June 8th-Three Dog Night, Bonnie Tyler, Kanye West, Keenan Ivory Wayans, Millie Vanilli, Julianna Margulies

0:09 Well, hi everybody, I am Jeff, and welcome to history and factoids about today. But it isn't about cool media. Today's June eighth, it's National Name your Poison Day. Well, it's Wednesday, so it might as well drink today. You get to choose what though now the slang term for poison for alcohol, it goes back to prohibition. Now, picking your poison is whatever alcohol you think it's fitting today. So we're not a glass of beer, glass of wine, shot of whiskey, margarite, a dakar probably matters. If you have to get up tomorrow, I probably want. We just want to go with the beer. But if you can sleep in, let's go out and have a good time naming your poison. It's just going on and entertain. Midnight June eighth, Welcome back to your two thousand and seven number one album was Minutes to Midnight by Lincoln Park. Run five had the number one song with makes me wonder, what's so good to be bad?

1:10 No hams to match has to has to try to get you back. Still, you don't have time reading makes me Bonne Billy Carrington had the number one country song with good Directions. There's a little country store with no cools. You gotta stop badass man spell Summer. Her sweet tea will take it to the interesting, bloody right, bring your right back here. The number one book was A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Whosini taught. Movie was Ocean's Thirteen Danny. He rounds up the guys to go after a casino owner who double crossed Reuben. Stars George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Oh Little Chapall Gone again. Matt go to the Chapa again. Nineteen fifty two, twenty nine year old Judy Garland married thirty six year old Sydney Left.

2:30 They had singer Laurna Left and her brother. They got divorced in nineteen sixty five. Nineteen eighty five, twenty five year old future Vice president Mike Pence he married twenty six year old Carrie Batten. They have a son and two daughters. In twenty nineteen, thirty nine year old actor Chris Pratt he married twenty nine year old Kathleen Schwarzenegger yep Arnold's little Girl. They have two daughters. All right, let's see what happened in the world. On June eighth, seventeen eighty nine James Madison. He proposed the Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to the US Constitution, guaranteed personal freedom and set limits on the federal government power. Eighteen sixty one, Tennessee was the last state to secede from the Union to fight in the Civil War. See the majority of people in Tennessee they didn't want to secede, but they you know, they were South, so they kind of felt obligated to help them. Chicago.

3:19 In eighteen ninety six, Easa McGaffey he invented the world's first vacuum cleaner. He called it a sweep of machine. Eighteen ninety six, the world's first car theft happened. Yeah, I was in Paris, Baron de Zulan's his Pio Pugoh got stolen. It turns out his mechanic did it. Nineteen forty nine and George Orwell's Buck nineteen eighty four was published. He was off by about fifty years. Nineteen forty nine, Siam it had legally changed its name to Thailand. Nineteen sixty eight, Martin Luther King's killer James lay He was finally captured. Yeah, it was captured that the Heathrow Airport in London. Please, let's just see who's born on June the eighth. Comedian Jerry Stiller.

4:11 He was born in New York City in nineteen twenty seven. Got none for the comedy team Stiller in Mera. Yeah, he performed with his lives any Mira. They performed together for almost thirty years. Now. After they retired their act Jerry hit playing Frank Costanza on Seinfeld. Then he was on King of Queens for nine years. Jerry and Anne they got married nineteen fifty four, were together until she died in twenty fifteen. They had Ben Stiller and Amy Steller, who were both actors. Jerry he died from natural causes in twenty twenty at ninety two years old. Comedian Joan Rivers. She was born Joan Malinsky in Brooklyn, New York, at nineteen thirty three. She was a true pioneer. Yeah, there weren't many women who did stand up comedy back when she started, and none of them were as blunt as she was. She first went on the Tonight Show in nineteen sixty five. She even had guest hosted the show a couple of times. First woman to host a late night talk show. She had her on late night talk show for a couple of years in the eighties, then she had a daytime show in the nineties, and then she had a show on v QVC for about twenty years. I don't know if you remember her and her daughter had a fashion show where they would kind of critique people's red carpet events, that kind of thing. Now Joan, she was one of only four Americans who were invited to the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla. She was married for twenty two years until she died, and they had daughter, Melissa Joan. She died in twenty fourteen at eighty one years old after having minor cosmetic surgery. And now someone else's getting no your best These boots on a book and that's just

