Aug 24-Waffles, R2D2, Molly Hatchet, Steve Guttenberg, Pebbles, Marlee Martin, David Chappelle, Rupert Grint

0:10 Hi everyone, I am Jeff, and welcome to history. In fact, du it's about today. It isn't about cool media. Today is August twenty fourth. Yes, delicious waffle. I like to pull maple syrup on my waffle. I like to pull weep cream on my waffle. Yeah yeah, yeah, yummy, yumy waffle. Today is National Waffle Day. Waffles. They've been around since the thirteen hundreds, but it was today. In eighteen sixty nine, Cornel, Yes, squirtwout he invented the first waffle iron. Yeah, I did it up in Troy, New York. It had a handle and everything. You just put it on an over an open fire. Then in nineteen eleven, Ge you put out the first electric waffle iron. Fifty three. Frank Dorsa, he came out with frozen waffles. You call them eggos. Now do you know the difference between waffle batter and pancake batter. Well, waffle batter has a little more fat in it. Now most places that serve breakfast are having deals today. Of course the big ones, Perkins, I Hop, waffle House, but even Chick fil A is getting into it today. Yeah, not waffle, not with waffles, but waffle fries, So enjoy that hell out of some waffles today. All right, let's see that happened on entertainment on August the twenty fourth.

1:27 Let's go back to your nineteen sixty. Number one album was A Button Down Mine of Bob Newhart by Bob Newhart. Elvis Presley had the number one song with It's now We're Never. Kiss Me Tomorrow. Cowboy Kopas He had the number one song with Alabam. Well ahem two unter kirols down the street, deeping down there, Black Moby, come all the way. I'm going back al Bam talk munch. People have a whales time even I'm kicking them, drinking rawan along the way. I'm going back, Dulam.

2:27 The number one book was Hawaii by James Mitchener. Top movie with Psycho, a woman on the run for embezzlements hides at a hotel run by a weird guy in his overbearing mum. Stars Anthony Perkins, Ganetly and Verim Miles. Okay, what happened on August the twenty fourth, Now we were all prepared to tell you about the year seventy nine. That's when Mount VESUVIUSI repted, burying the city of Pompey and three other towns. But in twenty eighteen they changed the date that it happened October seventeenth, So you're gonna have to wait. In England is seventeen fifty one Thomas Coley. He had drowned a woman he suspect to being a witch. See back then, they supected a woman of being a witch. They tied her hands and her feet and then threw in her lake. Now, if she drowned, yeah, I proved that she wasn't a witch. But if she lived, that proved that she was a witch. So the woman that he threw in the lake, yeah she drowned, It proved that she wasn't a witch. So they executed him for murder.

3:18 No one tried to test witches that way again. Eighteen fourteen, in the War of eighteen twelve, the British they attacked Washington, d C. Set fired a whole bunch of buildings, including the White House. Well at the time it was called the President's House, not the White House. But most of the politicians had fled Washington, d C. But first Lady Dolly Madison and her slaves, who were working at the White House. Yeah, they all stayed behind and tried to save as many valuables as they could. Yeah, they were. One of the valuables, they said, was a portrait of George Washington and still hangs in the White House today. Eighteen fifty three, at Moon's Lake House. At Moon's Lake House outside of Saratoga, New York, chef George Crumb invented the potato chip. Who see had customer complain back as potatoes. Well, that pissed off Chef Crumb, so out of spite he sliced the potatoes really thin, fried and salted the hell out and the sent him back out. Damned this thing.

4:09 That dude just loved those things. The other diners, they were really intrigued by it, and so they all wanted to try him. Now, the Americans eat one point eight five billion pounds of potato chips every year. Yeah, it comes out to about six point six pounds per person. Eighteen fifty eight, the headline of the Richmond, Virginia newspaper, The Dailies Dispatch read ninety blacks arrested for learning. Nineteen forty nine. NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty organization. It began twelve countries were part of it back then. Now there's thirty two, nineteen ninety one in the Ukraine they declared their independence from the Soviet Union. And in twenty twelve, a jury out there in California, it sounds, found Samsung. Yeah, they were guilty for infringing on Apple's phone patent. They awarded that Samsung had to pay Apple one billion dollars.

4:53 On that exact same day. Over in South Korea, a court over there ruled that both Samsung and Apple had infringed on the patent of a South in phonemaker Damson and Apple. They just laughed and laughed. Go go go, go, go goat Shaw. It's shivers day. We're gonna pause, he left, It's shiverday. We gonna simple car he like, it's shivers day. And you know, we don't get up because that's a birthday. Okay, let's check out. It was born on August the twenty fourth. Well now that's all right, No, mama, that's all right for you, that's all right, No, mama, anyway you do. But that's all right, that's all right. That's all right now, mamayway you do.

5:44 That was Arthur big boy cred Up. He was born in Forest, Mississippi, in nineteen oh five. So many songs that he had recorded were actually re recorded by white artists and made anty huge hits. Arthur he didn't get any of the royalties from any of that, so he finally got fed up with everybody making money off of his songs but him, so in the nineteen fifties he just quit music. No more singing, no more recording nothing. Elvis called him the father of rock and roll, and that name actually stuck. But Elvis did record three of his songs. Then in nineteen seventy, after legal issues were settled, Arthur began to receive royalties again, so I went back to singing. Four years later, in nineteen seventy four, he was on tour with Bonnie Rait and he died sixty eight years old from heart disease and diabetes. Now the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame they considered that song that we played, That's All Right, to be the first song that had a guitar solo in it. Actor Kenny Baker.

6:32 He was born in Birmingham, England, in nineteen thirty four. His biggest role was playing R two D two in the Star Wars movies. Yeah, there was somebody in there and it was Kenny Kenny. He stood three feet eight inches tall. Oh no, I get biggest role. Okay. Some of his other movies were A Time Bandits Willow, The Elephant Man, Labyrinth. He was married in nineteen seventy until she died in nineteen ninety three. Now his wife, She was also a dwarf, but neither of their two children are Kenny. He died in twenty sixteen at eighty one years old, falling a lot to the illness. Actors and archer. She's seventy seven. She's born in Los Angeles nineteen forty seven. She had been acting and doing movies and small parts on TV and stuff for fifteen years. Finally hit big in the movie Fatal Attraction, was even nominated for an Oscar for it. Then Patriot Games, Clear and Present, Danger, Rules of Engagement, Ghost of Girlfriends passed. She had a son from her first husband. She married her second husband in nineteen seventy nine, and they also have a son.

7:46 That was Donnie Joe Brown, singing lead for the band Molly Hatchett. He's born in Jacksonville, Florida, in nineteen fifty one. He joined Molly Hatchett nineteen seventy six. He was their lead singer for all Our Heads, Like Flirting with Disaster, the Rambler, Satisfied Man Your Heart. He left the band in nineteen ninety five. He had suffered a stroke back when he was nineteen. He was diagnosed with hepatitis C and diabetes. So he's a pretty much sickly unhealthy kind of guy most of his life. Finally got him in two thousand and five, he was fifty three years old. Now they got the name Molly Hatchett from a prostitute She used to mutilate and decapitate her clients. Actor Steve Gutenberg. He's sixty six. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, in nineteen fifty eight. The nineteen eighties he was as big as any actor could be. He's starting Diner, the cocoon movie, Short Circuit, Three Men in a Baby. He did four Police Academy movies. Now, yeah, exact the sin.

8:35 It's just not as well known Steve. He's been married to a second wife since twenty nineteen. She was born Perry McKissick, but she just goes by Pebbles Pebbles. She's sixty today. She's born in Oakland, California, in nineteen sixty four. She started out when she was sixteen. She was singing backup for the funk band Corn Funk Shun. Then she got pregnant and had a daughter. Then she was working as a real estate in a work real estate office when this guy discovered one of her demo tapes. Since then, some of her biggesty's for her girlfriend Mercedes Boy, take your time going to give you the benefit of the doubt.

9:27 Now she still sings, but she has her own ministry and she mostly sings gospel music. She did have that first daughter that was from a one year marriage, and then she had another daughter from her second husband. She had a son from her third husband. She's been married to her fifth husband. Sins twenty twelve actress Marley Martin. She was born in nineteen sixty five and Morton Grove, Illinois, fifty nine year old. When she was eighteen months old, she got really sick and had a really really high fever. She lost all the hearing in her right ear and eighty percent of the hearing in her left ear, but it didn't slow down. She went an oscar for her very first movie, Children of a Lesser God. On TV, She's done a lot of Baby Einstein's. She was on Reasonable Doubt, the West Wing. She had seventh place on Dancing with the Stars. You have no idea. I guess she just followed her partner now Marley. She married a police officer in nineteen ninety three and they have two daughters and two sons. Comedian David Chappelle. He's fifty one.

10:15 He was born in Washington, d c. In nineteen seventy three. He's fifty one. That guy said now he might be the top stand up comedian out there right now, whether you like it or not, he's definitely the highest paid. After that deal he signed with Netflix. Some movies that they were in were Robin hoodmin and Tights, The Nutty Professor, con Air, Half Bag, Boo Street. David he married in two thousand and one and they have two sons and a daughter. Thirty six year old actor Rupert grint. He was born at Harlow, England in nineteen eighty eight. Pretty good first acting gig. He played Ron Wesley and all those Harry Potter movies. The only acting he had done before that was in a couple of school plays. Now most of the stuff that he's done since Harry Potter, he had stayed over in England Rupert. He has dated actress Georgia Groome since twenty eleven and they have a daughter.

11:00 He holds a Guinness Book World record. Back in twenty twenty, he joined Instagram. He got one million followers in one hour and one minute. Nobody else has been able to pull that off. A let's see how we can win. You have beer? How about this Nike? Their first pair of sneakers was called waffle Trainers, now the souls. They were formed using a real waffle iron. Well, thank you for joining us, Dad, We appreciate you for listening. Follow us. I know whoever you're listening to us on it comes is at coolmedia dot com. And see what we're doing over there with the podcast, the radio stations and stuff. Let's end with writer Sushi. He died today in eleven oh one, at sixty four years old. Sushi said, I'll continue to climb, trying to reach the top, but no one knows where the top is. You guys, have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.