July 12-Pecan Pie, French Fries, Fleetwood Mac, The Band Perry, Michelle Rodriguez, Gin Blossoms

0:10 Hello, everybody. I am Jeff, and welcome to history. In fact, it's about today visiting buy cool media. Today's July the twelfth. Give me a P, give me an E, give me a c, give me a hey, give me an ed, give me a pee, give me an eye, Give me compi com pie, pea com pi pie. It is National Pecan Pie Day. Pecans. They are native to North American Now Pecans by themselves, they are very healthy for you. Pecan pie, Yeah, not so much. That's kind of hot to bake today. But if that's your thing, I can go for it. Everybody else, I guess we'll just go out and enjoy some pecan pie. But if you're watching your way and you're trying to eat healthy and all, you probably want to stay from pecan pie. Luckily. Today is also National French Friday. French fries. They were actually created over in Belgium. Now there are a lot of deals today. Pretty much everybody who sells French fries is having deals.

1:08 Burger King Good Times, McDonald's, Smashburger, Wendy's. Yeah, even Taco Bell getting away free Natcho fries. So that's just yeah, pretty much everybody's having those deals. So go out, eat your vegetables and enjoy some of the free French fries today. Just watch what you dip them in. Some of those dips can be kind of fattening, all right. What happened to entertainment on July twelfth? Let's go out here twenty fourteen. Number one album was X by Ed Sheeran, its Alia and Charlie. XCX had the number one song with Fancy So Fancy on the Sea. Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood had the number one country song with Something Bad James. The number one book was Invisible All by James Patterson and David Ellis. Top movie was Donna, The Planet of the Apes. Mistrust and betrayal threatens the fragile peace between Apes and humans on Earth stars Gary Olman, Carrie Russell and Andy Serkis. It was today In nineteen sixty two, the Rolling Stones lay their first ever show.

2:42 They play had that first gig at the Marquee Club in London. The band got twenty five bucks for it. No, not a piece, the whole band got twenty five bucks. That's probably twenty five pounds if was in Loveland, all right? What happened on July the twelfth, sixteen thirty the Governor of New Amsterdam. That is New York today. About go Island from a Native American try today it's Ellis Island. Eighteen fifty nine in Manchester, Massachusetts, William Goodell. He invented a machine that made paper bags. Nineteen hundred at Bitter Creek in Southwater County, Wyoming, YEP got up one hundred and fourteen degrees. That's still their state record. In baseball, nineteen twenty one, Babe Ruth hit the all time home run record for career YEP.

3:22 He had one hundred and thirty seventh home run ended up at seven hundred and fourteen. Nineteen fifty seven, Dwight Hawk eisen Ire became the first president to find a helicopter. Also in nineteen fifty seven, US Surgeon General Leroy Bernie became the first federal and public official to acknowledge there was a connection between smoking and lung cancer. Yeah, Bernie, he was actually a heavy smoker. Nineteen sixty at just Sketch went on sale, got two dollars ninety nine cents today, that'd be thirty one dollars back In nineteen fifty two in India, shred, heart, chill all, he stopped cutting his fingernails. Let's fast forward sixty six years to twenty seventeen. Now he's eighty one years old and he has disfigurement to his hand, nerve damage and loss of function. So they took a power song cut those fingernails off. They are record setting.

4:09 I mean they measure three hundred and fifty eight inches altogether. That's almost thirty feet. His thumbnail that was the longest. It was seventy eight inches long. That was six and a half feet. Now, I know it sounds really gross, but you can actually go see him. They're on display at the Ripley's Believer in the Not Museum in New York City. Go got go coat, coat, goat sharge this shibth day. We gonna pause. He left this shiverfday. We don't simple cause he left this shiver birth day. And you know we don't do because the birthday. Who was born on July the twelfth, actor, comedian of Milton Burrough He was born in Manhattan, New York, in nineteen oh eight. He was in soap business for over eighty years. Start out as his buster Brown Kid in the shoe advertisements. Then he did Vodeball Theater Radio nineteen forty eight because the first big TV star.

