July 15th- Be a Dork, Rembrandt, Linda Ronstadt, Willie Aames, Forest Whitaker, Bridgette Nielson, Gabriel Iglesias

0:19 Hi, I'm Jeff and welcome to History and Factor. It's about today. Today is July the fifteenth. Isn't it clear? I'm a dork for you? Dude? You make me feel like a geek? Can you make my heart goes? Squeak, squeak? You are the soles of my shoe. I'm a dork for you. Today is National be a Dork Day. Wow, that's done. A dark is is defined as a person who lacks social skills, has eccentric interest or hobbies, and bad fashion sense. In the eighteen hundreds, dark it was a derogratory term for venus. Then in the nineteen sixties dork yabbyca switched over it became socially awkward person with a bad fashion sense. Now, girls they use the word dark more playfully than boys.

1:07 Boys used dork as an insult. Let's be honest, we can all be dorks from time to time. So let's go ahead and celebrate today by not caring what society thinks, be confident in our own skin and doing what really feels like what we want to do. And we probably should go watch Dumb and Dummer. So today, grab hold and embrace your inner darkness. Now I couldn't say that if it's still mint penis all right? Listen is going on entertainment. On July the fifteenth, it was back to nineteen eighty seven. Number one album was Whitney by Whitney. Houston Heart had the number one song with Alone. The Judds had the number one country song with I Know where I'm Going.

2:02 I no hesitestion power do they? And by the time after the sun comes up, I'll be drinking from loving cold. I don't know where I'm go with. Don't You Welcome to The number one book was Misery by Stephen King. The top movie was RoboCop in the Future. A murdered Detroit cop as resurrected, he becomes RoboCop. He's a cyborg. Now he fights crime and he six revenge on the game. Who killed him? Sorry is Peter Weller, Nancy Allen and Dan O'herleyhan. Nineteen seventy two, the album Honky Chateau went to number one was Elton Johnson's first number one album. Yeah. It had the song rocket Me in on It all Right? What happened On July the fifteenth, seventeen forty one, Russian ship Captain Alexi Cherikoff. He saw some unknown land. It wasn't on any charts or anything, so they sent some of his men on shore to go check it out and then claim it for Russia. Well, they were the first Europeans to visit Alaska. Yeah, well, I guess the first white guys to visit Alaska. I mean Russia. It's half European and half Asia. Seventeen ninety nine, Napoleon's French soldiers they were fighting in Egypt. Well, they were digging in the sand trying to find some stable ground in order to build a fort. Now it was near the town of Rosetta, Egypt. What they found instead was the Rosetta Stone. Yeah, the stone was thought to have been carved around one ninety six BC. It's actually a decree, and they wrote it in three different languages.

3:33 They wrote it in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, ancient Egyptian script, and ancient Greek. Now, by seventeen ninety nine, no one anywhere could read ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, so no one knows what was said on the pyramids, the tombs, the statues of Moni is none of that note. But now because of the Rosetta stone. Yep, they were able to figure out Egyptian hieroglyphics. A couple of years later though Britain. They actually beat the French in battle there. Yeah, they took the rose Zetta stone. Yeah, took it back to London. You can go still see it's in a museure him over there. When Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark out west to explore the what he bought in the Louisiana purchase, he said, go all the way west to the Pacific Ocean. Then in eighteen oh six he said, ZEBULM. Pike, he said, you go to the Canadian border, and then go all the way down south to the Mexico border and check out what we bought. Well, Pike and his men they left today from Fort bellefont Daine. It's near Saint Louis now.

4:21 They would explore the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, the Spanish settlements down there in New Mexico. Now, it's not as famous as Lewis and Clark expedition. Someone had to do it, and he did get Pike speaking named after him. Okay, we're going to go back to Napoleon after Napoleon was defeated for the first time and sent into exile on the island of Elba. He came back and started the one hundred day War. It was actually one hundred and ten days. But now he's surrendered today in eighteen fifteen, so now they're going to exile. I aim to Saint Helena Island. It's a really remote island in the Southern Atlantic Ocean. Died there six years later, eighteen sixty nine, margin was invented Hipole Mega Marayse's He was working for the French navy. Yeah, I was trying to figure out so something to do. Yeah, because Butter spoiled. He's trying to replace Butter. Nineteen twenty two, at the Bronx Zoo in New York, for the first time in world history, a duck bill platypus was put on his play. Matthew wondered, duck bill platypuses they live on in the eastern coast of Australia and Tasmania, pretty much just like a beaver, except they burrow into the river banks just did to build dams. Nineteen thirty four, Balcony Falls, Virginia got to one hundred and ten degrees not still Virginia State highest Tempt.

5:26 Nineteen eighty President Jimmy Carter, his brother Billy Carter, he had to register as a foreign agent for the Libyan government. Yeah, it was discovered that old Billy, Yeah, Libya had actually paid him hundreds of thousands of dollars. Huh, sounds kind of familiar. Nineteen ninety two over in India, now the costs of weddings had just gotten out of control. They were still out of control that the city of arisso over in India, they passed a law. They set a limit on what you could actually pay for a wedding eight hundred dollars and no more. But do you think about eight hundred bucks. At that time, the average worker in India made eight hundred dollars a year. Now you can only have fifty guests. Also, so if you went over your eight hundred bucks or fifty guests, six years in jail. Joke joked, joked, joke, shog just shivers day.

