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

0:19 Hello, I am Jeff, and welcome to history. In fact, it's about today, Today's August the eighth. Plickleball, bickleball and dfting and fun. There's no joke blickleball and it's not just for old fun. 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 Chenni's Bad Misting and Thing Pong rolled into one. You can play two versus two or even one on one. The pedal can be made of woo composite material goals. The ball is like a whiffled all the main differences the holes. Today is National Pickleball Day. Yeah. I love promoting exercise on the show Pickleball. Though it seems like Americas have just gotten really lazy. So tennis is too much work, so let's play pickle ball and you have to run half as much. But it is exercise, and I reluctantly have to admit that it is kind of fun. So it was actually created in Washington State in nineteen sixty five. I'm pretty sure it's a result of alcohol. Three buddies came back from playing golf and their families have been waiting for him, and they were really bored. So the three guys they tried to cover up for it, so they said, hey, we're gonna have a bad Mitton tournament. Oh. The only problem was they had a net, but they didn't have any rackets or shuttlecocks.

1:27 So they improvised and they used whiffleballs and ping pong battles. Well, pickleball was born. Yeah, I'm played yet. It's pretty easy to learn. So whether you're a beginner, a casual player, a pickle nerd Yeah, I just enjoyed some pickleball today. This is going on entertainment on August eighth, let's about the year. Twenty ten. Number one album was Recovery by Eminem. Eminem and Rihanna had the number one song would Love the Way You Lie. Slain gonna win his. Pas Soule, same as Snip who's had to I don't even. Know his name. I'm playing hands on them. I never stooped some Loma cane. I guess I ton my mos trench has gone stone.

2:10 Jared Nema and had the number one country song with Lover Lover I Love. When You You st to Love Men. But that was yesterday and the truth. I won't fight it. When the love starts burn and you got to do what ry Ooh love love, you don't treat men no more. The number one book was The rim Brant Affair by Daniel Silva. Top movie was The Other Guys to New York City Detectives. They want to be like the top detectives in the cities. Well it didn't work out that way. Sorry, as will Pharaoh, Mark Wahlberg, Derek Jeter, Dwayne Johnson have have a Mendez. Yeah, hold love one all right? What happened on August the eighth now Mount Blanc It is fifteen seven and seventy feet high Tals mountain over in the Alps now at Straddles, France, Italy and Switzerland. In seventeen eighty six, in order to win a bet Jocks Belmont and Michael Piccard, they became the first as Summit mountain block. By doing so, they actually started mountaineering as we know it today.

3:13 Yeah. Before then, people they really didn't care about climbing mountains. But when Balmont and Picard came back and started bragging about it, yeah, people were finally interested in it. It's okay. The bet in seventeen sixty, Horace Benedict de sur de Sisur. Well, say he was a geologist, a meteorologist, all kinds of ologists. Well, he had been surveying the mountains out there. Now he's the one who actually confirmed that Mountain Block was the highest mountain in the Alps. Now he made a bet that no one would be able to climb that mountain. Well, twenty six years later, of course those two guys summoned the mountain. Well, they did colleck their prize for winning the bet. Yeah, but nobody they weren't able to tell what the prize was. Yeah, that was part of the conditions. Then the very next year, Horace he comes back in and say he is the route they did, and he climbed Mountain Blocked himself. Eighteen seventy six, Thomas had ascend.

3:58 Now he received a patent for an electric pin. Yeah, he had invented it. Now, no one ever bought or used the electric pin. So he was invented to make multiple copies of paper. Seeing though they didn't have video, you know, copy machines or anything. So he thought, well, if you have an electric pen and you can shoot the ink down into like three or four copies, you don't have to keep rewriting it. Well, no one used the d anything but a Polish immigrant. He was a tattoo artist. He saw one in a window, so he went and bought it. He modified it. He revolutionized the tattoo industry. Yeah, the tattoo guns or pins that used today, yeah, they're all based on that first one. England, in nineteen sixty three, the Great Train Robbery took place a Grip of mask Man. They robbed a British mail train in Beckinghamshire. Well, they were able to steal two point six million pounds.

4:43 It's like seven point three million dollars today, it'd be seventy five million dollars now. At the time, it was the largest robbery in England's history to put up. Okay, so to pull it off, they had house some inside help. Once authority's figured out who the inside help was. Yeah, all the guys got caught. But all that money, yeah, it hadn't been found and all those guys are dead, so no one knows where that money is. Nineteen seventy five, the United States President Richard Nixon. He announced on live National TV that tomorrow at noon he would resign as president of the United States. I guess we'll have to see if he keeps his word. Nineteen ninety, nineteen eighty eight, Yeah, eighty eight. It was a cute little date eight eight eighty eight. A bunch of people bout lottery tickets that now knowing what we get this though, a lot of cities across the country, including New York City, Boston, Philadephia, all had high temperatures of eighty eight degrees.

5:34 Joke, joke, cooke, joked, joke. Shuge, just shibf day. We're gonna pause. He left this shib day. We gonna sit potage like this shibirth day. You don't get that birthday. Well, let's check out us. Born on August the eighth. You know he was. The smartest guy. Last Monday. Sunday he got him in the jail house. Wat time. He's in the jail hoss.

6:15 In nineteen fifty five, that song in the jail House Now it was number one on the country chart for twenty one weeks. It was sung by Web Pears. He was born in West Monroe, Louisiana, in nineteen twenty one. Web about fourteen number one songs in the nineteen fifties, that was the most of any country artist during that decade. Web he performed though up until the nineteen eighties. He had a daughter from a fling. He married his second wife in nineteen fifty two. They were together until he died from pancreatic cancer nineteen ninety one. Nineteen ninety one, sixty nine years old. Life launch. The same, won't.