4:55 He hosted the Texico Star Theater every Tuesday night. It had a ninety seven percent share of the the audience. I think it was only channel and it ran till nineteen fifty six. After that, he played Las Vegas a lot. He was in a lot of movies, made TV appearances. Last acting job was on the TV show Keenan and Kill. In two thousand, he formed the Friars Club. And while he was hanging out with all those entertainment buddies, he married divorced his first wife twice. They had one child each time. Then he had one child with his next wife, married his third wife in nineteen ninety one, and they were together until he died from callon cancer in two thousand and two at ninety three years old. Help and I want to sing a song by you, and Bill's gonna show your thing on two your hands upon it now with me all the game, learn in front of a job while we do well. I guess since he served his time in prison, we can talk about him again. Bill Cosby He's eight born in Philadelphia in nineteen thirty seven. Started out as one of the biggest stand up comedians, went to TV, started on I Spy Fad Albert turn in sixty episodes on The Electric Company, and he had the Bill Cosby Show, The Cosby Show that was the big one back in the nineteen eighties.

6:15 And then Just Cosby married nineteen sixty four and they had five children. His only son was murdered. He had one daughter who died when she was waiting for a kidney transplant. Bill he went to prison for over thirty years raping after he served girls drugs well, he'd ended up serving three years in prison for it. Outside all that was Christine McVie singing for Fleetwood Mac. She was born in green Old, England in nineteen forty three. Now she didn't sing a lot, mostly laid the keyboards and did back up vocals, but she did a lot of writing. She either wrote or co wrote most of the his eight of the songs on the Fleetwood Max's Greatest Hits album Yep, that's what her writing. She released three solo albums Off to the Side.

7:11 She was married to John McVie for eight years and she's married her second husband for seventeen years before they divorced Christine. She died from a stroke in twenty twenty two at seventy nine years old. Actor Cheryl lad She's best known for Charlie's Angels on TV YEP. She replaced Feregh Fawcett on the show. Later on, she was on the show Las Vegas. Her biggest movie was Poison Ivy did some singing when she was younger. Cheryl, she's seventy three. She's going to here on South Dakota. In nineteen fifty one, she had a daughter from her first husband. She married her second husband in nineteen eighty one. Robin Wilson. He's still singing lead for the Gin Blossoms. Robin's fifty nine. Born in Detroit in nineteen sixty five. Grew up in Tempe, Arizona. Now the Gin Blossoms. They're playing here in Colorado to night down at the Castle Rock. They're gonna be touring until the end of September.

8:15 If you can go see him. Some of they hit you here if you go, or Hey, jealousy found out about you until I fell away. Follow you down now. Since the lead singer of the band The smither Rens died in twenty seventeen. Yeah, Rob, and he fills in once in a while as their lead singer for him. Actress Michelle Rodriguez. She was born in nineteen seventy eight in San Antonio, Texas. She's forty six. On TV, she started on Lost. She plays Lefty or T's in The Fast and the Furious movie franchise. She was raising at Kempo in the Resident Evil movies. She's also in swat Avatar Battle Los Angeles. Her movies have made over five billion dollars now. Michelle, she did not have a driver's license when they started filming the first The Fast and the Furious movie. Yeah, they made her go get one, you know, kind of since the whole movie is about driving cars. Snuff time. It's sad, Die Young, brly sad, Blame me down on a set of roses, set me in the miser udow Send Me Away song. That was Kimberly Perry singing lead for the band Perry. Kimberly is forty one. She's born in Jackson, Mississippi, in nineteen eighty three. She and her two brothers formed the band Perry in two thousand and five. They had their heads If I Die Young, you lie all your life better dig two. They decided I'll go their separate ways and do their solo things just last year. Since then, Kimberly she's released a solo album and she's actually out touring in order to promote it. Right now, she'll be touring until mid October if youanna go see

9:46 her. She has been married to her second Esban since twenty twenty one and they have one son. Alrighty, I don't This isn't a stupid factor. This is just something I thought was kind of funny. In twenty thirteen, China, they pass the law. It requires children that when their parents turn sixty, they must provide support for him. They have to have frequent visits, they have to help with their spiritual needs. And kids cannot neglect their parents even if they live far away. What do you think the punishment is you have to move back home with them. Well, thanks for following us today. We really appreciate you. It comes here as at Comedia dot com. If you get a chance. Let's end with former First Lady Dolly Madison. She was married to the fourth President James Madison. Dolly died today in eighteen forty nine at eighty one years old, Dolly says it is one of my sources of happiness. Never to desire knowledge of another person's business. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. No. No,