Feb. 16, 2026

Celebrity Birthdays for Feb 17: Rene Russo, Larry the Cable Guy, Green Day, Ed Sheeran, Denise Richards & Joseph Gordon‑Levitt

Celebrity Birthdays for Feb 17: Rene Russo, Larry the Cable Guy, Green Day, Ed Sheeran, Denise Richards & Joseph Gordon‑Levitt
Celebrity Birthdays for Feb 17: Rene Russo, Larry the Cable Guy, Green Day, Ed Sheeran, Denise Richards & Joseph Gordon‑Levitt
History & Factoids about today
Celebrity Birthdays for Feb 17: Rene Russo, Larry the Cable Guy, Green Day, Ed Sheeran, Denise Richards & Joseph Gordon‑Levitt
Celebrate National Cabbage Day with a packed episode full of history, pop culture, and music. We revisit key events from February 17, the story of the first American killed in World War I, the invention of the Port‑A‑Potty lock, and the launch of the first weather satellite. We also remember the passing of Geronimo and highlight today’s biggest celebrity birthdays.Featured birthdays include:
Hal Holbrook, Dodie Stevens, Rene Russo, Richard Karn, Lou Diamond Phillips, Larry the Cable Guy, Denise Richards, Billie Joe Armstrong, Jerry O’Connell, Bryan White, Joseph Gordon‑Levitt, and Ed Sheeran.Music and pop‑culture moments in this episode include:

0:20 Hi, and welcome to history and fact goods about today? I am Jeff. Today's February the seventeenth. Cab See how they look, See how they look? They are so lound and make me have so many Did you ever such a thing in your life? Just have. Cab Today is National Cabbage Day. Tastes good in coolesla cabbage it it's French for caboos means head now. The Chinese astews cabbage to cure baldness. The ancient Egypts and ancient Romans they had a thought cabbage was a cure for hangovers. I think today it's just a trial run for Saint Patrick's Day, which is coming up. So I enjoy some cabbage today. It's healthier.

1:05 Then. Let us get this Russians Day seven times more cabbage than I'm North Americans? All right? What's going on on February the seventeenth And entertainment. In nineteen eighty eight number one album was faithed by George Michael Tiffany had the name one so On with could have been. So loud. Every Day mer Laggard. He had the number one country song with Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Star.

1:45 Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Star. Can you send me luck from where you are? Can you make a rainbow shine. That twinkle lucky Star? The number one book was The Bond Pavier The Vanities by Tom Wolfe Todm. Movie was Good Morning Venom nineteen sixty five dj Adrian Gronauer. He was assigned to the United States Army radio station in Vietnam. Stars Robin Williams forst Whitaker and Tom T. Tron. All Right, what happened on February the seventeenth, Now the president will show election of eighteen hundred. It was between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams.

2:30 It was a tie in electoral college. So that man who went to the House and represented it for it. So today in eighteen oh one they voted Thomas Jefferson is the winner. Yeah, third President of the United States. Now Jefferson, he had won the popular vote. So it wasn't like it was anything road cheesy or anything. Civil War. In eighteen sixty four, the Confederate submarine the Hunley It sank the Union ship the Housatonic off of Charleston in South Carolina, first successful submarine attack in world history. Now the Huntley. It used one hundred and thirty five pound mine on a twenty two foot part to ram the Housatonic. Wow, it's sank both of them. Yeah, the Hunley and Housatonic both sank. Now the hungry that's who found that. They've were able to raise it up in two thousand, the skeleton of all eight crewmen they were still inside. Yeah, they were given a proper burier on in cemetery. Now, I'm sure you've all used a porta potty and when you go inside you turn the lock to lock the door, and then on the outside it says in use. Eighteen eighty three in London, Arthur Ashwell he invented that somebody he had to except his set vacant and engaged Edward Stone.

