Feb 26th – Pistachios, Buffalo Bill Cody, Jackie Gleason, Fats Domino, Johnny Cash, Michael Bolton & FUN

0:19 Hi, this is history infected. It's about today. I am Jeff in today's February the twenty sixth. The sashio. That's right, I'm a nut. All the mud nuts can kissed my cream and full of roteine me in your matho make you scream good and full of itamns when it comes to flavor. On perfect ten, I'm tasting healthy snacks. Cracked me open and throw me back anythin What does that mean? I'm a free radic bull fighting machine walk because I'm pretty flags good for the body and easy on the ash. Today is National Pistachio Day. To start farming pistachios in the Middle East around four thousand BC California. It grows ninety eight percent of all the pistachios eating in the United States. Start growing them out there in eighteen forty. Now, just as you heard, pistashios are very healthy for you, and they taste really good. You know, you can eat them straight out of the back. I like them on salath but they go good with everything, desserts, ice cream, baits, goods.

1:12 So enjoy eating healthy today. All right? This who's going on in entertainment on Fabruar of the twenty six, It's back to two thousand and nine. Number one album was The Fray by the Fray Eminem Doctor Dre fifty cent. They had the number one's onned with crack a bottle. It's crack a bottle. Let somebody wattle. Don't act like a stabby model, you. Just sit the. Just stopping in my tahoe cavo rotten shot going there. No, not one of them got clothes? Now where's the rubbers? Who got the rubbers? I've noticed that some. Meanie yump'em in this villa. Now they meanie yump us and ladies love us. My father's chicken numb Dus. Kenny Chesney and mac mcinally had the number one country song with down the Road. Four houses down from me was a family with an holy child. She was the only girl.

1:59 And this's all world that can make me smile. Down the road. Made up reasons to go down the Road. The number one book was The Associate by John Grisham. The top movie was Medea Goes to Jail, Pretty Simple, Grandma, Myda, She Goes to Jail, stars Tyler Perry, Keishon Knight Pull Him in Derek Lake nineteen seventeen. The Dixie Land Jazz Band recorded the first jazz record in history. They call that the livery stable blues. Jazz music then became a huge craze all across America. Nineteen eighty three, Michael Jabman, now Michael Jackson's album Thriller went to number one. Yeah, it was number one for thirty seven weeks.

3:01 All right. What happened on February of the twenty sixth, seventeen thirty two in Philadelphia, The first Catholic Mass was held in America was at Saint Joseph's Church. Now it was a small hidden church, and you know, do the anti Catholic sentiment out there on that spot. Saint josephin is still there, but it's a different church. The churches the are now is built in eighteen thirty nine. The original had to be turned down. Eighteen fifteen, Napoleon was living in exile on the island at Elba. It's off the west coast of Italy, about ten miles from Tuscany. We got boards. He decided to go back and reconquer France. So him and a bunch of his supporters headed out and take him one hundred days to get back up there to France. Nineteen nineteen, in Maine, Arcadian National Park was established forty eight thousand acres. Now all that land was given by private landowners. It was the first national park greated east of the Mississippi River. Same day, west of the Mississippi, the Grand Canyon National Park was established in Arizona. It was one point two million acres. Now. Back in nineteen oh eight, President Teddy Roosevelt wanted to protect area, so he named it a National monument. So, yeah, I just went from being a monument to a park today. Yeah, I was checking all the facts, you know, like I do.

4:02 Just That's why I never make any mistakes or anything. Now, there is a video out there on YouTube. It is called how long would it take to Fill the Grand Canyon with p So of course I had to watch it. Now that says that if every person on Earth peed in the Grand Canyon every time they had to go, it would take eight hundred thousand years to fill it to the rim. Now, you know radar it stands for radio detection and ranging. Nineteen thirty five, Robert Watson what he demonstrated for the first time they were in public over in England nineteen seventy seven. The first time they flew the Space Shuttle on the top of a Boeing seven forty seven. You didn't know that's how they got it around from launching pad to where it landed. Nineteen ninety three, the first World Trade Center bombing happened. I rented truck loaded with explosives detonated in the parking garage below the World Trade Center. God's a crater one hundred feet deep. Six people were killed, over a thousand were injured. Now, at that time it was the worst terrorist attack on US soil and history.

