Nov 15th-Judge Wapner, Ed Asner, The Drifters, Petula Clark, ABBA, Beverly D'Angelo, Nickelback

0:10 Hello, I am Jeff. We welcome to history and Factor. It's about today, isn't about cool media? There's November the fifteenth cleaning house the fridge, Just cleaning out the fridge. Oh this kind of house books. Well he's the best there is. He called his buddies into help, and all they did was help themselves. Say that home, just cleaning house the fridge. It is National clean out your fridge Day. Go Yeah, nobody likes that jump. Technically you should be cleaning out your refrigerator every three to four months. Well hardly anyone does that, So it is recommended to do a really big, thorough cleaning at least once a year. That means unplugging it, cleaning out behind it, underneath it, than going to town on the inside. Now, yeah, it makes it look better, but it also does help it run more efficiently, and it keeps germs and smells from getting into different foods. Now, with the ol Wady is coming up, it's probably a good time a year to do that, So suck it up and clean out your frieze today. See what's going on in entertainment on November fifteenth.

1:11 Let's aback there. Nineteen seventy number one album was led Zeppelin three by led Zeppelin, The Jackson five and the number one song with I'll Be There Musky Sophead Conway Twitty. He had the number one country song with fifteen years Ago, I Don't Mention Your Name. The number one book was Love Story by Eric Siegel. The top movie was The Owl and the Pussycat. Our Nerdy Ryder gets into a relationship with the prostitute stars Barbara streisand George Siegel and Robert Klein. All right, let's sit up in the world on November the fifteenth. How many Jews do you think lived in New York City in sixteen sixty that was actually called New Amsterdam back then. Aser Levy he was the first one to be a licensed as a kosher butcher. Yeah, he turned that into the first kosher deli. He didn't stop there. He went on to be the first Jude to serve in an American militia and the first own land. Now there is actually a park in New York City, the Asher Levy Park, that's named after him. Now you probably know more about him than people go to that park. Seventeen seventy seven, the Articles of Confederation

2:45 was passed by the Continental Congress, so it was sent to the States to be ratified. It was ratified in seventeen eighty one. Then it served as our first US Constitution until seventeen eighty nine when the current institution kicked in and he guesses on the first cat the college in the United States. It was Georgetown open today in seventeen ninety one. Now wasn't named after George Washington. Now it was named after the two guys who owned the land, George Gordon and George Bill. Eighteen oh six, Zebulun Pike. He first saw Pike's Peak in what's today now Colorado. Now, after he saw it, took him almost a week in order to get to the base of the mountain. Now, him and his man they tried to climb it, but they couldn't get to the top for nothing. So to help their spirits out, he declared, no one will ever climb this mountain. Now you can drive up it, take a train or a tram. Yeah, they even have a race up. We have the Pikes Speak Marathon, so you can run up the fastest. Nineteen fifty four, Scandinavian Airlines started the first flights commercial flights to fly over the North Pole. They went from Copenhagen, Denmark to Los Angeles' Fighte you had to stop and Winnipeg, Canada for guess. Nineteen sixty nine, Dave Thomas he opened up the first Windy's Restaurants in Columbus, Ohio, named it after his fourth daughter, Wendy. Her likeness is the freckle faced girl that's on the logo. So he probably went, why did he name it after his fourth daughter? Well, would you rather go to Wendy's or go to Pam's, Lori's or Molly's. So Wendy's worked. But in nineteen seventy eight, Dave he did open up the Sister's Chicken and Biscuit restaurants.

4:11 Yeah, that was in reference to the other three girls. Yeah, it didn't do so well. Two thousand and one, the first x Back Xbox game console went on sale at an auction. In twenty seventeen, Leonardo da Vinci's painting Salvath Door Monday and sold for four hundred and fifty point three million dollars. It is still the world record price for a piece of art. Now the painting it depicts Christ as the Savior of the world. Now the previous time that painting went on sale at auction, and it was nineteen fifty eight. So for one hundred and twenty five bucks, go cot Co Coach, goat Shawe. This shivers day, were gonna pause. He left this shiverfday. We gonna sit ple cage. He left this shibirthday. And you know we don't do That's birthday, suits Bourla on November the fifteenth.

4:57 Astronomer William Herschel. He was born in Germany in seventeen thirty eight. Pretty much lived his whole life in England, though seventeen seventy four he created the first really large telescope. Seventeen eighty one, he used it to discover a planet that was out pass Saturn. Now, he tried to name this new planet after King George the Third, but the rest of the world said no, no, no, hell no, we're not going for that. So everybody just called that new planet Herschel. Now I don't know if Herschel was an ass, but they ended up changing the name in calling it Uranus. He was married and had one child. He died after a very long illness in eighteen twenty two at eighty three years old. Now before Judge Judy and all those other courtroom TV shows. There was Judge Wapner in the People's Court.

5:57 Joseph Wapner. He was born in Los Angeles in nineteen ninety. He was a judge in Los Angeles for over twenty years, retired in nineteen seventy nine. Then in nineteen eighty one they wanted a try new TV show out kind of this courtroom thing, so he became a judge on the People's Court, did that for twelve years and then retired again in nineteen ninety three. He was married back in nineteen forty six. They had one daughter and two sons. Wapner. He died in twenty seventeen at ninety seven years old. Actor Ed Asner. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in nineteen twenty nine. He did a lot of movies and a lot a lot of TV shows. None of us were going to count him. Starred on The Mary Tyler Mower Show, which was a comedy. They spun it often at lou Grant, which was a drama. He started doing TV back in nineteen fifty seven. He won seven Primetime Emmys, that's the most of any male actor. Then he played Santa Claus in eight different movies. Edi worked up until he died in twenty twenty one at ninety one years old from natural causes.

6:49 He had three children from his first wife. Then he divorced after twenty nine years. So he had a daughter with a little fling. Yeah, I guess he was a player. Married a second wife for twenty five years and then they divorced. You know the lamb long ran rudor pail Holladi ring long lost Pail. I went to the window to the line and asked him to tell me what was on j That was Cleige mcfatter singing for the Drifters. He was born in Durham, North Carolina in nineteen thirty two. When he was seventeen years old, he hit with the band Billy Ward and the Dominoes. So with that he was inspired and he formed his own group called the Drifters. Did that nineteen fifty three. They had to hitch money, honey, such a knife, honey love. Then he left the Drifters, the group that he formed in nineteen fifty five, to go solo. Now he did all right solo, but nothing as big as the Drifters became.

7:47 He was the first person inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice for The Drifters and Solo now Clyde. He had a major, major alcohol problem. It got him Yeah in nineteen ninety or nineteen seventy two, when he was thirty nineine years old. He had one daughter and one son. Signs already has I like so much brighter if you count cattle your trump, clus cattle your cast st Patula Clark she's ninety one years old. She was born in Ool, England in nineteen thirty two, started singing professionally at eight years old in nineteen thirty nine. She still performs eighty three years later, Yeah, but not a lot. She has released songs in French, German, Italian, Spanish. Some of her biggest English hits Downtown, I Know a Place, This is my song, My Love. She has recorded over one thousand songs in her lifetime solo over fill seventy million records. Now she was the best selling female British singer of all time until Adele passed her up a year or so ago. She got married in nineteen sixty one and they had two daughters. Now they're both alive, but they never divorced. See they just haven't lived together for the last twenty years. After Sam Waterston.

9:05 He's eighty three. He's born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in nineteen forty. It has been in over eighty movies, some of them are Capricorn. Wan got nominated for an Academy Award for The Killing Fields and he was a hand on her Sisters Heaven's Gate. On TV, he started a lawn order from nineteen ninety four to twenty ten. Then he came back in twenty twenty two. I guess he's still doing it. He's been in over four hundred episodes. He had a son from his first wife, married his second wife in nineteen seventy six and they have three children. In the group Abba, the dark haired woman, Yeah that was Annie freed Linkstad. But see that was back in Old Abba. See now she dyes her hair blonde to hire up the gray. But yeah, in the Old Abba, when you see the dark gird girl, yeah that was Annie. She was born a belengin Norway in nineteen forty five, seventy eight year old. She grew up in Sweden.

10:09 Now when she was in Sweden, she was a successful solo singer surprised everyone when she decided to join a group called Abba Good calling her part Abba sold over four in a million records. Abbat it's just the first letter in each of their first names. Now. They were together from nineteen seventy two and nineteen eighty two, and they got back together in twenty sixteen. And she did have some success when they were on their break during all those years in Europe, but not in the United States. She married when she was eighteen years old and had two daughters. They divorced after six years. Nineteen ninety two she married her third husband. He was a prince in Switzerland. Well, he died from lim foma in nineteen ninety nine, but they can't take away her title, so she's still a princess. Actors Beverly di'angelo. She was born in Columbus, Ohio in nineteen fifty one, seventy two year old. She's been an over sixty movies. First got known in the movie Hair Let Everybody See Her Boobies. Then she played Patsy Kline in Colemine His Daughter. She did all those National Lamboon Vacation movies, did American History X.

11:05 She married once for fourteen years After they divorced, she had twins with al Pacino. They broke up after about six years, So sorry story rock stream. The lead singer for the band Nickelback is Chad Kroger. He's forty nine. He's born a Hanna, Canada in nineteen seventy four. Helped form Nickelback in nineteen ninety five. They sold over fifty million albums. That makes them Canada's all time best selling rock band. It also makes them the best selling rock band the century. Some of their heads someday photograph rockstar. How you Remind Me? Chad? He does a lot of writing and singing with other artists. He was married to singer Avril Levine for two years. That might be a record for her, all right. Today's fact that owenya beer.

12:05 In Hebrew the word kosher it literally means fit. It defines what food is fit for consumption. Thank you for being here today. If you get a chanced up by Coolmedia dot Com, It's cool with three us. See what's going on on the podcast The Cool Gas and the radio station. Let's end today with country singer a longtime host of he Roy Clark. I still get bad honeymoon feeling after all the issues. Heart golesbreed every time you touch me. Still I still get bad honeymoon feeling. I can still hear those web bells. Ready, we'll say I did that on purpose because Roy, he was a quite the jokester. Roy died in Today in twenty eighteen, at eighty five years old. I was always the token bunpkin. Yeah.

13:01 It was because, hey, they would say, let's get that cluck guy. He's easy to get along with. You guys all have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow