Jan 18th-Winnie the Pooh, The Temptations, Kevin Costner, Mark Collie, Korn, Thompson Twins, Jason Segel

0:09 Hey, hello everybody. I am Jeff and welcome to history and factoids about today visited by cool Media. Is January the eighteenth Poo. Poo comedy comedy stuff He's bear. Today is National Winnie the Pooh Day. It is writer A. Milne's birthday. He was born in eighteen eighty two over in England. Today we celebrate his greatest creation, Winnie the Poop, the first twinning of the Pooh book. He came out in nineteen twenty six. Winnie he was inspired by a real bear who was a Canadian black bear that lived in London Zoo named Winnie. Yeah, it was a girl. Now.

0:53 All the other characters though in the stories, they were all based on stuffed animals that his son had, you know, like e R and Big Lid and Digger, yeah, the rest of them. Now the son is Christopher Robb and he was in some of the Pooh stories. Now the forest it was based on the forest outside of Sussex, England. Now, as cold as it is outside today, it'd be a good day to binge watch Winnie the Pooh and throwing some books and read some books and binge watch winning the pool. That'd be pretty good. Just enjoy Winnie the Pooh. See, they can't in China. No, everything with Winnie the Pooh has been banned in China. Some of the people over in China, they think that their leader she's jung ping. They think he looks like Winnie the Pooh. When word got back to him about it, he banned everything to do with Winnie the Pooh. No bucks, no movies, no merchandise. Yeah, year of our labor. If you get caught wearing a Winning the Pooh T shirt. All right, this is going on in entertainment. On January the eighteenth, Back to nineteen sixty one number one album was GI Blues by Elvis Presley.

1:44 Bert Comfert and his archestra had the number one song with Wonderland at Night. Johnny Horton. He had the number one country song with North to Alaska. He talked to his team of husky as he must roll through the snow with the Northern lights running wild. In the land of the midnights.

2:25 Yes, Samcord was a moody man. And the US nineteen one, where the rever is fine and picking up against them, Find and Not to Alaska. The number one book was Hawaii by James Mitchener. The top movie was Swiss Family Robinson, a Swiss family the After survived being shipwrecked on a deserted island, stars John Mills, Dorothy McGuire and James MacArthur. So what happened on January the eighteenth, fifteen thirty five. Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro. He founded the city of Lima Pereru. He named it see your Dad, Dela reyis as the city at King's locals they just called it Lima after the river that runs through it. The first JFO seen in America was today in sixteen forty four. Now pretty much most of the people of Boston saw it. They saw two lives, so sparks going back and forth between them as it flew over the Boston Harbor. Now most of the people they were purting, and so they didn't drink. So you know it must be true, right, Well, that's actually a big lie, despite what you may have heard. Yeah, the Puritans they were luscious. Yeah, they drank a lot. They loved their alcohol.

3:32 They just didn't like people being drunk in public. Say, when their ships arrived in Boston in sixteen thirty the manifest on their ships It said that they brought in ten thousand gallons of beer, twelve gallons of gin, and one hundred and twenty casks. Yeah, that was to make malt liquor after they got there. Now they believed alcohol was a gift from God, but drunkenness, yeah, that was a sin all right. Back to the original story. No one knows what in the hell they actually saw over there, but I think we can roll out airplanes, drones and weather balloons. Seventy eight, Britain's captain James Cook, him and his ships became the first Europeans to find the Hawaiian Islands. They renamed them the Sandwich Islands in honor of John Montague, the Earl of Sandwich. He was the guy was paying for the whole expedition. Hawaiians. Yeah, they didn't let us stick.

4:14 Seventeen eighty eight, the first ship sent from Britain arrived over in Bideny Bay in Australia. Yeah, the British brought or they they brought the first seven hundred and thirty six British convicts there. Yeah, and they started that penal Connelly Breton. They would send convicts to Australia for eighty years until eighteen sixty eight, over one hundred and sixty two thousand of them actually survived the voyage there. Now, there were nineteen crimes that you could get sent to Australia for committing. Now most of them were things like a larceny and stealing and all that kind of stuff. But one of the crimes that get you sent to Australia as if he impersonated an Egyptian. Nineteen eleven, American's Eugenie Italy. He became the first pilot to land an airplane on a ship. Yeah, he landed his plane on the USS Pennsylvania. Yes, he was trying to do it.

