Feb 25 – Clam Chowder • Mr. Magoo, George Harrison, Carrot Top, Téa Leoni, Sean Astin & Rashida Jones

0:19 Welcome to History and factory is about today. I am Jeff in today's February the twenty fifth clam Chid Cram showing. Show Clam Shower. Now today is also chocolate covered Nuts to day that every song I could find was a hardcore rap song and I didn't want to go explicit rating today, So Happy National Clam Chowder Day. Clam Chowder's pretty basic, clams, milk or cream and potatoes. The New England colonists they created clam chowder in the sixteen hundreds. So if the weather still feels like winter where you are, yeah, enjoy some clam chowder today. I guess you can enjoy it if it's nice outside, all right, Lis, Who's going on entertainment?

1:03 On February twenty fifth. Back to nineteen seventy nine, the number one album was Blonds Have More Fun by Rod Stewart. Rod had the number one song with do you Think I'm sixy? Just exactly what? Dave and Sugar They had the number one country song with Golden Tears. From Crystal.

1:59 The number one book he was Overload by Arthur Haley. The top movie was The Deer Hunter. It's about a group of friends who come back after fighting in Vietnam, and stars Robert De Niro, Christopher Walkin, John Cazal, Meryl Streep won Best Picture, Oscar for Best Picture, and Walkin he won for Best Supporting Actor. Ah what happened On February the twenty fifth, seventeen fifty one, in New York City, the first performing monkey in America hit the stage For one cent. You can watch a two foot tall monkey dance and walk on a tight route. They didn't have the Internet. Eighteen thirty six, Samuel Colt, He's got a patent for the first multi shot revolving cylinder revolver. That was the first gun in world history where he didn't have to reload after every shot. Eighteen thirty six showman P. T. Barnum.

2:44 He put on an exhibit of an African American slave named Joyce. Heath says she was one hundred and sixty one years old and been George Washington's nurse maid. Now he almost got in a lot of trouble for Fred for that one almost say. When he was confronted by the authorities, he simply said, prove that she isn't well. This was eighteen thirty six. Authority is well they were trying to figure out what to do. Barnum got the hell out of town. Eighteen sixty two of the United States Congress passed the Legal Tender active eighteen sixty two. It allowed the United States to print paper money, and they called it the Greenback. First paper money that was actually legal currency in the United States. Eighteen seventy high Ran revels. He began the first black man who sworn in as a member of Congress. He was a Republican Senator from Mississippi. Now he won the election to get in there. Yeah, I wasn't appointed. Nineteen nineteen, Oregon began the first state to put a tax on gasoline. One sense a Gallon said the tax was to improve their roads.

3:34 I say, how many cars you think were in Oregon in nineteen nineteen. I was surprised they already had seventy five thousand out there. Now a memory was born in Austria nineteen thirty two, eight Off Hitler. He got his German citizenship. Now, the reason that this show was kind of so big and famous, well in TV in nineteen fifty your show show's premiered. Now it starts sud Caesar, but it's Riders no Brooks, Neil Simon, and Woody Yellen thousand and seven out Gore. He received an Academy Award for his movie An Inconvenient Truth. So other that twenty years since then, not one thing he said what happened in the movie happened? Has an aftter to give the Oscar back? Or is a Nobel Price choke cop.

4:17 Joked joke show dish Shivers Day, We're gonna pu he left this shivers day. We got simple carg He's like this shibirth day. And you know we don't give up birthday. Okay. He was born on February the twenty fifth. Actor Jim backets He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in nineteen thirteen. Probably best known for playing Mister Howell on Gilligan's Island. He was also the voice of mister Magoo Now movies. He played James Dean Dad in the movie Rebel Without a Cause Now. One of his elementary school teachers was Margaret Hamilton. She went on to play the Wicked Witch of the West in the movie The Wizard of Oz. Back was married to second wife in nineteen forty three. Jim died from pneumonia nineteen eighty four at seventy six years old.

4:58 Hello Wall. Hodley, school for you today, Don't you miss her? Said she? Then that was country singer Fair and Young. He was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in nineteen thirty two. Leased his first record in nineteen fifty one. Now that song I played Hillo Walls. Yeah, it was as big as itid. But it was also written by a very young Willie Nelson. He also had the heads going steady. If you ain't loving you ain't living alone with you. It's four in the morning now far and He was married thirty four years and had four children when they divorced. I don't think he took it well because he shot himself in nineteen ninety six at sixty four years old.

