Jan 17th-Popeye, Betty White, James Earl Jones, Steve Harvey, The Bangles, Jim Carey, Kid Rock, Zooey Deschanel

0:09 Happy Friday, everybody. I am Jeff, and welcome to History and Factoids about Today, presented by Cool Media. It is January seventeenth. Oh, I'm delighted to say, or many I'm delighted to say. I'm strong, I'm. Plite to say today is National Popeye Day. It was today. In nineteen twenty nine, Popeye made his comic strip debut. It was in the Fimal Theater, which is actually a comic strip that featured olive oil. By nineteen thirty three, pop Eye, he it was really big. He had his own comic strip, he was had his own radio show, he had his own cartoons. E. C. Seger, He actually created a Popeye. He modeled Popeye and olive Oil after the couple that live next door to him. The words wimp, jeep and doofest they all come from Popeye comic strip.

0:59 I guess celebrate today you can binge watch pop By movies and cartoons, or you could just annoy the hell out of everybody by trying to talk like Papa. All right, this he's going on in entertainment. On January the seventeenth, It's about year twenty eleven number one album was speak Now by Taylor Swift. Katy Perry had the number one song with Firework. When It's Time you Know, when you just got it Nice, Live and Live and Shine. Tim McGraw I had the number one country song with feel Good on My Lips. All go Crazy, I'm go crazy with you. Everybody say wow Wow. The number one book was What the Knight Knows by Dean Konks. The top movie was No Strings Attached. A guy and a girl.

2:12 They try to keep their relationship strictly physical. We know that won't work, stars Ashton Kutcher, Natalie Portman, and Kevin Kline. All Right, what happened on January the seventeenth, seventeen seventy three, Britain's Captain James Cook and his ships, they began the first across the Antarctic Circle. That's the one down south. Eighteen ninety three, Millsborough, Delaware hit negative twenty seven degrees. That's still their state record. Also in eighteen ninety three, the Kingdom of Hawaii was no more. The United States launched an the legal coup up and they overthrew Hawaiian Queen Lily Lukolhani. Yeah. Then they set up a puppet government made Hawaii Republic. Then a couple of years later, yeah, I made it a US territory. Now this would suck. In nineteen twelve, a British expedition led by Robert Scott. He reached the South Pole after and during all that hardship thing. When they got there, they discovered that Norwegian rolfed Onmmnsen he had actually gotten there one moorth earlier. Sometimes second really bites.

3:08 Nineteen twenty of the Eighteenth Amendment went into effect. That's today the first day that the US honored the prohibition of alcohol. Now you could drink alcohol, yeah, it wasn't legal to drink it. So if you didn't alcoholic your house, yeah, you could drink all you want. But you couldn't make alcohol, you couldn't sell alcohol, and you couldn't transport alcohol. This was known as the Beta Max decision. In nineteen eighty four the United States Supreme Court, they ruled that you could tape TV programs at your house with your video recording devices and watch them later. See Disney and some others. They actually sued, saying that tape in their shows violated copyright rights. So during the trial in front of the Supreme Court, mister Rogers was called to testify. Yeah, when he got up there, he said that, Yeah, he hoped people would actually video tape his shows. The Supreme Court, Yeah, they ruled with mister Rogers. Nineteen ninety one, Desert Shield turned into Desert Storm as a Gulf warbigam the United States led coalition. It started off bombing the hell out of Iraq. That was the first war actually seen lenon on TV. United States Coaltion though they didn't have the authority to overthrow the Iraqi government. All they were allowed to do was whatever they needed to do to kick Iraq out of Kuwait, so they did. In twenty seventeen, President Barack Obama he commuted the sentence of Chelsea Manning from thirty five years from prison to seven years. Manning is convicted for espionage and a whole bunch of other christs leaked over seventy and fifty thousand classified documents. Now, Chelsea was actually born Bradley, So Obama also agreed that with tax pair of money he would pay to have him have a sex change operation while he was in prison.

4:35 I mean sex reassignment surgery. Joke shage dish shibirth day we're gonna he left this shiverbirthday. We got simple tage. He like this shibirth day. And you know we don't give birthday. Okay. Who was born on January the seventeenth founding father inventnor Benjamin Franklin. He was born in Boston in seventeen oh six. Now for a fat, frumpy, bald guy, he might have accomplished more than anybody else in history. Now, he didn't discover electricity, but he proved it. He also invented the lightning rod, bifocals. Franklin stove a whole lot more. He charted and named the Gulf Stream. He started at his first printing, his first newspaper twenty three years old. Then he did the Poor Richard's Almanac. They still print that today. Now he signed both the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution.

