March 11th-Dreams, Eskimo Pie, Golden Earring, Bobby McFerrin, Lisa Loeb, Terrance Howard, Johnny Knoxville

0:20 Hello, I am Jeff, and welcome to history and factoids about today Today's March of the eleventh. Dream Dream Dream, Dream, Dream, Dream Dream. Today is National Dream Day. Now, dreams they're invented by the Sumerians back in the year two thousand BC. Now, sometimes I just like to check to see if you pay attention. Now National Dream Day is to debunk the myth that dreams are just fairy tales and fantasies that won't ever happen. That is wrong. Some dreams come true. Your dreams may seem weird or goofy, but that's okay. Everybody's are experts. They say that you're supposed to keep a paper and pen next to your bed and write down your dreams. You won't remember them when you wake up.

1:02 Twelve percent of all people never dream in color. Yes, animals dream, and blind people see images in their dreams. Now, your mind is actually more active when you're dreaming than when you're awake. Now, you're probably a little tired from daylight saving, so it might be a good excuse of taking nap today and enjoy your dreams, or you can wait till you go to bed. Well, either way, today you know today was either Dream Day or Pomp prosal Promposal Day. So yeah, let's just good entertainment is going on on. In March. The eleventh go back to nineteen seventy one number one album was Pearl by Janis Joplin. The Osma Has had the number one song with One Bad Apple Bunch. Charlie Pride had the number one country song with I'd rather love you Lot be hurting.

2:01 I'm still certain. I'd rather love than I never know your love at all. The number one buck was QB seven by Leanne Euris. The top movie was Love Story. Ryan O'Neil and Alan McGrath are from totally different backgrounds, but yet they still fall in love. All right. What happened on marsy eleventh and the year thirteen oh two Romeo and Juliet got Mary. Well, that's according to Space Shakespeare. Yeah, it was a Act two scene six, sixteen sixty nine. Assistily Mount Etna erupted gild over fifteen thousand people. That's the biggest eruption of Mount Etta and recorded history anyway. It's been going on for thousands of years. It's still erupting. It is one of the most active volcanos in the world last time interrupted man just March fourth, a couple of days ago, seventeen forty four in London, England, the auction house Southebeast. Yeah, they held their first auction. Now today Southebee's is the largest auction house in the world. So get this parallel.

3:02 Now that very first auction for Southe Beast, they auctioned nothing but books. Get this Amazon, they started out selling nothing but books. In baseball, in nineteen oh one Baltimore, they signed a Cherokee Indian to play second base, Tokahoma now Tokahoma. He was really a black guy named Charlie Grant. In nineteen twenty seven, outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the first armored car rivalry took place. The Fathead Gang. They were able to debtonight some dynamite as a Brink's armored car drove by. Now the Fatheads they got away with one hundred and four thousand dollars, that's over two million dollars today. Now the guards actually survived the explosion and one of the guards, he was able to see the license played on the getaway car as it was driving away. The fat Heads, Yeah, they were arrested the next day. Nineteen forty two, US General Douglas MacArthur, his family, and his staff left the Philippines, left behind ninety thousand United States soldiers and Filipino soldiers to face the Japanese, who had five hundred thousand men.

3:54 Six days later, in Australia, MacArthur gave us famous I Show return speech. Pretty easy to give a speed from. In Australia nineteen fifty eight, the US bomber it accidentally dropped in nuclear bomb fifteen thousand feet over South Carolina. It landed on the house and Mars Bluff. Luckily the nuclear capsule wasn't attached to it, so it didn't explode. It did create a seventy five foot crater where that house used to stand. Thankfully nobody was home at the time. I wonder what kind of insurance claim you file on that one nuclear bomb falling house. Nineteen eighty six, a Japanese pro flew by Hayley's comment, it got within four thousand miles of the common Now they didn' admit it, but we'll just say they missed. They were trying to twenty eleven, a magnitude nine earthquake get struck eighty miles east of Sunday, Japan, caused the tsunami that killed thousands of people, and it caused the second words nuclear disaster in history when it hit the Fukuhama Nuclear Plant. Chier Noble still the.

4:48 Worst joked, joked joke. She this shimmer day. Please don't pause. He left this shubarday. We gonna sit in the tow subirthday. You don't I know your wonder? Who was born on Marcia level Well Christian kit Nelson. He was born in Denmark in eighteen ninety three, came the United States as a kid. Now he was a high school teacher and he owned a candy store in Una, Iowa. In nineteen twenty a little boy came into candy store, couldn't decide if he wanted some ice cream or a chocolate candy bar. Oh. That gave Christian an idea, why not combine there too. That was a big hit out there in that area of Iowa. Then a chocolate guy named Russell Stover he heard about it. He wanted to be a partner, but he changed the name to an Escobo pie. Two years later they were selling one million Escobe pies every day.

