Oct 15-Cheese Curds, Penny Marshall, The Carpenters, Chris DeBurgh, Larry Miller, Emeril Lagassee, Little Big Town

0:10 Hello everyone, I am Jeff, and welcome to History and Factoids about Today, presented by Cool Media. It is October the fifteenth. You've heard of Wisconsin. You've heard of our cheese cheese tasting so good it's heard of. Please. I can't say enough because it's really good stuff, Wisconsin cheeses. May I have some? Please? Ellsworth is the cheese curd capital. Ellsworth, Ellsworth, Ellsworth, Here's the cheese curd capital. Today is National Cheese Curd Day that was started by Colver's Restaurants back in twenty fifteen. Deep fried nuggets of bread ed Wisconsin cheese. They're ooey, gooey and squeak when you eat them. Now you can celebrate anywhere, but pretty much Wisconsin. It's a really big day up there. Those Cover's restaurants. They're having Dale's and their deals and their stories all over the nation. Today Jesus made it separates into kurds in way. Now, trust me, you like the kurds part, not the way original cheese kurds.

1:06 They were the leftover curd that didn't fit into a mold for a cheese whill. So they started deep frying them up and got a really good taste on him, So enjoy yourself a little leftover cheese curd today. All right, this is going on in entertainment October the fifteenth. Let's go back to nineteen eighty eight and when album was New Jersey by Bon Jovie. You Be forty had the num. One song with Red wed Ryne, Dwight Yokam and Buckones had the number one country song with Streets of Bakersfield Lot Something Better on the Street, lakers.

2:05 Hey, you don't know. The number one book was The Cardinal of the Krimlin by Tom Clancy Todd. Movie was The Accused. A woman and she is brutally gang raped in a bar. The prose comcuter, Yeah, she's going after not only the rapist but those who watched and cheered on the attack. Stars Kelly McGillis, Jody Foster, and Bernie Colson. It's also I Love Lucy Day. Yeah. In nineteen fifty one. I Love Lucy debut on TV. Nineteen fifty two, the book Charlotte's Web went on sale. Ah what happened On October the fifteenth and fifteen twenty England's King Henry the Eighth had bowling lanes installed in his Castle. Dude loved the bull, but he didn't want poor people to bowl with the rich people, so he put a big tax on it, so that prevented the poor from bowling. So how old is bowling? Oh, it goes back to around five thousand years ago over in ancient Egypt. Eighteen sixty, eleven year old Grace Bedell of Westfield, New York.

3:02 She wrote a. Letter to presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln. She said she couldn't vote for him, but she really wanted him to win. Then she told him to grow a beard. She said, you would look a great deal better because of your thin face. Plus the lady love whiskers. Well. He wrote her back, and he said that he had never had a beard, but he would think about it, thought about it, and grow beard. Then he won the election. On his way to Washington, d C. To be inaugurated, he had his train stop in Westfield, New York, got off the train and met Grace and her dad on the platform. Ate been over and gave Grace a kiss on the cheeks so she could fill his whiskers. Now, Lincoln, he was the first president to have a beard. Yeah, four others have had it since eighteen eighty one, the first fishing magazine was published called American Angler. Last issue Brinnan Yeah, twenty twenty. Nineteen thirty two, Tata Airlines made its first flight.

3:49 Now it became Air India, but it would have been cool if it got bought up by Hooters. Nineteen thirty three, the twenty of the Menment to the US Constitution went into effect. It moved the presidential term the starting on January twentieth instead of March fourth. Then they moved Congress from starting instead of March fourth to January third. I'm gonna get rid of all that lame duck time. Nineteen seventy six was the first time ever they had a vice presidential debate. Walter Mondell, who was running with Jimmy Carter, went out with Bob Dole, who's running with Joe Ford. Nineteen eighty nine, they put the first nineteenth hundred star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame went to evangelist Billy Graham. That's right now they're almost twenty eight hundred stars on the Walk of Fame. Joke dot show dish shibirthday.

4:33 Please gonna pause. He left this shiverthday. We won't simpletage like. This shibirthday and you know we don't get that birthday. Let's just check out us. Born on October the fifteenth. Town. Now, that was a tough one to start with. Linda Lavin. She was born in Portland, Maine, in nineteen thirty seven. She's eighty seven, done a lot of theater Broadway. She's been nominated six ties for Tony she won once. She's best known mainstream though, for starring on TV's Alice. Yeah she was Alice. She's been married to her third husband since two thousand and five.

5:24 Fine chance taking it. Now, that was easy one. Actress director Penny mar Marshall was born in the Bronx, New York in nineteen forty three. First Guy, No, I'm playing Laverne on la Vernon Shirley Now. Actually they started out on Happy Days and then they split it off into the sitcom Vernon Shirley Penny. She became a big time movie director after her first movie that she directed, Jumping Jack Flash. Then she did Big Now.

6:05 Big was the first movie to make over a hundred million dollars that was directed by a woman. And she did the League of their Own and riding in cars with boys. She got married in college. It was short and they had a daughter, and she married Rob Royner for ten years. Penny. She died in twenty eighteen and seventy five years old from a whole bunch of health issues. She set on to watch your signs alone. His sister might have had one of the best singing voices of all time. That's why she did the singing. Richard Carpenter's seventy eight. He is born in New Haven, Connecticut, in nineteen forty six. Richard and Karen they started the Carpenters in nineteen sixty nine. Richard He sang back up, played the piano and wrote all the songs. They sold over one hundred million records. Now that is a amazing when you consider that Karen died in nineteen eighty three. Richard he did a little solo stuff, mostly arranged and produced records for other artists. Got married nineteen eighty four and they have five kids. That was Christa Burgh. He was born in Banada, Tortillo, in Argentina in nineteen forty eight

7:37 seventy six today. Grew up an island and his dad was a diplomat. So there were forty five million records now The Dude is huge in Norway and Brazil. His hits in the United States where Don't Play, Don't Pay, The Ferryman high on emotion. Lady in Red Chris married nineteen seventy seven and they have a son and a daughter. It was daughter. She went Miss World in two thousand and three representing Ireland. Yeah, she's real pretty actress Tany rob She was born in Manhattan, New York, in nineteen forty nine. First guy known on the TV show Charlie's Angels. Yeah, she was an angel the last season. Later on she went on and did the seventy shows for about six years. Some of her movies were Beast Master, Sheena Queen, and The Jungle. She did the Bond movie View to a Kill. She got married nineteen seventy four. Her husband died in two thousand and six. Tanya. She died from sepsis in twenty twenty one and seventy one years old. Comedian actor Larry Miller. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, in nineteen fifty three. He's seventy one. Started out well. He still is a very successful stand up comedian. I'm sure you've probably seen some of them. He has specials, usually on all the time on the Comedy Channel. Some of his movies Pretty Woman, Ten Things I Hate About You, The Nutty Professor Movies, A Mighty Wind, The Princess Diary movies.

8:45 Larry married nineteen ninety three and they have two children. Celebrity chef Emerald Lagassi. He's sixty five. He's born in Fall River, Massachusetts, in nineteen fifty nine. Now, like most chefs from Massachusetts, Earl got famous for his New Orleans create and Cajun cooking. Later on, after he won every award you can possibly win as a chef. He's got his own TV show. Been doing this as nineteen ninety three, written over twenty cookbooks. He has restaurants in New Orleans, Las Vegas, Miami Beach. Now you're throwing all the cooking products that he sells. Brings in about one hundred and fifty million dollars a year. Had two children from his first wife. Married his second wife in two thousand and they have two children. No, No, the blonde woman in the Country Grip Little Bigdown. That's Kimberly Schlaptman. She's fifty five.

9:47 She's born in Georgia in nineteen sixty nine, She'll for him a little bigdown in nineteen ninety eight. She doesn't sing lead a lot. She's usually singing the harmony A little big Town. They're releasing a Christmas album soon. Well they might have already listed releas did, but yeah, you can get their little big Town Christmas. I'm map prider around now. Can't believe she was a widow from her first husband. She married her second husband in two thousand and six and they have two daughters. Let's go back to beards. Poguinophobia Now, that is an extreme fear of beards, that's right, and the people who have it, they can become and zen guy. Panic attacks, anxiety attacks, just freak out not just from seeing a person with a beard, but seeing a picture or a video of someone with a beard. Yeah, it really freaks them out big time. Well, thank you for listening today. Don't forget to follow us whenever you're listened to us on and come see a's at coolmedia dot com. That's in with co founder of Microsoft Paul Allen. He died today in twenty eighteen at sixty five years old. Paul says facing your own mortality forces you to re evaluate your priorities. You guys have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow