June 11-Corn on the Cob, Jacques Cousteau, 38 Special, Air Supply, Gene Wilder, Smoke Monkey, Hugh Laurie

0:00 Hi everyone. I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factor. It's about today. It is June eleventh, cop. It's fun to do coin cup just making it up with che coin cob. You don't need a spoon when you want to eat. Some corn, get off coin cob. Coin cob. Oh, yeah, talking about con cob.

0:40 When you want to eat some cord, get a con cob. It's fun to do con cob just making up a jew coin cop. You tell me a spoon When you want to eat some corn, get. Up coin cob. Today is national Corn on the Cop day. Corn. It was first domesticated around ten thousand years ago in southern Mexico. Now what a great excuse for a cookout today. So whatever you're cooking, just make sure he includes some corn on the cob. It is healthy for now. If you want to win to bet the rows of corn on the cob, they're always even so, usually around sixteen rows, and he's corn on the cob has around eight hundred kernels. Of course, it depends what kind of corner eating. Today is also national say Hiday. I honestly think that should be a little bigger day. Say Hi day. It was established in memory of Joseph Sinoti. He was a special needs kid who died when he was fifteen years old.

1:30 Joseph's joy in life was greeting everyone he met by saying hi in a big smile. Seems pretty simple. I think we can all handle that for a day. I remember saying hi to somebody. Yeah. I might not do anything for you, but it might make somebody else's day. Okay, let's see what's going on in the entertainment. On June the eleventh, let's go back to two thousand and four. Number one album was Confessions by Usher. Usher had the number one song with Burns. On Site Saving Your Body to Shoebody.

2:12 Gretchen Wilson. Now. The number one country song was red Nick Woman. Some people up. Down on me, but I don't give a rip. How damn that? Putting him home? Run y'all with the baby on my hip, Cazmmie rest woman. I ain't no high class rock. I'm just trying out rings and I say, hey. Y'all heavy how. The number one book was Glorious, appearing by Tom Lahay and Jerry beat Jenkins. Todd movie was Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaboton now Harry. He returns to Hogwarts for his third year. Him and his friends. They investigate the mystery of an escape prisoner who's dangerous threat. Stars Daniel Radclift, Em Watson and Rupert Gent. It's two thousand and two American Idol debut. So do you remember those first three American Idol judges, Simon cow Paula Abdull and Randy Jackson. Ah, what happened on June the eleventh? Today it is western Honduras seven thirty eight, the Mayan city, Copan.

3:13 It's the ruler eighteen. Rabbit was killed, So smoke Monkey took over the throne. I'm sure he did a good job, but I like saying smoke monkey. Now, only six hundred people lived in Detroit in eighteen oh five. One one was a baker, and he spilled his pipe. That's in his barn on fire. That's it, the whole town on fire. When it was over, the only two building still, the only thing left standing in the entire town were two brick chimneys. Yeah, they call it the Great Detroit Fire. Nineteen nineteen, the racehorse, Sir Barton, it won the Belmont Stakes. Now that already won the Kentucky, Derby and the Prickness States. So that man, Sir Barton, Yeah, your first ever triple crown winning racehorse. Nineteen twenty eight, Buddy arrived in the United States. But he's the first sing eye dog ever to come to America. Morris Frank brought him back from Switzerland.

3:55 That's where Buddy was born and trained. And Morris he was blind, and of course Buddy, he did such a great job. But Morrisex he started the first ever seeing IDAC school here in the United States. South there in Tennessee. Nineteen fifty five. In France at the Auto Race, the twenty four Hours of Loans, they had the worst crash in motorsports history. Mike Horthorne. He was trying to make a pit stop when he pulled in front of Lance Macklin. Well, Macklin had to swerve and then he creamed into Pierre Lavet. Pierre's car went airborne right into the stands. Now drivers back then, and they didn't wear seatbelts, so Pierre went flying. Yeah, he was killed. But then when his car hit the stands with all the fans in it, Bohm, it just diskin integrated on impact eighty three spectators were killed in the nineteen ninety four in Jacksonville, Florida. They did it set their record for the largest box of popcorn. It was thirty nine feet long, twenty one feet wide, and eight feem high. Yep, they filled it with popcorn. They don't know how much though they ran out. Apparently popcorn settles, so they were already twice as much as they planned for.

4:52 Twenty twenty one, Off the coast of Provinceton, Missis, Massachusetts, Michael Packard he was diving for lobsters when a hump back well swallowed them all. After about thirty forty seconds, the whale surface and spit him out. Now his friends all saw the whole thing, so they rushed into the hospital. Michael's fine, but you know he'd be happy you survived. But when your ego kind of mess with you in the back of your head, you wondering why you taste it so bad that will spit you out. Go doke, go, doke, joke show just shiverth day he. Left, this shiver day. We won't simple target this shiverf day. And you know we don't.

