May 24-Asparagus, Tommy Chong, Bob Dylan, Patti LaBelle, Priscilla Presley, Rosanne Cash, Heavy D, Cameo

0:19 Hey, Hello, I am Jeff, and welcome to History and Factor. It's about today. Today's made the twenty fourth. I spare, I guess I'll spare And guess here's something funny? Hop sparing? Gust quite snip hop? What it is? Who knows? Jeesuiz? I stare A guess I'll sparing. Guess here's something funny? Upstaring? Guess he quit snip hop? What it is? Who knows? Jewiz? Today is National Asparagus Day. Sure is gonna make everybody's piasting. That's really really healthy for us. Yeah, it tastes really good. Now. The great crity in asparagus about three thousand BC. Asparagus, it just means shoot or a sprout. Now you can grill it, bake it, steam it, boil it, fry it, eat it raw however you like. Now it takes for years for an osparras to go from a seat. When you can harvest it. After then then you can harvest it for decades. It'll live for a long time. Oh aspargas. Yeah, it's really good for hangovers, so keep that in mind over this long holiday weekend. Okay, let's see what happened to entertainment on made the twenty fourth Let's back to twenty twenty one and what album was A gangsta is paying by Moneybags?

1:22 Yo. Olivia Adrigo had the number one song with good for You Look gobs At the number one country song with Forever after All, with no Mala Man. No mail Man, Maybe something last.

2:11 Forever after. The number one buck was twenty first Birthday by James Patterson and Maxine Fait Trow Todd Moody was a Quiet Place. Part two now Here are the Abbess. They realized that the creatures that hunt by sound aren't the only ones after him stars Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmons, and John Kriskinski. All right, and see what happened On May the twenty fourth. Mary had a little lamb. Its fleece was white as snow. Everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go. He followed her to school one day. That was against the rules. They made their children laugh and play to see the lamb at school. Now that is actually a true story. Yipa was written by a school teacher named Sarah Hale. One day, one of her students, Mary came into class and yeah, her pet lamb followed her in.

2:58 After the while the lamb started to be a distraction for the castle. Sarah actually moved that lamb outside, waited for Mary. Then the school was over. Yeah, because waited and walk home with her. Now, Sarah, she thought that was really cute, so she wrote that poem. It was published today in eighteen thirty. Then in eighteen seventy seven the poem Mariatta Little Lamb. It became the first voice recording in history. Thomas Edis said he recited when he made his first voice recording in eighteen forty four. Are the world's first telegraph message was sent. It went from Washington, Dcate to Baltimore, Maryland. Samuel Morris. He tapped out what heth God wrought. Now the people in Baltimore probably thinking the same thing. We are, what in the hell is he talking about? Eighteen eighty three of the Brooklyn Bridge opened up, connected Brooklyn with New York City over the East River. Now that was an amazing architecture, a little achievement back in that time. Took him fourteen years to bill the twenty seven guys died who were working on it. Boston.

3:50 In eighteen ninety nine, the first automobile repair shop actually opened up the United States. Nineteen thirty one, the first air conditioned train car installed on the B and O Railroad. I think that kind of sounds kind of funny, our conditioned train card being a railroad. Let's just think about it. Nineteen seventy, the Soviet Union started drining the cola super deep borehole. Now they wanted to drill as nine inch wide hole as deep as possible. They started. They stopped drilling it in nineteen ninety five. Yeah, they just ran out of money. Now they didn't find anything too exciting, but they were able to drin drill down seven and a half miles. Yeah, that's the farthest in the crust and we've ever gone. It is actually four thousand feet deeper than the Marianna's trench. Two thousand and one, fifteen year old shirt by Timba Tshiri. He began the first person or the youngest person ever to climb in Summit Mount Everest.

4:42 Joke dope, joked, cop, joked joke, shog just shimbf day. Wen he left this shiver day. We won't simple cars like this shibf day. And you know we don't. Well, that's just it was born on May the twenty fourth Harry Burnett Race. He just went by H. B. Reese. He's born in York County, Pennsylvania, in eighteen seventy nine. Now, I started out managing a dairy for Hershey. He had supplied all the milk for the milk chocolate. Well, Hershey, they closed the dairy farm. Yeah. That left Race without a job and he had a wife and sixteen kids to support. Well. Luckily, he invented Reese's Peanut Butter cups in nineteen twenty eight. Now, Harry, he died a very rich man in nineteen fifty six, a seventy six year old from a heart attack. Seven years after he died, Reese's and Hershey's actually merged.

5:31 I've been smoke. Let's whar my money go in my loans sometimes a mine. That was the tong in Chichen Chong, Tommy Chong. He's eighty eight. He was born Edmonton, Canada, in nineteen thirty eight. Now, if you go to Chichinchong dot com the other wedd they're celebrating Tommy's birthday, so you get thirty percent off all their thac products. You can get edibles, drinks, vapors, whatever you want. Yeah, you might not Teaching Chong. They kind of like pot Now Tommy. He was in a soul band in the nineteen sixties. Nineteen seventy one he quit music and teamed up with Teach Marin. They were very successful standout, so lots of records. I round about a dozen movies. Someone were up in Smoke teaching Chong's new movie Still Smoking Now. He had two daughters from his first wife. One of them's actors, Raydon Chung married his second wife in nineteen seventy five and they have four kids.

