Aug 8-Pickleball, Shawn Mendes, NSYNC, Creed, Dustin Hoffman, Mel Tillis, Mt. Blanc, Olivia Newton-John

0:10 Hello, I am Jeff, and welcome to History and Factor. It's about today, presented by Cool Media. It is August the eighth. Clickleball pickleball a dting in fun. There's no joke clickleball and it's not just old. So what exactly use this game? I claim this is so fun we'll pay attention because I'm gonna educate your son. It's like Chinni's bad admitting the thing pun rolled into one. You can play two versus two or even one on one. The pedal can be made of too composite material goals. The ball is like a whiffle ball. The difference is the holes. It is national pickleball day to day, and yes, we like to encourage exercise. The pickupball kinds of seems like a proof that Americans have gotten really lazy. I mean, tennis guard is too much work. So pickleball, where you have to run half as much, that's getting becoming popular.

0:56 But it is exercise and I reluctantly have to admit that it kind of fun now. It was created in Washington State in nineteen sixty five, and I'm pretty sure it was result of alcohol. Three guys came back from playing golf and their families have been waiting for him, and they were really bored. So the guys tried to make it up to everybody by having fun. They suggested a really fun game of badminton. Problem was they had a net, but they didn't have any paddles or a shuttle cocker not so they improvised. They used a wolf of ball and ping pond paddles, boom picklebar with pickleball I was born. Now, if you haven't played before, it's pretty easy to learn. So whether you're a beginner, casual player or pickle nerd, just have fun playing some pickleball, all right. What happened in entertainment on August the eighth number one album Oh in two thousand and eight, that's right, going to two thousand A dight number one album was Break galbut Miley Cyrus Katie Perry had the number one song with I Kissed a Girl.

1:46 I kiss Kiss tells me. Alan Jackson he had the number one country song with good Time. Work all week long, punching that cock's custin dom count the days of Friday night. That's when all the conditions are rid. A good time. I'm even a good time I've been working all week and I'm tiring of holeness, leaving my won I half holls time for a good time.

2:32 The number one book was Moscow Rules by Danielle Silva Todd. Movie it was The Dark Knight. Now when the Joker causes Helen Gotham and it's up to Batman to stop it. Stars Christian Bale, Heath Ledger and Aaron Eckhart. Right, what happened on August? The eighth Mountain Blank. It is fifteen thousand seven and seventy feet high. It is the tallest mountain in the Alps. It straddles France, Italy and Switzerland. Back in seventeen eighty six, in order to win a bet, Jax Beaumont and Michael Picard became the first to summon it. Now they actually by doing that, they actually kicked off mountaineering as we know it. Yeah, before them, it really wasn't a desire for people to climb mountains. But when Balmont and McCard got back and bragged about what they had done, yeah, kicked off the mountaineering craze. Now, the bet Back in seventeen sixty, this guy, Horace Benedicte Decasse Hewer.

3:19 He was a scientist who had been out there surveying the mountains, and he's the one who confirmed that Mountain Blanc was the highest mountain in the Oups. He made a bet that no one could climb it. Wow. Twenty six late years later, yep, that's when the guy summoned a mounta bunk. Now they did collect the prize on their bet, but neither them nor the other guy who made the bet. No one ever said what they got for it. But get this horace Benedict de Saser. The next year he used their trail the climb it himself. Eighteen forty four, after the death of Joseph Smith Brigham Young, he was chose that leader for Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Since. Yep, he's the one who famously moved them all to Utah. Eighteen seventy six, Thomas Edison got a patent for his electric pen that he had. Now, no one really ever bought the thing or used it. See, it was invented to be used to make copies of paper. Yeah, no one did it. But a Polish immigrant tattoo artist he saw it. He modified it. He revolutionized the tattoo industry.

4:14 All tattooed pins or guns or whatever they're called that are used today. Yeah, they're all based on that same principle. Nineteen sixty three, in England, the Great Train Robbery took place. A group of mask men robbed a British mail train in Buckinghamshire. They were able to steal two point six million pounds. That was seven point three million US dollars today, it'd be seventy five million dollars. At the time, it was the largest robbery in English history. Now in order to pull it off, yeah, they did have to have some inside out, but then most of the guys they all got cut, but they still haven't got most of that money. Nineteen seventy four are United States President Richard Nixon announced on live Nationwide TV that at noon tomorrow he'd be resigning as President of the United States. Nineteen eighty eight. Kind of a cute date. It was eight eight eighty eight. Now, no one won a lottery with it, but a lot of cities all across the country had a high temperature of eighty eight degrees cope cope, cope, cope, coat sharge, this shiver birth day. We're gonna pause.

5:10 He left its shiver day. Were gonna simple Carge. He's like, it's shiver birth day, and you know we don't get up because that's the birthday. Well, let's check out. It was born on August the eighth. He know he was the smartest guy last Monday, loved Sunday. He got him in the jail house. Wam He's in the. Jail Hoffsmile, Smile. In nineteen fifty five, that song in the Jailhouse Now was number one on the country chart for twenty one weeks, sung by Webb Pierce. He was born in westman Roe, Louisiana, in nineteen twenty one. Well about fourteen number one songs in the nineteen fifties. That was the most of any country performer during that decade.

5:59 Although that was his biggest highlight, actually performed until the nineteen eighties. He had a daughter from a fling. Then he married his second wife in nineteen fifty two. They were married until he died from pancreatic cancer in nineteen ninety one at sixty nine years old. I've seen o life, laundry coar town, won't battle when I'm. Not sasiated no more. Country singer Mel Tillis was born in Tampa, Florida, in nineteen thirty two. Started performing the nineteen fifties, but didn't hit until the nineteen seventies. Some of his biggest hits were I Ain't Never Good Woman, Blues, Coca Cola, Cowboy, I Believe In You. He did some acting. He was in the movie is Smoking the Banditoo, all those cannonball run movies. Beer for My Horses. He's married to his first wife for twenty years when they divorced, and they had five children. One of their daughters is country singer Pam Tillis. Then he had another child from his second wife.

6:58 They all died from respiratorial face. You're in twenty seventeen at eighty five years old. Actor Dustin Hoffman, he's eighty seven. He's born in Los Angeles in nineteen thirty seven. Considered one of the greatest American actors of all time. Did Broadway before hitting the movies. Then he's been nominated for Oscars four The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy, Lenny, Tootsie Wag the Dog, won Oscars for a Kramer Versus Kramer and Rainman. No, he didn't win anything for the Fucker Movies. Now Dustin, he's still working. He's out there filming a movie right now. He had two daughters from his first marriage. Married his second wife in nineteen eighty and they have two sons and two daughters. Wo Way hold lassing Way Your Secret Side sixty twe.

7:57 That was Connie Stevens. She's eighty six. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, in nineteen thirty eight. As a singer, she released nine albums. Some of her big hits were Our sixteen Raising, Hey, good Looking, Kookie, Kookie, lend me your comb. Yeah that's stupid song was actually her biggest hit. As an actress. She first got known on TV and she was on Hawaiian I and then hit really big on seventy seven Sunset Strip. Some of her movies were Young and Dangerous, eighteen and Anxious, The Party Crashers. Her second husband was Eddie Fisher. They were only married three years and had two daughters. Both those daughters' wereractresses, Jolie Fisher and Trisha Lee Fisher. I don't know why we played that. That was a tough one. It was from the TV show Chips. Larry Wilcox. He was born in San Diego in nineteen forty seven. He's seventy seven. Most known for playing John That was Poncho's partner on the show Chips. Now after Chips, Wilcock was really successful, but it was behind the camera. He had a son and a daughter from his first wife. Been married to a second wife since nineteen eighty six and they have two sons.

9:05 So Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday Weesday. Actor Don Most He is seventy one. He was born in Brooklyn, New York in nineteen fifty three. Most famous for playing Ralph Mouth on TV's Happy Days. He met a lot of TV appearances after that, and he's really successful in voice acting. Got married in nineteen eighty two and they have two daughters. Seen steedmon Schlus.

10:05 Scott's step He is the lead singer for the band Creed Yes Is. They got back together last year. Actually out on tour right now if you want to see him. They'll be out there until the beginning of December. Scott's fifty one. He's born in Orlando, Florida, in nineteen seventy. Cred formed in nineteen ninety three, then they took two thousand and four to two thousand and nine off. Then they broke up for good in twenty twelve. Well they're back together now, sold over fifty million records. Some of their biggest hits are My Own Prison, Higher with Arms while I'm Opening My Sacrifice. Now their show's actually pretty good. They've actually got three doors down in Daughtry with them Scott. He had his son from his first wife, married his second wife in two thousand and six and they have three children.

10:46 Friday Night up with My Love. Blowing me Up, but Their Love that is the biggest solo hit for j C. Shall say. He got her up to number thirty five on the Dance Charts. Now. He had a lot more success when he was with the boy band in Sync. Jac's forty eight. He's born in Bowie, Maryland in nineteen seventy six, started out on the Mickey Mouse Club and then he was with in Sync when they started in nineteen ninety five. So they broke up in two thousand and two. But they're supposed to be back together right now. But I think it's all up to Justin, so we'll see. They did sell over seventy million records, but yeah, once Justin left, they were done. I think he controls where they get back together.

11:36 But jay C's he's done pretty good. He's done a lot of producing and writing and stuff. Now j C. It stands for Joshua Scott. Yeah, I know. You watch me Hedy like a red shady else Moneies and now we sell shoes Holby stage jeez. Myself. Sean Mindes. He was born in Pickering, Canada, in nineteen ninety eight. He's twenty six. Sean first got done in twenty thirteen. He started posting videos on the website Vine. Since then, he's sold over twenty million albums one hundred and twenty five million songs. He has eight billion views on YouTube and his music has been streamed thirty one billion times. Some of his biggest hits are stitches Treat you Better If I Can't have You, Senorita. That was a Camilla Kabel Sean. He's out on tour right now, but everyone who's upcoming shows has sold out. So if you want if tickets, go have fun. If not, I guess you have to wait till next year. All right, I told you earlier how some drunk dudes actually founded pickleball, so I call it pickleball. We'll see one of the guys at a cocker spaniel who liked to chase the ball.

12:50 Dog's name was Pickles. All right, thanks for being here today and we like having you here. And come, don't forget to follow us on whoever you listen to us on comes Here's at cool media dot Com. That's call through us. Let's end a day with Olivia Newton John. Please, mister, please. Don't baby seventy it plus how song plus say Songbody's song? Jesus lease. You know. I know money that song again. Olivia died today in twenty twenty two, at seventy three years old. She said, I live every day to its fullest, and I don't sweat the small stuff. You guys, don't sweat the small stuff. Have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

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