Oct 10th-Angel food cake, David Lee Roth, Tanya Tucker, Mya, Mr. Big, Band Aids, Exploding pool balls

0:19 Hi, everybody. I am Jeff and welcome to History and Fact Toys About Today. Today is August the 10th. Now, my co-host, let's just put it, she's just flat out cool. Now, she's definitely got a podcast you want to listen to, so we'll hear all about it and where she's going with it. Kelly, why don't you go and introduce yourself? Hi, thank you so much for that amazing intro. My name is Kelly. I have a podcast called On the Record with Kelly, and I talk about music. I interview musicians and music fans and just kind of talk about what's new and music history, concert recaps, and basically anything that people who like music would want to hear. So have you always been into music ever since you were a little kid? Yeah, I really have. I was thinking back. So I was like, where did I start really liking music? And I think it was ever since I was little. You know, just being introduced to playing music. I played the clarinet when I was little, the keyboard. My grandpa was in a barbershop quartet, which was kind of fun. Just to be around that type of environment where there's, you know, those creative juices flowing. So, yeah, I think it's just kind of like been ingrained in me. Right.

1:25 And well, that's starting out with that kind of stuff. You're probably pretty diverse in the kind of music you like now. Definitely. I love pretty much everything. Classic, rock, country, you know, pretty much everything. Cool. Hey, do you know what we're going to celebrate today? Yes, we are celebrating National Angel Food Cake Day. Angel food cake, angel food cake, the best darn thing my mama can make. On my birthday, make no mistake, I get angel food cake. Angel food cake, angel food cake, the best darn thing my. Mama can make.

2:06 That's right. It is Angel Food Cake Day. Those light, fluffy, airy cakes. Now, they got to be that name because they believe that's what angels would eat. That's kind of cute. They were actually created in the United States in the mid-1800s. No one gets credit for making them out. Now, they're low in carbs, so it's got that going. So that's been pretty good. They're pretty simple. Just beaten egg whites, flour, sugar, no butter. Now, they're baked in that pan that has the hole in the center. You know what I'm talking about. Yeah, and they have to be baked that way. See, if you don't cook them in a pan with the hole in the center, you just cook them on a regular pan. All you're going to get is a big angel food cookie. They won't rise if they're not in that pan with the hole in the middle. Are you a baker? Yeah, actually, I want to start making those now, now that I know. It has an actual day.

2:50 Well, and the fun thing about angel food cakes, too, because you can just put whatever you want on them. I mean, so you can't really. Yeah. You can't say you don't like angel food cake. That's your fault. You topped it wrong. Exactly. Exactly. Oh, man. So are you into rocker guys? I guess you don't have to be rockers. It could be anybody. Do you like drummers? Yeah. I haven't met too many drummers in my life, which is funny because I feel like I've been to a decent amount of concerts, but I'm sure they're wonderful people. Well, I hope so, too, because today is National Hug a Drummer Day. Wow. So if you're at a club or something, you might ask them before you just walk up and hug them. That's a good idea.

3:30 Especially if they're like the sweaty rocker kind of guys. So do you play any other instruments than when you were a kid? I do have a guitar. Yeah, I've been learning, and it's a Fender. And yeah, I love the guitar. Cool. All right, let's see what's going on in entertainment on October 10th. Let's go back to your 2019. The number one album was Hollywood's Bleeding by Post Malone. The number one song was by Lizzo, Truth Hurts. White men great till they gotta be great. Don't text me and tell it straight to my face. Best friends set me down in the salon chair. Shampoo press get you out of my hair. Fresh photos with the bomb lighting.

4:13 New man on the Minnesota Vikings. True hurts needed something more exciting. You a Lizzo fan? I am a Lizzo fan. Actually, interesting about that song, it was the longest running Billboard Hot 100 chart topper ever by a solo female rapper. Well, that's pretty impressive. And it was actually inspired by a heartbreaking voicemail from a guy Lizzo was seeing. A voicemail. That's dumpling. That means that guy's not you. If a guy's going to use a voicemail to break up with you, he's no good for you. I know, but she made it work for her. Exactly. Yeah, she came out definitely on top on that situation. All right, Marshmello and Kane Brown. They had the number one country song with One Thing Right.

4:55 Now, I'm serious. That was country. So are you a reader? I do. I like to read. Do you like to read? Yeah, I do. What's your favorite book? I like the Lee Childs books, you know, the Reeker books, Reacher books. Oh, yeah. Those are good.

5:37 Well, this is October 10th. So in 2019, I think people were ready for Halloween because Stephen King had the number one book with the Institute. Did you ever see the movie Maleficent? I did. I did. Well, here, how do you say that? Maleficent. Okay, Maleficent. Mischief of Evil, the sequel that came out. It was number one today. In this one, Maleficent and her goddaughter, Arar, they question their family ties that bind them, and then they're being pulled in different directions by impending nuptials and unexplained allies. And then a new dark force comes into the picture. Did you see that one? No, I didn't see that one. Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Michelle Pfeiffer. Well, we know you like rock music. This was way before your time. 1977, Aerosmith.

6:22 They were playing a concert in Philadelphia. Well, someone threw an M-80 on stage. Then when it exploded, it hurt Steven Tyler's cornea, and it hurt guitarist Joe Perry's hand. So the concert was over. They had to be taken to the hospital and treated and all that. So the next year, just to show that there were no hard feelings towards the people of Philadelphia, Aerosmith, they came back and played again. In that concert, Steven Tyler, he got hit in the head with a beer bottle. Oh, my gosh. Jeez. What was your first concert? Uh-huh. Uh, first concert was Backstreet Boys. Okay. I was in the eighth grade. What was your first concert? My first concert, I think it was Holland Oats. And I was probably about in eighth grade. That's, that's a good one. So, I mean, you can definitely tell the genre or the age gap there. I know.

7:06 I love that though. But it's not like either one of us said like Aerosmith or Def Leppard or something. I know. That would have been really cool. Alrighty. You want to see what happened in the history on the world in October the 10th? Yes, I do. 1780, the deadliest hurricane ever to hit the Atlantic Ocean happened. It was called the Great Hurricane in 1780. Remember, they didn't name them yet. So it hit Barbados with wind speeds over 200 miles an hour. Then it totally destroyed Barbados. Then it took out all those other islands around it, Grenada, St. Vincent, St. Lucia, all those kind of moves. Yeah, and then when it came up and it was heading for the United States, then it veered right, veered into the ocean. Yeah, it never did make manfall in the United States, which is kind of Good on that part, but this is how destructive it was. In those little islands, remember this was the 1700s, so it wasn't a huge population, still killed 27,000 people.

7:52 Whoa. Wow. That's a lot. 1845, the U.S. Naval Academy. Yeah, it was founded out there in Annapolis, Maryland. Do you like shooting pool? Yeah. Always fun. In the 1800s, billiard balls, they were made from ivory from elephant's tusks, so they were really expensive and kind of hard to get. Well, in 1865, up in Albany, New York, this guy John Hyatt, he solved that problem. He took this brand new invention called plastic. Now, he modified it into what's called celluloid. Now, if you looked at those billiard balls and you felt them, you could not tell the difference between the celluloid and the ivory balls. They became really popular all around. Then they figured out there was a difference between those balls. The celluloid balls, yeah, they were flammable. You hit them just right, they would actually blow up.

8:33 Oh, my God. You live and you learn. I know. Now, I think it would make pool a little more exciting to myself if the balls. Might be blowing up. Yeah, me too. If you're wondering, today pool balls, they're made out of a phenolic resin or something like that. Okay, we're safe. In 1886, Griswold Lorillard, he was a rebel. Yep, he wore a short black dinner jacket to a ball in Tuxedo, New York. So when he walked in, everybody thought, what a goofball. Nobody had ever seen anything so ridiculous in their entire life. Now, as people watched him throughout the ball, he would talk and dance with the ladies, and he just had a great time. By the end of the night, everybody thought that that jacket was pretty cool. So tuxedos, they've been worn to fancy events ever since then. That's cool.

9:13 Now, this would have been embarrassing. In 1957, President of the United States, Eisenhower, he had to apologize to the Finance Minister of Ghana. See, the Finance Minister of Ghana, he was visiting the United States on official business. He was refused service of a restaurant in Dover, Delaware. Yeah, all because he was black. That wouldn't be fun to have to... Sorry about that, dude. Yeah. Oof. 1973, U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew, he had to resign, um, Now, everybody thinks it was because of Watergate and all that kind of stuff. No, he was under investigation for tax fraud also. Oh, just that little old thing. That's how Gerald Ford replaced him. 1978, Congress, they approved the silver dollar with Susan B. Anthony on it. You know, the lady who was really big on trying to get women the right to vote and all that kind of stuff?

9:58 Yeah, yes. So when it came, out, they put it on there and it didn't go over so good. Everybody thought that replica of Susan B. Anthony just looked like a really ugly Benjamin Franklin. I had to look it up. I had to Google it. And yeah, I feel like they could have done her a little bit better. Yeah, they didn't do any props at all. I know. Okay, so now we got that awesome podcast out. But your experience, you've been doing podcasting for a while. Yeah, I started podcasting in 2020 with two of my friends and three girls, one pod. And then I started my own podcast. It was called Imperfectly Purposed. And now I have On the Record with Kelly. So just kind of navigating the whole podcast world.

10:41 Well, that's cool. Where do you see it going? What do you want to do? I mean, would you like to concentrate on concerts or? artists or just all the whole music industry altogether? Yeah, definitely the whole music industry altogether. I really like doing interviews. Um, and I really like having the solo episodes as I'm sure, you know, too, it's sometimes it's nice to just be able to like recap what's going on in the music industry. Um, there's so much every single day, there's something new going on. So I feel like it's always exciting. Yeah. And there's always definitely, there's always something to talk about in the music industry, right? Cause we were kind of laughing. I mean, you've, Bad Bunny going on. And then I don't remember. There was a bus crosser, some band, I don't know, here in Colorado not too long ago.

11:22 I don't think they're a huge band, but they were on the radio. Oh. I don't know if I heard about that. So, yeah. Okay, your dream guest. Who is it? Dream guest. Ooh, that's a good one. I'll have to get back to you on that. I feel like I have, the list is too long right now. Now, remember, Taylor, she's going to go on her fiancé' s, so you can take her out right off the bat. Yeah. Yeah. I'll mark that down. Plus, it's kind of like, yeah, whatever. Okay, should we see who was born on October the 10th? Yes. Do you have those girlfriends who are just kind of klutzy? You know they're going to trip and stumble and bump themselves all the time?

12:04 It's me. Oh, was that you? Well, you would have got along just right with Earl Dixon. See, he was born in Grandview, Tennessee in 1892. Now, Earl's wife, Josephine, she was a real klutz around the house. I mean, she was constantly hurting herself. So much so that by 1920, Earl, he ended up inventing the Band-Aid. What? Yeah, before then, all they had for first aid was cotton swabs and tape that really didn't stick. And he couldn't do that for Josephine anymore, so he invented the Band-Aid.

12:45 Wow, I had no idea. I did not know that. Now, Josephine Clutsiness made those two a lot of money. Love that. Now, Earl, he died when he was only 68 years old. Josephine, she actually outlived him. All right. The first lady of American theater, Helen Hayes. She was born in Washington, D.C. in 1900. Now, she was the first actress, well, the first woman to win the Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and the Emmy. Did I say that? The EGOT, basically. Yes. So, yeah, she was a second person overall. Some composer was the first one. But, yeah, she got that. Are you into, like, theater and stuff like that, too? Yeah, that's amazing. I didn't know that about Helen Hayes. Well, get this. When she won her first Oscar, it was in 1931. She didn't win again. She won her second Oscar, 1970. Really? Yeah, it was for the movie Airport.

13:32 Wow. Never give up on your dreams. You never know. Right. Times change, and then they come clear, and you can come back and win it. Wow. Oh, Helen. Yeah. Yeah, she was married once for 30 years, and they had two children when they divorced. She died in 1993 at 92 years old from heart failure. Okay, now, everybody, I think you're going to agree with me. Everybody, this is a rock star. Now this is not a rock star.

14:17 So do you concur? Was I right? Yeah, I'd say Van Halen's a little bit more rock. Right. That was David Lee Roth. He's 71 today. He was born in Bloomington, Indiana in 1954. Of course, he was the lead singer for Van Halen from 1974 to 1985. Now, you know how he got the lead singing gig for Van Halen? I don't. His dad had some money. And so David had a whole bunch of sound equipment. So the Van Halen brothers, they said, well, he said, I'll bring that if you guys will hire me. So they made him the lead singer just because they didn't have to buy or rent any of their sound equipment.

15:07 Wow. Right place, right time, right money. Right. It worked out good because with Van Halen, with David Selling, singing lead, they sold 57 million records. Sammy Hagar, they only sold 27 million. Whoa, that's very interesting. David, he's released six solo albums. Now, Van Halen, they screwed him over a few times, though, after they broke up. They'd get him and say, hey, we're getting back together and make all the press conferences and all that. Then they'd back out the last second. They did that a couple of times to him. Now, David, he did retire in 2021. But I think it was right when Eddie died and all that kind of stuff. And he was like, I'm done. They're not going to bring back and all that. So he said this year he came back. He goes, this is my second retirement. So he actually toured this summer. Yeah. That's awesome.

15:49 Yeah. That was 13-year-old Tanya Tucker and her first hit song, Delta Dawn. Tanya was born in Seminole, Texas in 1958, and she's 67. She is one of the few child singers who was able to be successful as an adult. Some of her number one songs are Just Another Love, One Love at a Time, I'll Come Back as Another Woman, and It Don't Come Easy. She has a son and a daughter, and she won her first Grammy, well, her first two Grammys, at the age of 61. She won Best Country Song for Bring My Flowers Now and won Best Country Album for While I'm Livin'. That was Eric Martin singing lead for Mr. Big. Eric is 65. He was born in Long Island, New York in 1960. He started out singing in punk bands and joined Mr. Big

17:21 in 1988. I Only Want to Be With You is pretty much their only hit here in the States, but Mr. Big is huge in Japan and most of Southeast Asia. Mr. Big played their last show in February in India. Mr. Big is no more, but Eric has started a new band, the Eric Martin Band, or EMB for short, and will be touring with them. He was married in 2002. A little before you, but do you like 80s rock? Yeah, I feel like those are always special memories of driving around with my parents, and they would always have that kind of music on. Yeah, it is. So were you a fan of The Little Mermaid? Yes, I loved The Little Mermaid. Actress Jackie Benson. She's 64. She was born in Rockford, Illinois in 1961. Guess what? She was the voice of Little Mermaid.

18:06 Oh, that's awesome. Yep. She was Ariel in all those. She also voiced Barbie in all those Toy Story movies also. And did you ever see Thumbelina? Yes. She was Thumbelina also. Wow. Yeah. Her voice is like just pure childhood memories for sure. She got married in 1984 and they have two kids. Mario Lopez. He's 52. He was born in Chula Vista, California in 1973. Got famous for playing Slater on Saved by the Bell. And then, of course, went to a thousand different reunion shows that they had. Something like that. Yeah. On Dancing with the Stars, he got second place. He lost to Emmett Smith, the Hall of Fame football player. Now, he's pretty much been a host on TV. He's done a lot more than acting. He was on Extra for nine years. He's been on Access Hollywood since 2019. Now, he married actress Allie Landry for two weeks. See, that's when she found out that he cheated on her at his bachelor party and she was done.

18:57 Whoa. Not cool, Mario. No. No. So then he didn't have a bachelor party, so he married his second wife in 2012, and they actually have one daughter and two sons. Oh, man. He learned his lesson, I guess. I hope so. She just goes by Maya. She was born in Washington, D.C. In 1979, so she's 46 today. She started out training as a dancer and she switched to singing, which was a good call for her. As popular as she is in the United States, she's also bigger globally. She's sold over 20 million more records. outside the United States than in it. Some of her hits include It's All About Me, Moving On, Case of the X, and Lady Marmalade with Pink, Christina, and Lil' Kim. Maya married in 2013, and get this, she married herself. She says, it's not weird. It's self-love.

20:07 She does not think all men are bad. It's all about her own self-worth. That's right. I hate to tell her, but it is weird. I know. I guess it was like spiritually she married herself. So it wasn't legal. But she made sure that she did put it out there that all men aren't bad. Yeah, they're not all bad. But you know one made her marry herself. Yes, definitely. There was a bad one. So you want to hear all these, you know, here we just kind of like give you the little, here it is. Here's Maya. She married herself and had a couple of hit songs. But if you really want to get into music, man, you got to listen to Kelly's podcast.

20:47 She'll really get into the details, won't you? Oh, definitely. I love asking the musicians that are on there, you know, questions, all the questions. If I had Maya, we would get deep into that. You'd want the dish, huh? Oh, yeah. That'll be a goal. The goal will be to have Maya on. Yeah. And the podcast is on everywhere, I'm assuming. Yeah, it's on Apple, Audible, Spotify. You can find it pretty much anywhere, and it's On the Record with Kelly. So if you can't remember On the Record with Kelly, well, then you've got problems. But if you can't, and today's show notes, we'll put it on a link on the bottom so you can get right over to our website with no problem at all. Thank you. All right, we end with a quote of the day. Our quote of the day, do you know who Orson Welles was? Uh-oh.

21:28 He was a really bad actor. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Okay. He died today in 1985 at 70 years old. His quote is, my doctor told me to quit having intimate dinners for four, unless there are three other people there. Oh, no. I know. Well, thank you for being here today. You've been great. Thanks for having me. I really enjoyed talking with you. And I love listening to your podcast and all the different facts that you know. And yeah, you're really good at what you do. Well, thank you. As do you. So that's why they need to make sure they listen to On the Record with Kelly. Yes. Go listen. All right, and thank you all for listening to me and Kelly today. It's been awesome. And make sure you follow both of our podcasts. You can listen to us back-to-back every day.

22:08 That's the plan. They better take that advice. Okay, so all you people out there who listen to the Country Underground Radio, you know that we always end with one of our artists that we play on the station. Well, today, in honor of Tanya Tucker, if you've been listening, you know that we play her niece, Callie Tucker. This is Callie's song, Country Couture. You guys have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow. They call me Boots Good and Barbie. Hometown hottie. Got a taste for all the finer things. Did you know I was. A beauty quaint? Been living the high life. Buying what I like. Telling mama doesn't make high heels. But if it did, I'd get a real good deal.

22:53 Head on, leave my jeans. They should put me in a The same as the worst. Hands off in my pickup truck. Didn't really even cost them much. And even though I love my fish in. New York, deep down I'm gonna take the toll. I eat my breakfast at. Never said my love was a thing So don't propose without a government ring For the sake I'm a big deal On my high horse and high heels Being bougie wasn't my intent But I'll take it as a compliment Get down I'm country.