March 14th-Potato Chips, Albert Einstein, Disco Duck, Billy Crystal, Tetris, Hanson, Quincy Jones, Guistina Chirco

0:19 Well, hi everyone, and thank you for joining us on history and factors about today. I am Jeff Today is March the fourteenth, now my co host today. She is a triple threat in the entertainment business. She's a great actress and improvist, hilarious stand up comedian, and she's a content creator in the beauty and. Sty so you know she's cute. Christina, why did you go introduce yourself? Ooh, thank you for that intro dress. I'm Justina Cherco, Thanks so much. All right, now, what do you always want to be entertainment? Were you one of those kids who was a little ham so interesting? I know, I'm not sure really. I remember being in talent shows for sure. When I was in like junior high, I did want to be the son of attention. But my sister actually was so she was a singer as well.

1:12 We were on cheerleading together. So I was always a performer. I wanted to dance, and my parents didn't you know, to get all that. Seriously, it's like with fam and dance and then you do the recitals, and I really shine during dance and performing, and I was my teacher took a notice of me. I was very proud of that, and she had me come and like help her young kids out. But I never really stuck. I didn't stick with the dance because you know, you got to junior high and it was like, I want to be popular, I want to do I want to be bought. You are you know I'm kidding. I'm not gonna sing wicked, but yeah, you know, it goes and fear pressure. And so I had friends that were on cheerleading, and I said, well, I want to be a cheerleader. And I was like seventh grade and I tried out and I was horrible.

2:04 I sucked, I sucked up. I was terrible. I was so bad because I didn't you know, I didn't know I was getting myself into We didn't have practices and rehearsals. I just jumped into it. And I didn't make it. All the friends made it. I cried my eyes out, cried, cried, and I said, you know what, I'm just going to practice every single day this whole entire summer. And I committed myself ridiculously, like a crazy person, to every year that I could find every window to hit, every high V, every low V. I mean, I was absolutely insane, like all the kids were swimming in the pool. My parents have a pool, and you know, eating hot dogs and like enjoying their summer, and I'm just like, no, I want to go to cheers. I'm a cheerleader. I'm a cheer I want to make it this year. And so I ended up just going crazy and rehearsing and then trying out and making it and being the top. I remember my cheerleading code saying I'm not su to tell you this that at the top score, and I was like I should, Yeah, where my aof where's my assow for that?

3:13 You know, I didn't but you didn't even eat hot dogs. I probably did because I love hot dogs, but I'd be like, nope, I can't enjoy it. I can't, you know, be a kid. I got to make this cheerleading squad. I don't know what it was about that being left out. There was a lot of promo around that, like all these girls around there and you know, and so it wasn't fut of that friend group and it's just such a really hard time. For some reason, I just really wanted to do it, and I did, and I ended up doing it for four years. So but none of that you know, I wasn't dancing for any of that time. Well, I mean, you know, you dance your halftime cheers and stuff like that. So I always thought, well, I was still kind of cheering, but in a different or dancing in a different way, which is cheerleading, but I was still performing. So yeah, I always had that bog I guess of performing and then like in I guess junior high as well, my friends we would do skits. Okay, we would put on plays in our neighborhood to my best friend, and I wanted to be the lead of course in Greece, and they did not want me to be Sandy. I was like, I am Sandy. I just want I want to be blonde. I want to be Olivia Newton John. That was my dream, and they made me jan you know Jan Rush, our prussure brush. So

4:49 I was sort of sort of a nerd, you know, I don't think I saw myself and I really wanted to be like, well, if I'm not going to be Sandy, I want to be Rizzo. But my friend who put it all together, you know, she's very control, and she was like, I'm Rizzo. I don't care or I won't do the play. So anyway, you know, we did that, and I think a lot of actors talk about doing stuff like this, you know, in the basement and then going around to your neighborhood and being like Friday night, come to our show, right, So so we did, and we had all the parent who's come and launch us in my my friend's basement, made a popcorn machine and we had popcorn, and I think we even went so far as to sell tickets. I mean, we were serious.

5:40 We were very serious about it. And I can't remember who was Sandy. I think it was Plicelester actually put on a blonde wig. But yeah, I was moread the sidekick best friends. Hey, but you laid that foundation. Though, yeah, and then uh with another group of friends. I remember doing a talent shows as a kindermand grade school and we did Annie and I was the dog. So everybody was laughing at me, you know, I was the dog. Was well, that's when you learn it, you like laughs.

6:21 If that was anything for you, Yeah, I was like, oh, okay, they didn't make me Annie. They didn't make me like it's a hard knock, like you know, the the kids. I watched the new Annie and they don't say organ. They say it's foster child. Really I didn't know that. Yeah, they changed it anyway. All right, well we had a couple of ye where it came from. We actually have a couple of national days today. Mine's kind of lame. It's for the nerds, so don't get excited. But March fourteenth, it's National Pie Day, but not the pie you love to eat. It's pie pi. You know the mathematical constant. It goes three point one four nine and it goes on forever. And I don't know why you want to celebrate that today.

7:07 I have no idea. I have no idea why you'd be proud of this either. In July, some nerds they calculated pie out the two hundred and second trillion vidiot. I'm really proud of it. I think it's kind of sad. You know what your day is? Pretty cool? Potato chips? How fout potato chips? How my mouth doesn't crunch crunch? I don't want no lunch. All I want is potato chips, potato chips. How my val potato chips? Today is National Potato Chip Day. Back in eighteen fifty three at the Saratogain and Sarah Spoda, Springs, New York.

7:51 A customer at the restaurant kept sending back his potatoes. He said they were too soggy. So the chef, George Crumb, he really got pissed off. So he sliced the potatoes then as he could. Then he fried him up as crispy as he could. Then he put a whole bunch of extra salt on him. Send him back out. Oh the customer, he loved him, and so did everybody sitting around him. And that's how the potato chip was born. Now, as awesome as potato chips are, there is a downside. Potato chips are really unhealthy. In fact, potato jests they god's more weight gain than any of the other food out there. I guess we can worry about that tomorrow and we'll just celebrate the potato chip today. Are you a potato chip fan? Yeah? I love potato chips, every single flavored potato chests, star cream cheese and star cream, barbecue, gosh, every brand, Lais, Cattle, Trader Joe, some Whole Foods. I'm a huge potato chip brand fan.

8:48 So you'll be celebrating today, then. Awesome, and I will celebrate with some potato chips. Oh right, let's it happened In entertainment on March the fourteenth, Let's Got Your twenty nineteen number one album was a Star Is Born. The movie soundtrack with Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper Jonas Brothers had the number one song with Sucker. Dumbing, dancing on CAUs and stumbling out of bus, follow You through the Dark and get enough your Medicine and the Paine the Tattoo and summer Bane Baby, you know what's abys. I'm a sircer, fil. Say the who many will play, I'm a super pile.

9:29 Look comes here the number one country song with beautiful Crazy. Beautiful Crazy. She can. Amaze me the way that she dances. Say't afraid to take chances? And where's her horrors? Yes, he's crazy furder Trazy is beautiful me. That number one buck was where the sings by Della Owns. The top movie was Us a Family. They take a vacation and then they're terrorized by a family that looks just like them. Stars with Pete in Yango, Winston Drake and Elizabeth Monks. Nineteen seventy two. California's Governor Ronald Reagan, he pardoned Merle Haggard, Yeah, the singer. See Reagan absolved Haggard from a burglary that he had committed and spent three years in prison for. Yeah, so Mira could vote again.

10:23 All right, Now you're actually voiced in the movie The Ogilvie Loves a lot of big names are in there with you. Yeah, what, Chlorus Leechman, Tony Braxton, Christopher Lloyd, Jamie Presley, Chaz Plimentary. So when you do a yeah, and it's a little kids movie, Now, when you do those kind of movies, is everybody in the room playing off each other or you each kind of just recording your own voice solo? Or how's that work? So it was very interesting. My experience was I worked production for four days. No I no, okay, it was a thirty how many day shoots? Thirty one day shoot something like that, And I worked production and every day except three days that I acted. So you would think, oh, my gosh, you know you work thirty one days on a film. No, that's not the case. And you would think, oh, well, the name actors worked thirty one days. No, they worked three days. Every single actor worked three days on the shoot, which was amazing and the fourth day was the voiceover was ad R. It's where they you know, fixed everything and impost right. And so when I worked, I only worked with chess Palm Terry, who was my scene partner, an amazing scene partner. Loved him and I thought, oh, you know, he's going to be so helpful. And I said, you know, do you have any advice? And we were going through like a backstory and I was actually, you know, being the actor, going okay, so let's go backstory of

11:55 brother or sister where our parents blah blah blah. He goes, hey, you know, we don't need to get that deep. But she's a lot star. I didn't know that. He came from singing. He was a lead singer, right, so that's where he got his success. And then he turned it into acting okay, and then right and then uh, the bronx tail is what what skyrocket him. Right, that was his success because he couldn't sit around and be an actor and in that struggling mind as he created the box tail wrote it anyway. So that's that's his story.

