June 20- West Virginia birthday, Hike with a geek day, Nicole Kidman, John Goodman, Lionel Richie, Beach Boys

0:08 Hi there, I am Jeff, and welcome to History and Factor It's about today. Today is June the twentieth. On my back, my buckle pack, the King of Smokes hike, and a pair of cowchee shorts. I'm high, happen to be wh I'm high. Today is National Hike with a Geek Day now today as an attempt to get geeks and exercise. Now, whether they're it, nerds, gamers, accounts. Basically, anyone who sits in front of a cuter, they get out there. But you know, the theory is that getting them some phizzle activity up the mountain incorporated into their daily lives. Now, if you're a geek, don't get offended. We're just trying to help you.

1:03 Exercise is great for your brain, well and for your whole body. Actually. So now, if you're taking a geek for a hike, do not overdo it. Now you're there to encourage him, not to make them so sore they can't walk for three days. Yeah, you want them to have fun. Now, whether you're the hiker or the gig, just enjoy a great hike today. Okay, let's see what happened in entertainment on June the twentieth Let's go back to nineteen sixty five, and one album was Mary Poppins. The movie soundtrack four tops ad the n in one song with I Can't help myself. Shut up.

1:52 Fucko's add the number one country song with before you Go. You say that you're going away, and and you saying. Never come and play. That's your sicking time, how. I'm doing and you're going ahead up and down the track. The number one book was Up the Down Staircase by Belle Kaufman. The top movie was Those Magnificent Men in their Flying machines. A bunch of pilots. They joined an international air race back in nineteen ten. Yeah, to see who can cross the English Channel for the fastest. Winner gets ten thousand pounds. That's about a million bucks. Today.

2:37 It's a British comedy, so you don't know any of the actors. Today is a fiftieth anniversary of the movie Jaws being wet theaters yesterday in nineteen seventy five. Now, it was supposed to have a lot more scenes with the shark in it, but the mechanical shark kept breaking down, so Steven Spielberg he decided just to suggest the shark's presence by playing ominous music probably scarier than a fake shark. All right, what happened on June the twentieth, sixteen twenty seven.

3:18 The Ottoman pirates they began raiding villages all across Iceland, captured over four hundred people up there, and they sold them into slavery. The Ottoman is there in the country at Turkey today. Seventeen eighty three, the last battle of the American Revolution was fired. It was a naval battle was fought off the coast of India. British and French warships went at it. Now the French they were fighting for the United States. Now word end reached them yet that the war was over. So luckily the battle was a draw. Yeah, no harm, no foul. It was called the Battle of Cuddalore. Happy Birthday, West Virginia. It was day in eighteen sixty three. West Virginia became our thirty fifth state. Now it's seceeded from Virginia at the beginning of the Civil War. Capital is Charleston. Highest point is Sprucena four thousand, eight hundred and sixty three feet West Virginia.

4:20 A state bird is the Cardinal fish Brook trout mammal, the black bear, reptile, timber rattlesnake tree is a sugar maple flower is a rhododendrum. West Virginia State Rock Cole. Some people born in West Virginia comedian and Steve Harvey, football Hall of Famer, Randy Moss, pilot Chuck Yeger, Jim Nist, Mary lou Retten, country singer, Brad Paisley, country singer Kathy Mattea, football coach Nick Saban, and actress Kachina Farrell. Some of the people born in the Mountain state In China. In nineteen hundred, German ambassador Baron von Kittler. He decided to go to the Chinese government and demand that they started having more security protecting the Europeans that were in China. He was killed on his way. Now do you remember the cartoon The Huckleberry Found in nineteen sixty It became the first animated show to win an Emmy nineteen seventy seven, and the first oil went into the Alaska pipeline. Yeah, it starts in prude Ho Bay. Took an eight thirty eight days to get down to Valdez. That's eight hundred miles.

5:16 Nineteen seventy nine, Bless his heart, United States President Jimmy Carter. He unveiled thirty two solar panels he installed on the roof of the White House. Well, Ronald Reagan, he took him down first thing and he walked in. A year and a half later. Coke, Coke, Jake show, dish, Shibf days. He left this shiverf day. We want simple car. He like this shibf day. And you know we don't do well. Let's just see it, Barney. You in the twentieth War hero actor Oddie Murphy. He was born in Kingston, Texas in fort nineteen twenty five. During World War Two, he pretty much was given every combat medal for a valor that the United States gives out. Yeah, if it was all for heroism. He received heroism awards from France and Belgium.

6:02 Now he got his Medal of Honor when he's nineteen years old. ODDI single handedly held off a company of German soldiers. Then when he was wounded and out of Amma, when the help arrived, Yeah, he just joined him on the counter attack. Now he ain't turned being a war hero into being a movie star. Starting over forty movies, he got married to a second wife in nineteen fifty one and they had two sons. Nineteen seventy one, Oddi died in a private plane that he was riding in. It crashed into a mountain in Virginia. He was forty five years old. Actor Martin Landau. He was born in Brooklyn, New York in nineteen twenty eight. Started out as an editorial cartoonist on the newspaper. Then he started acting in nineteen fifty seven. First movie is Pork Chop Hill. He was nominated for Oscars for Tucker and Crimes and Misdemeanors. He won an Oscar for He played Bella Lugosi in the movie Edwood. Now him and his second wife. They divorced after thirty six years of marriage. They had two daughters.

