Jan 26th-Michigan BDAY, Paul Newman, Bob Ueker, Eddie Van Halen, Ellen DeGeneres, Cinderella, Wham

0:20 Welcome to history. In fact, it's about today. I am Jeff. Today's January the twenty sixth. I'm a green smoothie hustle love love. I'm blend, kale and rouge love love. My gree smooth is as a bomb a bomb. I titled green and gifts that everyone. I'm a fan of everything's green green. I'm anodies like you never seen clean flender, some spinach and or quickly pair repair. Give it a try home, meet you dare. Today is National Green Juice Day. Yeah, green jeys. I can't contain a variety of I spells. You put in it what you like and what's ealthy. Now. The first juicer it was made by doctor Norman Walker in the nineteen thirties. Now there are so many juices and blends. It's harder to decide which one of those dibia verses what to put in it.

1:05 Now. If you're still doing your New Year's resolution, yeah, good job, keep it up now. If you need to get back on track, today is a good day to start again. I just drink some green juice today. You know you always feel healthy just for drinking green juice. You're wondering broccoli it's the Healthy as vegetable, all right list. He's going on entertainment. On January twenty sixth, back to nineteen ninety five, number one album was The Hits by Garth Brook. Boys to Man had the number one song with on Bended Knee. Somebody, Oh God. Jimmy Alan Jackson had the number one country song with God Country.

1:52 So she packs her man to dry her hands. Jesus, mind me my last chance country. Look at him. She's gone country, back to her roots. She's gone country time as soon she's gone country. The number one book was politically correct Bedtime Stories by James Finn Garner. Top movie it was Legends of the Fall in the early nineteen hundreds. Three brothers and their dad live in the remote Montana wilderness. Stars Brad Pitt, Aiden Quinn, Anthony Hopkins, Henry Thomas. All Right, what happened? On January twenty sixth and seventeen hundred, a magnitude nine earthquake hit the northwest coast of America. You know the Oregon Washington area. Well, how do we know the only people in that area at that time were Native American Indians and they didn't write. Well, we know it from the Japanese. That's right, Japanese records described the tsunami that earthquake created. Now, it was nineteen eighty four, and Benjamin Franklin was pissed. He was writing letters and telling anyone who had listened to himbout how mad he was. See ben he usually got his way by not this, so he was iraid whatever. Well, the bald eagle was chosen as the symbol for the United States of America. Ben He wanted the turkey. Happy Birthday, Michigan today. In eighteen

3:31 thirty seven, Michigan began the twenty sixth state. Michigan is a Chippewa word. It means great winter, great water. Now outside of Alaska, Michigan has the most coastline of any state. Yeah, so I guess it's number one in the continental United States. Capitol of Michigan is Lansing. Highest point is Mount Arvon at one thousand, nine and seventy eight feet sides. Why is this the eleventh largest state in area as the tenth most people in the population Michigan and the state bird is the robin? Fish is the brook trout is apple blossom, mammal, white tailed deer tree is the eastern White Pine. Some people born in Michigan, Tom Selleck, Ted Nugent, Burt Reynolds, Bob Seeger, Christy Brinkley, Alice Cooper, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, Madonna, just some of the people born in the Wolverine State. Eighteen thirty eight, Tennessee became the first state to ban alcohol. Yeah, they passed the first prohibition bill. Yeah, they made it a misdemeanor to sell any alcohol anywhere, whether it was a store in person or a tavern.

4:31 Nineteen oh five, in South Africa they found the largest diamond ever. It was four inches long, two and a half inches wide and two inches deep. It was three one and six carrots. Now King Edward of England he bought it for nineteen million dollars. When they got it back to England, they had no idea to what to do that big ass thing, so they cut it into nine diamonds. Now two of them are still in the England's Crown Jewels. Seven are owned by private individuals. London. In nineteen twenty six, John Logi Bear he gave the first public demonstration of television, the public gotta watch a puppet sho Now, this was nineteen thirty two. And remember that prohibition was still going on in the United States. So Winston Churchill he did not have a job back in Britain, so he came to the United States to make some money. Yeah, he did a lecture tour. He went from city to city. Not well. While he was in New York City, he went to cross the street on Fifth Avenue. When he stepped out the curb, he got hit by a car. Yeah, so he said, Now, he said it was his fault. He took word for it.

5:24 He said he looked the wrong way. He forgot the cars over here drive on the right side of the road. So in order to continue his lecture tour, he had a doctor write him in a prescription for alcohol. The prescription read that he should take alcohol with every meal and as needed to help deal with the pain. You know what, Winston Churchill was a pretty smart guy. So any guesses on what president had the first woman as a personal position, Now I would have thought, yeah, I would have thought Clinton too, But now we're close. John F. Kennedy nineteen sixty one. He named Janet Trevelle as his personal physician. Nineteen seventy two. A twenty three year old Serbian airplane stewardess. Her name was Vesna Vulvic. She said a world record that still stands today. She fell a little over thirty three thousand feet in altitude, that's almost six miles high up. She lived, Yep. She was supposed to have her day off, as she agreed to work a flight from Copenhagen to Belgrain Well. A bomb in a suitcase and the luggage department exploded blew the plane into several pieces. Everybody down the plate was killed either by the blast or they were sucked down of the plane except Vesner. Nope, she got pinned in the tail section in by a food cart. Now as a plane plumbing into the earth, she couldn't move. So when the plane hit the ground that tail section that she was in, it hit in deep snow and heavy trees, and it hit just the right angle to keep her from going splat.

6:38 That local villager actually found her. Yeah, his name was Bruno Hunky. Now get this Bruno, he just happened to have been in Meta during World War two, so he was able to keep her alive until her rescue crews arrived. She broke almost every bone in her body from her skull down to her feet. She was in a coma for three days. Look get this, she was able to walk again ten months with the limp. I mean she walked with a limp for the rest of her life. See her spine had been twisted. She lived and toil. She was sixty six years old. She ended up dying from heart failure. They never did figure out who put the bomb on the plane. Dop Co joked, joke, huge dish Shibbert day. We're gonna pause. He left this shib day. We gonna simple tage. He like this shiberth day.

7:18 And you know you don't give up. Well. He was born on January the twenty sixth. Have you seen the movie or read the book Unbroken? It's about Louis Zambernini Lewis. He was an Olympic runner, but he missed the Olympics because World War two broke out, So he ended up as a bomba deer on a bomber in the Pacific. Now, the bomber was shot down over the ocean, so he survived the parachute out and then he spent forty seven days days floating on a life raft. Then he was captured by Japanese and they had spent two years in a pow camp. It's actually a very inspirational story. Now. Luisi was born in Olean, New York in nineteen seventeen. He got married in nineteen forty six. They had a son and a daughter. His wife died in two thousand and one, Lewis. He died in twenty fourteen from pneumonia, ninety seven years old. Actor, director, and entrepreneur Paul Newman was born at Cleveland Heights, Ohio, in nineteen twenty five.

8:06 Now he was nominated for a nine Academy Awards for acting cat on a Hot Tim roof the Hustler, Hud cool Hand, Luke, Absence of Malice, the Verdict, Nobody's full Rode to Perdition. He won one that's for the Color of Money. That was a tom Cruiser. And he started Newman's Own in nineteen eighty two. Start up. He just should salad dressing. That was it. But now as you know when you go to the supermarket, yeah, Newman's ownes everywhere and this is all anything. Were pasta sauces, the popcorn to one. All the proteins still go to charity. After taxes. Paul had one son and two daughters from his first wife. Then he married actress Joanne Woodward in nineteen fifty eight. They had three daughters. They were married fifty years when he died in two thousand and eight at eighty three years old from lung cancer. Come on into the wind Up in his first offering, John the bit Outside.

8:50 He was known as mister Baseball Bob Ucker. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in nineteen thirty nine. Now he played Major League Baseball for six season. Yeah, even won a World Series. His personal statistics were absolutely horrible. He had a lifetime batting average around two hundred. Now, he did stay in the big leagues for six years, so that counts for a lot. But he turned that futility into fan fame. In the nineteen seventies he did light beer commercial. Yeah, they would make fun of him on there, but that led to starting on the sitcom Mister Belvidere, and that did the Major League movies. Now he is in the Baseball Hall of Fame. But for announcing, see he called him Rocky Brewers games on the radio fifty four years and he was going to do a fifty fifth year, but he died before the season started last year. Yeah, he was ninety years old. He died from small cell lung cancer. Died ten days before his ninety first birthday. Now, Bobby married twice. He had four kids from his first wife.