4:56 See they had cable stretched across the deck and they attached those cables the sandbag his playing had a hook underneath, and yeah, it stopped him in thirty feet Eugenie. He was also the first pilot to take off from a ship a year earlier that he landed on shore. After that, during World War Two, the people here in America, they endured a lot. I mean they had to deal with gas, coffee, rubber meat, sugar rationing and all that stuff. But in nineteen forty three, the government they announced they were banning sliced bread. They thought they wanted to conserve the metal parts that were being used on the bread slicing machines and sliced bread. He used a lot thicker wrapping to keep it from drying out. So that was it. Yep, they weren't gonna take it anymore. With the America's got they'd had enough. See they were going they went ape shit, and so finally the government, Yeah, they stopped banning sliced bread after six weeks. The government banned rationing gas for almost three years. Nineteen thirty in wats, Oklahoma set their state record. They got down to negative twenty seven degrees. Nineteen eighty one, Phil Smith and Phil Millyfield they jumped off a Houston skyscraper. They became the first at base jump off all four categories of base jumping buildings, cliffs, bridges, and an tennis. So what do you think the lowest height is that you can actually base jump from two hundred feint Any lower than that in the parishant won't open, so they consider it suicide. Brazilian surfer Maya gabri Rhea.

6:16 She was born she was in Portugal in twenty eighteen. She ended up surfing the largest wave ever by a woman who was sixty eight feet high. Joke joked, joke, shog thish, shiverf day's gonna pause. He left this shiverf day. We won't simple page. He let this shibirf day. You don't do. Well. Let's see it's born on January the eighteenth. Now, when Alexander Graham Bell made that first phone call, he said, mister Watson, come here, I want to see you. Now. His assistant was twenty two year old Thomas Watson. He was in the next room now, Thomas Watson. He is going to Salem, Massachusetts in eighteen fifty four. But he wasn't just an assistant Watson. He actually invented the telephone ringer.

6:58 I know what goods the telephone? If you don't know what ringing? Right? Then Watson. He left Bell when he was only twenty seven years old. He took all his royalty money, started up a shipyard, ended up being one of the longest, largest shipyards in the world. He made like navy shifts and destroyers and that kind of stuff. So he became a very very rich guy even without his phone money. In nineteen fifteen, Bell he made the first trans continental telephone call. See that first one was just to the next room. Now this one he was calling coast to coast, so bell he called from New York City. He called the San Francisco Watson. Yeah, he answered the phone. Found that one too, Watson. He married. He died in nineteen thirty four and eighty years old, from heart disease. Actor Kerry Grant. He was born in Bristol, England, in nineteen oh four. He was one of Hollywood's top actors from nineteen thirty and a ninth about the mid nineteen sixties. I guess Monkey Business, to Catch a Thief, north By Northwest, the Philadelphia Story, Yeah, just some of his movies. He was nominated for a couple of Oscars, but you never heard of those movies. He actually turned down the role to be the first James Bond. His fourth wife was actress Diane Cannon. They had a daughter.

7:59 Divorced after six years, now Diane, when she was thirty three years younger than Graham. Then he married his fifth wife in nineteen eighty one. She was forty seven years younger than Grant. He died from a stroke in nineteen eighty six at eighty two. Years old, came running in all excited, slipped and almost hurt her selling laughed, Tola cry. She was always young, at hearted, kind of dumb, and was kind of strunk, and I loved her. Son. That was Bobby golds Bro He's eighty four years old today is born. I'm Marianna, Florida. In nineteen forty one, started out in the band Spider on the webs. They were Roy Orbison's band when he went on tour. Bobby he went solo in nineteen sixty four. Some of his hits were Honey, see the funny little clowns, Little Things, It's too late. He had a children's TV show in the nineteen seventies. It's called Swamp Critters of Lost Lagoon.

8:52 Now Bobby's a very successful oil painter. Yeah, if you go to his website, I'll turn sell them tea. He had three children from his first wife, been married to a second wife. It was nineteen eighty. Five again feel this sweet talking. That was David Ruffins singing for the Temptations. David was born and why not Mississippi in nineteen forty one. Joined the Temptations in nineteen sixty four, saying on there are big Heads. My girl ain't too pround to big. I wish you would rain Beauty's only skin did Now. He got fired from The Temptations in nineteen sixty nine. The reason for his dismissal was that he had turned into a complete nutter ass. Now he did do some solo stuff after that. But the thing with David, he had a really bad drug addiction pretty much his entire adult life.

