June 29-Slim Pickens, Little Eva, Gary Busey, Dokken, Men at Work, Nicole Scherzinger, Eminem, Richard Lewis

0:19 Hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history and factoids about today. Today is June twenty ninth. I want to hug when we say I'm on a hug when it's time to go, I want to hug cause I won. You didn't know how I'm off. I live on the you. I want to hug. What a wonderful feed. I want to hug a few you squeeze and I want to hug. It certainly seems like the masur real thing to do today is National Hug Holiday. Hugging. It separates primates from the rest of the animal kingdom. It's called the cuttle hormone hugging. It really lisays oxytocin that helps strengthen bonds, and it helps reduce illness and it helps less severe symptoms for people who are sick. Now, today isn't just about hugging sick people. Today is dug people look like they need one. You know, somebody looks sad or lonely, depressed or just having a bad day. You know, a hug can really be a blessing for someone. It also reassures people that you really care about him. So a hug can do a lot of great things and it's free to give out. This is going on entertainment. On June twenty ninth, it was about your twenty twenty four then one album was A Tortured Poet's Department by Taylor Swift, Post Malone and Morgan walland had the number one song with I Had Some Help It say no friends that I'm crazy like I'm the only long.

1:37 Why you throve in start you had a loud help hall to living in. Your big glass house with the few, How don't you know? It was a number of country song too. I had some Milk. It ain't let God can make this con sung by myself. Don't I let you? Ain't help me? Shell a TV every week countill they sixteen on some Hill. The number one book was Eruption by Michael Crichton and James Patterson Todd. Movie was Inside Out Too Riley. She starts puberty so her emotions get all wonky. It's voiced by Amy Boehler, Maya Hawk, Kensington Tullman. Alright, what happened?

2:24 On June the twenty ninth the Globe Theater in London. It was really famous. It was really non for putting on plays who were written by William Shakespeare in sixteen thirteen. They're forming his play Henry the Eighth. Now to announce that Henry the Eighth was arriving, they fired off a couple of stage cannons. Wow, that set that that root, that's roof on fire. Yeah, burn the whole damn theme to the ground. I mean everybody got out. I mean it started in the roof. Now they did rebuild it four hundred years later. Nineteen fifty six, President Eisenhower he signed the Interstate Highway Act that created the Interstate Highway system that you drive on today. They said it was gonna cost twenty five billion dollars and it was gonna take ten years to build all forty one one thousand miles of the Inner State Highway. Well, it actually took thirty five years, and it got a lot more than that.

3:05 The last section completed was here in Colorado. As I seven, you're going through the Glenwood Canyon. Nineteen eighty eight, Iceland, they elected the world's first demically democratically elected female president. Sure, I'll give her a shot. Her name was Big Diss Finn Buggadeer Sure nineteen ninety four in Lake Havasu City, Arizona got to one hundred twenty eight degrees, the highest temp ever in Arizona and two thousand. Rapper Eminem's mom shoot him for ten million dollars for defamation of character. She was really mad. In his song My Name Is, he said that she smoked more dope than he did. It's found out my mom's just more dope than I. Dope. Man. I told him I grew up to be a famous rapper to make a record about doing drugs and name it after.

3:48 She said, hell, no, no way, did she smoke more dope than he did. Wow. The judge just kind of said, Eminem give her twenty five thousand dollars and must give her call it good. Twenty fifteen, in the Beijing Times newspaper, he reported that thirty percent of the Great Wall of China has disappeared. Now. Some of it is from natural causes and erosion and that kind of stuff, but a lot of us just from people stealing bricks. Twenty twenty one. Light in British Columbia, Now they shattered the hottest temperature ever recorded in Canada, one hundred and twenty one degrees. The old temperature was one hundred and thirteen, Leyton. Yeah, it was destroyed by a wildfire the very next day. Joke doke, doke coke joked joke, shog dish, shiverf day, We gonna pause.

4:30 He left this shiver day. We gonna simple car He like this shiverth day. And you know you don't give up birthday. Well, it's just he was born on June the twenty ninth, after Slim Pickens. He was born in Kingsburg, California, in nineteen nineteen. Now, in high school, he'd make some money on the side doing some rodeo stuff, but his dad had forbidden from doing rodeo, so to hide it from his dad, he went by the name Slim Pickens. Now his brother went by Easy Pickenson. Now after high school. Yeah, actually Slim's real name was actually Lewis Linsley. So after high school he did the rodeo circle and he did for twenty years. He was one of the most popular rodeo clowns on the entire thing. So after retired, went into movies Doctor Strangelove, Young Riders, Blazing Saddles, The Apple Dumpling Gang. Yeah, some of his movies. I don't know why, but he always seemed to play a cowboy. He got married nineteen fifty and they had three children. Slammy died nineteen eighty three, sixty four years old, from a brain tumor.

5:24 I know you'll get to like it. Bay E Boyd. She is best known as Little Eva. She was born in Belle Aven, North Carolina, in nineteen forty three. Now, when she was a teenager, she was babysitting for the songwriter as Carol King and Jerry Goffin. Then when they came home one night and they saw her singing and dancing with the kids, they wrote that song Locomotion. Now they last it sing the demo for him. Well, after he shang it and sang it, yeah, they decided that she should just do the song hit number one in nineteen sixty two. She also had the heads keep your hands off my Baby, Let's do the Turkey Trot Swinging on a Star. Now when so Locomotion was number one, she was getting paid sixty dollars a week for it. Yeah.