3:29 He was from Massachusetts. He joined the French Foreign Legion to fight in World War One. He is killed the day in nineteen fifteen. Yeah, the first American to die fighting in World War One, two years before the United States joined the fight. Nineteen thirty four in State College in Pennsylvania. Yeah, they started teaching the first high school driver's ed clurse. I think we should be about done with all these cold record temperatures. But today nineteen thirty six mcintie South Dakota said the South Dakota state record and negative fifty eight. Also nineteen thirty six. The world's first superhero, The Phantom. He made it his debut in the comic strip. He was driven by Lee Folk. That was two years before Superman now the Phantom. His superpowers came from the myth that he was immortal, so criminals they were terrified about he couldn't be killed. Well, somebody had to be first. Nineteen fifty nine, the United States lines the first weather satellite. It was only twenty inches in diameter and the battery lasted nineteen days and that was it. But that's still up there. Even though it doesn't work. It's estimated it's still gonna orbit theird for about the next two three hundred years. Twenty twenty two, in Saudi Arabia, for the first time in Saudi Arabian history, they posted a job opening for women. That's right. They wanted thirty women to drive some of their trainings over there.

4:37 Twenty eight thousand women applied. Coke Coke co joked joke shot thish shiverf day. He left this shiverf day. We want simple page. He left this shibf Day and you don't do. So? Who was born on February the seventeenth Well actor Hal Holbrook. He was born in Cleveland. In nineteen twenty, nineteen fifty four, how he performed a one man play called Mark Twain Tonight he went ahead. He would go on stage basically just talk like Mark Twain. Well, he did that for over sixty years until he retired the act in twenty seventeen. One of Tony Ford Along the Way. Some of his movies were Midway, All the President's Men, Capricorn, One Wall Street. On TV, he was on Evening Shade.

5:19 He had two children from his first wife and one child from his second wife. Married Actly Dixie Carter in nineteen eighty four. They were together until she died in twenty ten. Al He died in twenty twenty one at ninety five years old. Now I've got a guy and his name is Judy. He's mine guy, and I love truly. He's not good lucking. Heaven knows what I'm wild about. He's crazy close. He wears tan shoes, wringing shoelaces, a poker op fist and mine old man. He wears tan shoes. Winzing Shoelace, Santa Big Panama with the. Purple Half Man. That was twelve year old Dody Stevens. She's eighty today. She's born in Chicago, nineteen forty six. She recorded her first song when she was eight eight, Then after four years a struggle in til she finally hit big with as on Pink Shoe Lass. Some are rather hit sorry, Yes, three five pennies, Yes, I'm lonesome tonight now. She was in a couple movies, then at sixteen years old, she gave it all up, got married and moved to Missouri and lived on a farm. A couple of years later, she had a daughter. A couple years after that, she divorced, so she went back to music.

6:20 She sang backup for the Red Land Frankie Avalon mac Davis Fadian. Then she toured the Holy Circus with her daughter, actress and Nae Russo. She was born in Burbank, California, in nineteen fifty four seventy two today. She started out as a model. Her first movie was Major League, and she did a couple of those lethal weapon movies Ransom. She was frigging some of the Avengers movies for day. She married nineteen ninety two and they have a daughter. Actor handyman Richard Karan is seventy. He was born in Seattle in nineteen fifty six. Well no out know him for playing Al on This said Come Home Improvement. Then he holst the family feud for three years. Then him and Tim Allen they had a couple of TV shows about building stuff. Richard he married nineteen eighty five and they have one son. After lud Lyman Phillips. He was born in the United States Naval Base in Super Bay, Philippines, in nineteen sixty two. Sixty four year grow up in Texas.

7:09 Now you got famous playing Richie Allens in the movie LaBamba, then Standing Deliver, Young Guns, Courage, Underfire on TV, was on Longmire. He had three daughters from second wife. Married his third wife in two thousand and seven and they have a daughter. I pished my pinch. The toilet was just too far. I drunk too much Namber. I tried to hold it in, but my bladder just giving. And a page track through my drosers right through my wrangler drows. I pay tie page straight through my row. Comedian Daniel Whitney he has world famous as litterly the cable Guy sixty three. Today he's one of ponte cet In Nebraska in nineteen sixty three, one of the top stand up comedians in this century. Now he's going to actually go out and do some turn and starts this weekend.

