May 18-Toilet Paper, Pope John Paul II, Perry Como, Devo, George Strait, Tina Fey, Big Joe Turner, Dirty Dishes

0:19 Hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factor. It's about today present a back cool media. It is May the eighteenth. I get up and going to work in the morning. I come right home at night. When I leave, the sink is empty. When I come back home, she gotta stacks up on her side. Two minute dirty dishes. In the scene. Today is National No Dirty Dishes Day, So keep your sink clean and empty. That also includes your dishwashing. No hiding him in there. It's no dirty dishes Day. Now.

1:01 You can use disposable cups or plates or utensils, but you're supposed to do it. Today is all about let's wash your dishes as you're dirty them. Yeah, just make it a habit. If you dirty it, clean it funk Shui. It says that dirty dishes that freeze up your mind for positive thoughts and what you really desire. So I guess I'm gonna out to eat today. So what happened in entertainment on May the eighteenth? It's back to nineteen ninety one. Then my album was Mariah Carey and Mariah Carey High five. Add the numb one song with I Like the Way the Kissing Game, No. Kick in. Excise me Kissing George Straight had the number one song with if I know Me, If final.

2:01 Me, I'll turn his car around. I won't get halfway through town and now be sorry, I'll stop him car. Did you say sorry? The number one book was Loves Music Loves to Dance by Mary Higgins Clark. Top movie was What About Bob? A psychopara psychotherapist. He goes crazy after an obsessive compulsive neurotic patient is Yeah, he shows up on his family vacation stars Richard Dreyfuss, I'm Bill Murray. Unless it had happened on May the eighteenth, fifteen oh four, Michaelangelo his statue of David. It was placed in front of the Plaza de la Signora. See it waited six tons now.

2:49 When Michael Adnego was originally hired to make that statue, it was for the Florence Cathedral. But now that he was done making it, they realize that there's no way they can move that six ten statue all the way across town to the Florence Cathedral. So they slid it across the street to the Plaza daili signoron and said, hey, it looks good. Since eighteen seventy eight, David, it's been at an art gallery over there in Florence. Sixteen fifty two, Rhode Island, they enacted the first law in North America declaring slavery illegal eighteen thirty. England's Edward Budding. He invented the world's first lawnmower. Nineteen twenty seven in bath Township, Michigan, Andrew Kiyoh, he committed the worst school massacre in history. Now, he was angry for losing his reelection as a school board treasurer, and he's also having some serious financial problems. Yeah, his farm was about to be foreclosed, so he put explosives all around the Bath school, went home, killed his wife.

3:38 Then he went back to the school and detonated those explosives. Thirty eight elementary school kids and six adults were killed. Now, in the aftermath, as everyone was running around looking for survivors, helping the wounded, putting out the fires, he was sitting in his truck when he saw the school superintendent bull up. He called them over to his truck, and when the superintendent got over there, Yeah, he detonated his truck. He blew it up, killed himself. The superintendent and an eight year old boy who survived the original explosion. Now it's called the Baskeool massacre. Now after it was all over authority. As they were investigating Kio, they discovered that he had enough farm equipment and machinery on his farm that if he sold it all, he could have gotten rid of his financial problems. Nineteen fifty three, American pilot Jacqueline Cochrane, she became the first female pilot to break this alum mayra.

4:22 Yeah. She did it at Rogers Dry Lake in California. Now, when she said she wanted to do it, when she first got that idea, went to the United States, United States said hell, no, you're a girl, you can't do that. So she went over and borrowed a plane from Canada. They let her do it. Nineteen sixty seven, Oklahoma became the first state to make artificial insemination legal in humans. Nineteen seventy four, India became the sixth country to detonated an atomic bomb. One of eight countries have detonated atomic bombs. I think there's probably nine, though Israel they just want to admit to having them. Nineteen eighty everyone knew is going to rupt Washington Mount Saint Helens. It did disappointed, flattened everything over two hundred and thirty square miles because the largest landside ever documented in human history. Now most of the people had evacuated, but fifty seven people were killed.

5:10 Now before the eruption Mount Saint Helen, It's stood nine thousand, six hundred and seventy seven feet tall. After the eruption eight three hundred and sixty three feet ap almost thirteen hundred feet blew off. Joke, joke, joked, joke. Show just shivers day. Please don't pause. He left this shiver day. We won't simple targe. He let this shiverbth day. And you you don't do that, okay. It was born on May the eighteenth. One of the greatest inventors of all time, Seth Wheeler. He was born in Claythland, New York in eighteen seventy one. Seth he invoided the invented the toilet paper that we used today pretty much. It was on a roll and it was perforated and everything. Now, honestly, where would you rate toilet paper? It's importance in your daily life. Hi, you might not think about it until you need it. Then it is very, very high priority and Satteven invented the bracket that hild the roll of toilet paper. He was married, had four children. They He died a very, very rich man in nineteen twenty five at eighty seven years old. Wouldn't make cool if his coffin was shaped like a roll, But it wasn't shaped like a two. It was a regular coffin.

6:15 Wills about money, go in shape ro shake roll, shake roll, shake roll. That was big Joe Turner. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in nineteen eleven. He was called a blue shouter and one of the most influential singers in the formation of rock and roll. He dropped out of school at fourteen years old to support his family. He became a very well known singing bartender in the Kansas City club scene. His first hit song and sell a million records, was nineteen fifty one. His song Change of Love follow that up but shake, Rattle and roll flip Flop Fling Koreana Krena.

6:58 It got him into the Rock and Roll Hall of Now. He was married all those years. They didn't have any children. He performed pretty much jazz festivals. In the later years of his life, performed right up until he died in nineteen eighty five or seventy four years old from heart failure. Too week to break the change the mind me, I need no shackles to remind me. Justin Frisner. Perry Cromo. He was born in Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania, in nineteen twelve. Perry he started as a barber. Now he would sing around the shop as he cut hair and swept the floor. Yeah.

7:42 All he ever wanted to do was be a barber. That was his whole life's ambition. But a big band came to town and him and his friends went to see the show. His friends urged him to get up on stage and sing with the band. Perry went on to sing over sell over one hundred million records. In the late nineteen fifties, he won five straight Emmy Awards for his TV show Now he did a Christmaspace on TV every year from nineteen sixty seven. In nineteen ninety four, he was married for sixty four years when his wife died. They had three children. Perry died in his sleep six days before his eighty ninth birthday in two thousand and one. Pope John Paul the Second he is born Carol Wo shit Die and Wadawizz Poland in nineteen twenty it was ordained a priest in nineteen forty six, became a cardinal in nineteen sixty seven, became Pope nineteen seventy eight. With Pope until he died in two thousand and five at eighty four years old. His twenty six year reign is Pope.

8:28 It's the third longest of all the popes. He may he was beginning sent in twenty fourteen. Now I'm gonna guess most of you don't know. The TV show Bonanza actor Pernell Roberts. He was born on Waycross, Georgia. In nineteen twenty eight. He played the oldest son, Adam Cartwright on Bonanza. Later on he started a trapper John MD Now. He appeared in over sixty TV series. He had a son from his first wife, married his fourth wife in nineteen ninety seven. They're together until he died from pink creatic cancer in twenty ten, eighty one years old.

9:12 Now it. Shyest say go forward ahead. He went on around That's Mark Mothers bas singing lead for the band Devo. Mark is seventy six. He was born in Akron, Ohio in nineteen fifty A Divo. They're still together. They're going out on tour June second through the end of August. See him co found a Divo when he was going to Kent State University. Now, after that Kent State shooting, the band came up with the word devolution. That's what their comment on what's the society was turning into? Well, they played around, then they shortened to divo and then they got successful. Whip It. I can't get no satisfaction through being cool, the Doctor Detroit movie theme. Some of their biggest hits. You'll here if you go see Devo on their fiftieth anniversary commercial or tour.

10:12 Now Mark he married and they have to his second wife and they have two daughters. Got them problem, I'm a dream, Oh my ghost film ns. Down round it just come Wow. That song Unwound was the first song that George Strait ever released, and back in nineteen eighty one, made it up to number six on the Country chart. Since then, he's had sixty number one songs. Now that's the most of all time, kind of by a lot. Really, eighty six of his songs have gone in the top ten.

10:52 That's not a record. Eddie Arnold had ninety two songs going to the top ten. Bet Eddie only had twenty eight good to number one. George who was born in potit Text in nineteen fifty three seventy four today Georgie eloped with his high school sweetheart in nineteen seventy one. They had a daughter in nineteen seventy two, and sadly that daughter she was killed in the car crash when she was thirteen years old. They have one son, he was born in nineteen eighty one. Now George, he is the only artist in the history of music of any genre to have a top ten song every year for thirty straight years, and he is only behind Elvis and the Beatles for most platinum albums. Actress comedian Tina Fey. She's fifty six. She's born in Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania. In nineteen seventy. She got the scar on her left chackmen she has five years old. A stranger slashed her in the alley behind their house. Tann she first got known on Saturday Night Live. She was on there from ninety seventy two thousand and six. Then she created thirty Rock, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt s i'ment Tina's movie is Our Baby Mama, Wisko Tangy Foxtrott, the Mean Girls movies. She was our writer and producer on those. Got married in two thousand and one and they have two daughters. Our quote of the day, we're gonna go with actress Jill Ireland.

11:57 Jill died today in nineteen ninety at fifty four years Jill said, I'm a fighter, not a victim. Think of yourself and make the most of the rest of your life. Jill was fighting cancer. Well, thank you all for joining us today. We sure appreciate you listening. Don't forget to follow us on whoever you listen to us on and check out coolmedia dot com. That's cool of three ohs and yeah, get all the links to the podcast and the radio stations and all that good stuff. Now today, our country underground radio artist the day is not coming from a request. I'm gonna answer a whole bunch of email questions about what it is now. What we open with everydy show is called God Did Good by din At Corcoran. So you're gonna hear the whole thing now instead of just the first eighteen seconds. You guys, have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

13:00 Everything about you turns me on. When you shake your hips, you were out of my bone. Set a little present. I don't wood, but God need you, God Dido. From your skin to shirt to the holes in your jeans, you raise my heart like I'm sixteen. From the chrome on your buckle to under the God need you. God did you. God did good when you push you together. From your head down to your toes, working over time. Couldn't do any better the all when will live the nose, I've.

13:40 Been blessed with more than I should. When God made you, God did good.