Feb 7th-Garth Brooks, James Spader, Ashton Kutcher, Gidget the Chihuahua, Charles Dickens

0:20 Welcome to history and factoids about today. I am Jeff. Today's February of the seventh. Alfredo el Bredo, Elfredo, Alfredo, Elfredo, Elfredo, Alfredo, el Bredo, el Bredo, el Bredo, el Bredo Alfrado. Today is National Fedcini Alfredo Day. Now Italy is Alfredo de la Leo. He created nineteen oh eight. He made it for his pregnant wife. She couldn't seem to keep anything down, so he came up with Fedcini Alfredo. She absolutely loved it. So he put his butter, every cream parmesan mixture over Feticcini Boston and his menu restaurant since then Fetiini Alfreda. That's pretty much a mainstay on every Italian restaurant. But you can put mushrooms and shrimp and spinach in there whatever you like. Now, if you really want to enjoy a Fetinia Alfredo, they say the best way to do it is with a glass of white wine and to have fruit for desserts. Now, olive garden carabas.

1:23 Now a bunch of you local restaurant are all having deals today. Now if that doesn't sound good, Today is also National ice Cream for Breakfast Day. Yeah, tight, you might like that one, all right? This Who's going on entertainment on February seven, It's back. In nineteen sixty six, No one album was rubber sold by the Beatles, but Tulacark had the number once on with My Love. My wal Some Shine, somet My Love, The. Machine Wine Sky Star Shines read nine and there is in this world can ever change?

2:08 Jack Green had the number one country song with there Goes My Everything. There Go. ALMD the. Ree. The number one book was The Source by James Mischner. Top movie was Doctor Shivago, a Russian doctor and poet. Now he's married, but he falls in love with the political actor of his wife. Yeah. During World War One and the Russian Revolution, stars Omar Sharif, Julia, Christie Roth Stagger, Alec Guinness. Nineteen seventy four Mill Brooks. He premiered his movie Blazing Saddles. He did at the Pickwick drive in in Burbank. Now everyone had to watch the movie sitting on the back of a horse. No cars were allowed, all right. What happened on in February the seventh, eighteen seventeen, Baltimore became the first American city to be lit up by gas street lamps. Yeah, they used the gas that came from coal. Eighteen fifty six in Tasmania, the island off Australia, first time in world history, they passed the law that elections would be held by secret ballot. Now the first time the United States had a secret ballot for their election eighteen eighty four. Let's go back to Baltimore.

3:26 Now this wasn't because of the gas street lamps. In nineteen oh four, I just caught a cigarette, started a fire that became absolutely huge. Last of thirty one hours, burned eighty blocks. Now, fire departments all over the Eastern Seaborne rushed over there to try and help, as far asway to New York City. When they got there, they couldn't do anything. No one else's hoses would connect to the Baltimore's hydrants. Yeah. See, back then, every city had their own fire department, and they had their own fire hydrants and their own hoses. Nothing could ever get interchangeable. So that led to the national standard on fire hydrants. It's in use today every fire department hose of work in any city they go to to help with World War Two in nineteen forty three, United States began shoe rationing. Now you can only buy three pairs of shoes a year. I know that doesn't really sound that unreasonable, but get this, we got everybody really upset. Shoes were only allowed to be made in four colors black white, town brown or Armory russet that is a reddish brown. And women's hills they could be no longer than two and five eight inches. And men's sandals and golf shoes they were banned, so I really made them. Man, what if that an exception for kids? Though?

4:32 Now this guy has some big balls. Nineteen eighty four, United astronout Bruce McCandless he did a spacewalk from the Space Shuttle Challenger untethered, first time anyone has done that. Yeah, nothing connected him to the Space Shuttle, but honestly, don't you think it was probably a. Bet doked joked jake shug this shiverf dakenna he left this shuverfday. We got simple tar he left. This shibf day. And you know you don't. Oh, okay, let's see it was born on February seventh. Writer Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth, England, in eighteen twelve his books have never been out of print. Over two hundred movies and TV shows have been based on his books. Something you might know of or Oliver Twist, The Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, the Teletoo Cities, Great Expectations, probably at least heard their titles now. Back in the day, Dickens was huge celebrity, probably more famous than most actress and singers are today now. He would go on world tours.

5:29 He came to the United States twice. So what do you do is go to the town, their biggest theater, and then he would go on stage and just read his book to the sold out crowd. Yeah, the hardest ticket to get. Charles. He had married in eighteen thirty six and they had ten kids. That sounds like a rock star. He left his wife in nine eighteen fifty eight, hooked up with an eighteen year old actress. Sounds like a rock star during those days, though, the way it worked in politically and pretty much entertainment, that kind of Dickens was too famous to get a divorce, so nobody knew that he ever left his wife for that eighteen year old girl. He died from a stroke in eighteen seventy at fifty eight years old, Are you old enough? Or? He watched reruns of the TV show Little House on the Prairie. That's where Melissa Gilbert played Laura Ingles and Michael Landon played Paul. The show is based on the books by Loura Ingles Wilder, the Little House on the Prairie book series now the real Lour Ingles. And she was born in Pipton County, Wisconsin in eighteen sixty seven.

6:22 The books are based on where she grew up and how she grew up, but the stories are all fiction. Yeah, she made all those up. She got married in eighteen eighty five and they had two children, Laura. She died in nineteen fifty seven and ninety years old from diabetes. Actor James Spader. He's sixty six. He's born in Boston in nineteen sixty. His first big movie was Pretty in Pink, then Mannequin, Six Lives of Videotapes, Crash. He get really big on TV and The Practice in Boston Illegal. Then he played Red on Blacklist for ten years. Kind of funny a ball guy being called Red now James. He had two sons from his first wife. They divorced after seventeen years. He's been with his girlfriend since two thousand and two, and they have an You know that today is actually really slow day, so I just thought, you know, what the hell? I hope you all like Garth.

7:06 Sometimes the craziest things in the world can happen. You can actually cut a song, they can actually put it on one of those little bit of this, They can take it to your radio station and it's then and only then you realize something's wrong. I didn't first notice it. I've blayed it, and I've blayed it, and it never hit me till all of a sudden. One day I was driving around back home and it became on the radio and I said, Garth, that's what I go buy back home this guard And I said, Garth, I said, would you handle this situation that way? I said.

7:46 No, I don't think I would, So I. Hope you don't mind. But I had to go back and write a third verse for this song to make it a little bit more mean. If you know what I mean, give it the rockers. Like a sous row. I'll just snow me at all. Then I've been there. And everything. Oh, I'll just sing good night. E'll show myself to the door. Name the Cow's a big scene. Just wait till I finished his last six three may but.

8:29 Into the. You can't chance. Garth. It's actually his middle name. His first name is Troil, so he's Troil. Garth Brooks born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in nineteen sixty two, sixty four years old today. Now, I'm not talking records. Records are singles. I'm talking albums. Garth has sold over one hundred and fifty seven million albums. That is only behind the Beatles, who sold one hundred and eighty three million albums for all time. Yeah, Garth has sold more albums than Elvis and Michael Jackson, but they're singles killing a lot more now. Garthium and his first wife there are married for fifteen years and they had three daughters. Garth married country singer trishay Yearwood in two thousand and five. Actor Ashton Cooker, actor Ashton Kutcher.

9:11 He's forty eight. He's born to Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In nineteen seventy eight. Started out on TV's That seventy Show and then punked into and a Half Men. Some of his movies Our Dude Word's macr just married my boss's daughter killers he married did me more for eight years, then he married me Lacunas in twenty fifteen. They have a son and a daughter. No Kiddle Taco Ben. That was Gidget to Chihuaala Gidget. She was a spokesperson for Taco Bell in the late nineteen nineties. Now she was born today. In nineteen ninety four, Carlos azer all he actually voiced and would say you'll kiro tucko Bell for Gidget. She didn't speak English. Now it means I want tackle bell. I think Carlos, I think he probably said all gidgets lines for now. She was hugely popular.

9:54 Somebody said that in two thousand, when talking Taco Bell stopped using her for their TV commercials, sales fell six percent. That is still the biggest dropping sales that Taco Bells ever had. Well Gidget. She also did a Geico commercial and she started in the movie Legally Blonde two. She died in two thousand and nine and fifteen years old, from a stroke. All Right, our coote of the day, it comes from Dale Evans, who cares a clouds, bring. A song and bring this sunny.

10:37 Dale wrote that song Happy Trail saying with her husband Roy rogers Dale, died a day in two thousand and one at eighty eight years old. She said, every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas. Well, thank you and thank you for revoloving us, that's for sure, and it makes it easy to find us too. All right, that country underground radio artists to day, it comes from Pam and Iowa. She wants to hear a little less alone from Darryl Perry. You guys have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow. Because so you didn't walk in talking your troubles, didn't borrow up your ordering doubles, didn't seek out bootstood and craft had to be country but not too loud. So you didn't want some wine in your business. But it rocks to fast.

11:21 Some one who listens trying to had a heart with a jagged in don't come easy. In a red dresss when you're all by yourself, eating help, letting go of someone else, trying to fell a little less alone, could spending at night at home, sitting letter, staring at the phone. One let go up that stone. Even if we had a hard time been all, didn't ever get a little bit more golf. Maybe we can find us and comforts on trying to feel a little less the medal, less alone with shot.

12:12 We're going Roses is ride forcific, just keeping him coming, and I'm riding for Tip. Here's do one new star, Just get the start. Here's to our hearts. Let the little love guard it together, all by our sails, eating help. To letting go froward, trying to feel a little less alone, come spending thud a night at home, sitting, let us starving at the phone. Don't let go let that stone, even if we've had a hard time moving on, even let it get a little bit before gone. Maybe we can find us and converts.

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