Jan 10th-House Plants, Jim Croce, Rod Stewart, Steely Dan, Pat Benatar, Shawn Colvin, Shinedown, Wendy's Hamburgers

0:20 Welcome to history and factoids about today. I am Jeff. Today's January the tenth house phonosynthesizing in the sunlight, such a land house plan, a little touch of nature, giving goodbyes. Put you on a dresser, set you on a table, maybe in a planter, hanging from a cable house bland house pland. Today is National house Plant Appreciation Day. Now most of you have taken down your Christmas tree. Today is to remind you how cool it is plants in your house all year round, especially live ones. House Plants improve air quality, convert carbon dioxide to oxygen outside more through the air, helps with your skin, in your hair. Now you know healthy houseplans. Yeah, they make your old house look nice.

1:06 Now most houseplants, they are pretty easy to take care of. So I'll make a trip over the nursery and pick up a couple new house plans. Now, if you know nothing about plants, yeah, practice with cactus all right? What was going on entertainment on January tenth? Let's back in nineteen sixty two. Number one album was a Blue Hawaiian movie soundtrack with Elvis sing all the songs. The Tokens that the number one song with the Lion Sleeps Tonight, the Jungle, the Mighty Jungle, The Lie Sleeps Tonight. Leroy Vandyke at the number one country song with walk On By.

1:55 By another wouldn't look so good? You know someone I'm not supposed to know, just walk on bye. Waited on the corner. The number one book was Franny and Zoe by J. D. Salinger. Todd movie was El Sid El Sid. He overcomes a family, vendetta and a court to defend Christian Spain against the Moors. Stars Charlton Heston. So feel the urn and ray balloon? All right? What happened on January tenth in the year seven thirty eight in the Mayan city of Copon. Today it's in Hunters now one of the most important Mayan rulers eighteen rabbit.

2:42 He celebrated the opening of the city's new ball courts. Yeah, ball courts. They were these stone structures. They were the focal point of the entire town. They showed that that town had wealth and power. Sad do we know that king opened up that ball court? Well, it was written on the side of the ball court. It's still there. Talks all about the ceremony and all that kind of stuff. You can check it out the next time you in Honduras. Seventeen seventy six, Thomas Paine started selling his pamphlet Common Sense. It urged the American colonists to seek independence from Britain. Now, over the next three months it sold over one hundred and twenty thousand copies. Now, if you'd take into account the number of people who lived in the colonies at that time, it is the best selling published writing in American history. Eighteen sixty three, in London, England, they opened up the world's first underground railway or subway. Now they use full size steam engine trains for it. Yeah, in those tunnels, so, yeah, they were all filled with smoke and it was hot and all that kind of stuff.

3:33 They did it for twenty years until they won electric. Nowadays, there protest in front of the White House pretty much every day. But the first protest in front of the White House today nineteen seventeen. Yeah, it was by the National Women's Party. They called themselves the Silent Sentinels. Yeah, a whole bunch of women who wanted the right to vote. Now, President wood and Woodrow Wilson, Yeah, he refused to kind of address the issue. So they got tired. They said, Hey, we're gonna go to his house. Nineteen sixty seven, Edward Brooke came the first black men be elected into the United States Senate. He was sworn in. He was Republican from Massachusetts. It certainly is a big fun. You get some very big fun bone, you get some very big, fluffy fun.

4:14 Where's the beef? Some hamburger places give you a lot less beef. I'm a lot of buner Where's the beef? At Wendy's we save a hamburger, we modestly called a single, And Wendy's single has more beef than the whopper or big Mac. At Wendy's you had more beef and less bun. Hey nineteen eighty four are Wendy's hamburgers? Yeah? They started there. Where's the beef? Advertising campaign? I'd start off with that TV commercial starting eighty one year old Clara Beller. Now, Wendy's sales went up thirty one percent. That makes it one of the most successful advertising campaigns in history. Now, Clara's you got paid three hundred and seventeen dollars and forty cents for that commercial, and that was scale at the time, this isn't cool at all. And twenty fifteen, at a funeral in Mozambique, some must spike the beer with crocodile bile boys and everybody's Seventy two people died, nine and sixty nine people were hospitalized.

5:03 Coppe Dope, coop joke joke show, dish Shiver Day, Please gonna he left this shiver day. We won't simple toe. He's like dish shivers Day, and you know you don't get so. I was born on January the tenth. Actor Ray Boulger. He was born in Boston in nineteen oh Far started as a very popular vaudeville act and then he turned that into a good Broadway career. That's no though for playing the scarecrow in The Wisdom of Oz. It was also in Babes and Toiling. I was on TV for a show for a couple of years in the fifties. He was married fifty seven years when he died from bladder cancer in nineteen eighty seven at eighty three years old. It's no secret.

5:45 You feel. Giving when way from a. That was Johnny Ray. He was born in Dallas, Oregon, in nineteen twenty seven. Johnny was the most popular singer in the nineteen fifties. Yeah, the entire decade. Remember rock and roll, It really didn't get popular until the later fifties. So Johnny, he saw a lot of records before rock and Roll kind of pushed him to the side. Now he started the movie There Is No Business Like Showman. Married once for two years exadly though he was a lifelong hardcore alcoholic. Yeah, that boots finally got him in nineteen ninety at sixty three years old. Acter Salmon Nale He was born in the Bronx, New York. In nineteen thirty nine, when he was seventeen, he was in the movie Rebel Without a Cause with James Dean Salo. He was nominated for an Oscar for it. Then he was in Giant Exodus The Longest Day Escaped from the Planet of the Apes. Now sal he loved to be seen in women with beautiful women, but in private he liked guys.