6:58 Lord Sesshire Country singer Mel Tillis. He was born in Tampa, Florida, in nineteen thirty two. He started performing in the nineteen fifties, but he didn't have any success or anything in the nineteen seventies. Then he hit Really Big, I Ain't Never Good Woman, Blues, Coca Cola, Cowboy, I Believe in You, Yeah, some of them big hits. In the seventies. He did some acting. Some of the movies were Smoking the Bandit Too, did all the Cannonball Run movies, Beer for My Horses. He divorced his first wife after twenty years. They had five children, one of those Yeah singer Pam Tillos. Nelly had another child from his second wife. Then he died from respiratory failure in twenty seventeen, eighty five years old. Actor Dustin Hoffman's eighty eight. He was born in Los Angeles in nineteen thirty seven. Started out on Broadway, then he went to the movies. The first movie was The Tiger Makes Out. After that he was nominated for Oscars for the Graduate Midnight Cowboy, Lenny Gootsie Wagged the Dog.

7:51 He won Oscars for a Cramer Versus Creamer and Rainman Dustin. He's still working out there eighty eight. Yep, he still has. He's actually filming a movie right now, and he actually has two movies in post production. They'll be out later this year or early next year. He had two daughters from his first marriage. Married his second wife in nineteen eighty and they had two sons and two daughters. Who Way. You Seen. Way Your Secret signs Sixtyson.

8:31 Now Connie Francis is the one who just died a couple of days ago. She is Connie Stevens. Connie Stevens is eighty seven years old. She's born in Brooklyn, New York, in nineteen thirty eight. Now as a singer, she released nine albums. Some of her hits are sixteen reasons, Hey good Looking KOOKI Kookie, lend me your come that stupid song with Ed Burns. That was her biggest hit. That was an actual She had really big on TV. She started on Hawaiian I and then seventy seven Son Strip. Some of her movies were Young and Dangerous, Eighteen and Anxious, the Party Crashers. Her second husband was Eddie Fisher. They were married for three years and I had two hudgers. Yeah, they're both actresses, Jolie Fisher and Trisha Lee Fisher.

9:13 Thay Saturdayday. After Don Most. He was born in Brooklyn, New York in nineteen fifty three, seventy two years old today, most known for playing Ralph Mauf on the TV show Happy Days Now. He's played a lot of TV appearances after that. He's over the last ten years though. He does a lot of swing singing. Yeah, he has released some songs. He actually just released an album and him and the band are going out and performing in swing music. He got married in nineteen eighty two and they have two daughters.

10:17 That is Scott Stapp, the lead singer for the band Creed. Yeah, Creed. They got back together in twenty twenty three. They're actually out on tour right now through the end of August and Doctree and they were one of their opening acts, so that might be pretty good. I like Autrey better than Creed. But hey, now even though they've they've actually had show schedule over the twenty twenty six they're doing a cruise and everything. Scott. He's fifty two. He was born in Orlando, Florida, in nineteen seventy three. Creed they formed in nineteen ninety four. They've taken a couple of breaks obviously. I mean they said they were done for good in twenty twelve. Yeah, they've been back since. Like I said, twenty twenty three sold over fifty million records. My Own Prison, Higher with Arms Wide Open, My Sacrifice. Yeah. Some of their biggest hits Scott. He had a son from his first wife, married a second wife and two thousand and six and they have three children.

11:04 Friday Night. Blow Me Up with Her Love. That is the biggest solo hit for j C. Chisse. Yeah, he got it up to number thirty five on the Dance chart. Now he had a lot bigger success when he was with the band in sync. J C is forty nine. He's one in Washington, d c. In nineteen seventy six. Now I was a kid. He started out on the Mickey Mouse Club. Then he was in sync him and Justin Timberlank sing lead. That started in nineteen ninety five. But when Justin Caller quits in two thousand and two, yeah that miss and sync was over. So Altho over seventy million records now, j He's done a lot of producing and writing for the artists now JC it stands for Joshua Scott. Yeah, I know.

12:00 You watch me like. Shaking Boys, Moneis now and Shock Cheeses alby stage Jeez Chipino myself. Begging you to come out. Twenty seven year old Shawn Mendez was born in Toronto, Canada, in nineteen ninety eight. Now, when he was thirteen years old, he started posting music videos of him doing cover songs on the website Vine. Remember that Vine? Yeah, I basically did a bunch of Justin Bieber song. He ended up being the number third most downloaded person on Vine. So he got a record deal one year later at fourteen years old. Since then, he sold the twenty million albums, one hundred and twenty music songs, and he's got eight billion views of him on YouTube. Some of his biggest hits are stitches, treat you batter if I can't have you seen Orita? That was with Camilla Cabel. Now he's out touring right now. Yep, he's out until the end of the year. He's celebrating ten years since he released his first album. Alright here quote of the day. It's gonna come from Olivia Newton John.

13:05 Please miss peez sevente dress song. Bless his song by that song again. Olivia died today in twenty twenty two. She's seventy three years old. She said, I live every day to its fullest and I don't sweet the small stuff. Well, thank you all for listening today and follow us on who you listen to his so you never missus comes. Here's a coomedia dot com that's cool of three yearhs our Country Indeground Radio Artists of Theday. It comes from Andres in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. He wants to hear Anthony Price and his song a Memory. I can't drown You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

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