9:43 That Canniballslible. That was Gene Knight. She was born in New Orleans in nineteen forty three. Now she's got pretty popular. In the mid nineteen sixties, she had to mister big stuff, I think you're hot, do me toot? She played that one. She divorced twice and she had a son from her first dozen, Jane. She died twenty twenty three at eighty years old. Now I personally think he is. But if he isn't the greatest guitar player of all time, he's one of the greatest of all time. Eddie van Halen he was born in Amsterdam, New Netherlands in the nineteen fifty five. Grew up out in California. Now. When they were kids, his brother Alex played the guitar and Eddie played the drums. Well, one day Alex heard Eddie playing on his guitar. He just gave Eddie the guitar and started playing drums. They started a band called Mammoth in nineteen seventy two. Nineteen seventy four they changed the name to Van Halen, so there were seventy five million albums Eddie.

11:10 He married actress Valerie Burton Ellie in nineteen eighty and they had one son. Divorced in two thousand and seven. Let's have stayed pretty good friends because when Eddie remarried in two thousand and nine, Yeah, Valerie went to the wedding. Eddie struggled with smoking, drugs, alcohol pretty much his entire adult wife. Yeah got him in twenty twenty at sixty five years old. Who lost. Then? I'm Anita Baker. She's sixty eight. She's born in Toledo, Ohio, in nineteen fifty eight. She grew up in Detroit. She started in the funk band Chapter eight. Then she went so in nineteen eighty three. Some of her hits are secret Love just because got up in the rap. Sure giving you the best that I got Now. She did have a quick retirement, but she came out. She toured all last summer. I don't know if she's doing with this year though. She was married for seventeen years and they had two sons. Comedian TV host former American Ellen DeGeneres.

12:14 She's also sixty eight. She was born in Mattire, Louisiana. She started doing stand up. We got very popular doing stand up, and then she got her own sitcom Ellen. Then she had her own daytime talk show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, that ran from two thousand and three to twenty twenty two three thousand and ninety four episodes. Biggest movie that she acted in was Mister Wrong. Biggest movies, yeah, were A she voiced Dory and the Finding Nemo and was the other one Finding Dory or what now? Ellen? She married her wife in two thousand and eight. That was Tom Keefer singing for the band Cinderella. Tom sixty five born in Springfield, Pennsylvania in nineteen sixty one. Now, when he helped form Cinderella in nineteen eighty three, he didn't want to sing. He just wanted to play guitar and write their songs. But nobody else in the band could sing a lick, so he had to step up.

13:19 Still wrote their songs. Some are Shake Me, Somebody Saved Me, Don't know what you got till it's gone, Nobody's full. So why did a bunch of hardcore rock guys name their band Cinderella. Well they saw a porn version of the Cinderella story. I don't know, but that's how they get it. I guess we don't need any more details than that day. They broke up in twenty fourteen, So then he started the Tom Keefer band. I'm sure he probably plays mostly Cinderella stuff. But their guy who's out on tour in May, they'll be doing it for this summer. Now. They have some co opening bands. If you're into hair metal, they have Buck Cherry, La Guns, Lead, a Forward White Lion, probably pretty good show. Tommy's married and they have a son.

14:05 I'm sad, weak Side Sleepy Change Jojo. Sis the half of the duo Wham who didn't sing. Andrew originally sixty three, born in Wendell, Sham, England in nineteen sixty three. He and George Michael formed Wham in nineteen eighty one. From nineteen eighty two to nineteen eighty six, they sold over forty million records. Waken Me Up, Before You Go Go, Everything She Wanted, Careless, Whisper, Last Christmas. Those are all Whamin songs. Now, when George went solo, Andrew he did some acting. He raced cars. Now from all the money he was getting from royalties from the Wamsung, Yeah, he can do pretty much, do what ever you wanted.

14:48 Now. I lived with Karen Woodward for twenty seven years. She's in the band Banana Rima. They broke up in twenty seventeen. Okay. Quote of the day. It comes from Hall of Fame basketball player Kobe Bryant. He was killed in the helicopter crash today in twenty twenty at forty one years old. He said, the most important thing is to be inspiring to other people so that they can create, create Drake, so that they can be great at what they want to do. Well, thank you, Cobe, Thank all of you for listening. Don't forget to follow us and now you listen to us on our country and around radio artists Today. It comes from Darren and Wisconsin. He wants to hear Jake Dodd song. It's called Dirt Tracks and Gasoline. Now, you guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

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