July 31st-Avacado's, Zac Brown, 1st Siri, JK Rowling, Wesley Snipes, Lurch, Black Tot Day, K2, Gary Lewis

0:19 He Hello, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Facto. It's about today, Today's July the thirty. First, spreading on your salads anyway along the way, can you can have it? You can get it on the side of the Unity of sandwich and you can mix it up anyway you want. To have it. Yeah, and you know what's up. Today is National Avocado Day. Avocados they are native to Mexico and Central America. In sixteen ninety nine, this guy from England, Henry Sloan. Now he was catagorizing all the plants that were on the island of Jamaica, so he named the avocado. You also call it the alligator pair. Now, avocados they are a super food. They are really really good for you. Yeah, they're actually the healthiest fruit. Yeah, avocados are fruit. Now, a lot of people just celebrate to the day of the quacko mall. But you can go better than that. You can put avocados on burgers and sandwiches, on top of salads. So do you think avocado slices on the top of a chili dog would be pretty good? See, I like avocados, but I really like chili dogs. Today is National Chili Dog Day. You know what I'm going for it. I'm gonna put my avocados on my chili dogs. Rest of you, you're on your own, all right. This is going on and entertainment on July the thirty first, Let's about Your two thousand and nine number one album was Black Summer's Night by Maxwell Black Eyed peas Ad. The number one song with I Got a feeling said let's leave, I got my.

1:50 Morning, Let's cold out especial. Hold my call, jump. Out that so for let's get it. I know will have a ball and to get down. Billy Currington and add the number one country song with people Are Crazy talked about. God's grave, all the hell we raised, and then a herdy old man say God is great, There's good and people are craze.

2:34 The number one book was Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Warner Todd movie with funny People Now. When a really experienced stand up comedian finds out he's dying, he realizes he'd like to have one genuine friendship. Well, he ends and up taking up a brand new stand up comedian and making it in his opening act and kind of mentors him soar as Adam Sandler, Seth Rogan, and Leslie min All right, let's see what happening On July the thirty first, seventeen three was over in Britain. William Dafoe. He wrote an anonymous pamphlet called The Shortest Way with Dissonance. Now it was a satire of the British government, the monarchy, and the Church of England. Well, I really pissed them all off when they finally figured out it was a Dafoe who did it. He was sentenced to Pillary. See Pillary.

3:17 What it was is they would take It was for small crimes, kind of like misdemeanors and stuff. But what they do is they'd take a person and they would make them stand in the center of town and then they would tie them all up with a rope and everything like that. Well, then when the crowd formed around it, the crowd could throw whatever they wanted at that person. Yeah, they could throw broaden fruit, dead animals, dead cats, pots and pans, rocks. It was fair game anything. Yeah, And some of the people got killed, others remained for life. Well, the foe, when he was standing there all tied up, the crowd, they threw flowers, at him. Then when the hell was going on, his buddies were going through the crowd. Yeah, selling the pamphlet that he was getting punished for. Yes, that is the Dafoe who wrote the book Robinson Crucial seventeen ninety the United States Patent Office first patent. Yeah, I went to Samuel Hopkins for his improvements made to potash. Potash, it's a fertilizer. In nineteen twelve, the United States government they had gotten so sophisticated that they thought boxing was just barbaric, and they'd been trying to ban it for years.

4:14 Well it wasn't working. It's what they did is they passed this thing called the Sims Act. It made it illegal to take pictures or film any kind of a boxing match. If you did, you'd get in a lot of trouble. Well, that Sims Act get stayed on the book of the federal law until nineteen forty. See, someone kind of said, hey, you know what, they're televising boxing matches. Nineteen twenty two in Minnesota, eighteen year old Ralph Samuelson. He invented the water skis. People thought the kid was crazy until they saw him up there scooting around. I'm like, yeah, that's pretty cool, except I think it had been pretty hard. They didn't really have the outboard motors or anything like that to be hard to get up K two. It is the second highest mountain in the world, stands twenty two and fifty one feet. That possibly probably the hardest mountain to climb though. Yeah, it's on the board of China and Pakistan. Now, the reason it's a tougher climb than Everest is that, see Everan's has some areas that kind of flatten out, so a climber can kind of catch their breath. Well, K two it's steeper than Everest, and there are no breaks that it you're in it on your own. Well, today, in nineteen fifty four team from Italy, yeah, they summoned K two. First one is to do it. It's gonna take another twenty three years before anybody else is able to climb it again. So yeah, and I get this though, even though it's eight hundred people have actually summoned K two, six six hundred and sixty four if somemmit at Everest, ninety one have died on K two, and three hundred and forty have died on Everest today in nineteen seventy. It's possibly the saddest day in the history of the British Navy. Yep. It is known as black Tot Day. Says starting back in seventeen forty every sailor in the British Navy was given a daily rational rum. Well that ended today. Yeah, they

5:46 called it a tot. After today, no more tots. Now, this might be even cooler than being the first people on the moon nineteen seventy one astro mots James Erwin and David Scott. They were the seventh and eighth men to walk on the Moon. They were the first ones who got to drive that lunar rover, yeah, the moon car. Yeah. They've been cruising around on them. Better than picking up rocks. They were able to go seventeen point two five miles in about three hours. You know, it'd still be cool though. Now have you seen the photograph of the face on Mars. It was taken today in nineteen seventy six by the Viking one spacecraft. Yeah, flew over the Martian main surface. Now it looks like the face of like a statue or something that's sticking out from the ground that's actually big. It's like two miles by one mile. Now, NASA their official stance is that it's just an optical illusion. Those are the same people say Roswell is a weather balloon too.

6:33 But now a lot of people who are into the space, you know, the space nerds, they think is man made. I came up. There's only one way for us to know. We can stop this right now, elon, fire up one of your rockets and go check it out for us. Nineteen ninety one, the United States, they decided to allow women. Yeah they can start doing combat flying. Yeah, they could fly jets and helicopters and all that in combat, not just behind the scenes. Twenty twenty three, Phoenix, Arizona. It only hit one hundred and eight degrees today. Yeah, kind of a bummer. See they had a record street going that thirty one straight days. Where got to at least one hundred and ten. Dope dope, gop dope joke shoge dish shibth day. We gonna he left this shiver birthday. We want simple tage like dish shilbirth day, and you know we don't do birthday. Let's check out it was born on July the thirty first.

7:31 Creepy Mysterious All Together. Family after Ted Cassidy. He was born in Pittsburgh in nineteen thirty two. Stood six feet nine inches stah that's known. For TV. He played Lurch on The Adams Family. He also played Engine Joe on Huckleberry Finn and he was the narrator for the TV show The Incredible Hulk. Not only did he narrate the show, but he was the one who did all the grunts and growls and roars that the hope mean Dad. Him and his wife there made almost twenty years when they divorced, and they had two children. Dead. Died nineteen seventy nine at forty six years old from a tumor on his heart. Oh hell were black Rose. That was Lobo, not a band. It's just a guy who goes by the name Lobo. It's Spanish for wolf now. He was born Roland Lavoix in Tallahassee, Florida, in nineteen forty three, eighty two years old today now Lobel.

8:38 He had a lot of success in the nineteen seventies. Me and you and a. Dog named Boo. I'd love you to want me. Don't expect me to be your friend. Yes. Some of his big hits. But then in the nineteen eighties a kind of waned when music changed, but Louisville hit huge over an age. Then yeah, asually they just loved him. He ended up touring Asia pretty much continuously until two thousand and eight. Now all I know about the Wolf is that he is married to a wife named Susie. This salmon ring doesn't shown me anymore. This salmon ring doesn't mean. What you. Is true.

9:20 That was Gary Lewis singing for Gary Lewis and the Playboys. Now they're still touring. Actually coming here too, the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo in August the thirty, twenty eighth. Now Gary's eighty. He was born in Newark, New Jersey, in nineteen forty five. Jerry Lewis was his dad. Gary Lewis and the Playboy as they formed in nineteen sixty four, hit some of their hits. Sorry this Diamond Ring, count me in, Save your heart for me, She's just my style. That might be a pretty fun show to go to. Jerry. He had Gary. He had one child from his second wife, married his third wife in two thousand and three. One of the most famous voices in the world, Suzanne Bennett. She was born in Burlington, Vermont, in nineteen forty nine seventy six show course, she started seeing him back up for Roy Orbison, then burke backrec but then she was the original voice of Siri Yeah, Apple Personal Assistant sirih.