4:56 Dope joke, joke show dish Shibbert Day. We're gonna he left dish shibf day. We got simple targe. He's like dish shiburt Day. And you know you don't okay. Who was born on February the twenty sixth, William Buffalo Bill Cody. He was born in Leclaire, Io in eighteen forty six. When he was fifteen, he is a rider for the Pony Express, then he forgot fought for the Union during the Civil War. Then he's a scout for the army in the Indian Wars. He got a Medal of Honor in eighteen seventy two. Yeah, for bravery above him, yet ended up becoming a living legend. So he started the Buffalo Bill Wild West show. He was at eighteen eighty three. It toured all over the world, depicted in the wild West. They'd married in eighteen eighty six. Wasn't a happy marriage though, now they fought all the time.

5:42 Rumors were that they took her and trying to kill each other. Plus he was gone all the time on the show and she was stuck raising their four kids. But they did stick it out until Buffalo Bill died from kidney failure in nineteen seventeen at seventy years old. Yeah, she didn't have anything to do with it, surprise generalone. Now he died here in Denver. Yeah, you can actually go see his grave. It's west of town, up on m'cott Mountain. How did he get the nickname Buffalo Bill? Well, over an eighteen month period eighteen sixty seven. In eighteen sixty eight, he killed four two hundred and eighty two buffalo to feed the workers for the Kansas Pacific Railroad. So that's how he got it. Here's a little fact to it. I Love Lucy was the first TV show to Eric reruns after William Fowley. He was born in Burlington, iow in eighteen eighty seven. Most know home playing Fred Mertz on I Love Lucy. He started out in VAUDEVILDN Broadway.

6:28 He was in an over one hundred movies. Biggest movie was Miracle on thirty Fourth Street. After Lucy. On TV, he was on My Three Sons. He got married in nineteen fourteen to nineteen twenty seven Folly. He died from a heart attack in nineteen sixty six at seventy nine years old. You know, people ask, how do you know when you're ruling an adult? Well, I think it's when you realize that the Flintstones are just the Honeymooners. Yeah, the great one. Jackie Gleeson was born in New York City in nineteen sixteen. His biggest success was on The Jackie Gleason Show on TV ran from the early nineteen fifties in nineteen seventy not always that huge rating now he turned one of the skits from that show into The Honeymooners. That's why The Honeymooner was only on there for one year. Jackie loved music, though he wrote seventy orchestra albums. Eight of them went into top ten and one of them went to number one. Some of Jackie's movies were The Hustler, The Smoky and the Bandit Movies, The Toy. His last movie was Nothing in Common with Tom Hanks. Jackie had two daughters from his first wife.

7:18 Now one of those daughters gave him his grandson, actor Dayson Patrick Gleason. He married his third wife in nineteen seventy five. He died nineteen eighty seven and seventy one years old from diabetes. Actor Tony Randall. He was born in Tulsa, oklahom In nineteen twenty played Felix Hunger on the TV show The Odd Couple. He started out on Broadway. He did Broadway in theater pretty much his whole career. Acted for over fifty years. Some of his movies are Pillow Talk, The Seven Faces of Doctor Lao, Fatal instincts Now. He married his high school sweetheart in nineteen thirty eight. They were married until she died in nineteen ninety two. They never had any kids. Nineteen ninety five, seventy five year old Tony Yep. He married at twenty five year old Hotty and had two kids. Tony died in two thousand and four at eighty four years old, peacefully in his sleep with a big old smile.

8:03 Found my real. Blue bery Blueberry when I Love You. That's Domino. He's born in New Orleans in nineteen twenty eight. A true pioneer of rock and roll. His first song he released was called a Fat Man. Now it gets credit for being the first rn R rock and roll song to sell a million copies. God Man, Fat Many.

8:46 No, that was back in nineteen forty nine. It was actually the song on the B side of a R and B record that was for Detroit City Blues. That's the end episode. Sixty five million records some of them? Or Ain't that a shame? Lotty Miss Cloudie, poor me, I'm walking Blueberry Hill. Fatcy was in the first class inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was married from nineteen forty seven until she died in two thousand and eight. They had eight kids. Now. Fantcy performed right up until he died in twenty seventeen at eighty nine years old. Yeah, and died from natural causes. I fell into a ring of fire. I fell into a burning ring on the fire. I went down, down, down, and the flames swam fire and it burns, burns burn, The Ring of Fire, the Ring of Fire.

9:38 I got a lot of trouble for that song. Once. Yeah, on the air, I said that Johnny was singing about when he had VD The Man in Black Johnny Black Money Cash. It was barn in Kingsland, Arkansas, in nineteen thirty two, Johnny's first hit. Yeah. He made it really big in the nineteen fifties, and then it was big for the rest of his life. Some of his signature songs are fulsome prison blues, I walked the line, Ring of Fire, Man in Black, Boy names Sue solo over ninety million records. Now he is in the Country, rock and roll and Gospel Hall of Fames. He's the only person to pull that off. Now. In the nineteen eighties, if you remember, he teamed up with Wayland Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Chris Christofferson. They called himself the Highwaymen Johnny. He was married to his first wife for twelve years and they had four daughters. His oldest daughter is country singer Roseanne Cash. Then he married June Carter in nineteen sixty eight and They had a son together, June by two daughters in the marriage. One of those is country singer Carlene Carter June. She died in May of two thousand and three. Johnny followed her in September, seventy one years old from diabetes.

10:36 See five footboll bum looking maladap Did she come? Where the wig? She's to mess shoes? When earls in time risk got read the thing amber of flame. All that's Mitch Ryder. He's eighty one, still tourist. He's outlout in Europe touring right now. He was born in Hampstromact, Michigan in nineteen forty five. Now he was born William Levis and his first band was Billy Lee and the Reviers. His manager saw a name in a phone book that said Mits Rider, so he came back and changed it to Mitch Ryder, and the Troy Wills quickly just became Mitch Rider. Some of Mitch's big songer sock it to me, Johnny, take a ride when you were mine. Devil with a blue dress on. Mitchie may or may not be with his third wife. No one seems to know. That was the hard rock band Blackjack back in nineteen seventy nine.

11:57 Now they had a little excess, but then their lead singer left the nineteen Yeah, he became this guy. Well love, he deems, smile, no nothing else. He tad world the good things. Michael Bolton. He has sold over seventy five million records since he left Blackjack. Michael was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in nineteen fifty three, seventy three year old. He wrote the song how am I Supposed to Live Without You? For Laura Brandigan and I found someone for share Now. They both had big hits with us, so he said, hey, I'm gonna release them too. He is he did have big hits with us. Some of Bolton's other hits or how can we be lovers? I said, I loved you better lied when a man loves a woman. He didn't write that. Percy Sledges has bandit Boltony married once for fifteen years and they had three daughters. Okay you home, that's Nate Rous, he was saying. Lead for the band fun.

13:14 He's forty four today. He's born in Iowa City, Iowa, in nineteen eighty two. Grew up in Glendale, Arizona. Now the band he's actually with it's called Format now. They formed in two thousand and two. Then they took a break in two thousand and eight, and that's when Nate formed Fun. They did that for seven years. Then he got back with Format and they're together now, got back in about twenty twenty. Yeah, anyway, you can go see Formatic. But all his hits were with Fun. You know that's true. You know we were young some night carry on. He did have a solo song go to number one, and that was a paint called just Give Me a Reason. So I guess you can just go see Format and help probably Sad play his Fun songs. Anyway, Nate he's been with his girlfriend since twenty fourteen and they have one son and two daughters. AH Righter Quote of the day.

13:58 It comes from Judge Joseph Wattner from People's Court. He died to day in twenty seventeen at ninety seven years old. He says judges should decide legal battles, judges should not make lungs. Well, thank you all for listening today. Don't forget to follow us now you listen to check out today's show notes and show descriptions and seeing it links to me. I want to follow our country and have gotten ready to artist today because I'm down down in New Mexico. He wants to hear Roadway Time song Walmart special. You guys have a great day and we'll talk tomorrow. I was down at walm On on a Sunday after nothing. I'm buying five courts and ole and I had to handle filled for two when I heard the pretty course of can I help you please? When I turned around my home, rubbed on my knees and found my Walmarts visual.

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