Feb 13-Cheddar Cheese, Tennessee Ernie Ford, The Monkees, Rizzo, Peter Gabriel, Mena Suvari, Great Lego Spill of 97'

0:20 Welcome to history and factoids about today. I am Jeff. Today's February the thirteenth. Che You kinda get me you gotta get me out. Today is National Cheddar Day. Cheddar cheese. It began in the twelfth century in Cheddar. It was a village in Somerset, England. In eighteen ninety four, Peter McIntosh started making cheddar in the United States a Tillamook, Oregon. Cheddar is the second most eating cheese in the United States, beyond mozzarella. Cheddar it's aged the minimum of three to six months before they'll put it on sale. Difference between American cheese and cheddar chaes is America and it's processed cheese, so it's made of all kinds of stuff they don't want to tell you about cheddar natural one percent cow's milk, being lacktails and tolerant. I'm gonna sit this one up, but you all enjoy celebrating your cheddar today with pizza and nachos, cheeseburgers, mac and cheese. Yeah. I think you know how you like your cheddar, so enjoy to it all right, This is going on entertainment, non fablab of the thirteenth, it was back to twenty seventeen. Number one album was star Boy.

1:34 By the Weekend Migosa and Little Uzi Vert had the number one song with Bad and. Bougie That cooking from the poet. We came from nothing, the something to her. I don't try nobody, the grid chut, nobody, call up the gang and they come and get changed. Coming you River, keep you with yours Bad and rost Bad cooking up with the oz bomb Knu. It's as sad as roof. We got that as a hunter. Rotto Little Big Town had the number one country song with better Man, not. Just Naesh and not just swishy, say just slash. I'll just wish you.

2:27 The number one book was A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron. The top movie was Get Out, A buck man meets his white girlfriend's parents, stars Daniel Kluga, Alyssa Williams and Catherine Keener. What Happened On February the thirteenth, seventeen forty one, the first magazine was published in North America called The American Magazine. It talked about the political state of American colonies. Probably not much bands by the British, but okay, now the first magazine ever published was in Germany in sixteen sixty three. It was a philosophy magazine. Eighteen sixty six, Jesse James, he robbed his first bank. Now the James Hunger Gang. They hit the Clay County Savings Association in Liberty, Missouri, got away at fifteen thousand dollars be about three hundred thousand to day, February thirteen.

3:12 It's been a cold day across the nation over the years. Some state records set on February thirteenth, eighteen ninety nine. Mindon, Louisiana got down in negative sixteen. Tallahassee, Florida, negative two nineteen oh five, pond Arkansas hit negative twenty nine. Lebanon, Kansas got down to negative forty in Warsaw, Missouri, negative forty nineteen sixty. France became the fourth country to detonate a nuclear bomb nineteen eighty one in Louisville, Kentucky. Sewer explosions had stored over two miles the streets in Louisville. Now, no one was hurt, thankfully, but officials they confirmed immediately that it was just a coincidence that the brand new Taco bell just opened up. Yeah, They don't know what the explosion were, but there was no connection between the explorers and explosions and the brand new Taco bell. From that, we go to the Great Lego Spill of nineteen ninety seven, a rug wave that hit a cargo ship off the coast of Cornwall, England. Sixty two containers spilled into the ocean.

4:04 Contain four point eight million lego pieces. Now it sucks walking across your living room four beer foot and stepping on a lego. Really sucked walking across a beach bearfoot and stepping on olego. Twenty twenty one scientists that discovered the old oldest beer factory in world history. It was in Abbados's Egypt date backs three thousand BC. You know what, I might have gone into science if I had nothing to get paid, go try and find the oldest beer factory. Coop Coop COO joked joke, shuge thish shivers day. We're gonna part. He left this shuverfday. We gonna sit with cars. Hele this shivers day. Send you you don't do b oh goss. Check out who is born on February the thirteenth.

4:48 So people say a man is made out of mud. The whole man's made out of. Muscle and blood, muscle and blood and. Skim and bones. That's a week. And the back of the song, you load sixteen tons quady you get loved older than burn Death Tennessee. Ernie Ford, he's one of Bristol, Tennessee. In nineteen nineteen, some of his classic hits our mule Train, Shotgun Boogie, sixteen tons. Now, Ernie thought sixteen tons sounded really boring, so when he recorded it, he started snapping his fingers. Yep. Sixteen tons then spent ten weeks at number one on the country chart, seven weeks number one on the pop chart. In nineteen fifty five. Now he had his own TV variety show and in the late fifties early sixties, Yeah, lasted for five years. It was called The Ford Show.

5:36 Got a little double and tndre there say, sure, it was hosted by Tennessee early Ford, but it was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company. Can you imagine the Swift Show hosted by Taylor Swift and sponsored by Swift Meatpacking plan. You know, just throwing it out there, Ernie. He married nineteen forty two and they had two children. Now, Ernie and his wife. They were both lifelong alcoholics. It had actually caused Ernie's career to get cut short. Wife died nineteen eighty nine from a suicide. Ernie died from liverty in nineteen or nineteen ninety one at seventy two years old. Actress Kim Novak is ninety three. She was born in Chicago in nineteen thirty three. She started off touring the country as Miss Deep Freeze. Yeah, she was a model for home Freezer. She would go across the country from trade show to trade show. Well, that ended, so she had to get a real job, so she went into acting.