12:41 But he was telling me like, you know, it's like you're not the star. I mean in a very nice way, like you don't have to get cut that artistic about it, just kind of say the lines, don't bump into furniture. Like he comes from that world of you know, like he's not a mathod actor. I don't know. I guess I'm thinking of like I can't even think of the name of the actor right now, but he's very well. Oh, I think it's Orson because it Orson Welles would say. I think he would say, just don't bump into the furniture. Okay. I think there's like a famous Yeah, it's a famous saying where these older actors just are like, it's not that deep, say you're a line. So that was That was kind of him. And so I worked in production with Chorus, with Christopher Lloyd, with Kerry Ellis nicelest man in entertainment today. Loved him so much. I picked him up from the airport. He wanted to go to the Motow Museum just so this all took place in Detroit, and so I picked him up in the airport took him to the museum. That was super cool. I don't think I would have ever gone to the Motown Museum if it wasn't for him. Wanting to go and he was like, I'm gonna buy a hat. Do you want to, you know, let me get you a hat. I said no, no, no, you don't need to get me anything. And he's like, no, I want to. I'll buy you a hat. And he's a very very very nice man, and he wanted to

14:11 go over his lines, but you know, he had his boundaries and when he was like, okay, I want to, you know, be alone now in my trailer and absolutely you know, it was his friend's birthday or something, so he wanted to talk to his family. Family man. Great guy and that's the others weren't great, but they everybody has the progress. You know. Christopher Lloyd, he did not want to be talked to. He couldn't have been more like, this is my job and you know, I'm just here. He's smoking a cigarette from what I remember, and just you know when they said, hey, action, he's there, one hundred percent phenomenal. After Claris Leachman, so sad she's gone, but what a crack up crazy on comedo, just the woman would grab the makeup from the makeup artist because she wanted her cheeks so round. She played a character Dottie Brounder that loves circles, and she's like, the circles aren't but they're not good enough. And she took it and she really wanted it absolutely perfect so she can be in this character that loved circles. And I just saw, you know, that factor working, which is crazy and cool. And she was exhausted, absolutely exhausted. She was like, I just came off Dancing with the Stars and she was dancing with the stars and she was I don't even know at that point, yeah, eighty eighty

15:43 something like that. The poor woman. She was like, I'm exhausted. They would be like, can you go to your chorus because you know we need her mouth. I was like, pay corse. She was like, I can't, I can't do it. I can't get her bugs. I can't. I'm exhausted. I'm exhausted. And she'd be like, get me my shirt, give me my like the I almost felt so bad for her. I was like, anyway, but so she was on makeup chair following. I mean, it was like, but when she got on set, It's like, Okay, I know why you're You've had this long jeviy of the career. She's a star. She was just amazing who Elston I mentioned Carrie, I already mentioned Tony Brexton. Tony had her on Trash. I remember that she was kind of separate. I felt like didn't really get to know her too well. She didn't really want anything. The same with the same with Chaz No No'm good. I don't want anything. They didn't want They didn't want their meals brought to them. They didn't want water, the didn't want anything. I'm missing somebody. Who am I missing? Gosh, you have to go to my am d D. I'm missing an actor, Jamie Ja. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Jamie.

17:01 She was kind of coming off My Name is Zero, I believe. So she had some you know, good quality look stars buzz and she was on the TV show and I think just maybe coming off that TV show, and she was very kind, very very nice, warm woman, and she'd be like, can you just make my coffee? She wanted the strongest Colombian coffee. And that's kind of what I remember. But after working on Inside, I never saw them again. We all did a dr separately, so, like I said, they all did three days and then on the fourth day they did their adr and that was that. I never saw them again, but it was an amazing experience.

17:48 Well, Sotty sounds pretty cool. Well, we must have been at the premiere. And you know what, I don't even remember. This is kind of crazy. It was a while ago, right, So there was a premiere in la at the Chinese Growman Theater, and then there was a premiere in New York at the Lincoln Center. So it was I literally call it like ten minutes the same like I had my ten minute I lets you record. Did I answer any of your questions? Oh? My god? No? But now according to Andy Warhol, you still got five minutes coming. Then he said you get fifteen okay, all right, hey, well let's see what happened on March the fourteenth the city of Boston. It was founded by the Puritans. Then after they founded, they outloued the Quakers. Now, the Quakers they believe that God talked to everyone, and not just the clergy. Now, to the Puritans, that was pure heresy, you know, especially their clergy. Now, if what they did is if we're a Quaker and you were in Boston, you could be branded with an age for heretic. You could have a hot iron or a hole through your trunk.