7:59 If you want to go check out for the next few months. Now, he started in the Blue Collar Comedy Tour and their TV shows and their movies. He avlways made her in the Cars movies. Now Larry married in two thousand and five and they have a son and a daughter. To go to cyrus XM radio Larry and Jeff Fox. Really they have a channel. It's Jeff and Larry's Comedy Round Up. You can catch it on channel ninety seven if you're interested. Actress Denise Richards. She was born in Downers Grove, Illinois, in nineteen seventy one. She's fifty five. She modeled as a teenager. Some of her movies are Starship Troopers, Wild Things. She played the Bond girl Christmas Jones in the World Is Not Enough Now. Our best movie though, drop dead gorgeous. Now I'm not being sarcastic. I think that movie was totally underrated. Now on TV. She was on Real Housewives of Beverly Eels and the soap opera The Bowl and the Beautiful. Charlie Sheen is her first Wesdent for four years. They had two daughters. After if they divorced, Yeah, she went and adopted a baby girl. She did marry second Esbend in twenty eighteen, but it sounds like they are currently going through really ugly divorce. Some solid.

9:13 Welcome too many. The lead singer for Green Day is Billy Joe Armstrong. He's fifty four, born in Oakland in nineteen seventy two. Now he met Mike Dirnt in elementary school. They formed Green Day in nineteen eighty seven. Now they sold over seventy five million records are in the Rock and Hall Hall of Fame. Now Green Day that just means spinning an entire day smoking marijuana. What kind of makes sense? But I understand why the Green Day logo was in pink. Billy he got married in nineteen ninety four and they have two sons after Jerry O'Connell. He's fifty two. He was born in New York City in nineteen seventy four. His first movie was when he was eleven stand by Me. Ten years later he started the second movie. It was called Joe's Apartment, then Tom's Kats, Mission to Mars On Tedo's the game show Pictionary. Now Jerry. He married Rebecca Romain in two thousand and seven and they have twin girls.

10:01 God, you were perfect for me. I was out of my bad. Was the best lover ever. Peny, just when we were begging and you left. Me behind hours. You've been born to a happy and so. Much for kritend country singer Brian Wyatt. He's also fifty two. He's born a lotin Oklahoma. Now. He got his first record deal when he was twenty years old. Now that is really young for a male country singer. Some of Brian's number one songs are someone else's star Rebecca Lynn. So much for a pretending sitting down and go. He's going down on tour. Yeah, Friday the twentieth. So if you're gonna check Brian out over the summer, he was sound a pretty good show.

10:44 Now. You married in two thousand and they have two sons. Now. Brian, he actually records Christian songs, So we actually played some of his Christian country songs on our radio station. Grayson Grit. Yeah, it's a sister station, the Country Underground Radio. So if you're estering to hearing Brian or any Christian country record, just got to Coolmedia dot Com. We'll have that link for you under the show description today if you're interested in it. Actor Joseph Gordon Levity. He's forty five. He was born in Los Angeles in nineteen eighty one. Started acting when he was ten. Some of his movies are Angels in the Outfield, Ten Things I Hate About You, Gi Joe, Rise of the Cobra, Beverly Hills, cop Backs, Leif on TV. Started as Tommy on Third Rock from the Sun. Joseph married in twenty fourteen and they have two sons.

11:24 Hell Dude that Daniel cosa sec shooters, Ohdinny want to test still slide question. See the Body's oldest Answering it you say. Daniel Coosa shoo. Ed Sharon. He was born in Halifax, England in nineteen ninety one, thirty five years old. Today started releasing songs on YouTube when he was thirteen. Now he sold over one hundred and fifty million records. Some of those big guests are thinking out Loud, Shape of You, Perfect Bad habit. Eddie married in twenty nineteen and they have two daughters already. Our court of the day. It comes from Native American Apache Indian Jay from Geronimo. He died to day in nineteen oh nine at seventy nine years old. He says, I can't think that we're useless, or God would not have created us. Well, thank you all for listening today.

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