5:48 I count my mondset got my mindset. I count my mondsee my Mondsee buddy sold to take the money. He was known as the Quiet Beatle. He was the youngest beatle. George Harrison born in Liverpool, England, in nineteen forty three. Now John Lennon and Paul McCartney. They had a band called the Querymen, so Harrison he auditioned. He wanted to be in the band and play guitar. Well McCarthy, he thought, yeah, he's pretty good. Lennon thought, well he's too young. He's only fifteen years old. We can't end in the band. Well, Harrison took not getting in the band pretty good. I mean, he still came and hang out with the guys, went to most of their shows.

6:36 Finally Lynna said all right, you can join the band. So Harrison dropped out of school at sixteen years old. It was like nineteen fifty nine. Now, after nineteen sixty five, George and Paul, they let George write two songs on every one of the Beatles albums. After that, George, he had after the Beatles broke up, he had some solo success. He had My sweet Lord, what is life? I've got my mind set on you had really big success when he the Traveling Wolfbury's Georgia married his second wife in nineteen seventy eight, and they had a daughter. George di from cancer twenty two thousand and one, fifty eight years old. Comedian Carrot Top is sixty one. He was born Scott Thompson in nineteen sixty five in Rock Lakes, Florida. Call him a comedian, a prop comic, whatever you call him.

7:17 He was really successful. He's been in a bunch of movies and TV shows. Always plays himself, Yeah, pretty much, just cameos. Now he's been headlining in Las Vegas since two thousand and five. Currently he's at the Luxar Now he is one of the highest grossing shows in all of Las Vegas. Actress Taylone. She's sixty. She's born in New York City in nineteen sixty six. She first got known on the TV show True and Naked Truth. Later on she starred on Madame Secretary. First big movie was Bad Boys, then Deep Impact, The Family Man Fun with Dick and Jane. Her second husband was actor David Dcoveney. They're married seventeen years and had a son and a daughter. She just married actor Tim Daly in this last Summer. Now. She actually has an asteroid named after her. It's called Asteroid eight nine nine te Leoni.

8:03 Because he had a bad day, Take him down, Save a sad song. Saved Tell Me. Bad Day. That is the biggest hit so far for Daniel Powder. Fifty five year old them was born in Vernon, Canada in nineteen seventy one. I started playing the violin when he has far but when he was sixteen, he switched over to the piano. Yeah, he because got boldied. Some of his other heads are I Love You Lately, Cupid, Crazy, All My Life Now, Daniel, his wife, their two daughters and son. I'll live up there in Oregon. Actor Sean Aston is also fifty five. He's born in Santa Monica, California.

8:53 Now. His famous parents actor is Patty Duke and John Aston. John is still alive. He's ninety five years old. John he made his z acting Tobay You. When he was eight. He was in one of a TV movie with his mom. When he was thirteen, he was in the movie Goonies, then Memphis Bell, Rudy three, Lord of the Rings movies. Johnny married nineteen ninety two and they have three girls. Actress Ishida Jones is fifty. She was born in Los Angeles. The actress Peggy Lipton and music Big with Quincy Jones Rashida. She's best known for TV Probably Yeah, Boston, Public, The Office, Parks and rec Angie Tribeca. Some of her movies where I Love You, Men, The Social Network, Our Idiot Brother Tag. She's been with her boyfriend since twenty fifteen and they have a son. All right. Our quote of the day.

9:36 It comes from play White, Tennessee Williams. He died today in nineteen eighty three at seventy one years old. Tennessee says, the only thing worse than a liar is a liar who's a hypocrite. Let them make you think. All right, Well, thank you for listening today. We share appreciate you being here. Do ne'ver get to follow who you're here? Listen to his on makes it easier for where we'll find us our country and down radio artists Today comes from Chuck up There and Boise you hear Donny Lee's song Whiskey Talking. You guys have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow. Hell, I'm sorry about last night. You know me. I get carried away sometimes I got a little lost in the knee on lines and stumbled.

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