6:50 Martin died in twenty seventeen and eighty six years old from hyperfelastic shock. That's kind of like sepsis. Actress Olympia Dukakis. She was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in nineteen thirty one. She was in herd one hundred and thirty plays, sixty movies, and made fifty TV appearances. She wanted an Oscar for Moonstruck. Some of her movies that you might know. Look who's talking, Steve mcnoia is the event Olympia. She married in nineteen sixty two and they had three children. She died in twenty twenty one and eighty nine years old. Hey, maybe I hear the blues of Collins toss salads and scambled eggs twice styles, and maybe I seem a bit confused. Yeah maybe, but I got you, Paggs.

7:31 But I don't know what to do with those tass salads and gram days. Actor John Mahoney. He was born in Blackpool, England, in nineteen forty. Best known for playing the Dad Martin on the sitcom Fraser. After high school, he left England and came to the United States, started acting over here, joined a theater company up in Chicago. Now in that company with them where John Malcovic, Garrison niece and Laurie metcalf. Now he wanted Tony for Broadway. Now. His first big movie was a Manhattan Project and then Ten Men, Moonstruck, Say Anything, Primal Fear. He'd beat cancer colon cancer twice. Yeah, once in the eighties and once in the two thousand. He was really a devout Catholic. He died from throat cancer in twenty eighteen, at seventy seven years old. I got a misbarnager some radio how was checking out.

8:13 The sermon scene to see you on the DJ. He tells me that the Servant is fun. That song Surf and it was the first song released by the Beats Boys back in nineteen sixty one, made it all the way up to number seventy five on your music charts Now. It was written by Brian Wilson. He was born in Inglewood, California, in nineteen forty two. Nineteen sixty one, Brian he begins first pop artist who got credit for writing, arranging, producing and performing his own material. Now. He helped formed the Beats Boys in nineteen sixty one with his two brothers, Carl and Dennis, their cousin Mike Love, and their friend Al Jernine sold over one hundred million records.

8:58 Now. He was married to his first wife for fifteen years and they had daughters, Carne and Wendy. You know from Wilson. Phillips married his second wife in nineteen ninety five. They adopted five kids. His wife died in twenty twenty four. Brian, he just died, not too long ago. June eleven, eighty two years old, Mania did. Show in that room holding me Ian Moulgrass, last waiting for the school, determined to agree. The showbird says the song you will You sing and speaks to me of flowers that boo bloom again in Spring. Anne Murray is eighty one. She was born in spring Hill, Canada, in nineteen forty five, spring Yale. It's in Nova Scotia.

9:38 She was the first Canadian solo female artist to go to number one in the United States. Did at nine time, I Think Country, Contemporary, adult and pop. Some of her number one songs You needed Me, I Just Fell in Love Again, Shadows in the Moonlight? Could I have this dance now? She retired in two thousand and eight. She said that forty years awad, that was long enough. She married once for twenty three years and they had a son and a daughter. Good songs, Funny Mammy, Donal Richie.

10:22 He was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, in nineteen forty nine. Seventy seven year old. He's on tour now. Yeah, him in Earth Wind and Fire will be up there till the end of August. Don't go to see him now in nineteen sixty eight, he became a saxophone player and singer for the Commodorees now Walter Orange. He sang the fast and dance songs for the Commodorees Linel. He sang all their love songs and slow songs like Easy, three Times a Lady You Still That? Those were his songs. He went solo in nineteen eighty two. Pretty Big Good Call actually hit huge with the song Endless Love with Diana Ross. It's one of the top twenty twenties selling songs of all time, sold over one hundred million records solo. Some that went to number one were All Night Long, Hello Truly Say You. Nineteen seventy five, he married his college sweetheart. They adopted the call, then they divorced after eighteen years. He was married to a second wife for nineteen years when they divorced, and they had a son and a daughter. Actor Dohn Goodman is seventy four. He's born in Afton, Missouri, in nineteen fifty two. He went to college at Missouri State University. At one of his classmates in his drama classes, Kathleen Turner good Man. He became a household name when he started starring on the Sitcomers, and they had already been in the movies Revenge of the Nerds and Raising Arizona, but nobody knew his name it Now he has been in over one hundred movies on TV. He went back and started on The Conners.

11:34 Johnny got married eighty nine and they have a daughter. Now he has lost two hundred pounds since he was at his heighten Yeah, he was about four hundred pounds about twenty years ago. So good for his actress Nicole Kidman. She was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Yeah, her parents were going to school there. They moved back to Australia when she was three, but she still makes her a United States citizen. She's fifty nine today. She started acting in Australia when she was sixteen, started acting in the United States about nineteen ninety. She's been nominated for roscars for Moon Rouge, Rabbit Hall Lyon being the Rick Cardos. She won an Oscar for the Hours. She was married to Tom Cruise for eleven year and they adopted a son and daughter. Then she married country singer Keith Urban in two thousand and six. They have two daughters. Their divorce was finally in January.

12:15 All right. Our quote of the day. It comes from comic book artist Jack Kirby. He died in nineteen ninety four at seventy six years old. Jack said, perfectionists are their own devils. Thank you all for being here today. We sure appreciate you listening. Don't forget to follow us on whoever you listen to us on our country in the Grand Radio Artist of the day comes from Scott in Wisconsin. He was here Pat Waters song, Wild Rag Vodka Night. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. Man, it's been a tough day. I can wait for his two hands. You got big plans for long. We can't barbecue football and plenty fear it don't get better than. It is right your own wild rag bar.

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