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 off coin cob. Coin cob. Oh, yeah, talking about con cob.

0:40 When you want to eat some cord, get a corn cob. It's fun to do you con cob just making up a jew coin cop. You tell me to spoon when you want to eat some corn. Get off 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 establishing memory of Joseph Sinoti. He was a special needs kid who died when he was fifteen years old. 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. Now, Remember saying hi to somebody. Yeah, I might not do anything for you, but it might make somebody else's day. All right, this is going on in entertainment. On June the eleventh, it was About to Your nineteen seventy two number one album was Stick as a Break by jeth Ro Toll.

1:49 Sammy Davis Junior had the number one song What the Candy Man with You? Recall the to the Candy Man? O the Candy Man Can. Donna Fargo. She had the number one country song with the Happiest Girl in the Whole Usa, Not tell me. The true Do these old shoes look funny? Honey? It's almost down. Now you we camble down a Holeve. Me mody and kiss the ps.

2:39 That number one book was The Word by Irving Wallace. The top movie was Shaft's Big Score. Now Shaft, he is out to try and find the murder of a friend, without Anybody's hope. Stars Richard Roundree, Moses Gwynn, and Drew Brodman Brown. It's two thousand and two American Idol debuted. So do you remember those first three American Idol judges, Simon Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson. Ah, what happened on June the eleventh? Today it is western Honduras seven point thirty eight, the Mayan City, Copan. 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 of them was a baker, and he spilled his pipe. That's in his barn on fire.

3:24 That'sh the whole town on fire. When it was over, the only two building 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 running racehorse. Nineteen twenty eight, Buddy arrived in the United States. Budd he's the first sing eye dog ever to come to America. Morris Frank brought him back from Switzerland, That's where Buddy was born and trained, and Morris he was blind. And of course Buddy he did such a great job. But Morris actually started the first were seeing I Duck school here in the United States up there in Tennessee. Nineteen fifty five.

4:04 In France at the auto race, the twenty four Hours lo Ons, 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 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, bom it just diskintegrated on impact. Eighty three spectators were killed in that 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 eighth feen 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.

4:48 Twenty twenty one. Off the coast of Provincetown, Missison Ur, Massachusetts, Michael Packard he was diving for lobsters when a hump back whale swallowed him all. After about thirty forty seconds, the whales surfast and spit him out. Now his friends all saw the whole thing, so they rushed into the hospital. Michael was fine, but you know you'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. Joke doke, go joked joke shog Thish shiverth day. He left this shiver day. We got simple target. Thish shivers day. And you know we don't work all right.

5:29 Let's just see who's born on June the eleventh. Josh Cousteau. He was born in France in nineteen ten. Now he was an underwater explorer, filmmaker, inventor, 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 was 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 nineteen ninety one, Becauseto. 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.

6:09 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 the Chocolate Actor. He starred in Blazing Saddle Stirt, Crazy Woman in Red. Jane had a daughter from a second wife. Then he married Gila Adner for five years when she died of cancer. Married his fourth wife in nineteen ninety one. Jane died in twenty sixteen at eighty three years old from Alzheimer's actress Adrian Barbo. She's eighty. She was born in Sacramento. 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 Escape 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 married twenty six years.

6:58 When they divorced, they had twin boys. This Adrian. She was fifty one years old and she gave birth to those twin boys. No, I don't know how. I'm so lost to live. I'm going all right, believe what I kid be too late to say that I was. So. That was Graham Russell singing for Air Supply. Graham's seventy five. He was born in Arnold, England. Now I moved to Australia after he graduated from school. He joined the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar down there. That's where a month 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 say, 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 of their hits. You'll hear if you go check them all out now, Graham.

7:58 He married his first wife out of high school. They were high school sweethearts. I had a son and daughter and then divorced ten years later married his second wife nineteen eighty six. That was Donnie van Zant when he sang lead for thirty eight Special. He's seventy three today.

8:39 He's born in Jacksonville, Florida. Now I have I helped form thirty eight Special 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 Zentz. He was the lead singer for Leonard Skinner. He was one who was killed in 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 as a member of a Countryman. Now Donnie. He had to actually retire from music due to health issues in twenty thirteen. Donnie. He's married to Ashley. They've been married for quite a while. That sounds like actor Hugh Lourie. He was born in Blackbird, England. He's sixty six today 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 nineteen eighty nine and they have two sons and one daughter.

9:37 Actor Peter Drinkledge. He is fifty six. He was born in Jersey Shore, New Jersey, grew up in Ireland. Now. He has dwarf phism. 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 Avengers Infinity War. Peter got married in two thousand and five and they have a son and a daughter after Shia La Buff He's thirty nine. He was born to Los Angeles. Started out doing stand up comedy and clothes and he is ten years old. First really got none for acting on that Disney Channel TV show, even Stephen. Some of his movies are Disturbia, the Transformers movies, Man Down the Tax Collector. He was married for six years and then they divorced.

10:19 Then a couple of years later they started dating again. Now they have a daughter. I 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. It is seventy two years old. John said, courage is being scared to death. It is still saddling up anyway. Thank you all for listening today. And don't forget about country underground radio. Yeah you can get that pretty much anywhere you want. Our Country underground Radio artist to day it's Kyle Daniel and this is a song Hangover Town. You guys have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow. From there song in playing should see me when we in the ground. Song jo when live see Me. He saw the side a woman and I hate over the tawn all feely wanted buds on more night, wanting more, can someday? H put a cake in home. You don't let me down.

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