5:37 So Christian. He died a very rich man in nineteen ninety two, at ninety nine years old. I still remember my grand was watching that one I was a little boy. Lawrence Well, he was born in Strasburg, North Dakota, in nineteen oh three. Now, if you're ever in southern North Dakota, yeah, stop off in Strasburg. They're pretty proud of Lawrence Wolkler. Yeah. They turned the house that he was born and grew up in into like a museum and a tourist attraction. It's pretty cool. In the fourth grade, Lawrence he decided he wanted to be a musician, so he told his dad that if he would buy him an accordion, he would stay on the farm until he was twenty one, and he would work on the farm during the day and then play music at night, and any money he made for music he'd give to the family. His dad said, okay, So when Lawrence turned twenty one, he left the farm and founded the Lawrence Wilke Orchestra. His music was actually called Champagne Music. Now he had his own TV show from nineteen fifty one to nineteen eighty two. They also toured nineteen sixty him and his orchestra that they had the number one pop song in the world.

6:46 He was the one. I just played Calcutta, I was number one. He married nineteen thirty one and they had two daughters. Lawrence died in nineteen ninety two from pneumonia at eighty nine years old. Well, yes, samming. Redal that was George Koma and singing for the band Golden Earring. Georgie was born in the Hague, Netherlands, in nineteen forty eight. Now, they started out as the Tornadoes in nineteen sixty one. George was thirteen and his neighbor was fifteen when they started that band. That changed their name though, yeah, somebody's already using Tornadoes, so they changed it to Golden Earring. Golden Earring it's a musical instrument.

7:39 Now they were doing pretty good over them the otherwise. Then in nineteen sixty nine George actually took over as the lead singer. Well, that got him international success. They had had Radar Love, Twilight Zone when the Lady sings. In twenty twenty one, George he was diagnosed with als. So the guys in Golden Earrings said, you know, we had a really long run. It was a good run, so they just called her quits. George. He died just last July, seventy seven years old. He was married and they had one child. He is a little song I wrote. You might want to sing it. No, don't be happy in every life we have some trouble when you wear you make it up.

8:23 Don't well ready Bobby mcfair and he's seventy six. He's born in Manhattan, New York, in nineteen fifty. Now. His dad was an opera singer and his mom Todd singing. She was a college professor. Everything you hear on one of his songs is all Bobby. He does not use instruments, Nope, it's all his voice. Sounds he can't make with his voice, like drums he makes up by thumping his chest. He just goes in the studio and soolo and goes into a booth all by himself and the records his records. Now, Bobby, he's actually considered a jazz artist, so don't worry be happy. That's considered the only jazz lign that crossover and hit on the pop charts that he had. Now he's worked with a lot of other people too. Eleven Grammy's working with other artists. He got married in nineteen seventy five and they have two sons and a daughter. In twenty twenty three, Bobby announced that he had Parkinson's was Do you remember what movie? That song stay I Missed You was in Reality Bites Now. That was the first song ever to go to number one where the singer did not have a record contract. Lisa Lou Lisa's fifty eight.

9:39 She was born in a Thasday, Maryland, nineteen sixty eight. She grew up in Dallas Now. She formed her first group when she was going to Brown University. It was Liz and Lisa happened. They had this guy named Duncan Cheek played guitar for him. Now. After graduation they all went their separate ways. Lisa, she went to New York City. She lived across the Straight from this young struggling actor who named Ethan Hawk. He got a only in this movie from this young director named Ben Stiller. So Ethan gave Ben Lisa's demo tape been put in the movie. Lisa, she got a number one song on her record contact out of it. Some of her other hits are d You Sleep, Let's Forget about It? I Do Now, She's still to her son, but every weekday she stay with Lisa Lilb on Serious XM. If you want to check her out now, she has a lot of success doing children's albums. She didn't want to grab me for Best Children's Album a few years ago.

10:24 She married in two thousand and nine and they have two kids. Actor Terras Howard. He was born in Chicago in nineteen sixty nine, fifty seven to day. First got known in the movie Mister Hollands Opus. Then he was in the Best Man, Big Mama's House Crash. He was nominated for an Oscar for Hustling Flow on TV Start on Empire Now. He divorced his first wife twice and they had three kids along the way. His fourth marriage was to his third wife and they had two sons before they divorced. Stunt performer, writer, producer, actor host Johnny Knoxville's fifty five. He's born in Knoxville, Tennessee in nineteen seventy one. He helped create the Jack Guys franchise and Yeah But TV's Movies, Merchandise, all that good stuff. But some of his other non jackass stuff. He was in the movie His Life Without Dick Men in Black two, Walking Tall did the Bad Grandpa Movies. He is currently on TV. He's hosting Fear Factor. Yeah they brought it back now. Johnny had one job from his first wife.

11:17 He had two from the second wife. I married his third wife just a couple months ago in November from graduation Newlywoods. Alrighty our court of the day. It comes from Hall of Fame football player and actor Merlin Olsen. He died to day in twenty ten at sixty nine years old. Marlin says, the focus of my life begins at home with my loved ones, family and friends. I want you to create a secure environment that fosters love, learning, laughter and mutual success. Well, thank you all for listening today. Make sure you follow us so you can always find us a little easy. Check out today's show description for any links and stuff. Our country underground radio artist Today. It comes from a man to down in New Jersey. She wants to hear another New Jersey native, Kenny Curzo. It sung just move you guys, have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

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