10:09 So she was working for a company that was called Suncraft and she was doing voice work for a data system they were putting together, and she had no idea, but Suncraft ended up selling all those recordings of her voice to Apple, and so she didn't even find out she was surry until twenty eleven for wondering did she get him. She didn't get paid for it. Suncraft made all the money from it. She is married to her second husband, Actor Wesley's Knives is sixty three. He's born on Lando, Florida in nineteen sixty two. Wesley first got famous in the movie Major League and then New Jack City, White Man, Can't Jump, Demolition Man, did the Blade movies. His career really took a big hit when he fought the Irs and Loss, but his career has rebound, especially over the last five years or so. Leslie's like super big into martial arts and all that kind of stuff.

10:52 Still at his age Now he had a son from a really fun night. Then he had a son from his first wife. Married a second wife in two thousand and three and they have four children. Writer JK. Rowling is sixty. She was born Joanne Rolling in Yate, England, in nineteen sixty five. She sold over six hundred million Harry Potter book so far. Now every publisher rejected the very first Harry Potter book. Yet they said it was all too long for a kid's book. Now she's a billionaire. She married her first thousand for three years and they had a daughter. And she married her second husband in two thousand line and they have a son and a daughter. No, not rim, We're gonna talk about actory Dean Kane. He was born in Selfridge Air Force basically up at Michigan in nineteen sixty six. Fifty nine year old grew up in California, played football at the University of Princeton. While he was there, he dated Brookshelves for two years after they graduated there and throw away and after football didn't work out and he just became an actor. He got known playing Superman on the TV show Lewis and Clark, The New Adventures of Superman so do you remember who played Lois? It was Terry Hatcher. Now Dean he's been hosting on what is something like Masters of Illusion or something like that. Yeah, magic show that sounds twenty fourteen.

12:07 He's got five movies coming out there, all on post production right now. So you're a big Dean Kane Kane fan, You're gonna see lots of Dean coming up. He has one son and a. Little bit of Chicken, Don't be on Sriday Night, a Garantee's a fit just righting and Radio malass Sea Song, See Love, Mamama's Shovel, Precious Child, and Uma Versa. That is Zach Brown of the Zach Brown Band. He's forty seven. He's born Atlanta, Georgia, in nineteen seventy eight. He's the eleventh of twelve kids. I formed the Zach Brown Band in two thousand and two. Some of their fifteen number one country songs are Chicken Fried Toes, Highways, twenty Ride, Colder Weather Now this is gonna be cool.

12:57 In December and January, they're doing some shows at that sphere in Las Vegas. That'd be awesome to say. He was married to his first wife twelve years and they had or four daughters on one son. Then he was able to marry and divorce a model in four months a couple of years ago. But hey, the guy isn't going to give it another shot. Yeah. Just last week, on February July twenty fourth, Zach announced he was engaged to Kendrick Scott Kindred. She's a really famous jewelry designer. Actor Rico Rodriguez. He was born and brought Brian, Texas in nineteen ninety eight. He's twenty seven. Yeah, we knew him for playing Manny on the sitcom Modern Family. He was eleven years old when he started in two thousand and nine. Did it all way up until twenty twenty.

13:48 All right, Our quote of the day is going to come from basketball legend in a Hall of Famer Bill Russell. He died to day in twenty twenty two at eighty eight years old. Bill said, concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory. Well, thank you all for listening today. Make sure you follow us. I know you listen to a song. We get a lot of questions about the radio station country around the grind radio Actually it's pretty much everywhere that plays the Internet radio. All you have to do is just use your search engine, Google or whoever it'll come up with. Everybody who does why you just go to Country Underground radio dot com. That's even me better yet. All right, Our country Underground Radio artist today comes from Chuck in Dalhart, Texas. You and here's the Charlie song. Whenever you're around You guys, have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

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