5:32 All right, let's just see who's born On June the eleventh, John Cousteau. He was born in France in nineteen ten. Now he was an underwater explorer, filmmaker, inventner, researcher. He made oceanography cool now the way he made the first movies and TV shows about the oceans and the creatures that were in him. He's able to do it because he coinvented scuba gear. Yeah, the self contained underwater breathing apparatus. Yeah, they haven't really changed that much in all these years. He's married his first wife for fifty three years when she died. They had four children, married his second wife in nineteen ninety one because too. He died in nineteen ninety seven at eighty seven years old from a heart attack. No, he actually was not buried at sea. Actor Gene Wilder.

6:12 He was born in Milwaukee in nineteen thirty three. He was nominated for Oscars for the producers in Young Frankenstein. Now I also played Willie Wonka and Willie Wonka in The Chocolate Actor. He starred in Blazing Saddle Stirt, Crazy Woman in Red Jane. Had a daughter from a second wife. Then he married Gilda Adner for five years when she died of cancer. Married his fourth wife in nineteen ninety one. Jane. He died in twenty sixteen at eighty three years old from Alzheimer's. Actress Adrian Barbo was eighty one. She was born as Sacramento in nineteen forty five. She first got known playing Rizzo in Greece on the Broadway Theater production of It. Then she played b Arthur's daughter on the TV show Mod. Some of her movies were The Fog Escaped from New York, Creep Show, Swamp Thing See. Her first husband was movie director John Carpenter, so that explains the horror movies. They had a son, then she married her second. They were made twenty six years. When they divorced, they had twin boys. I get this, Adrian, she was fifty one years old and she gave birth to those twin boys. No, I don't know how.

7:11 I'm so lost to live. I'm going right. Soon? What am I kid? We too late to say that I was so right. That was Graham Russell singing for Air Supply Graham seventy six. He was born in Arnold, England in nineteen fifty. Now I moved Australia after he graduated from school. He joined the Rock Opera Jesus Christ Superstar down there. That's where he meant. The other half of the Air Supply Russell Hitchcock nineteen seventy five, they formed Air Supply. Now they're out on their fiftieth anniversary tour this year. If you want to see, I'm gonna be out until December. Now they have a mellow show, but it's actually a pretty good show. Sold over hardy million albums. Lost in Love, All Out of Love, every woman in the world, even the Knights are better. Got some their hits. You'll here if you go check them all out now. Grammy married his first WiFi out of high school. They were high school sweethearts that had a son and daughter, and then divorced ten years later married his second wife nineteen eighty six.

8:38 That was Donnie van Zant when he sang lead for thirty eight Special. He's seventy four today, born in Jacksonville, Florida, in nineteen fifty two. Now have I helped form thirty eight Special in nineteen seventy four. Some of their heads are hold on loosely rocking into the Night, Caught up in You, Fantasy Girl Now Donnie's older brother. It was Ronnie van Zant. He was the lead singer for Leonard Skinner. He was one who was killed on the plane crash. Then Donnie's younger brother. It's Johnny, now Johnny and Ronnie. They actually played in a band called Van Zandt together a member of a Countryman. Now Donnie. He had to actually retire from music due to health issues in twenty thirteen. Donnie's married to Ashley. They've been married for quite a while. That sounds like. Actor Hi Laurie was born in Blackbird, Lais, England, in nineteen fifty ninety sixty seven.

9:23 Now. He started out in the comedy team Friday Lori back in the nineteen eighties. I guess they were really popular over there in Europe and the UK, and stuff down fame in the United States in two thousand and four. That's when he started starring on the TV show House. And if you look at the most most of the stuff's all British here. He got married in nineteen eighty nine and they have two sons and one daughter. Actor Peter Drinkley is just fifty seven. He's born in Morristown, New Jersey in nineteen sixty nine. Grew up in Ireland. Now he has dwarfism. He stands four feet five inches tall. He was on the Gala Thrones for like seven years, won four Primetime Emmys for it. Some of his movies are Elf, Little Fugitive, Death at a Funeral, The Vineyard, Infinity War. Peter got married in two thousand and five and they have a son and a daughter. Actor Shilah Buffett's forty. He was born in Los Angeles in nineteen eighty six. Started out doing stand up comedy and clothes and he is ten years old. First really got done for acting on that Disney Channel TV show, even Stephen.

10:17 Some of his movies are Disturbia, the Transformers movies, Man Down the Tax Collector. He was married for six years and then they divorced. Then a couple of years later they started dating again. Now they have a daughter. They haven't remarried though. All Right, our quote of the day, we're gonna go with the Duke actor John Wayne. He died today in nineteen seventy nine, at seventy two years old. John said, courage is being scared to death. That's still saddling up anyway. Thank you for listening. Make sure you follow us on whoever you listen to us on the Country and Ground radio artist today comes from Scott in Birmingham, Alabama. He wants to hear Kyle Daniels song hangover Town. You guys have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow.

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