Oct 18-Mashed Potato, Chuck Berry, George C. Scott, Mary Ann, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Zac Efron, Pop Up Toaster

0:10 Hi there, I am Jeff and welcome to history. In fact, it's about today, presented by Cool Media Days. October the eighteenth. He shows. Today is mash potato Day. Humans. They've been eating potatoes around eight thousand years. Sir Walter Raleigh. He brought the first potatoes from South America to Ireland and fifteen eighty nine.

0:51 Eventually they spread throughout Europe. In sixteen twenty, the governor of the Bahamas sent a gift basket to the governor of Virginia. It contained potatoes. That's how potatoes made their way to the United States. So who created a mash potatow No one knows. I'm guessing it was somebody with bad teeth. Now potatoes, that potatoes, they could be fairly healthy, but we put so much crap on them. They're not healthy at all. Four US. So weather you make them yourself or you go out to date, just enjoy some mashed potatoes today. If that's not your thing, have fun dancing the d d sharp the mashed potato. Now. I would like to thank you for sending my mom so many birthday wishes yesterday. She might not really understand what was all going on, but she thought it was really cool. She had a really big smile all day long. So thank you all. All right, this is going on in entertainment.

1:35 In October the eighteenth, She's Got twenty eighteen number one album was Carter five by Lil Wayne Roon five and Cardi B had the number one song with girls like you. Now It's all good then Wood, then let Meat, These girls like tool out with guys like do use some going up Calm tool Punty liked tup on You Me to It out On went on Canon. D Julia Russell Dickerson at the number one country song with Blue Tacoma. Pleasy Shining One.

2:18 Cold Road, Always having Head Californio right. The number one book was Vince Flynn by Kyle Kyle Miles Todd. Movie was Halloween On Halloween Laura Escape Mask Murder Michael Myers forty years ago, Now they have to go At It Again stars Jamie Lee Curtiz, Judy Greer, and Andy Metikick. Back in eighteen fifty one, the classic novel Moby Dick written by Herman Melville, that went out sale. No one bought it up in Melville's whole lifetime, only thirty two hundred copies of Moby Dixel. Then after he died, Boom huge classic. Now, yeah, that do him any good? They did it all right. What happened on October the eighteenth, it's about sixteen forty eight. The first labor union was organized in the North American colonies. It was in Boston.

3:10 It was the Boston Shoemakers. No, they literally made shoes. I mean it sounds like an old baseball team though. Seventeen seventy six, at a bar in Elmsford, New York, it was decorated with birdtail feathers, and a drunk customer asked bartender Betsy Flaning again for a glass full of those cocktails. Oh they think that's the other word. Cocktails came into being. Could have been as good as good a story as anything else. Right. Eighteen sixty seven, it was official, after spending almost two cents an acre for a total of seven point two million dollars, the United States officially owned Alaska. Yep, the check cleared. I think that still pisses off Russia. Now you can actually see that check. You just have to like go online and look it up and you'll see it's date stamped and everything that is paid in full to the victor go the spoils. Eighteen ninety eight, the American flag was raised on the island of Puerto Rico. You just got Puerto Rico for beating Spain in the Spanish American War. Now, I will admit this is one of my favorite inventions of all time. In Minnesota, in nineteen twenty one, Charles Strait he invented the pop up toaster. Well, this was pretty chivalrous. Nineteen twenty nine Canada, a lot of cleared that women are now officially considered persons. Nineteen sixty two the United States lots of spacecraft Ranger five. It was just supposed to slam into the moon, so we can see what happened. Well, we missed the moon. Who knows, we might have pissed off somebody in the next solar system over, who knows, What the hell are you doing?

4:32 Joke joke, joked, joke, sharge dish shiverthday. We're gonna tause he left this shiver birthday. We gonna simple targe he like this shivebirthday, and you know we don't that birthday. Let's check out who was born on October the eighteenth See. Down in Lulianic in New Orleans, way back up in the money. Ever, let's not. Alone, haven't made a earth? And one where leave the country morn Johnny Wood who never ever learned he mean to right the will, but. He could play a guitar just like a ring in label Johnny Who. Chuck Barry. He was born in Saint Louis, Missouri, in nineteen twenty six. One of the fathers of rock and roll. Some of his classic gets are maybe Lane, roll over Beethoven, Johnny be good my dingling. Now he was in that first class to go in the rock and roll Hall of Fame. Chuck stayed out of jail all those years, he would have been a lot bigger than he probably always was. Got married nineteen forty eight and they had four children. Had he stayed faithful, he wouldn't have been in jail so much now. He died in twenty seventeen and ninety years old from his natural causes.