5:41 what they do. One of these Daisies boots dog gonna away. Nancy Sinatra is eighty three years old. Frank Sinatra's little Girl was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, in nineteen forty. Started off singing on her dad's Variety TV show in the nineteen fifties, and then she had succes us in Europe and Japan. Yeah, but She didn't hit in the United States until nineteen sixty six with that song These boots were made for walking? Then, how does Zach Grab You? Darling Sugartown had a number one hit singing with her dad something Stupid. She was married to her second Hismen for fifteen years until he died, and they had two daughters. Was a gold frog, was a good friend mine, he said, But I that was Chuck Niggron singing lead for Three Dog Night. He was born in nineteen forty two in New York City, eighty one year he had formed Three Dog Night back in nineteen sixty seven. Now all three guys in the band sang lead. Some of the hits that Chuck sang lead on were old fashioned love song, Joy to the World, The show must go on until the World ends. They sold over sixty million albums Three Dog Night. They're still performing. But Chucky left for good in nineteen eighty five. He's really seven solo albums. He had a really bad heroin addiction. He dropped out of over thirty drug rehab solar facilities until he got clean in nineteen ninety one. He had a daughter from

7:12 his first wife and son from his second wife, a daughter from his third wife, then he had a daughter from a girlfriend. He married his fourth wife in twenty twenty. William Bobs Scags of seventy nine. He was born in Canton, Ohio in nineteen forty four. Start off playing guitar for the Steve Miller Band, and then he went solo. Some of this so hits our Lowdown, Ledo shuffle, breakdown a head, Look what you've done to me Bobs. He's on two now for the rest of the summer, if you want to go see him. He had two sons from his first married and he's been married to a second wife since nineteen ninety two. I was calling now I'm only falling apart. Bonnie Tyler she's born in Skew in Wales in nineteen fifty one. Seventy two year old, most known for her husky voice. She released her first album in nineteen seventy six. Some of her biggest hits are It's a hard Ache, totally eclipse of the Heart, holding out for a hero. Here she comes. She's on tour if you happen to be in Europe. She married her husband in nineteen seventy three. Now

8:43 these two they hate did an awesome job investing their money over the years. They have a ranch in Portugal, another ranch in New Zealand, and they have twenty two houses spread across England. Now does the name Tim berners Lee sound familiar, Well, he should. He's the guy who invented the Worldwide Web. No, it wasn't Al Gore. Tim. He created the web in nineteen eighty nine. Then he decided not to charge for it and thought everyone should have the right to use it. Now, of course he didn't make a bajillion dollars from it, but he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth. He and his first wife. They were married for twenty one years and I had two children before they divorced. Been married to a second since twenty fourteen. He was born in London, England, in nineteen fifty five. Sixty eight year old actor, comedian filmmaker Keenan Ivy Waynans. He was born in nineteen fifty eight in New York City, sixty five l He's the second oldest of the ten Waynes children. Started off doing stand up comedian really got known once he created the TV show in Living Color. Now he doesn't usually take the starring role in his movie. He does make appearances, but he easily writes, directs and produces some um are I'm Gonna Get You Sucker, Most Wanted Scary Movies One and two, White Chicks, Little Man, Keenan and Inzac's Wife. They have five children, girl, a girl. You know

10:22 it's true. Rob Platas he was born in Munich, West Germany. In nineteen sixty five, best known with Fab More, created the duo Milli Vanilli. Now they were working as models and they had a band going. Then their band got signed to a record deal. They got an advance and everything. Then when they went to record their first record, they were informed that they wouldn't be singing. No, they were just the face of Milli Vanilli. Charles Shaw and Tommy John they were the ones who are actually gonna sing the songs. But yep, Millie Vanilla. They had actually blown all that advanced money so they couldn't pay their record company back, so they had to go through the deal. But it worked. I mean they sold ten million albums. That kind of blew up in their faces once it got out that they were lip sinking. They tried to make a comeback with Rob singing.

11:16 But Rob died in nineteen ninety eight from alcohol prescription dark overdose. He was thirty two years old. Actors Julianne Margolis is fifty seven. She's won a Spring Valley, New York in nineteen sixty six. First got known on tv z R, then The Good Wife. She's been on the Morning Show since twenty twenty one. Some of her movies Got Ship, Snakes on a Plane, Stand Up Guys. She got married in two thousand and seven and they have a son. Stronger, much longer, much stronger. That s Yes s Yeezy Saint Bablo Kanye West. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in nineteen seventy seven. Forty six year old rappers, singer, producer, fashion designer sold over one hundred and sixty million records. Start out producing records in nineteen ninety six, then he released his first one in two thousand and four. Some says controversial, some says crazy. At least you know what he's thinking. But it works. Whatever he's doing, He's worth one point four billion dollars. Get this. He was able to legally change his name to Ya that's ye Yeah with no middle or last name. Took it from the Bible it means you. So now his name legally is you. He married Kim Kardashan in twenty fourteen and they had four kids before divorcing in twenty twenty two. All right, today's stupid factor that a when yea bear, ninety seven percent of all the water on the earth is undrinkable. Well,

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