Feb 5th-Pork Rinds, Twinkies, Atari, Three Dog Night, the Spin Doctors, Bobby Brown, Sara Evans

0:20 Welcome to history and factoids about today. I am Jeff. Today's February the fifth back can. Give up for rhymes and leave vassilvay give up my rhymes no matter what's your shame, give rhymes, Jess having shame it. Today is National pork Rinds Day or teacher run as, whichever you prefer. Now, all of the snack food out there, pork rinds. It's the healthiest. Yeah, most of the fat gets cooked off and there are no cards or sugar in pork grinds. Now, they sound gross because they're pigskin, but they still taste really good.

1:01 And you eat fried chicken, right, so you eat the chicken skin. So there's that. So today it is just pure commercialism. Today is just remind people by pork ryans in order to go to the Super Bowl parties. All right, this he's going on entertainment on February fifth, It's back here. Two thousand and six number one album was Unpredictable by Jamie Fox, Beyonce, Slim Thug and Bunby had the number one's on one check on it. You can look bad not you don't. You don't go ready, tell him? I let you have it? Do thinks Adam. Season for that? I ain't got no reason. I'm sure then I can please you. Well, that's I gotta read you. Will you like you? Like what you see? You? Come on, chu cook, I'm gonna let. You look up check upon it.

1:43 Completely opposite. Carrie Underwood had the number one country song with Jesus Take the Wheel Jesus. The number one book was sell by Stephen King. The top movie was When a Stranger calls while babysitting a high school girl. She's harassed by a prank caller and they can get harder and harder. An ear You're in, Erea. Starts Tomea Bell, Tommy Flanagan and Kate Cassidy, All right, what happened? On February fifth, eighteen sixty nine And Victoria, Australia, John Deson and Richard Oats one inch below ground level yep, one inch below the dirt they found the largest gold nugget of all time still is They named it the Welcome Stranger. Weighed one hundred and seventy three pounds. Worried about worth about eleven point six million to day, that was melted down and sent back to England. Six of the top ten biggest gold nuggets of all time are found on Australia. Now gold it's not found there, are not formed here on Earth. See, all gold on Earth has come from either meteorites or asteroids. Gold only forms when the star dies and it's created by a super over.

3:01 Nineteen eighty two, Readers Digest magazine began publishing it still is now. I used to laugh because my grandma'ld get that Reader's Digests with a really big print. Ye I don't laugh anymore. A few years ago you heard Joe Biden. He was talking about court packing. Now, that is when you add a whole bunch of Supreme Court justices. Of course you're assuming they're going to have rolled the way you want. But Joe did not come up with that idea. Franklin Roosevelt did. He proposed it today in nineteen thirty seven. Now, at that time the Democrats controlled the House and the Senate, and there is nothing in the United States Constitution that says how many Supreme Court justices you can live. See, it's just a gentleman agreement that we all say, yeah, nine, that's it. But FDR he wanted to go to sixteen Republicans.

3:41 They couldn't do anything to stop him. The Democrats did. They thought it was bush league and dirty. So FDR's plan for court packing the Supreme Court. Yeah, died in a Dennick Democratic controlled US Senate. Nineteen seventy one, the Third Man Mission landed on the Mars. I followed fourteen. That's nuts, Alan Shepherd and Edward Mitchell. They walked around on the Earth for four hour or the moon for four hours. Picked up some rocks. The next day they got to drive that really cool moon car, the lunar Lander. Yeah. They one time they almost cranked it up to eight miles an hour. Nineteen eighty one. Australia must have ran out of gold nuggets to pick up, so there's nothing new. So in Brisbane they made the world's largest jello mold filled up within and forty six gallons of watermelon flavor of jello. Still their record.

4:22 So congratulations offsis Coke cojp cojap shog this SHIVERF day, please gonna he left this shiverf day. We won't sit potage. He left this SHIVERBF day, and you know we don't give up the Earth. Okay, this was born on February the fifth, James Door. He was born in Pugwash, Canada, in eighteen ninety seven. Pugwash is in Nova Scotia. Now, he started delivering pasta from a horse drawn carriage. Then he became a baker, and then he was a plant manager for Hostess. Now, when he was the plant manager, he invented the twinkie back in nineteen thirty one. Now and you vent the twinkie, get promoted to vice president Hostess. He retired in nineteen seventy two. Now he says that after he invented the twinkie in nineteen thirty one, he had three twinkies and a glass of milk every single night before he went to bed. He died in nineteen eighty five, at eighty eight years old. They probably got those tweakies for free.

5:15 Now he was married and they had four kids. Loss whiskey and you wanna show and your tea what'll song this crazy question? And asking me. This is the craziest body that could even hemphop. People don't try him lace because I don't won't see how. That was Corey Well singing lead for three dog Knight. Now, all three guys took turn singing lead for Three Dog Nights. Corey He was born in Buffalo, New York, in nineteen forty one. Start out in The Bad Enemies. They were the opening act for Sonny and Cher. When they went on tour, Corey met Danny Hutton and they formed Three Dog Knight in nineteen sixty seven along with Chuck Niggron songs that chorus lead on where Elijah's Coming.