5:40 After George C. Scott. He was born a Wise, Virginia in nineteen twenty seven. He had a really gruff demeanor and usually played a thirty figures, but he was a true Thesbian. He got nominated for five Tony Awards. He was known to nominate for oscars for Anatomy and Murder the Hustler of the Hospital. He won an Oscar for Patton, then became the first actor declined the award. Yeah, I thought awards shows were stupid. He said that comparing an acting performance winning as another Yeah, that was dumb. Wow. Actually what he said was the whole goddamn thing is a meat parade, and I don't want any part of it. Scott he had a daughter from his first wife, a son and a daughter from his second wife, two sons from his third wife married, then he had a daughter just kind of fooling around. Married his fifth wife in nineteen seventy two. They were together until he died in nineteen ninety nine from a rapture to abdominal aortic aneurysm seventy one years old. Then, after he died, the Caademy Awards gave it his fit oscar that he refused to his family. They took it. Actor Peter Boyle. He was born in Norristown, Pennsylvania, in nineteen thirty five. You probably know Peter best for playing the dad in the TV show Everybody Loves Raymond. He had a long and distinguished career before that. Though he was the monster in the movie Young Frankenstein. He was in taxi driver in all those Santa Claus movies. He married nineteen seventy seven and they had two children. He died from heart disease in two thousand and six at seventy one years old.

7:02 The Skip. Mary actress Don Wells was born in Rena, Nevada, in nineteen thirty eight. Start out as Miss Nevada competian Miss America nineteen sixty. She didn't win, but it helped her get the job. Blamed Marianne on Gilligan's Island, and he guesses what Marianne's last name was the Summers. She was Marianne Summers and she her character was based on Dorothy and the widow of Ohs. Yeah, that's why she had the pigtails and was some Kansas and everything. Don she married once for five years in the nineteen sixties. She died in twenty twenty at eighty two years old from COVID No no, no, no, Well that was a horrible TV theme song. Maybe he had to be watching it. Actress Pam Dubber, She's seventy three She's born in Detroit in nineteen fifty one. Started as a fashion model, then hit big on the TV show Marking Mindy. She was Mindy and she was on My Sister Sam starting over twenty TV movies. She married actor Mark Harmon in nineteen eighty seven and they have two sons. Thursday Saturday actress Aaron Moran.

8:48 She was born in Burbank, California. In nineteen sixty, she got Fantaus saying Jony Cunningham on Happy Days, did for ten years, two and thirty four episodes, then when it was over, they spun her and Scott Baio off into Jonia Loves Chucci. Lasted seventeen episodes. That was way too many, Aaron. She married his second husband in nineteen ninety three. She died from throat cancer in twenty seventeen at only fifty six years old. The Muscles from Brussels John Claude von dam He was born in Brussels, Belgium in nineteen sixty. Sixty four year old started training in martial arts when he was ten. His dad thought he was a whimp and one and toughen him up. Well. It worked. After winning all kinds of different things, he ended up becoming a professional kickboxer, had a record of eighteen and one when all his eighteen fights by knockout.

9:30 Then he decided going to acting. He first started in Blood Sport, then The Kickboxer, Time Cop all those expendable movies. He voiced in the can or Kung Fu Panda movies too. He's been married five times to four women. Say, after his fourth divorce, he went back and married his third wife again. So he has two children from his third and fifth wife, and he has one child from his fourth wife. Actor Zach Efron. He's thirty seven. He's born in sam Lewis, Bispoke, California, in nineteen eighty seven. First got known in the movie Hairspray. He and three high school musical movies, and he does seventeen again, Dirty Grandpa the Greatest Showman now, Zach. He had a lot of trouble when he was younger, but he's been sober since twenty thirteen. So congratulations and cool job, Zach. Let's go talk about toaster some more now. The first toaster it was called El Toasto. Seventy five million people eat toast every single day in the United States. Well, thank you for listening to us today, joining this, We appreciate it and feel forget to follow us on whever you listen to us on Come see us at coolmedia dot com.

10:32 That's cool A three US. Let's end with former Army General and Secretary of State Colin Powell. Colon died today in twenty twenty one at eighty four years old. He says a dream doesn't become a reality through magic. It takes sweat, determination, and hard work. You guys, have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow