Aug 3-Metallica, Tony Bennett, Martin Sheen, Martha Stewart, John C. McGinley, Watermelon

0:19 Hello one in all, I am Jeff, and welcome to history and factor it's about today. Today is August the third watermelon watermel and on the vine, on the vine, sweet and red and juicy, Sweet and red and juicy. Please be mine, Please be mine. Today is National Watermelon Day. Watermelons are ninety two percent water. Sure days good though, and they're really healthy for you. Watermelons they started being farm three thousand BC around the Nile River over in Egypt. Now see this watermelons. They were created in nineteen thirty nine. What they do is that flower that's on the vine that becomes a watermelon. Yeah, they spray that with this mild type of acid. Yeah, make some seedless. Now, eighty five percent of our watermelons sold in the United States are seedless. Now, if you're going to old school and having seeds in your watermelon today, try and break Jason and Chivitz's record. He was able to spit a watermelon seeds seventy five feet one's able to be able to break it since, So enjoy that watermelon to day. Then when the sun goes down, hit up that watermelon wine he.

1:25 Sits and kind of hard gallons seen rais Wine the Biggest watermel and roll fine me save the song Bottle Bay Long, Don't drive do the Watermelon Cross. Let's just see what happened in entertainment in August. Let's back to nineteen ninety two number one album When Some Gave All by Billy Ray Cyrus Sir Mix a Lot, add the number one song with Baby Got Back. I'm saying to hell Man send sweat wet, got it going like a turnboat ft I tied scenes SANSI, what's all the thing? The average bookman and ask him a look. She gotta pack munch bags. So fellas Fellas a girlfriend got the shake shake shake it, shake you shake that healthy.

2:13 But Baby got. Mark Chesnant had the number one country song with I'll think of something. Give me time. And I'll thank you something I can't say today that I'm a right. To, I'll thank you. The number one book was Gerald's Game by Stephen King Todd. Move was unforgiven. Retired gunfighter, he takes one last job is to enough, basically a vengeing and injustice that took place.

2:55 We started Clint East to a Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman. All Right, what happened on August the third fourteen ninety two, Columbus sailed that ocean blue Christopher Columbus, and he left Spain on his first voice. Today it was to India, if you remember that. Yeah, he was on the Santa Maria, the Nina and the Pentins. They came along and support ships with men in supplies. Well, since they didn't make it to India, but you know what, I don't think I would have either. They got to hang out in the Bahamas. Now that'd be a lot better than India. Seventeen ninety seven, Bohemia, it's basically the Czech Republic today, that whole area with their Emperor Francis. He was so appreciative that he allowed all Jewish men who served in his military. Yeah, they can marry any non Jewish women they wanted. He said, yeah, thanks for your up. You can marry whoever you want. Now. Nineteen fourteen, the first ship went through the Panama Canal. Now I wasn't supposed to see the Panama Canal. It won't open for another twelve more days. But the Christophal they paid the not some bribe money they were able to let through. Also in nineteen fourteen, World War One, the fighting actually began.

3:55 Up until now there have been a lot of saber rattling, talking smack people picking sites. Germany said enough, they went and invaded Belgium and declared war on friends. Nineteen twenty one outside of Troy, Ohio, caterpillars. They were destroying their crops. No one could figure out what they were going to do about it. They got this pilot, Jill McReady, and they Hey, they loaded up his plane with pesticides. He did the world's first crop dustin. It actually surprised everybody how well it did. Words spread pretty fast about how good that crop dustin does. Yeah, but nineteen twenty one went on a lot of planes. Nineteen seventy now her record still stands. Mariam Hargrove from Yorkshire, England. She finally passed her driver's desk on the fortieth try So who would ride with? Well? Who was in sure? Nineteen seventy five in New Orleans, the super Dome opened up for business. Cost one hundred and sixty three million dollars to build. For a perspective, the last two dome stadiums to open up, Yeah, in Los Angeles in Las Vegas, they were almost four billion dollars each nineteen eighty one, thirteen thousand air traffic controllers went on strike. Now it was actually illegal for them to go on strike, but they went on strike anyway.

4:58 So President Ronald Reagan he told them they didn't go back to work in forty eight hours, he'd fire all of them. Well, he kept his word. He ended up firing eleven, three hundred and forty five of them. But not only did he fire him, he banned them from ever being able to work for the federal government and for the rest of their lives. In twenty seventeen, in Massachusetts, Michelle Carter she was sentenced to two and a half years in prison. She was convicted of urging her boyfriend to commit suicide. He did joke, joke, joked, joke, huge dish Shibbert day. We're gonna parge. He left this shibth day. We want simple tage. He like this Shibbert day. And you know we don't give birthday. Okay was born on August the third. Journalist Ernie Pyle.

5:40 He was born in Dana, Indiana, in nineteen hundred. Ernie he was a very popular roving reporter doing interest stories and all that. Yeah, basically human answer stuff all across the United States. Yeah, people really loved him. But then when World War Two start out, he literally covered it from the front line and the trenches. Yeah, he was side by side with the US soldiers fighting over there. He told their stories right from the front lines. So he started off in the North Africa campaign, then Italy, Normandy, he did that invasion in January nineteen forty five. They went and covered the fighting over in the Pacific. Now, his stories were printed over four hundred daily newspapers and over three hundred weeklies. Now, his first person perspective of that war kind of made him a living legend. Really.

6:21 April seventeenth, nineteen forty five, he was covering the Battle of Okinawa. He went on shore with a platoon of Marines on a little island north of Okinawa. Yeah, machine gun got him forty four years old. They left the widow Regina Jonas. She was born in Berlin, Germany, in nineteen oh two. Now she was Jewish. In nineteen thirty five, Regina, she became the first woman ever ordained as a Jewish rabbi ever. Yeah, and even with all the Nazi prosecution that was going there. Yeah, towards the Jewish people. She stayed there. Yeah, she believed that she needed to keep performing her rabbi duties there in the middle of all that atrocity is going on. Well, the Gestapell. They finally got her in nineteen forty four. She was sent to ash the concentration cap and she was immediately executed. Forty two years old. Now you'd think Regina, her story would kind of stop right there. That doesn't. Then it got lost in history, that's for sure. No one really knew who anything about her. Then in nineteen seventy two, this woman named Sally Preessen, she was ordained as a rabbi.

7:17 She was considered the first Jewish woman rabbi. But old Teimer's they now were scattered all over the place, over the United States and Israel. Nut they kept saying, No, there was a woman over in Germany during the war that was a rabbi, but no one could prove it. Nineteen ninety one, after the Soviet Union collapse, people were finally allowed back in East Germany the first time since the war. Well, her researcher came across an envelope. On it a read Regina Jonas. Inside were two pictures of her her teaching certificate, her Rabbi College diploma, her dissertations, and some of her personal papers and some of her sermons. So the world finally got to know the first Jewish rabbi yep or female rabbi. But Regina Jones, Joe Nuts, she doesn't like Claren Center Wo Harlow in Ireland's and World, Kelly Woffish Art.

8:09 The rest of us. That's what the Lady is up shine. That was Lady Gaga singing with the legendary Tony Bennett. She didn't even care that he offered her to singing the song Lady who was the trimp It on his twenty eleven album called Duets Tony. He was born in Queens, New York in nineteen twenty six. Started singing professionally in nineteen thirty six. Yeah he was ten, but his singing career really didn't take off until he got back from fighting in Europe during World War Two. Then he hit big. He had hits, I Left my Heart in San Francisco, Rags to riches because of you Now. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in nineteen or in twenty sixteen. Keept performing YEP up until his ninety fifth birthday in twenty twenty one. Then he retired Alzheimer's. He had did get him the next year in twenty twenty two, at ninety six years old. Ered his first wife for nineteen years and they added two sons.

9:00 Married his second wife for twelve years and they had two daughters. Married his third wife in two thousand and seven. She was a school teacher. Yeah, they'd been dating since the mid nineteen eighties. After Martin Sheen is eighty six. He was born Ramon Estevez. He was born in Dayton, Ohio in nineteen forty. Now he was kind of known, but he really hit big in the movie Apocalypse now than the Final Countdown Wall Street JFK. He's voiced over sixty documentaries, biggest TV show and on West Wing. Got married in nineteen sixty one and they have three sons and two daughters now Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen. Those are two of his sons. Martha Stewart, she's eighty five. She's born in Jersey City, New Jersey. She grew up in money, then she married into more money. She was married from nineteen sixty one to nineteen ninety and they had a daughter. Now, after they divorced, Martha decided, you know what, I'm tired of living off other people's money.

9:51 I want to make my own money. So she started her own company, Martha Stewart's Living. Yeah, I grew into a business empire, all kinds of products and media and all that kind of stuff. Became in the first self made woman billionaire. Now, she did get in some trouble for some insider training, but it was kind of bs though, be honest with you. She lost money on the whole thing, and then she had to go to jail. Yeah, but she's rebounded. I mean, her company is doing good. She's got money now after serving a couple months in prison. Though. Yeah, she's got street cred with the rappers now, just as Snoop. Actor John C. McGinley. He was born in New York City in nineteen fifty nine. He's sixty seven, been an over sixty movies. Some of them are Platoon, Point Break, Office Space, Any Given Sunday on TV is on Scrubs for ten years. He had a son from his first wife and married his second wife in two thousand and seven and they have two daughters. Everywhere James Hetfel these things lead for Metallica. He was born in Danny, California, in nineteen sixty three. Sixty three year old foreign Metallica but Lars Olrus in nineteen eighty one. Now they just rolled through Denver a couple of weeks ago. Yeah, they have quite that stadium show going up there. Sold on hundred and twenty five million albums. Get this, they won nine Grammys if you're surprised about that. They've been nominated twenty six times. James he married for twenty five years

11:23 and they had three children. Now, when they were married, they lived up here in Vail. Yeah, that's where she's from. After the divorce. Yeah, they both still live up here in Veil. It's just not together. Forty seven year old actress Evangeline Lily. She was born in Fort Saskatchewan, Canada in nineteen seventy nine. She did a little modeling, then she hit really big on the TV show Lost. Some of her movies were The hurt Locker, what was her name? Torri El and a couple of the Hobbit movies. She's Hope Van Dine and or I Guess the Wasp really in some of the amp Man at Avenger movies, but she retired last year. She's not gonna be doing it anymore. Yep. She's just basically concentrating on being an author. She's been riding since twenty thirteen and that's all she wants to do. I guess he's pretty good at it.

12:03 Uh. She has what a son? And no her and her boyfriend. They have two sons, all right. Our quote of the day it comes from comedian Lenny Bruce. He died today in nineteen sixty six, at forty six years old. Lenny said, there is no what should be. There is only what is. Thank you for listening today. Don't forget to follow us on you listen to a song, come says at coolmedia dot com. That's cool at three US a country underground radio artists today. It's from Kelly After in Houston. She wants to hear Melanie Merny song Mixed Drink. You guys have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow. You were thinking it was gonna be a bear nice little is enough for you? Get to bitch. Never knew you wanted to shake it up out here now, So grab, come, grab, come.

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