6:01 Mama told me not to come. Try a little tenderness now, Corey, he was a lot different than most musicians back in the nineteen seventies. He did not drink or do drugs. He didn't get married in nineteen sixty five and they had two children. Corey died at seventy four years old and twenty fifteen from a really rare type of blood cancer. Eighty three year old. Nolan Bushnell He was born in Clearfield, Utah, in nineteen forty three. He helped create Atari, Yeah, the video game system, back in nineteen seventy two. Atari is Japanese. It means hit a target. Now. He sold his shares of Atari, and he took that money and started Chuck E Cheese restaurants. That's right, Well, he got to do what he really liked right. Even today, most video game creators they still use Bushnell's law, though it says that the best video games are easy to learn and difficult semester. He had two children from his first wife, married his second wife in nineteen seventy seven, and they have six kids. Actors Robert Hershey's seventy eight.

6:49 She was born in Los Angeles in nineteen forty eight. She made her acting debut on the TV show Gidget in nineteen sixty five. She's been in almost seventy movies, Hand and her Sisters, Hoosiers Beaches, Last Temptation of Christ, That's Someone. She was nominated for an Oscar for a Portrait of a Lady. Now. She had a She was in a relationship for a long time with actor David Carrody. Yeah, and they actually had a son now. They named their son Free, that's right, Free fr Now. When the Free was nine years old. Yeah, he made his mom change it to Tom Now. They never did get married. She didn't marry another guy for a year. Actor comedian Tim Meadows. He was born in Highland Park, Michigan, in nineteen sixty one. Sixty five year old was on Saturday Night Live from nineteen ninety one to two thousand. He's voiced Mike the Mailman on Bob's Burger since twenty twelve.

7:33 They was on The Goldbergs too. Some of his movies are The Ladies Man, The Mean Girl Movies, the Grown Ups Movies. He married once for eight years and has two sons from it. Actor for Jennifer Jason Lee. She's sixty four. She was one of Los Angeles nineteen sixty two. Her dad was actor Vic Murrow. He was killed while filming a Twilight Zone movie. Jennifer. She first got knowne of Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Easy Money Backdrack Rush LBJ. She's done a lot of small, indipid movies on TV. She was on Weeds and then a Typical. She has a son from an eight year marriage actress Lord Lenny. She was born in Manhattan, New York in nineteen sixty four. Sixty two year old. She's been nominated five times for Tony's, three times for Oscars, nine times for Emmys.

8:16 Wow, she finally won some Mintie Emmy. She's won four of those. On TV. She really hit big starring on Ozark. Now. Some of her movies are Primal Fair, the Truman Show, Moffman prophecies with mister River. Now she married her second husband in two thousand and nine and they have a son. Two Prince you before you Dutch Bass. Down Vinces, PRINCESSU do you just. God my mass don Bockets, I'm not I'm dripped now this one sending most about you. Rockets Chris Barra and he sings lead for the Spin Doctors. He's born in Honolulu, Hawaii, nineteen sixty eight. Wow, the fifty eight year old.

8:57 He grew up back. He's He went high school with John Popper from the Blues travel Now Popery had already gone and done his Blues Traveler stuff, but he came back and up. Chris formed the Spin Doctors in nineteen eighty nine. Now some Chris, a Spin Doctor hits our little miss can't be wrong. Two Princes Cleopatris Cat you let your heart faulty fast Spin Doctors. They're touring overseas right now, but they're coming back in July, and they'll tour of the United States until September. End of September. Chris he made a second aife in twenty twelve. Ye week.

9:43 He is Bobby Brown. He is fifty seven today. He is born in Boston nineteen sixty nine nineteen seventy eight. Bobby started out as an original member for the New Edition. A lot of people think Bobby Bobby was the lead singer. No, that was Ralph Transpont. No, Bobby thought he should be the elite singer. So he went solo nineteen eighty six. That was a good Paul in his part. So he sold fifty million records Solo New Addition they sold half that. Now, some Bobby Brown heads, my prerogative. Don't beat girl every little step. I'm upting around now. Bobby and Whitney Houston, they were married for fifteen years and they had a daughter. They were divorced when Whitney died. Bobby he married his second wife in twenty twelve. They have a son and two daughters. Now Bobby has three other kids. I don't think he knows who they came from.

10:23 Bobby. He's been back with New Addition since two thousand and two. Yeah, they still perform once in. A while, the. Bulls hanging out live. Country singer Sarah Evans is fifty five. She was born in Booneville, Missouri, in nineteen seventy one. Some of Sarah's number one songs are Burned to Fly, SuDS in a bucket, A little Bit Stronger, A real fine place to start. Now she is going out on tour at the beginning of April. Funit checks the stair out Now. She had three children from her first saisband, and she married her second husband in two thousand and eight. No, they are still together. They never did divorce. Now, Sarah says, that does not reflect what other women should do. Even though her husband tried to run her over with a car, she forgave him and that's not something that every woman should do. They should have to make their own decisions.

11:23 Thank you, Sarah. All right. Our Court of the Day it comes from actor Kirk Douglas. He died to day in twenty twenty one hundred three years old. Kirk says, in order to achieve anything, he must be tough enough not to fail. Well, thank you all for listening today. Don't forget to follow us who you listen to us on a country and around radio? Our country on radio. Sorry Today Today comes from Sherry out in ann Arbor, Michigan. She wants to hear Sweet Rebellion by Blue honey, you guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. She's been coming in for wall. She was lolling. He's been fatting on her own with a rebel stove.

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