18:55 You could have your ears cut off, or you could just be hung well out to day. In sixteen sixty one they hung William Hedrif for being a Quaker. Now he was a fourth Quaker that the Puritans actually hung, but word of his hanging made it all the way back to England's King Charles Well. When he heard about it, he opined about the Puritans wanting permission to start a colony for religious intolerance, and then he put a stop to He said he wasn't going to tolerate that anymore and told them they had to start playing nice. Now, up you're around Boston. Those four Quakers that were hung, Yeah, they're actually still known today. They're known as the Boston Martyrs. Seventeen ninety four Eli Whitney. For inventing the cotton gin. It separated the cotton ferment seeds. A person to clean about two pounds of cotton to day, the drink could clean about fifty five pounds. It revolutionized the cotton industry, making it hugely profitable the US. One for my sporting five hundred thousand pounds of cotton in nineteen seventy three to ten million pounds in eighteen ten, but cotton has grown down south to keep it really profitable.

19:53 As the need for slavery really expanded to increasing slavery, labor finally caught the attention of northern and non plate states. Eighteen twelve, the United States started selling war bombs for the first time. Did the finance the war of eighteen twelve? So the eleven million war bombs? Do you ust stopped selling war bombs in nineteen eighty they stopped paying interest on the bombs in twenty ten. Nineteen thirteen, South album fell the Supreme Court ruled that all marriages not done in the Christian ceremony and not registered with the government was invalid. That made almost and any marriages immediately invalid. What that's pretty un Colon nineteen twenty three, United States President Warren G.

20:38 Harding. He was the twenty ninth President of the United States. He was the first president apt to pay income tax. He had to pay seventeen thousand dollars on his seventy five thousand dollars presidential salary. Say, back in the day the presidents, when they started income tax, they were exempt. But when Harding was running for to be president, he kept telling everybody, now that's just not fair. And you know president should be like the normal person. Well he won, so now he had to pay up. City. In nineteen thirty one they built the first movie theater where their projector was actually in the back of the theater. Nineteen fifty the FBI their ten Most Wanted Fugitive program began. You know that ten most Wanted list out there. Now they used to boast in post offices and I'm like all over the place, but now you have to go to the FBI's Most Wanted a website for it.

21:19 Some of those some. Of those most wanted people, they have rewards up to ten million dollars if you actually turn those people in on you. Oh, I didn't know. Nineteen sixty four, Dallas Jake Ruby defense to dud for killing Lee Harvey Oswald, who had kill President John F. Kennedy. The oldest golf club in the world is a year Field in Scotland. After two hundred and seventy three years, twenty seventeen they voted to allow women to join as members. Now you like doing I don't, hey, but they did come around. It took a long time, but hey, they actually we came around.

22:02 Okay, twenty seventeen. We got a quality. Now you like working on it, hitting the So you like doing stand up? What made you get on stage for that first time? Oh? Oh my gosh, it's good. Oh it's still crazy that I even do it. You know. Living in La I go to coffee shops a lot single and an artist, and you hang out with coffee shops. I met Ray Wilson, which was very very cool, and I think that's when I first started doing stand ups, and he said, we need more women and stand up or more women in comedy like and TV shows and films, and he's like, keep going, keep going, you know, don't give up. Basically, we need pretty women that are That's kind of exactly what he said to me. And I was like, okay, pretty and funny. I guess I'll keep going. But really it was kind of crazy because you know, I'm working on the acting and trying to get an agent and I'm not auditioning or trying it. Just a lot of like mishap managers, like things just not working out left and right, and I was just beside myself, very frustrated, and I really wanted to like pack my bags, like should I just go back home. This is what am I doing? You know, this career is not happening, and

23:35 so frustrated as a lot of actors are thinking like things are going to happen. Wasn't quite what I expected, and I said, you know, I need to do something, and I didn't know what it was. And I knew, you know, a lot of actors were creating their own films and creating their own vehicles for themselves, you know that could go to a film festival or wait a short, and I didn't really feel like I was a writer yet. And I was really this crossroads in my life where I was at different coffee shops or in line somewhere and somebody I would say something to the grief God or just meeting me and somebody commenting, are you a comedian?

24:25 I'm like what, Like no, it just was so weird, like no, I'm not comedian. You know, there's go about my day. I didn't think twice about it. Drink my coffee, and it happened again, and I was, what is that? That's kind of weird that already happened once, And then it happened about I think one more time, and I was like, is there a message here, like the universe God, what's the ask? This? Hap? What's going on with this stand up comedy? Like I am confused? I don't really I don't enjoy this. This is this is a joke.

25:09 I was putting a real joke on me. And then I was like, maybe these are angels. This is a message, just should go follow it. I was also following a friend of mine, so you know, on Instagram, and I saw her doing stand up and it kind of been in my mind for a while, and I think I was dming her like, oh, I didn't know you did stand up and what do you you know, where do you do it? And how did you start? And I was very curious, but I wasn't doing anything about it. And then she told me a teacher uh, and I just said, okay, I need to go take this class.

25:50 And I ended up taking class with all women. It's called Pretty Funny Women. We took on Steps and she has she's the name in LA been around for a really long time. You know, Chelsea Hammer quotes for and you know, different people for you know, her class being really good for women and one I remember one thing she would tell us is don't ever take advice from any guy on your material there. I was like, yeah, she she would just say, just you know, when you go to these open mics, don't go to be funny. Just go put it out there. And if a guy comes up to you and says, hey, I have no you know, do you want you want to meet or I can help you, you know, if your punchline or like, she would just be like, no, thanks, like, because you know, we have a unique point of view and that's our point of view and nobody can, like a guy can't really put him stuff on our shoes.

26:54 Well, you know, guys and girls are different, you know. We're different. Yeah, like you can't you can't begin to understand me or my life, you know. So yeah, I actually love that note about her. But I had no idea what kind of class I was in. And I was in the class with, you know, people that were already in the industry or they were already writers. Like I remember one of the ladies, I'd say a girl because she was maybe twenty wonderfu old, you know, like young, young comedic writer. I can't remember if it was MTV or something like that, but she was already working on some network and I thought, oh, interesting, And then I remember, before the class was done, I already got a show at Flappers. I had no idea I was going to an audition and I thought I was going to open mic, and it was an audition, and then I got it.

27:56 They sent me a contract and I was like, I I never had a contract in my life. Yeah, you know, but it said my name, which was cool. I never seen my name like in a contract and said zero dollars. I was like, Okay, that's cool, you know whatever, But yeah, but I didn't know what to do with it, and I was a little scared actually, So I went back to my teacher and I was like, hey, you know, they offered me the show, and she's like, don't do it, like, don't do it before you graduate the class. And I didn't really know what that was about. But and I still never really know what that was about. And then so here I thought, wow, I'm really advanced or something.

28:41 You know, I'm getting a show before my class was done. Yet when I got out, I was people were at a comedy store. Some people were already getting big shows, and so I didn't really understand what that was going on. I was like, why are they like advancing way above me, you know what I mean? I don't know. Stand up is very interesting, very very interesting career choice for sure. I don't think I asked for it. I think it's on top of my head somehow, and we're still deciding, if you know, what we're doing with it. I feel like it just was like get in there, you know, as an actor or writer, director, stand up or just if you want to work in the industry, you really get a sense of so many different parts of the industry.

29:44 You know, you get to know books, you get to know writers. It's a really good place to be. It's a great place for an actor to be when they're not working, you know, really homes yourself. And I was scared. I was, I was. I'm a scaredy cat, insecure. Still am not confident, and that it's like why am I doing stand up? But a lot of us, a lot of us are. We're just kind of weird. We're a little weirdo. Well that's gonna makes you funny, all right. Let's see it's born on March the fourteenth.

30:25 Stop Joke Dope Show, Dish Shivers Day. We're gonna pause. He this shuverarday. We don't simpletage. He's like just shivers day. And you know you don't that birthday, all right. Albert Einstein he was born in Holm, Germany in eighteen seventy nine. Most famous physicist of all time. Now even regular people like me know his theory of relativity. He equals mc square. Were you at the college? Do you know what equal mc square stands for? No? IM just troubling that version of gravity. It is energy equals mass time the squared.

