You won't break my song. I'm just.

1:58 Luke Combs had the number country song with the kind of Love We Make Moving Jim Too, What you do it to Me? Heaving to passion, Take us to High, Weak Consolutely. The number one book was Where the Crowd Ads Sing by Della Owens. Todd. Movie was Invitation Evie. She goes to a really rich, fancy wedding over there in England, finds out messed up family secret might get her killed. Stars Nathalia Emmanuel, Thomas Doherty and Sean Bart We all right, this's what happened on August the twenty fourth. Now, I was all prepared to tell you all about the year seventy nine see mal Vesuvius erupted at bird in the city of Pompeii and three other cities. But in twenty eighteen, Yeah, they changed the date of the araption. They said you have to pay attentions not to October seventeenth, though England is seventeen fifty one. Thomas Coley he had drowned a woman he suspected to being a witch. See at that time, if a woman was suspected to be in a witch, Yeah, they would tie up her hands and her feet and throw in a lake. If she drowned, well that proved she wasn't a witch. But if she lived, uh huh, then she was a witch.

3:15 Well. The woman that Thomas threw in the lake, she drowned, so that proved she wasn't a witch. Well, since she wasn't a witch, Thomas, he was executed for murder. Yeah, that's stopped testing Wischton's that way. Eighteen fourteen, during the War of eighteen twelve, the British detacked Washington, d C. Set fired, a whole bunch of buildings went in the White House. At that time it was actually called the President's House. Now pretty much all the politicians they'd fled Washington to sea before the British got there, not first Lady Dolly Madison, no pern or slaves. They stayed back. Now they actually fought that fire at the White House. They tried to save as many valuables as they could, saved to portrait of George Washington. Yeah, it still hangs in the White House Today. Eighteen fifty three, at Moore's Lake House outside of Saratoga, New York, chef George Crumb, he invented potato chips. See what happened is this customer come playing and sent back his potatoes. Well, that really pissed off Chef Crumb. So just out of spite, he sliced the potatoes really thin, and then he fried it, and then he salted the hell out of it sent it back out. Yeah, I'm just saying the customer just absolutely loved it. Well, then all the other diners they were really intrigued by it, and they all wanted to try it. So nowadays, the American person, on average, he's six point six pounds potato chips every year. Potato chips are the worst thing you can eat too. Now, I don't know why today is a National Potato chip Day, but it's not Nashal potato chip Days. Not till March eighteen fifty eight, the headline of a Richmond, Virginia newspaper it read, ninety blacks resided for learning. Now the white people were teaching them. They all got run out of town.

4:43 Baseball In nineteen nineteen, Cleveland, Indians Pitcher ray Cartwell, he was on the mound. He had two outs in the bottom of the ninth. Then he went boom. He was struck by both the lightning. Well, he got up, brushed himself off, got that last out and the Yeah, the Indians beat the Philadelphia As two to one. Nineteen forty nine. You know the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, it was formed. There are twelve countries that started. Now there's thirty two nineteen ninety one Ukraine they declared their independence from the Soviet Union. That's worked out well. In twenty twelve out there in California, a jury found that Samsung they had interfered with Apple's phone pattern, so they ordered Samsung to pay Apple one billion dollars. Same day, over in South Korea, our court rolled that Samson and Apple had infringedment the South Korean phone company Samson and Apple, they just laughed and laughed. Cop coke dop shog thish shub day.

5:38 We're gonna pause. He left this shuverday. We don't simple page. He's like this shubirth day and you know we don't give up to you. Wellt's check out A born on August the twenty fourth. Well, now that's all right, No, mama, that's all right for you. That's all right, O mama, anywhere you do, that's all right, that's all right, that's all run may. That was our third big boy credit. He was born in Forest, Mississippi, in nineteen oh five. Now a lot, a lot of his songs were recorded that he recorded, were re recorded by white artists and became really big hits.

6:23 Now he didn't receive any royalties for it, so he really started getting pissed and mad, and then he was fed up that everybody was making money off of the songs but him. Finally, he just quit music in the nineteen fifties. You have to want nothing to do with it now, Elvis, he'd actually called him the father of rock and roll, and that name kind of stuck. Elvis actually recorded three of the songs no credit. Didn't even get him money for those. See, he had signed a really bad deal with the record company. They got all the money. So in nineteen seventy legal issues were settled and he started receiving royalties. So he went back singing and performing. Four years later, in nineteen seventy four, he's on tour with Bonnie Rate He died sixty eight years old heart disease and diabetes. Now the rock and roll they consider that song I played That's all Right to be the first song to have a guitar solo in it.

7:05 Actor Kenny Baker. He was born in Birmingham, England, in nineteen thirty four. His biggest role was played Archie D two. Yeah, in the Little Star Wars movies. Yeah, there was somebody in there. It was Kenny. Now, I used to three feet eight inches tall. I get it. Biggest role now. Some of Kenny's other movies there were Time Bandits, Willow the Elephant Man. Labyrith had married in nineteen seventy. His wife died in nineteen ninety three. Now she was a dwarf also, but neither of their two children were Kenny. He died in twenty sixteen at eighty one years old, following along illness. Actress Ann Archer. She's seventy eight. She was born in Los Angeles in nineteen forty seven. Now she acted and did a lot of small parts on TV for like fifteen years before she finally hit get really big in the movie Fatal Attraction. She was even nominated for an Oscar for It, The Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, roles of engagement, ghosts of girlfriends past.

7:54 She had a son from her first husband, married her second husband in nineteen seventy nine and they have a son. That was Donnie Joe Brown, singing lead for the band Molly Hatchett. Donnie was born in Jacksonville, Florida, in nineteen fifty one. He joined Molly Hatchett in nineteen seventy six. He's sang on all their big hits, Flirting with Disaster, the Rambler, Satisfied, Man Stone in Your Art, and I left the band in nineteen ninety five. He had had a stroke see back when he was nineteen years old.

8:40 He was diagnosed with diabetes and hepatitis. So he's kind of a sickly guy pretty much most of his life. Yeah, it all caught up with them and got him in two thousand and five, only fifty three years old. Now the band. They took the name of Molly Hatchett from a prostitute she used to mutilate and decompetit. Decompt got off her clients' heads what it is. Yeah, I probably didn't have a lot of return clients, all right. Actor Steve Gutenberg sixty seven. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, in nineteen fifty eight nineteen eighties. He was as big as any actor could be, starting Diner the cocoon movie short Sirk at three minute of Baby four Police Academy moves. Yeah, but we still acts, but just not as much as he did when Reagan was in the office. Stay these two times divorced. Say now she was born Perry McKissick.

9:44 But she got famous just as pebbles. She was born in Oakland, California, in nineteen sixty four. She's sixty one today. Now she's sixteen years old. She's singing backup for the band Confunction. It was a funk man. Then she got pregnant and had a daughter. So she was working in a real estate office when this guy found one her demo tapes. Well she didn't need to work in the real estate anymore. Yeah. Some of her hits her girlfriend Mercedes boy, take your time giving you the benefit. She still sings with mostly gospel music. She actually has her own ministry. She goes by Sister Perry. She want to check it, goes Sister Perry got dot com. You can see all her stuff now that first daughter was from her one year marriage, and she had a daughter from her second husband. She had a son from her third husband. Been married to her fifth husband since twenty twelve. Actress Marley Maitland Madland. She was born in Morton Grove, Illinois, in nineteen sixty five. When she was eighteen months old, she got really sick. Yeah, she had a really really high fever, lost all the hearing in her right ear, eighty percent of the hearing in her left ear. Hadn't slowed her down though. She was actually won an Oscar for her very first movie, Children Unless a God. On TV, she was on what was a Baby Einstein? Then Reasonable Die West Wing. She had seventh place on Dancing with the Stars. I'm not sure how that worked.

10:53 Marlee. She made a police officer in nineteen ninety three. They have two sons and two daughters. Comedian David Chappelle's fifty too. He's born in Washington, DC in nineteen seventy three. He's the top stand up comedian out there right now, has been for a couple of years. Now. You can disagree, but he's definitely the highest paved now. He does tur but if you can't see him live You can definitely catch him on Netflix. Some of his movies were Robin Hood, Minon Tiits, The Nettie Professor, con Air, Half Bag, Blue Streak. He got married in two thousand and one and they have two sons and one daughter. Actor Rupert Grint. He is thirty seven, born in Harlow, England, in nineteen eighty eight. Pretty good first acting gig. He played Ron Weasley in all those Harry Potter movies. The only acting he did before that was in a couple of school plays. Rippert.

11:35 He's been dating actors Georgia Groome since twenty eleven. They have two daughters, a Rippert. He has a Guinness Book of World Record out there. Back in twenty twenty he joined Instagram. So what he got one million followers in one hour and one minute. Nobody's else been able to pull that one off. No, I have no idea how he did all right. Quote of the day comes from Sushi. He was a writer back there in China. He died today in eleven oh one, sixty four years old. He says, continue to climb to the Friday, reach the top of the mountain, but no one knows where that top is. I thank y'all for following us and from listening to us, and come and check us out at coolmdia dot com. And uh yeah, he said it's pretty easy. Actually our country underground radio artist today. It comes out from Tracy and Bob out there in the villages of Florida. They want to hear Brandon bing in his song Blue Collar Swallow.

12:26 You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. Ninety eight degrees roasting in the summer sun. Brandon collar boy grows bed and get you on working tallis sands. He's in tattle man. He's as bad as some bitch. That's his testament. Blue collar swallow on the farm on the long tail. The mood shines Onney Thursday. He's a birdly working five night Friday and rolls around it can floaded up, ready to throw down.

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