6:20 King and Guffin, Yeah they kept all the money. Now. Actually she didn't make much money in her career. She just went for one bad record contract to another. She did okay a little bit later playing on the oldie circuit. She was married for twenty years and they had three children. She died from cervical cancer in two thousand and three, fifty nine years old. Actor Gary Busey. He's eighty one. He was born in Goose Creek, Texas. Started out playing drums in a couple of bands. He did a little acting on the side. They didn't find the known in the movie as Star as Born. He hit really big playing Buddy Holly in The Buddy Holly Story. He wasn't even nominated for an oscar for it. Then leave the Weapon point and Break under sage black Sheet. It'd been in almost under thirty movies. Nineteen eighty eight, he crashed on his motorcycle and fractured a skull, so he got permanent brain damage from it. So that kind of explains why he's so weird. Gary. He had one child from a girlfriend. He had one child from his first wife.

7:05 Married his third wife in twenty nineteen and they have a child. Comedian Richard Lewis. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, in nineteen forty seven. He had a lot of success as a stand up comedian in the eighties and nineties. He had this really neurotic kind of dark, self deprecating humor that he did. Then he started on TV sitcom Anything but Love. That was with Jamie Lee Curtis. Biggest movie was Robin Who Had Mint and Tights? He played who was a Prince John I think he got married in two thousand and five. He died from a heart attack just last year. Seventy six years old. Actor politician Fred Grandy is seventy seven. He's born in SIUs Cdi, Iowa. In high school, he went to a boarding school back East. His roommate was David Eisenhower. He had Dwight Eisenhower's grandson. They became best friends actually Fred and is David's best man in his wedding. Now Fred. He started acting when he's going to Harvard. Biggest role was on TV. He played Gopher on the TV show The lib Boot Now.

7:55 When the series ended, he retired from acting and went into politics. He was in the House of Representative as he represented Iowa from nineteen eighty seven and nineteen ninety five. Since then, he's done a little acting, but he pretty much does like talk radio and that kind of stuff. He's really conservative. He had a son and a daughter from his first wife. Married a second wife in nineteen eighty seven and they have a daughter. Don Dawcan. He is still rocking at seventy two years old. Him and the guys from the band Dowcin. They'll be going on tour in July twenty sixth Now, Donnie was born in Los Angeles. You start out in the bat called Airborne nineteen seventy six. Nineteen seventy eight he got to changed their name to Dawkin. Some of their headstarre dream War years.

8:48 In my dreams you just got lucky breaking the chains. It's not love. Now he's released a couple of solo albums, but when he reaches those he goes by Don Dawkin. So that's a big difference between the band Dowkin. He didn't have to split the money that way. He has one daughter right all that where. If you hang outside, don't come in around And. That's Colin, a singing lead for a Minute Work. He's also seventy two years off. He was born in Saltcoat, Scotland, moved Australia when he was fourteen, go form Minute Work in nineteen seventy eight. Now they don't have a cool name, how they got their name or anything like that. They didn't have a name. When they showed up to play their first gig. They said who are you? And we're Minute at Work.

9:41 Yeah. Now they are going out on tour with Toto and Christopher Cross from July to November. If're wanna check that trio out, now, some of the songs you'll hear if you probably go are who can it be? Now? Down Under? Be good, Johnny Overkill. Now in Colin, he's not with Minute Work. Yeah, he's with Ringo Starr and his all star band. Colin. He is married the singer of Cecilia Noel. She's from Peru. Now they both became US citizens just recently legally. Actor Lance Barber. He was born in Battle Creek, Michigan.

10:24 He's fifty two today, best known for playing Sheldon's dad George on the TV show Young Shildon started out doing improv Jennifer Gardner. She was in his comedy Troop. Now he is married and they have two children. Don't you should go from hot like me? Don't shoo should go from buzz freak like me? Don't shot guys? Do not answer that? Now? That was Nicole Scherzinger singing for the pussy Cat Dolls. Nicole's forty seven. She's born in Honolu, Hawaii, grew up in Louisville, Kentucky. She started out in the group Eating's Crushed, then she moved over the Pussycat Dolls some of other songs you might know or don't You Stick with You?

11:06 When I grew up? I hate this part. They broke up in twenty ten after seven magical years. Now the Call she did win Season ten and Dancing with the Stars, so she's always got that. She has been on the mass singer since my twenty nineteen when it started. Now she is engaged to a former Scottish football player. Well over there, Rugby, I guess all right. Our quote of the day is coming from legendary actress Katherine Hepburn. She died to day in two thousand and three and ninety six years over. She said, the stupid things that you do you regret, well, if you have any sense, If you don't regret them, then maybe you're stupid. Well you think you offer listening today, don't forget to follow us on you who who? You listen to us on our country Underground Radio artists the day it comes from Monica for San Antonio. She wants to hear a Deidre Thurnell and her song wild and Free. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

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