31:08 Yeah energy. Oh my god, I need to go back to school. Yeah. Einstein. He fled Germany for the United States in nineteen thirty five, so in Princeton, New Jersey. Now he didn't work at Princeton University. He just kind of did his own thing out there. Married his first wife in nineteen oh three. They had a daughter and two sons. They divorced in nineteen nineteen. So then he married his cousin. In nineteen nineteen. They were together until she died in nineteen thirty six. Now when you look at pictures of Einstein, you might not know it, but he was a player. Einstein. He died in nineteen fifty five from an abdominal aortic aneurysm. You's seventy six years old now. When he first got that abdemino aortic m they were going to work on him. Yeah, he refused treatment for it. He said, no, I'm ready to go. Actor Michael Kaine, He's ninety two. He was born in Rosamonde, England. He's won oscars for Hanna and her sisters and Cider House Rolls, nominated four other times, been an over on hundred thirty movies, some of his more recent movies that you might know, or he was out riding three of the Batman movies, the Now You See Me movies, journeying to the Mysterious Island. In twenty twenty three he retired. He said, ninety years old.

32:11 Man, he was done. He had a daughter from his first wife, married a second wife in nineteen seventy three and they have a daughter. King was that in nineteen sixty three of that song It's a Party, sung by Leslie Gore, was the first number one song praised by Quincy Jones. Now Quincy is one of the biggest names in music history. He was born in Chicago nineteen thirty three. Record producer, songwriter, musician, composer, bandleader are all on his resume. He has been nominated eighty times for a Grammy's, winning twenty eight. He is only behind Beyonce, she won thirty five. Quincy has worked with everyone says that his biggest success was with Michael Jackson.

33:09 We all know that Quincy never learned how to drive a car. I didn't know that. He had a daughter from the first wife, had a daughter from a fling Go Quincy daughter and son from his second wife. The third wife was actress Piggy Limp lipped in. They had actress Kadita and Rashid Rashida Jones after Daddy divorced. After that divorce, he said he was never marrying again. He didn't, but had another daughter. Quincy died this last November at ninety one years old from pancreatic cancer and the phoney she. Named wild five must it Dad star in a Wizard He was lost. She ran common.

34:05 Country singer Michael O Martin Murphy is eighty born in Dallas, Texas. He started out as a folk singer and then he formed the band to Trinity River Boys. One of the guys in the band was Michael Nestnis, who left the band to become a monkey. He told US producer about Murphy. Murphy wrote songs to the Monkeys until he got his country record deal in nineteen seventy two. When I was born in nineteen seventy five and had his song Wildfire cross over and go number one on the pop charts. Some of his number one country songs What's Forever four, Still Taking Chances, A Long Line of Love, I'm going to miss you girl. He is out on tour celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Wildfire. He has four times divorced, has a daughter and one son.

34:59 Actor me and Billy Crystal. Would you say Billy is a stand up comedian. I don't really think so. Yeah. I think he started. He started out doing standout. He was born in man Att Yeah, he was born in Manhattan, New York. He's seventy seven. Started out again, started out doing stand up. Then he hit on the TV show Soap. Then he did Saturday Night Live for one year. Then he was in the movie His first movie is Rabbit Test. Then he did Running Scared, Throw Mama from the Train, Harry Met Sally, City Slickers movies. Now he's hosted the Academy Awards nine times, and he act won two Emmis. He won two Emmys for Houston Academy Awards.

35:40 Billy. He married his high school sweetheart back in nineteen seventy. They have two daughters. Wow, that was disc jockey actor TVs Rick D's He's seventy five. He's one in Jacksonville, Florida. He grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina. Nineteen seventy six, he was a DJ on a radio station in Memphis, Tennessee. He was kind of goofing around with his crew in the radio station. They recorded that song. Disco Duck went up to number one, actually sold six million records. Now, I will just starting elementary school back then, so I remember kind of when it came out and all us kids in elementary school would walk around trying to sound like Disco Duck, you know. But as I got older, and I'm sure our parents and teachers were annoyed. But what I couldn't figure out once I got older, it went to number one and sold six million records. I can't imagine, you know, high school kids or like kids in the early twenties, they must have been driving around in their cars cranking that song.

36:55 Leary. Now that song it did get him his own late night talk show, The D Show. He got some small roles in some movies. He's best known. No, he has a syndicated radio show, Rick D's Top forty count Down than he does every week. Been doing this since nineteen eighty three on over two into radio stations. Now he married a second wife in nineteen seventy eight and they have a son. Now Rick. He co founded a cable TV channel. He was called Fine Living TV. Now it's called the Cooking Channel. Okay, I said, I'm no more nerds, but okay, because this is good for everybody. How many hours do you think you've wasted in your entire lifetime playing Tetris? Alexey Pajitov he was born in Moscow in the Soviet Union, seventy years old today. Created Tetris in nineteen eighty four. Now he's working for the Soviet government. But it wasn't his job.

37:51 He was just goofing around at work and he came up with Testra. Became a huge hit over in the Soviet Union. And this guy named Hank Rogers here in America he heard about it. He went over to the Soviet Union he was able to get him to give him the rights to the game Tetris, so he got those rights, and then he actually licensed him to Nintendo. So he had a Russian game by an American and who is now being sold by the Japanese now Lexi. He didn't get a damn dying for it. Then in nineteen ninety one, when the Soviet Union collapse, he headed over to the United States. Now him and that guy Rogers, they formed their own country called Tetris Universal. Now he's getting paid. He is married and they have two sons. I have no idea if there's any difference between the original Hawife I've all seen and the last one that aired at this great park is fifty one. Laura Los Angeles.

38:52 She grew up in Vancouver, Canada, started out on Canadian TV, came down South and starred as Lt. Sharon Valerry as a Battle Star Glassical Franchise TV in movies. Then she played Kno on Hawaii five over seven seasons. She got married in two thousand and four. They have a son after Chris Crime was born in Hinsdale, Illinois. He's forty six. That's known for playing Oz in the American Pies movies, some other movies. He was in States and so when we were soldiers just friends on TV. He played to Cata on The Flash. Chris married twenty fifteen. They have a son and a daughter. That was Taylor Hanson singing for the Ban Hansen. Taylor is forty two born Tulsa, Oklahoma.

40:01 He is the second oldest of the seven Hanson kids. He his older brother Isaac and younger brother Zach form Hanson in nineteen ninety two. I didn't know that Taylor's things lead and plays keyboards some hits. Where's the Love? I will come to you this time around bos in Tsa, May twenty two, twenty four. It's Hanson Day twenty twenty five. Must be an annual thing if you want to celebrate everything Hanson. They're doing other shows over the summer. Taylor married two thousand and two. They have seven kids, four boys and three girls. King I know kind of makes you feel old, huh.

40:41 Teven kids? Okay, Now, we talked about it kind of a little bit off and on, but you're really you were a beautician at once and now you actually do some content creating right on TikTok. I think you're pretty bid. Yeah. So I never got a cosmetology license, but I did go to cosmetology cool. I was in it for just the experience, I think of cosmology. I don't know, it was interesting. I had like two cool teachers that felt very grief, like you know, you know, what's her name, Frenchie r Frenchie from Greece. Yeah. They were very much like, yeah, beauty school dropout. They were much like those teachers. So they smoked in the back. They had their beers like, yeah, it was a part of you. I don't do hair because I could not even out a haircut. I was really bad at it. I bought my mom too. What was it called the test the skateboard.

41:48 Yeah, but you know you could trust to her. Huh, yeah, it's a mom. I didn't want to work on a mannequin's head. It felt like, oh, that's really difficult. It was hard to work out a mannequin's had. But you know, I had to cut my mom's hair. She had bangs and it was like, I don't know, an inch or something you had to cut. Well, her bang's already short, and I was like, I can make my mom look stupid. So I didn't cut the I guess the inch that they wanted off the whole entire head. I left her bangs and they didn't pass me. So that was that was my experience. Never went back, never went back to State Board. I did work in the salon.

42:29 I was an assistant the hair swam here in Detroit, in Birmingham, Michigan, did that for a little bit. First of fout a license, just blow dried, put colors on people's fads, ownings. I think you're supposed to do that. I don't think you're supposed to shampoo had But she let me do all that, and then that was kind of it. I left everything beauty school. Didn't look back then from doing hair, I did make up, so I worked at like them all. My first job my makeup was at a place called Glamour Shots. Oh my god, aging myself and I'm so embarrassed. They're taking me down.

43:17 My whole life is so crazy. So I did the roller SATs, you know, So I took what I learned to do the school, and I sat hair and I did their makeup, and I dressed them in those stupid boash god, you know, the stupid BoA's in the classes and the sequent cool God uh so, yeah, I did that for a little while while I was going to college. Went to community college, and I dropped all the makeup and I said, I'm just going to college. I got to do what everybody else does, and I got to go be a nine to five or normal person. I got to go get a career. Got like, god, you know, can't be an artist. From somehow in my that I was like, I can't be an artist anymore. I just I gotta go make money and go do study psychology.

44:07 And that's actually what I did. So I didn't really really. I also just felt like I had to prove myself that I was smart for some reason, because you know, people for some reason think that a hairstylists or not, which is not true at all. I mean, they're genius, like you got to no formulas, you gotta know chemistry. They're very, very very intelligent people. I was not one of them. I would be back in the room and you know, trying to make the color and they'd be like, you need equal parts with this, equal parts of that. I was like, I fail chemistry. This isn't me. What I was too that was like low dry. I wasn't really good. I blew out hair very well. I could have worked at dry bars, but you can't work a drive bar without a license anyway. Yeah, so I just I took that and I ran with it. I didn't make up for a while, like I said. And then I went to the community college and then transferred and I went to Michigan State University and I studied psychology.

45:12 I got a baptism fight and then what was the question? And I started acting, right, and then I started it. But now people can really follow you on TikTok, right. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, so yeah, acting led to content creation, which makes sense. Right now we have to do self tape. We have to put ourselves on camera. Was getting used to that, and during the pandemic, I just started, like everybody else, getting on TikTok. Originally it was just to communicate with my younger nieces that they would even like me, because they wouldn't they would an answer my texts. So I had to find a way to communicate with them and connect. So I put myself on TikTok to equt me on TikTok, and that's kind of how it started.

46:04 And then in the pandemic, I, like everybody was born doing those little dances I was. I was called stitching or stitching songs and singing because I loved singing. And then I just started picking up products, beauty products, being like for them to show, like photography, or I'd go outside and I'd put a cleanser with the box in a tree, or don't you know these different things. I was looking back at my camera roll actually last night, and I was like, I don't remember doing that. I took the product. It was a moisturizer, and I put it in a plant in Los Angeles, California, and like a succulent plant, and I was like, oh wow, that was beautiful. And then I thought, well, I can maybe get paid to do something like this, or I don't know, maybe work for a brand, you know, because I've always been and commercials and I kind of get it like writing things or like writing jingles just in my head and be like almost predict what the jingle would be, or you know, things like that, and yeah, so I just I just started doing it and recording and you know it in the big red button and recording on TikTok.

47:23 It took about a year. Somehow I got a thousand followers if you get a thousand plus. I'm just very resourceful. So I follow people, I join their groups. I get every email you can imagine I have. I don't even RaSE my emails, but from hoow I got in this group called Whip Service and famil LEAs she's an amazing content creator teacher, and I just got in that group and I started learning and understanding what all this stuff meant, right analytics and checking my numbers and doing stuff like that.

48:03 And then you know, the other creators were talking about brand, brand giftings and collaborations, and I didn't know what anything meant. I just thought, I'm creative. I don't know. And then I just started learning. And then they would put out things, you know, go out for and to get gifting collaborations with brands, and then I started getting a few things here and there, like this positions formula was maybe one of my first and first kidn care. If you know Verse skincare, they have that that influencer had band that everybody wears. It's usually blue or pink. It's huge, it looks like a bubble on their head, you know, and just you know, getting little things like that from brands and when you get the gifting you as you want to record it, right, do you want to notice? And I just started doing that and somehow it's just all kind of I don't know, it's a snowball, but yeah, I guess it did. Got the ball rolling. And then with the help of this group, you know, I just was able to get some things going. And then I got on TikTok shop, which I think is good before.

49:18 And once you get a thousand followers, then TikTok shops start sending you. That's cool, and we're going to put at runs on shop. Yeah and yeah. In today's show notes, we'll also put a link to if you want to click on that, you can make it easy to get to her TikTok page. All right, we end with a quote every show today. It's Stephen Hawkings. He died today in twenty eighteen and seventy six years old. Steven said, however different, like however difficult life may seem, there is always something that you can do to succeed. That you've kind of proven that, haven't you. Love it? Well, thank you for much.

49:58 Working on it. Thank you well, thank you man. It's been great talking to you. I sure appreciate you being. On here absolutely, thank you so much for fun. We have our internet radio station. It's Country and Around radio, and today we're our artist. Today has been the Addington. We're gonna end with his song still not over You. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. Thank a couple of years, there's plenty of time from meeting put you behind me. I can never even happened. I can never even looked you at off. But here I am hanging on the cud ben want to do if I can do it all over again, trying to come up with ors say in.

50:40 Case you ever come. I'm still missing you like crazy. I still think about your baby every now and never tell you know. I wish you haven't left me like you love me when you love me, baby, I was not expecting to live going on me this hard. Still not over you