9:48 It got him in nineteen ninety one, when he was fifteen fifty years old. Yeah, he had an accidental overdose to crack cocaine. He was divorced twice and had four children from Noble Wins. Living in this dosbol trn B's Ball Bunny Hall in Black two shooting dani old t shirt the streets come down at Jack He's speech in My Boss Ghost Bowl. That is the country band Kevin Costner and Modern West. They formed in two thousand and seven. They've released four albums. Now they're not got a tour this summer. Their lead singer that I Got Kevin Costner, he is gonna do some acting on the side. Kevin He's seventy day. He's born in Lynwood, California, in nineteen fifty five. His first movie was Sizzlebeach Usa. Then he played the dead guy in The Big Chill. Now he's won two Oscars for directing and producers Dancing with Wolves. He had three chill from his first wife. Then he had a son from a Nice Time. Then he had three children from the second wife. They just divorced last year.

10:52 Lesson God Sin Lusca with the Stars of All going Out, Liveest Die. Crush. Country singer Mark Colly was born in Waynesboro, Tennessee, in nineteen fifty six. He's sixty nine now. He has had a lot of success songwriting for other artists over the years, even up till the day. But he also has had a really good solo artist career. Someone's biggest hits, Sorry let her Go. Even the man in the Moon is crying. Born to love you, hard loving woman. He's been married to his second wife since two thousand and nine. Now. Mark, he as a child was diagnosed with type one diabetes.

11:38 He has spent most of his life after that raising money and they actually raised millions of dollars for our treating and finding a cure for type two diabetes. You know what we forgot tom. Across the seas. Tom Bailey. He's sang lead for The Thompson Twins. He was born in Halifax, England, in nineteen fifty four. He's seventy one now. The Thompson Twins they were not a duo.

12:19 There were four guys and a girl in a band and none of them were named Thompson Now. The Twins formed in nineteen seventy seven. They started out as a new wave band, but then in the eighties they went mainstream pop. Had a lot of success. They had they had Lies Hold Me Now, Doctor Doctor King ferry Day broke up in nineteen ninety three. Then they reformed themselves at the band called Babble. Well that didn't work at all. So Tom he just kind of does his own thing. Actually what he does he tours playing just Thompson Twins music is very successful all across the UK and in Europe. He even comes over here in tours in the United States once in a while. So if you see Thompson Twins Tom Bailey, yeah, that's him coming to your town. His first wife was a Thompson Twins. She was Elnea Curry. They had two children, married a second wife in twenty fourteen.

13:21 The lead singer for the new metal band Corn is Jonathan Davis. He's fifty four. He's one of Bakersfield, California. In nineteen seventy one. He co found a Corn in nineteen ninety three. They are considered the pioneers of new metal and basically the one's responsible for getting new metal mainstream. You don't know new metal is actually spelled a new metal. There's a little forty million records. Jonathan his vocal range. On his bio, it says that his vocal range goes from a high pitch to angry tone. Some of the corn big hits are freak on a Lish, falling away from me, can you hear me start the healing? They've won two Grammys now they're banned, and John olshall all of them. They've been in episodes of both South Park and Scooby Doo, so you know they're huge. He has a son from his first wife, and he married his second wife in two thousand and four and they have two sons. His wife died in twenty eighteen. Actor Jason Siegel.

14:14 He's forty five. He's born in Santa Monica, California, in nineteen eighty. His first acting job was on the TV series Freaks and Geeks that he got really big on How I Met Your Mother, Ben and over forty movies, knocked up forgetting Sarah Marshall, I Love You Man sex tape. Yeah, that's some of them, Jason. He is an ordained minister. He even performed a wedding once on The Tonight Show in twenty ten. Yeah, it's for two of its fans. Jay Linno was cool with it. All right, Let's do base jumping again. Base jumping it is fifty times more dangerous than skydiving. Oh that makes sense, though, I guess you don't know that much time to make any corrections if you screw up. All right, thank you for listening today. We sure appreciate you. If you haven't follow us on, whoever you're listening to us on comes to this at Country Underground Radio dot com if you want to hear some of the best independent country music lyrists, or you can just google it. That's everywhere. Let's end with Glenn Frye.

15:24 Glynn died it in twenty sixteen and sixty seven years old. Glynn said, except for a few guitar chords, everything I have learned in my life with any value I have learned from women. You guys have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow.