Oct 1-Walter Mathau, Jimmy Carter, Julie Andrews, Randy Quaid, Zach Galifaianakis, Brie Larson

0:19 Hi, I am Jeff, and welcome to History and Factor. It's about today. It is October the first. Now I'm still trying to figure out what to celebrate for the national day to day. I mean, it's International Coffee Day, but we just celebrated coffee two days ago. His National Homemade Cookie Day that there are lots of days about cookies throughout the year. Is National black Dog Day, but I don't have one of those. National Pumpkin Seed Day. That's he to be closer to Halloween, I think. So, I guess I'm gonna have to break down and celebrate something that I just don't have a lot of nowadays. Shining gleam and steam. Yesterday is National hair Day. I hear your brother. Now haircare, it's come a long way since Cleopatra washed her hair and donkey milk. Now to do today? Right? They want you to celebrate kind of a show off. How hair is your personality? You know, you just do something different, be something spontaneous, maybe get a different cut. You don't have to go too while, just have fun with your hair, and yes, remember to do proper hair care today and all that kind of stuff. Now, I don't want to be a downer. But I just want to remind everybody that you realize though, that for every hair that you can actually see on your head near your body, yeah, it means it's dead. That's right, the hair. It's dead as a follicle. So that's a lot of money that's been spent on something that's dead.

1:47 Just putting it out there though. Okay, I'm a little jealous of you with hair, all right. It is October eighth month. Well it was the eighth month. Burst stones of October opal and turmaline. The birth flowers are Mara golden Cosmo. Now, if you're born in October, let means you're you other a lie brere scorpio. October's four moon. It's the Harvestman. Okay, that's who's going on entertainment in October first, that's back. In nineteen seventy eight, number one album was a Grease movie soundtrack. Exile had the number one song with kiss You All Over, Kursue, Oh, the Kissue Off Till the Night Closer Clo Dolly Pardoner the number one country song with Heartbreaker.

2:43 But fun I'm Josh like we Shan't see a little over was Blasting Sweet Anger. The number one book was Chesapick by James Mitchener. The top movie was Animal House. Now Animal House, that might be the best documentary of all time. If follows a group of young men in college and they have to deal with basically drinking and girls and all that kind of stuff. We'll try to maintain good grades, and then it goes south. See the young guys, they're really innocent, pier they get pushed to the brink by a really authority of czar who actually ruins their college. Yeah, so I'm want to check that out. It's kind of entertaining.

3:34 I would have been not October the first. Now, during the Civil War, if you were drafted up into the Union army, Yeah, you could actually pay the substitute for it. That's right back there, that it was legal. You could have. The rich guys would pay another guy around three hundred bucks to actually go into the army for him. Well today, in eighteen sixty four, John summerfalls Staples, he was paid five hundred bucks. Yeah, he was substitute for Yes, President Abraham Lincoln. Say Lincoln, he wanted to He's like everybody else, except with the guys with money. Now in South they used substitutes down there in the Confederacy too. Now, some of those substitutes down south, they got up to three thousand dollars, so they knew they weren't coming back. Now. Staples, though, he had a pretty good felling in for Lincoln. Yeah, he didn't see any action, and he was pretty much a clerk, and then he ended up as a prison guard.

4:18 Now today it's a big day for socialists out there, not just here in the United States, but worldwide. Eighteen sixty seven, Karl Marx published his book Dos Capitel. It talked all about how he thought that capitalism system sucked. In eighteen ninety the United States Congress created the seventy National Park out there in California. It was a second national park. Yeah, Yellowstone is first. Eighteen ninety one Stanford University opened up. Now Leland and Jane Stanford they had actually donated forty million dollars or endoubted or whever to start the university. Say, they created it to honor their son, Leland Junior. Now, he died when he was fifteen years old from typhoid fever. So today it's actually Stanford's official name. Yeah, it's Leland Stanford Junior University. Now that forty million dollar dollars that they granted or endowed or whatever be about one point five billion dollars a day. Nineteen oh eight for it's mudlet cars went on sale eight hundred and fifty bucks nine hundred and fifty if you wanted to come fully loaded. Now cars at that time costs around two to three thousand bucks. Eighth and fifty dollars back then would be about twenty nine grand. Today. Big party in China today, yep, It's national Holiday nineteen forty nine.

5:24 The People's Republic that China was foreigned by Mausei Tung. I mean, sure China, it goes back a couple thousand years and everything. But see they only celebrate the current communist regime. So today in China they considered their seventy six birthday. Yeah, they celebrate the party and not the country. Nineteen seventy one Disney World open up cost three dollars and fifty cents to get in. Today if you want to go, the average cost is around hundred and sixty bucks to get in. You go to Epcot that that open the day in nineteen eighty two, nineteen eighty nine, fifty two year old US Army General Columpo became the youngest and first black Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Now that is the highest military position anybody can hold. Joke, joked, joke, dish Shibbert Day, We're gonna he left dish shiburt Day.

6:10 We won't sit potage. He left thish Shiburt Day. And you you don't do Birthday. Okay was born on October. The first actor Walter Matthow. He was born in New York City. In nineteen twenty won an Oscar for the movie Fortune Cookie. He was in over eighty movies, made ten with his buddy Jack Lemon. He had the Odd Couple and all those grumpy old men movies. That was something Walter. He was nominated for Oscars for a Cotch and the Sunshine Boys. Didn't win those, but he won two Tonys. I never picture. Walter Matthow on brons with He had two sons and a daughter from his first wife. Married his second wife in nineteen sixty nine and they had one son, Walter. He died from heart failure in two thousand at seventy nine years old. Jimmy Carter he was born in Plaines, Georgia in nineteen twenty four. During World War Two. He's in the navy, came home and became a peanut farmer around there in Georgia, went into local politics, then more local Poul being the governor Georgia.

7:01 Ended up as the thirty ninth President of the United States, served from nineteen seventy seven to nineteen eighty one. Now, he lived the longest of any president we have. He lived one hundred years old and he lived forty four years after he was president. That's the longest anybody's done that, man Carter. He was the first president born in a hospital. So yeah, those were all his major accomplishments. They didn't do much as president. Now. Jimmy married Roslyn in nineteen forty six and they had three sons and one daughter. They're mad married seventy seven years when Roslyn died in twenty twenty three. Now, Jimmy and he just died last December, just a couple of months after his one hundredth birthday. Actor Tom Bosley. He was born in Chicago in nineteen twenty seven. Best known by Howard Cunningham on the TV show Happy Days. Then he was the sheriff on murder, she wrote, and then he was the priest and the father dowling mysteries. That's kind of funny. He was Jewish now he was before TV. Bosley.

7:50 He won a Tony on Broadway too. He had a daughter from his first wife, married his second wife in nineteen eighty. There together until he died from the staff infection in twenty ten, eighty three years old. Actor Georgie Papard. He was born in Detroit nineteen twenty eight. He first got famous when he co starred with Audrey Hepburn in the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's. Then he's in Pork Shop Hill, How the West Was Long? The Third Day? Now get this. He was cast to play Blake Carrington on the TV show Dynasty three weeks before it went on the air. Yeah, they fired him, so they had to do all the scenes they had shot with him. They had to have John Forsyth come in and redo him the part. He went too bummed out. He just went over and he played Annibal Smith on the TV show The eighteen George. He had a son and a daughter from his first wife, then he had a son from his second wife. Then he married and divorce three more times, real fast Now.

8:35 He died from lun cancer nineteen ninety four, at sixty five years old. With the song of Muy with songs. They have sung a thousand hues hard with a song. Julie Andrews, she's ninety years old today. She's born on Walton on Thames, England, nineteen thirty five. Now. She started performing when she was ten and she still is. She won an Oscar for playing Mary Puppins. She was nominated for Oscars for the Sound of Music and Victor Victoria.

9:17 She had a daughter from her first thousband. Then she married movie director Blake Edwards in nineteen sixty nine and they had one son and three daughters. Blake He died in twenty ten. Doman the Herb in Peaches and Herb is Herb Fame. Hey, He's been there since the beginning in nineteen sixty six. Seven different women have sung as Peaches. Currently Wanda Macall she is Peaches. Yeah, they're performing, they go out on tour and everything her He was eighty four.

10:01 He was born in Washington, DC in nineteen forty one. Some Peaches and Herb songs where reunited, Shake your groof Thing Close your Eyes Herb. He's been married since nineteen fifty nine. They have four kids. Actor Randy Quaid. He was born in Houston, Texas, was in nineteen fifty. He's seventy five today. He is four years older than his younger brother, actor Dennis Quaid. In his first move, Randy, he just had a really small role in the Last Picture Show. Been in ninety movies since then, though, now because of all those vacation movies. I always just consider him as a comedic ethleic actor, not even close. He has done actually more dramas than he has those. Yeah, he can actually kind of freaky in some of them too. He was nominated for an Oscar for The Last Detail. Now. Randy had a daughter from his first wife, married his second wife in nineteen eighty nine. Actor Zach galafanaka As.

10:46 He's fifty six. He was born in Northwilkesboro, North Carolina, in nineteen sixty nine. Now he's best known for playing Allen and all those Hangover movies. He is also in Due Day Dinner for Schmuck's The Beanie Bubble. Now. He got married in twenty twelve and they have two sons. Actress Brie Larson. She's thirty six. She has Onorn of Sacramento. In nineteen eighty nine she won the Best Actress Oscar for Room. Yeah. Never heard of it, but yeah, apparently Ruma Okay. Now, she's also been in A Kong Skull Island. That's a pretty good movie. She's played Carol Danvers and all the not all of them, some of the Captain Marvel and Avenger movies. All right here. Quote of the Day today. It comes from writer Tom Clancy. He died to day in twenty thirteen at sixty six years old.

11:29 He says life is about learning. When you stop learning, you die. Okay, Well, thank you all for listening today. Yeah for your appreciate you being here. Don't forget to follow us and you listen to his on that way. He can find these pretty easy and check today's show. Notes are the description and all that so you can find out to connect to us and you have any questions about today's show. Our country underground radio artists Today. It comes from Cami out there in louis Oo, Kentucky. She wants to hear buck Ford song I'll never know if I don't ask you guys, have an awesome day. And we'll talk tomorrow. The girl, where'd you get that accent? Are you from Tennessee? And did you come here by yourself? Are you with somebody? What's your name? What you're drinking in the back line? Can I buy you the next one? Mind?

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