6:32 He isn't many times he's mostling loss fly Revland, and some he's blowing in the wind. Yeah, blowing. That was Bob Dylan. He's eighty five, born in Duluth, Minnesota, in nineteen forty one. Now, somehow that dude is solo for one hundred and forty five million records. Released his first album in nineteen sixty two. At leased his fortieth album two years ago. Now some songs that you might have heard of are blown in the wind, the times they are changing, lack of rolling stone, knocking on heavens star now Bob. He won the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature when he was in twenty sixteen. He had four children from his first wife. One of them is Jacob Dillon.

7:22 They have the lead singer for Ben the Wallflowers. Then Bob had one child from his second wife. After they divorced, he had another kid, but now he was just fooling around blowing in the wind. Actor Gary Berghoff. He was born in Bristol, Connecticut. He's eighty two. He played Corporal Radar O'Reilly in the movie and TV series Match. Only actor to do that now have Before Match. Gary played Charlie Brown on the musical You're a Good Man Charlie Brown. For that, he was a drummer in a band who was called the Relatives. Their lead singer was this lady named Linda Carter. She'd go on to play Wonder Woman. Gary's twice divorced. He had a daughter from his first wife and two sons from his second wife. Do you want to give it a dollar? Old Lady Mama?

8:20 The godmother of soul. Patti LaBelle She's eighty two, born in Philadelphia in nineteen forty four. Now in the sixties. She started out in the Patty LaBelle and the Bluebells. Then they changed them just to LaBelle nineteen seventy five, she got out of that record contract, so then she was able to go solo Patti LaBelle. Some of her hits are Lady Marma Laude, the best is yet could come If only you knew on my own. That was with Michael McDonald. Now she's solo fifty million records. She was married for nineteen sixty nine to two thousand and three and they had five children when they divorced after thirty four years. Now, Patty, she's kicking out for tour. She did it yesterday. Priscilla Presley she was born in Brooklyn Naval Hospital in New York City nineteen forty five, eighty one years old today.

9:02 Now. She met Elvis Went she was fourteen years old and an army base in Germany. When Elvis got out of the army in nineteen fifty nine and came back to the United States, he kept in touch with Priscilla, so she came to the United States three years later moved into Graceland with him. They got married in nineteen sixty seven, had Lisa Marine, and then divorced in nineteen seventy three. So since the divorce, Priscilla needed a job, so she went into acting. Probably best known for her she was on the TV show Dallas and then she did the Naked Gun movies. Now, she did live with a boyfriend for twenty two years and they had a son. Now, when Elvis died, Priscilla, she took over running the estate. Yeah, it was for Lisa Marie because Lisa Marine was only nine years old. So when Elvis died though he was almost broke. Yeah, he blew most of his money. Priscilla she was able to turn his estate around, made it into a money making machine, made Graceland one of the biggest tourist attractions in the country. She made more money for Elvis's estate than Elvis made when he was alive.

9:55 She stepped down from running it when Lisa Marie turned twenty one years old. Danceyrd he is Larry Blackman, singing lead for the band Cameo seventy Today. Born in New York City in nineteen fifty six. Back in nineteen seventy two, he started the New York City Players. Now they were a fourteen member band. They had a horn section and everything. Well, they got in trouble legally because they were too close to the Ohio Players. So they changed the name to Cameo, which is just a brand of cigarettes that were sold in the Canada at the time. They cut their band in half. Yeah, and they started having a lot more success.

10:46 They say they're Funkadelic and then they with the pop and hip hop of reggae infusion. Now she's strange, freaky, dancing, word up candy. Yeah, some of the hits if you go see Hm. Yeah, they're gonna do some shows this summer. They're supporting. They released a song for the first time in nineteen years, Larry. He has two sons, and the people. Came from all around and all the dues from there to homstin. We're slipping away from home in June in the home Teage Doul, listen to the Little Talking Boy who was playing in Tennessee. Claptop up.

11:27 Country singer Roseanne Cash is seventy one. She's born in Memphis in nineteen fifty five. Now Roseanne. She is Johnny Cash's oldest child. She was born from his first wife, Vivian, Now Roseanne. She made a name for herself when she released her first album back in nineteen seventy eight. Now she's had thirteen songs that have gone to number one over the years. Some of them are seven Year Egg, Tennessee, Flat Top Box, I Don't want to spoil the Party, Runaway Train. She was married to country singer Rodney Crowd for twelve years and they had three daughters. She's been married her second essence is nineteen ninety five and they have a son, actor John c He's sixty one. He's born in Chicago in nineteen sixty five. Been in a lot of big movies, been in over eighty total. Some of his serious movie is were River Wild, Boogie Knights, The Perfect Storm, Dominae for an Oscar for Chicago. Some of his silly comedies were Talladega Knights, Step Brothers, Guardians of the Galaxy.

12:18 Now. He got married nineteen ninety two and they have two sons. Just tra Just Say Well, The Pampasack of cop Quick Brad Guys, Shake Me, Shake Me say. Today to Bakey leaves us. Like fine, your body say you move your body said. Come on. It was quite sure that what is going with doing about scream. He was born Dwight Myers, but he is really famous as the rapper Heavy d is born in Mandeville, Jamaica in nineteen sixty seven. Grew up in Mount Vernon, New York. Now he had his biggest success with Heavy D in the Boys. They released five albums. Then he had he released four albums just as Heavy D solo. Some of that songs between to him you might know is now that we found love, Somebody for Me or get Me Waiting Black Coffee did the theme to that TV show in Living Color. Now he had one daughter. In twenty eleven, forty four years old, he died from pulmonary embolism. He got a blood clott and his lung. I think it was probably from a very long plain fight that he was on. All Right, I say our quote of the day, We're gonna go with Duke Ellington. Duke died today in nineteen seventy four, at seventy five years old. He said, a problem is a chance for you to do your best.

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