5:25 He was the United States first Postmaster General. Now he did all that while being one of the biggest players in colonial America. Yeah, that guy was a hound. He had one illegitimate daughter that he actually claimed, but everybody said there were a lot more. He did marry from n seventeen thirty to seventeen seventy four. That's when his wife died, and they did have one son and daughter, but that didn't slow Ben down at all. See, his wife was afraid of water, so she wouldn't get on a ship. So Ben he made a lot of trips over to Europe. You know, he had to support the cause and all that kind of stuff. Now, he died from pleurisy in nineteen seventeen ninety at eighty four years old. Twenty thousand people attended his funeral. Pluris sie, it missed with your lungs and. You more traveling down than is true.

6:11 Joe the Pal. Actress Betty White. She was born in Oak Park, Illinois, in nineteen twenty two. She acted from nineteen thirty nine to twenty twenty one. She actually started out on radio. Best known for TV Ry Taller Marshall, Golden Girls, Hot in Cleveland. She was in so many TV shows we don't know if they's ever counted, and we weren't going to do it. Some of her movies were Dennis La Menes, Lake, Placia, The Proposal. She did a lot more voice work than he probably ever thought of. Now, when she was ninety six, she was asked, you know what was her secret to staying young. She said vodka and hot dogs in that order. Oh, and some exercise. That is her first husband. He was an Air Force pilot who owned a chicken farm. Her third husband was TV game show host Alan Lund. Now that was her true love. They got married nineteen sixty three.

6:55 They were together until Alan died in nineteen eighty one. Betty, she died in her sleep two weeks before one hundred birthday in twenty twenty one. Per Santa Baby, just slip a sable under the tree before me, holding an awful good girl, Santa Baby, so hurry down the chimney to night. That was Earth a Kit. She was born in North South Carolina in nineteen twenty seven. Now that's the name of it. Down is North South Carolina. There's about six hundred and niney people who live there. Earth. She started out on Broadway. She was a successful singer in the early nineteen fifties on TVA. She played Catwoman on Batman.

7:35 Some of her movies were Boomerang, Fatal Instinct, Preaching to the Choir. Now, when I said that she started out on Broadway, she did Broadway from nineteen forty five until two thousand and seven. She married once in the sixties for five years, and they had a daughter, Earth That She died from colon cancer in two thousand and eight, three weeks before eighty second birthday. Never told you what happened to fall. He told me enough. I did knew your father. One of the greatest voices of all time actor James Earl Jones. He was born in Arka, Butla, Mississippi, in nineteen thirty one. Now, when Earl was a little boy, he had a really bad stuttering problem. He started so bad that he wouldn't even speak in public. But he also liked to really write poetry, so in high school one of his teachers made him stand up and read some of his poetry in front of the whole class. Well, it turns out the public speaking is how he overcame stuttering.

8:32 His first movie was Doctor Strange Love. He was in over eighty movies after that. He's nominated for an Oscar for The Great White Hope. He won a couple Tonies over the years. His last movie was Coming to America Too. That was back in twenty twenty one. Now. He married his second wife in nineteen eighty two and they had one son. His wife died in twenty sixteen earl. He just died in September at ninety three years old. He was at home. What they think it was mostly from diabetes. Comedian and actor Andy Coughlin. He was born in New York City in nineteen forty nine. Andy said he was not a comedian because he never told the joke. He just made people laugh. The biggest acting role was on TV when he played Lot Gun Taxi. Now this was way before social media. But what made Andy actually well known or famous well as he would play a bunch of big pranks and hoaxes and jokes on people and then it'd go viral for what was going on in the nineteen eighties. He had a daughter from his high school girlfriend, and and he He died nineteen eighty four at thirty five years old from lung cancer.

9:29 This same. Paul Young. He's sixty nine. He was born in Latin, England in nineteen fifty six. Start out singing for a Cool He started singing for Cat Cool and the Cool Cats, and he went and sang laid for the Q Tips. Finally went solo in the early eighties. Some of his biggest hits are come Back and Stay every Time You go Away, Everything must change, What becomes of the brookenhearted?

10:11 Nineteen ninety three. He's ever since then when he's not doing his sober stuff or solo stuff. Yeah, he's the lead singer for those Pacaminos. Now they are a British band that plays text Mex music, but the only two of the Nighty Kingdom in Europe, So how would those Europeans know what text Mex music is supposed to really sound like? Paul he married nineteen fifty seven and they have for each other. His wife died in twenty eighteen, then he remarried his second wife just last julye. Comedian actor TVO Steve Harvey. He's sixty eight. He's born in Wels, West Virginia, in nineteen fifty seven. Steve he also had a severe stutter when he was a kid. Started out doing standout comedy. Then he hosted the show Time at the Panel. Then he was in the original Kings of Comedy.

10:54 He did the tours and the movies and the specials and stuff. He did his last stand up act in twenty twelve on TVA had the Steve Harvey Show. Then he's hosted He hosted Miss Universe. I don't know if you remember that. Yeah, it didn't turn out so good. He's been hosting Family Feuds since twenty ten, Celebrity Family Feuds since twenty fifteen, and he's been judged Steve Harvey on that show since twenty twenty two. He had two daughters and one son from his first wife. He had a son from his second wife. Married his third wife in two thousand and seven, and then he adopted all three of her children.

11:38 Man. That was Susannah Hoffs, singing lead for the Bengals. She's one of Los Angeles in nineteen fifty nine. Sixty six year old. She is a guitarist and singer. She wants everybody to make sure they don't think she just sings now. She help formed the Bengals in nineteen eighty one. They took most of the nineties off, but they've been back together since nineteen ninety eight. Bengal hits are Manic, Monday, Walk, Black In Egyptian, Hazy, Shade, a Winner, Eternal Fleeing Susanna. She's at least nine solo albums over the years. She got married in nineteen ninety three and they have two sons. Actor comedian Jim Carrey's sixty three. He is born in Newmarket, Cannon in nineteen sixty two. Jamie started doing stand up comedy when he's fifteen years old. He has dad would drive him to the shows. First got known in the movie One's Bitten. Then he hit big on the TV show in Living Color. Some of his other movies are The Ace Venture, a pet detective movie, is Dumb and Dumber, Liar, Liar, me myself and Irene. Now, when I talked earlier, we said, what is Andy Coffin's birthday? Well, Jim played Andy in the movie Man on the Moon. Carry actually won a whole bunch of awards for how he played Andy. Two.

12:42 He had a daughter from his first wife. He married actress Lauren Holly for almost a year. Signs were smoking things, whiskey, not taking singing home all. Summer long, rappers, singer Kid Rock. He was born in Romeo, Michigan in nineteen seventy one. That makes him fifty four today. He started out breakdancing. It turns out he's a lot better rapper and DJ than he was a break dancer, So he took that rapping in the all. Now he does what country and rock also sold over thirty five million albums. Some of us hits are Cowboy Only God Knows Why, Picture That was with Shirow Crow, and All Summer Long. Now he goes on tour in April if you want to go check out kid Rock on tour.

13:36 Biggest movie he was in was Joe Dirt. Now he and his high school girlfriend they had and were raising three children together. Then he found out that only one of those kids was his, so he took his son and raised him as a single dad. I mean he did marry Pamela Anderson for a year after that. He's been engaged since twenty seventeen. Kid Rock is an ordained minister and a firearms collector. Forty five year old actions Zoe desh Deshanel. She was born in Los Angeles nineteen eighty Yes you know now. She first got known on the movie Almost Famous, then Elf, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and she's the voice of What Bridget and the Troll movies. Thinks she's best known for TV, though when she plays on New Girl in two thousand and six, she formed the music, though she and him she did it with m Ward.

14:26 Play in the same sometimes too much show in the Sun. In the Sun. She and him have released seven albums. Some of their hits are in the Sun and Thieves Zoe. She sings, plays the tambourane, the ukulele, and the piano. She had two children from her first husband. Now I don't know which one is which, but she is engaged to one of the TV show Property brothers. It's supposed to be Jonathan, whichever one he is. All right, let's go back. Let's talk old Popeye when it first came out. When Popeye first came out Olive, she had a brother. His name was Castor Castor Oil and he didn't have pop by eating spinach yet either. For Popeye to get his strength, he'd rubbed the head of a hen. Her name was Bernice. Well, thank you all for listening today, and don't forget to follow us. I know you listen to us on when you hear some great country music. Don't forge about Country Inderground radio. Find in any place that they play independent or internet radio, or you can go to Country Underground Radio dot com. Let's end with the nineteenth President of the United States, Rutherford Behays. He died to day in eighteen ninety three at seventy years old. Ruthifird said the President of the United States should always stay true and be mindful of the fact that he serves his party best when he serves his country best. You guys have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow.