Feb 9th-Pizza, Volleyball, Opium, Joe Pesci, Travis Tritt, Michael B. Jordan, Frankie Goes to Hollywood

0:20 Welcome to history and factoids about today. I'm Jeff in today's February the ninth. You're gonna have a pizza party of pizza party War two. Come on in, Mike and I'll show you what to do. You can bring your toppings, Abrey mine. I'll open up with this bottel line. We'll have party walk. John's Palla to Tom with two. We're gonna have a fizz party of pizza part of War two. Today is National Pizza Day. Pizza made its way to the United States in the late eighteen nineties. Now, it didn't really gather popularity until after World War Two. Blah blah blah blah. I know what you're all thinking. Who's having deals today? Everybody as anybody who sells pizza, they're aven deals. So enjoy all right, listen, he's going on entertainment on February ninth.

1:03 It was back in nineteen ninety seven. Number one album was Tragic Kingdom by no doubt. Tony Braxton had the number one song with Unbreak My Heart, Bring. Back the Nights Enough You Sudden Me, unm Say Love Me Again, Heard to. Call When You Walk Do. Mark Chestnut had the number one country song with it's a little too late. She made this to made firm safe. Feel now, what should have done? He's running through my Oh should have done this? And I should have done that? Should have been that, and she'd never loved it. Should have been hanging on every word she ever had to say.

1:56 Top selling book was Hornet's Nest by Patricia Cornwall. Top movie Well Star Wars. Yeah, they re released it all right. What happened on February and ninth, twenty or twelve eighty seven a massive storm at the coast of southeast England. It was so big that it changed the whole coastline. Yeah, the port in New Romney was now a mile inland. In the eighteen twenty five United States presidential election, Andrew Jackson he got forty one percent in the popular vote. John Quincy Adams he got thirty one percent. Jackson got ninety nine electoral votes, Adams he got eighty four. But that wasn't enough for the majority of that was needed. So it went to the House that he represented us. Yeah, they voted for John Quincy Adams as president. If you still carry cash round, now, take out that five dollar bill, that picture of Abraham Lincoln on it.

2:42 Yeah, he posted that today. In nine eighteen sixty four, eighteen seventy, the National Weather Service was established. Yeah, was a branch of the US Army. Springfield, Massachusetts. In eighteen ninety five, William Morgan, he debuted a new game that he created. He called it midten net. Now today we call it volleyball. Drink beer and play it on the beach. I don't think they were doing that at Springfield College Zone in February of eighteen ninety five. Now, the war on drugs officially began today. In nineteen oh nine, the first federal law against drugs was passed. The Feds went after opium. Yeah, the opm Exclusion Act of nineteen oh nine. Now it didn't make opium illegal. They just couldn't import it, you couldn't possess it, and you couldn't smoke it. Now, it was a really racist bill. Say it was targeted at the Chinese immigrants.

3:27 White people didn't really smoke opium near they did the box. Latinos are the natives, so yep, they were just going after the Chinese. Nineteen thirty three, Yellowstone National Parks set the Wyoming state record for cold stamp got down to negative sixty six nineteen thirty four, Vander wrote, Michigan did the same for Michigan got down in negative fifty one. In nineteen forty three, a president of Franklin Roosevelt, he signed an executive order. It set a minimum forty eight hour work week for all industries that we needed for World War two. Basically he included everybody, even like retail stores, domestic service, garbage man, agriculture piece. Everybody was included. So basically everybody had a forty eight hour work week. But if you work for the defense industries, you got overtime pay at forty hours. Everyone else they had to get their forty eight hours before they got overtime pay. Yeah, that were required to work, but they didn't get any overtime pay at that time.

4:20 Germany. In nineteen ninety two, Thomas school Now he set a record for fastest yolder in the world. It still stands. I tried to find a clip of it. I couldn't find anywhere, but I did find a clip of the fastest yolder in the world who had had a cigarette in his mouth. That was more impressive. Joke joke, jokeh just shivers day. We're gonna he left this Shumar, we won't simple tage like this shivers day and you know you don't get.

5:03 Well. Let's see who was born on February the ninth. William Henry Harrison. He was born in Charles City, Virginia, in seventeen seventy three. He was the ninth President of the United States sir for thirty one days March fourth, eighteen forty one to April fourth, eighteen forty one, shortest by any president. His first president to die in office. Now, I think he got sick of his inauguration. See he was really cold and wet and rainy, and William he wanted to appear tough, so he didn't wear a coat or a hat. Well, then he gave the longest inauguration speech by any president. It lasted over two hours. Ended up dying from pneumonia sixty eight years old. He and his wife had ten kids. Now he was the first president who was born who was not a British subject. And his grandson, Benjamin Harrison was the twenty third President of the United States.

5:44 Mail gowns for chik Kabuchi by you Gun Fan chik Kabuci. What Gunchikuchi knew put US so far Chikabuchi. That was the Brazilian bomb show. Carmen Miranda. She's born in Portugal in nineteen oh nine, grew up in Brazil. Now she was famous for when she performed she had these really big fruit hats. Now you can actually see her and she's on the sticker still for the Chiquita bananas. Now. She was huge in Brazil inside to come to the United States nineteen thirty nine, start on Broadway, did some movies in nineteen forty. She was the highest paid entertainer in the world. Producers and cameramen absolutely hated her. She drove them nuts. Say she wouldn't wear panties, Nope, and she wasn't shy if any people got to look at it.

6:32 So when she was dancing, they couldn't really put that on film very easily. She made once for a couple of years. Once her curse started going downhill though, Yeah, I went really fast. Her heavy drinking, smoking and drugs. Yeah, it all got to her. Nineteen fifty five or forty six years old, she had a massive heart attack. I'm all in, I can't sleep. That is too. I'm hoping. The Texas Troubadour Ernest Tubbs was born in Chrispa, Texas, in nineteen fourteen. He was a pioneer in country music. He released the song Blue Christmas, twenty years before Elvis did.

7:15 He had a lot of success singing duets with a really young Loretta Lynne. He had three children from his first wife. Married his second wife in nineteen forty nine and they had five kids. Ernie died from emphasen in nineteen eighty four. It's seventy years old. I couldn't sleep at all. Bobby Lewis. He was born in Indianapolis in nineteen twenty five. He grew up in an orphanage. He learned how to play the piano when he was six. He had really bad eyesight when as a kid, well his whole life. When he was fourteen, he ran away from the orphan and they started singing and playing in carnivals. Ended up getting a record deal out of it. At they's tossing and turning one track mine, Oh yes.

8:07 I love you Now. I Quitmarsa altogether around nineteen eighty see his eyesight and now it was completely gone. He was totally blind. He said performing was just too hard. He had two daughters and one son, Bobby, died in twenty twenty at ninety five years old from pneumonia. It's It's too late really something inside. Carol King. She's eighty four. She's born in Manhattan, New York, in nineteen forty two. Carol is the most successful female songwriter of all time. She's written one hundred and eighteen songs they've charted now. She isn't just a songwriter, though she's had a lot of success As her solo career, she sold over seventy five million records, so that's a very successful solo career. Her nineteen seventy one album Tapas spent fifteen weeks straight at number one. That was the most everbody a female singer. Well, Taylor Swift passed her a couple of years ago. But some of Carol's hit songs are It's too late, I feel the Earth move so far away.

9:12 Only love is real now. She divorced four times and has two children from her first husband and two children from her second husband. Actor Joe Peshe. He's eighty three. Born in Newark, New Jersey, in nineteen forty three. Joe made his movie debut in nineteen sixty one. It was in the movie Hey, Let's Twist. He was a dancer at the Peppermint Lounge, but by the nineteen eighties his strapping five foot four frame made him a badass in movies. Raging Bull Casino won an oscar for Good Fellows. Then he got tired of being the macho man, so he did the home alone movies, Lethal Weapon movies, My Cousins. It was not many for an oscar just a couple years ago for the irishman Joe. He married once for four years and they have a daughter. Actor Judah Light. She was born in Trenton, New Jersey, in nineteen forty nine. She's seventy seven to day. She get really big on the daytime soap opera One Life to Live.

9:58 She went every award that was possible, so she went prime time. She started on Who's the Boss? You know they never did answer that question in that series. Then she was online Order Ugly Betty. Now she's one of two Tonys for acting on Broadway. Judith she married nineteen eighty five. Really now that guy who sang lead for Frankie. Goes to Hollywood. He was born William but he goes by Holly Johnson.

10:39 Johnson was born in Liverpool, England in nineteen sixty. Sixty six year old started out playing bass for the band Big in Japan. Then he helped form Frankie Goes to Hollywood nineteen eighty. How'd they get that name? Well, they were trying to figure out a name and they were looking through a magazine and there was a picture of frank Sinatra and above it was the headline that said Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Yeah, this story sucks. It's pretty anichomatic though now their song Relaxed. It was initially banned in Britain. Now it is the number one seven all time selling song over in Britain. They broke up in nineteen eighty seven. Nineteen ninety three, Holly was diagnosed with HIV, so he thought he was gonna die soon, so he just hung around the house. He painted, did artsy stuff. Then when he hadn't died by two thousands, he's like, you know, I just probably go do something. So him and the guys in Frankie Goes to Hollywood did a couple of reunion tours.

11:25 Same wrongliverlieve me Longe, Now You're Sorry, long song and you see Me Happy? If you could just come back. Well, here's a quarter call somewere. Travis Tritt. He wrote that song the night his wife served him with divorce papers. Travis is sixty three is one of Marrietta Georgia in nineteen sixty three. Some of his hits are helped me. Hold on, I'm gonna be somebody. Here's a quarter trou b a lee ten feet dollar bulletproof.

12:05 He's going out on tour in the middle of April, and if you want to go see him over the summer, he'll be turning until fall. Now. He dated his first wife all through high school, they graduated, got married. Yeah, I only lasted two years. It was his second wife that had him served with those divorce papers in nineteen eighty nine. Now, she was just tired of him not making any money, so she had enough. One month after the divorce was final, his first album was released, sold three million. She Got Nothing travels. He married his third wife in nineteen ninety seven and they had two daughters on one son. Or they have two daughters on one son. Actor Michael B. Jordan's thirty nine, born in nineteen eighty seven in Santa Ana, California, started out as a child model did a bunch of toys r us ads. When he grew up and went to TV, he was on Wired Al and All My Children Friday Night Lights. Now he started in the Creed movies.

12:53 The Black Panther movie is fantastic for He is nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for Sinners in the upcoming Academy Award. Alright here quote of the day. It comes from Bill Haley and two three o'clock and four o'clock Rock. Five said seven o'clock, Hey the'clock rock A ten eleven o'clock, twelve o'clock rock. We're going to rock around the clock tonight. What the slap? Ve so joy three? We'll have some time. Around rock. Bill. He died today in nineteen eighty one and fifty five years old. Now he once said she's so small she could mamba in the telephone booth. Now that was Bill talking about the first time he met Carmen Miranda. Yeah, she stood in maybe fight foot tall. Well, thank y'all for listening to if we get to follow us now you listen to his on our Country Underground Radio Artists today.

13:44 It comes from Gary down in Houston. You know has to hear Todd Burrow song, Ain't looking back now, you guys have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow. I'm alone ways from home. Traveling place is a strange shoe, not wrong, that's okay. I'm doing fine, not afraid to cross that line. Time don't matter much to me, drift o out free. Memories along these roads. Reflect life's episodes. Point of love, turn, learning as I go.

14:34 Life is hard, good, I'll make it burn Still lessons to learn, some discovery on ain't looking back from turning back down. I'm at the point of no read turn