6:11 Please don't he left this shiver day. We want simple tage like this shibirf Day. And you know, we don't. Say you probably wont or know. It was born on July the fifteenth Well the artist Rembrandt. He was born at Lighten of the Dutch Republic in sixteen oh six. He was born rim brand Hermione is zun van Rien. That's why he just went by. Rembrand created over six hundred paintings, four hundred etchings and two hundred drunks. They painted everything from portress to Bible scenes, historical events, mythology. Now, if you really want to sound smart, if you're happy to be at like a cocktail party or somewhere they're talking about art, just remember that rim Brandt. He just said that he was a master of contrasts between light and dark. Then you can drop to his greatest ratings or night watch Storm at Sea and the Jewish s Brye. Yep, that'll make you sound like he paid attention to him Manity's class back in college. Now, rim brand he painted his self portrait. He called it the Standard Bear a couple of years ago, sold for one hundred ninety eight million dollars. Married in sixteen thirty four and they had four children. His wife died in sixteen forty two. Rim brand He died in sixteen sixty nine and sixty three years old. Nobody knows why, but he did die broke.

7:16 He was poor. He got buried in an unmarked, rented grave. Linda Rohn stant is seventy nine years old. She's won of Tucson, Arizona. Now. She was the top female singer of the nineteen seventies. She was the first female singer ever to tour and perform an arenas. She released twenty four albums over the air. There were rock and pop, folk, country, Spanish, sold over on a million records. Some of her biggest hats were Blue Bayou, Different Drum, You're No Good, It's so easy Linda.

8:02 She had to retire in twenty eleven. Yeah, she couldn't sing anymore. She came down with the disease. It's pretty much like Parkinson's. She has one daughter and one son. Life on the store on the Shore. She is seventy two year old. Alicia Bridges, she was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. Now. When she was twelve, she had her own radio show. Yeah, she was on every Saturday night on the station in Selby, North Carolina. I Love the Nightlife. That was pretty much her only big hit. I mean, she released some other music.

8:44 She actually worked as a DJ in dance clubs. Alicia. She has been open lesbian since she was only a teenager. New neighbor livestyleshes and under stems to take good. Like he's one other than them. Charles Loveday. Now we're not gonna talk about Charles. We're gonna talk about Buddy. Actor Willie Aimes was born in Newport Beach, California, in nineteen sixty, sixty five years old. Today know him for TV. He first got known on Eight Is Enough, then Charles in Charge. He started as Bible Man for about seven years on the Kids Children's Christian series. He had a son from his first wife. He had a daughter from his second wife. Married his third wife twenty fourteen after Forrest Whitaker is sixty four. He's born on Longview, Texas.

9:37 Grew up in California. In college at the University of Southern cal started out as a studying opera, ended up graduating with a degree in drama. His first movie was Fast Times at Ridgemont High, then Platoon, The Crying Game. Won an Oscar for the Last King of Scotland. He's been an over one hundred movies. Now he's done a little bit of directing. He's done a lot of producing, though on TV, he's been starring on the Godfather of Harlem since twenty nineteen. Forresteve was married for twenty five years when they divorced, and they had three children. Actress but Gee Neilson. She was born in Denmark. She's sixty two today. Started out as a supermodel six feet one that kind of has a bill for a supermodel. First movie he was read Sonia, then Rocky four, Cobra, Beverly Hills, Cop two. She had one son from her first husband.

10:21 Then she married Sylvester Stallone for two years. Then she had a kid from football player Mark Gasno. Then she had two sons from her fourth husband. She married a fifth husband in two thousand and five. I'm not sure how she pulled this off, but in twenty eighteen, at fifty four years old, she gave birth to their daughter, Actress Scott Foley's fifty three. He was born in Kansas City, Kansas. Best known for TV Felicity, the Unit, Scrubs, Scandal Now. He was in the movie Scream three. Must not got killed off because he's filming Scream seven. His first wife was actress Jennifer Garner. For four years married his second wife in two thousand and seven and they have three kids. Actor Brian Austin Green. He was one of van Uys California. He's fifty two. He hit really big on Beverly nine oh two, one oh Yeah. He played David. Had a lot of TV appearances. He was on Anger Managersment for a couple of years. He had a daughter from actress Vanessa Marcill. Then he married actress Megan Fox for eleven years and they had three sons and him and his current fiance they have a son. Comedian gabrielle Iglesias. He's forty nine. He's born in San Diego. Gabriel. He goes by the nickname Fluffy. Started doing stand up in nineteen ninety seven. Now he's one of the biggest stand up comedians out there. He's actually not on tour right now.

11:31 If you want to go, say, he's gonna be out there to mid November if he comes by your city. He does a lot of comedy specials for What, Comedy Central and Netflix and that kind of stuff. Talks about Latino culture being fatist, everyday life. It's still doing a lot a lot of voice work, but he has acted in two movies they're both Magic Mike movies. Yeah, he kept his clothes on. Quote of the day is gonna come from fashion designer Gianni Versaci. He was murdered today in nineteen ninety seven at fifty years old. He says, it's nice to have competition. It pushes you to do better. Well, thank you all for listening, and don't forget to follow us. I know who you haven't following us on get a chance to be coomedia dot com. That's cool. Three I was, and see what the heck we're doing over there. Our country underground radio Artist to Today comes from Brent out there in which Duck Kansas he wants to hear Ryan Wes Ryan song three more words Say that again, sorry, Prince.

12:22 Our country underground radio Artists a Day comes from Brinton, which you talking? He wants to hear rest Ryan's three words away song. You all have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow. We've been dancing around the edges something we both know. Your hand fits mine just right, like a sunset on back road. I don't want to scare the moment, say too much, too soon, but I can't help think you about saying this to you every smile. Ever, it's up, just pulling me closer to that era. I'm just three. Words away for falling all the ways they're in every harbey.

13:09 I ain't sure how long I can wait. I've been holding back the baby. I don't want to play it safe. I'm just three words, three words away. I hear them in the quiet. You're drifting off to sleep, they're dancing all my lips. Shit, you leaning close to me. You laugh and say. I'm quiet, but you don't know the over inside. Every look you give me just pushes me across that line.

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