6:19 Summer movies were A Picnic, A Man with a Golden Arm, Jeanie, Angel, Vertigo, Jim. She retired nineteen ninety two. No, she just got tired of and she didn't feel like making movies an she had enough money. She married her second husband in nineteen seventy six. There together until he died in twenty twenty. Act George Siegal. He was born in New York City in nineteen thirty four. He was nominated for an Oscar for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Y'all probably know him better for the Lak Who's talking movies on TV. He was on Just Shooting Me. Then he was on The Goldbergs from twenty thirteen until he died in twenty twenty one. He was eighty seven years old. He died from complications falling heart bypass surgery. He had two daughters from his first wife. Married his third wife in nineteen ninety eight. Week Oh he mist.

7:06 And with the Monkeys, the people say a monkey, We're too business? Sing Hey. The key boarder and bass player for The Good Monkeys with Peter tork Peter was born in Washington, d c. In nineteen forty two. Now he was cast as a Monkey in nineteen sixty five. Now he was actually a musician before the show. He was the only one on the first two Monkey albums. He was the only one who was allowed to play his own instrument. Now the Monkeys they were only on TV for two years, yeah fifty eight episodes. They did sell seventy five million records. But mister Torkie had left the Monkeys to go solo in nineteen sixty eight. That did not work out well for him at all. So he begged and begged, and they finally led him back into the band in nineteen eighty six. By that time he stayed with him until they call it quits in twenty eighteen. He had a daughter from his second wife, and he had a son from his third wife. Then he had another daughter just Monkey in her room aired his fourth wife in twenty fourteen.

8:04 There together to Peter died from cancer in twenty nineteen, at seventy seven years old. There are worse things I could do then go with a boy all two. Even though the neighborhood thinks I'm trashy and no good, I suppose it could be true. But there are worse things could do. That was Stockard Channing in the movie Grease. She's eighty two today. She's born in Manhattan, New York, in nineteen forty four. She was really big in theater before she got known as Rizzo and Greece. She's done a lot of theater her whole career, pretty much. Yeah No sitt nominated seven times for Tony's One one. She's nominated for an Oscar for Six Degrees of Separation. She won an Emmy for The West Wing. She's not nominated six times for Emmys for West Wing. Stockard. She has divorced four times.

8:56 You could have a fun bombings the music. Never feel. Jall moment. Peter Gabriel he's seventy six, born in Chobam, England in nineteen fifty. Now, there used to be this TV channel, it's called MTV and it played music videos. Now that song Sledgehammer was the most played video all time on MTV. Peter. He started out as a founding member of Genesis. He was their lead singer from nineteen sixty seven to nineteen seventy five. Now when he needed to. Then he'd also played the oboe in the flute. Now some of his solo ads are shocked the Monkey sledgehammer big time in your eyes. He had two children from his first wife.

9:47 Married his second wife in two thousand and two and they have two children. I drink Doctor Pepper and part of an original crowd. Look these days it seems to be a top to craze. How many of you are old enough to remember that? Actor David Naughton he's seventy five, born in West Hartford, Connecticut in nineteen fifty one. Probably most known for singing and dancing in Doctor Pepper commercial, but he was in some big movies. Yay. He started in American Werewolf in London, Midnight Madness Hot Dog in the movie. He had two children from a second wife, married his fourth wife in twenty nineteen. Forty seven year old actress Mina Cervari. She was born in Newport, Rhode Island, in nineteen seventy nine. Start out as a model and then she got known for the American Pie movies, also American Beauty Loser. She played Jane Wyman and Reagan me Now. She married her third husband in twenty eighteen and they have a son. Alrighty, what one today? So remember Valentine's Days tomorrow if you haven't forgot. Who do you think gets the most Valentines every year? Yeah? Teachers.

10:54 Teachers get the most Valentines. All right. Our quote of the day it comes from Wayland Jennings. Maybe it's time we got better to the basics of love. Let us go to Texad. This successful life for a living funeral like the Hadfields in. The court Wailing died to day in two thousand and two at sixty four years old. He said, honesty, it is something you can't wear out. Oh thank you all for listening today. I don't free to follow us or you listen to us on It makes it a lot easier to find us. Check out today's show description give you links to any questions you might have about this show.

11:39 Our Country and the Ground Radio Artists Today comes from Tom in York, Pennsylvania. He was here Darryl Perry's song a Little Less Alone. You guys have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow. So you didn't walk in talking your troubles, didn't borrow up here for order, and doubles didn't seek out bootscooed and craft had to become but not too loud. So you didn't want someone in your business. But it rocks to find some one who listens. Trying to had a heart with a jaggedy don't come easy in a red dresss when you're all by yourself, needing help, letting go.

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