6:50 Nineteen seventy six, a pizza delivery guy, mug sal stabbed around the chest. I was thirty seven years old. Pizza delivery guy. Yeah, he got twelve years from murder. About sixty four onto downtown Leads called a tree top over a mounds, call down So Danny's Bayou Baya. He Rolling Brown made us man in the whole down Bown Mada, then old Bean car mean No Now on the junk y'allo home. Jim Coachee, he was born in South Philadelphia nineteen forty three, called him a folk rock singer. Had that you don't mess around with Jim bad bad Leroy Brown, time in a bottle, all out to say I Love you in a song. Now, when Jim was at the height of his career, I mean he was the man. After a concert he was fight out a Nacodish Louisiana. A pilot hit the only tree around. Yeah, all six people on boardbo killed. Jimmy is thirty years old, left the wife and his son.

7:52 Then go down, say. He's laid up Timberby, he s school news. Sir Rod Stewart is eighty one born in Highgate, England in nineteen forty five. Solo over one hundred and twenty five million records. Actually started out as a harmonica player in the early sixties. Then he joined the Jeff Bett Grip. Then he sang lead for the band Faces mid seventies, he went solo. Now Roddy had a daughter from a fling. Then he had a daughter and his son from his first wife. Then he had a daughter from a girlfriend, and he married Rachel Hunter for sixteen years and they had a son and a daughter. Rod married his third wife in two thousand and seven and they have two boys.

8:41 You'll ever last in summer. You can see it fitting that. So you grab a piece of something that you think, well, you wouldn't even know the time, and if you had it in your head, the things you think imprecious. I can't understand. Are you really in the That was Donald Fagan singing for the Deal Steely Dan. He was born in Pasaca, New Jersey, in nineteen forty eight, seventy eight year old. They formed STEELYE Dan in nineteen seventy one. Yeah, it was Walter Becker. Now they took the eighties off. They fired it back up in nineteen ninety three. They were together until Walter died in twenty seventeen. Donald, though he's still performing do it again, reeling in the years, Ricky, don't lose that number, Hey, nineteen, that's some Steely Dan hits.

9:26 Now. The rock and roll left those two headbangers in in two thousand and one. Now Steely Dan. What is Steely Dan, Well, Steely Dan. It is a prosthetic fallas in the book Naked Lunch Donald. He is married since nineteen Well, he got married nineteen ninety three. His wife died in twenty twenty four. Pat Benatar she's seventy three. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in nineteen fifty three. Now, she was born Patricia Andrew Juski. She got the name Bennatar from her first husband. They were a high school sweetheart's got married after high school. After seven years. They divorced later that year. Yeah, she hit really big. It's kind of had to keep the name of Bennetar then. Now it's kind of hard for me to believe that her only number one song is actually love is a battlefield that what I thought it had been a different one. She sold over thirty five million albums. She's in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame now. Even though she is a solo artist, she's pretty much had the same band they ever since she started in nineteen seventy nine. Well, in nineteen eighty two she did marry her guitar player. They have two daughters.

10:39 Now. She replaced him as a guitars player. Yeah, he's into management now, but now that the girls are older and he didn't have to really babysit them. Yeah, he goes on stage and plays again. Pad She's gonna go out and do some shows so you can see the both of them starting on January the twenty sixth, Sean Colvin. She was born in Vermilion, South Dakota, in nineteen fifty six, makes her seventy years old today. She's won a couple Grammy Awards. Some of her hits are steady on. I don't know why Sonny came home, Sean. She is gonna be doing some shows in March. I'm gonna go check her out. She has twice divorced, and between those two marriages she had a daughter. Sean. She had a lot of trouble. She struggled with anxiety, depression, and alcohol. But she's also completed several triathlonsh Brent Smith. He is the lead singer for the band Shine Down forty eight today.

12:06 Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, in nineteen seventy eight, he formed Shined Down in two thousand and one. Now their songs have been streamed four point five billion times. That's most by any rock band. Some of those songs are saved me Second Chance if you only knew cut the cord. Now they have their own hot sauce that they're peddling out there. Yeah they're not even really. I mean, he would think being a celebrity hot sauce would be really high. That's like nine bucks or something like that. They're called the Shine Down Hot Saucers. Now, Brent, he really struggled with drugs now calling his way. Yeah, I hate a lot of trouble so much. They finally they had an intervention for him. Looks like it worked. He is now claim he's sober, he exercises daily, and he's lost a whole bunch of weight, so good for him. He has a son from a former fiancee. Alrighty. Our quote of the day it comes from David Bowie. Shout you we.

13:09 Winds time to. Show. David died to day in twenty sixteen at sixty nine years old. He said, I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be born. Well, thank you all for listening today. Don't foret to follow us on who you listen to? A song check out the show description that I'll give you a link like the one the Country Underground Radio. Our Country Underground Radio artist to day comes from Tucker up in Jamestown, North Dakota. He wants to hear Jeff Griffiths song. Dip me in some beer and throw me to the drunk chicks. You guys have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow. Git me in beer, throw me to the drump chicks. Hold, I need a temporary low face of despers man.

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