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

0:19 Hi there i am jeff and welcome to history and factoids about today presented by cool media today's october the 18th come. On baby gonna change it to you. Today is mashed potato day. Humans have been eating potatoes for around 8,000 years. Sir Walter Raleigh, he brought the first potatoes from South America to Ireland in 1589. Eventually, they spread throughout Europe. In 1620, the governor of the Bahamas sent a gift basket to the governor of Virginia.

1:07 It contained potatoes. That's how potatoes made their way to the United States. So, who created mashed potatoes? Well, no one knows. I'm guessing it was somebody with bad teeth. Now, Potatoes, mashed potatoes, they could be fairly healthy, but we put so much crap on them, they're not healthy at all for us. So whether you make them yourself or you go out to eat, just enjoy some mashed potatoes today. If that's not your thing, have fun dancing to Dee Dee Sharp, the mashed potato. All right, let's see what's going on in entertainment on October 18th. It's about to 2022. Number one album was Un Verano Senti by Bad Bunny. Steve Lacey had the number one song with Bad Habit. I bite my tongue, it's a bad habit. Kind of mad that I didn't take a stab. Thought you were too good for me, my dear. Never gave me time of day, my dear. It's okay, things happen for reasons that I think are sure, yeah.

2:05 Morgan Wallen had the number one country song with You Proof. Yeah i've been sipping i've been buzzing shooting doubles like it's nothing all but nothing makes you go away i need something you prove something stronger than i'm used to yeah i've been pulling 92 a heart. I feel like nothing's gonna cut it that's the heart The number one book was Verified by Colleen Hoover. Top movie was Black Adam. 5,000 years after he was entombed, Black Adam was freed. Now he will unleash his form of justice on the modern world. Stars Dwayne Johnson, Pierce Brosnan, Aldous Hodge. Back in 1851, the classic novel Moby Dick, written by Herman Melville, it went on sale. No one bought it. Nope, in Melville's whole lifetime, only 3,200 copies of Moby Dick sold. Then after he died, boom, Huge classic now. Yeah, that didn't do him any good, though, did it? All right, what happened on October the 18th?

3:06 Let's go back to 1648. The first labor union was organized in the North American colonies. It was in Boston. It was the Boston Shoemakers. No, they literally made shoes. I mean, it sounds like an old baseball team, though. 1776, at a bar in Elmsford, New York, it was decorated with bird tail feathers, and a drunk customer asked bartender Betsy Flanagan for a glass full of those cocktails. Well, they think that's how the word cocktails came into being. Could have been as good a story as anything else, right? 1867, it was official. After spending almost two cents an acre for a total of $ 7. 2 million, the United States officially owned Alaska. Yep, the check cleared. I think that still pisses off Russia. Now, you can actually see that check.

3:49 You just have to go online and look it up. And you'll see it's date stamped and everything that says paid in full. To the victor go the spoils. 1898, the American flag was raised on the island of Puerto Rico. U.S. 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 1921, Charles Streit, he invented the pop-up toaster. Well, this was pretty chivalrous. 1929, Canada law declared that women are now officially considered persons. 1962, the United States launched a spacecraft, Ranger 5. It was just supposed to slam into the moon so we could see what happened. Well, we missed the moon. Who knows? We might have pissed off somebody in the next solar system over.

4:31 Who knows? What the hell are you doing? Let's check out who was born on October the 18th.

5:14 Chuck Berry is born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1926, one of the fathers of rock and roll. Some of his classic hits are Maybelline, Roll Over Beethoven, Johnny Be Good, My Ding Ling. Now, he was in that first class to go in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Now, Chuck stayed out of jail all those years. He would have been a lot bigger than he probably always was. Got married in 1948, and they had four children. Had he stayed faithful, he wouldn't have been in jail so much. Now, he died in 2017 at 90 years old from just natural causes. After George C. Scott, he was born in Wise, Virginia in 1927. He had a really gruff demeanor, usually played authority figures, but he was a true thespian. He got nominated for five Tony Awards. He was nominated for Oscars for Anatomy of a Murder, The Hustler, The Hospital.

5:57 He won an Oscar for Patton, then became the first actor to decline the award. Yeah, I thought award shows were stupid. He said that comparing an acting performance one against another, yeah, that was dumb. Well, 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. Then he had a daughter just kind of fooling around. Married his fifth wife in 1972. They were together until he died in 1999 from a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm. 71 years old. Then after he died, the Academy Awards gave his Oscar that he refused to his family. They took it. Actor Peter Boyle. He was born in Norristown, Pennsylvania in 1935.

6:41 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. He was in all those Santa Claus movies. He married in 1977, and they had two children. He died from heart disease in 2006 at 71 years old. The ship's aground on the shore of this uncharted desert island with Gilligan.

7:23 Actress Dawn Wells was born in Reno, Nevada in 1938. Started out as Miss Nevada, competed in Miss America in 1960. She didn't win, but it helped her get the job playing Marianne on Gilligan's Island. Any guesses what Marianne's last name was? It was Summers. She was Marianne Summers. And her character was based on Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. Yeah, that's why she had the pigtails and was from Kansas and everything. Don, she married once for five years in the 1960s. She died in 2020 at 82 years old from COVID. Well, that was a horrible TV theme song.

8:12 Maybe I had to be watching it. Actress Pam Dauber is 75. She was born in Detroit. Started out as a fashion model, then hit big on the TV show Mork & Mindy. She was Mindy. Then she was on My Sister Sam, starred in over 20 TV movies. She married actor Mark Harmon in 1987, and they have two sons. Actress Erin Moran. She was born in Burbank, California in 1960.

8:53 She got famous playing Joni Cunningham on Happy Days. Did it for 10 years, 234 episodes. Then when it was over, they spun her and Scott Baio off into Joni Loves Chachi. Lasted 17 episodes. That was way too many. Erin, she married her second husband in 1993. She died from throat cancer in 2017 at only 56 years old. The muscles from Brussels, Jean-Claude Van Damme. He was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1960. 66-year-old. Started training in martial arts when he was 10. His dad thought he was a wimp and wanted to toughen him up. Well, it worked. After winning all kinds of different things, he ended up becoming a professional kickboxer. Had a record of 18-1, won all his 18 fights by knockout. Then he decided to go into acting. He first starred in Bloodsport, then The Kickboxer, Time Cop, all those expendable movies. He voiced in the Kung Fu Panda movies, too. He's been married five times to four women. See, 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 Zac Efron.

9:56 He's 39. He was born in San Luis Obispo, California. First got known in the movie Hairspray and the three high school musical movies. Then he did 17 Again, Dirty Grandpa, The Greatest Showman. Now, Zac, he had a lot of trouble when he was younger, but he's been sober since 2013. So congratulations and cool job, Zac. Let's go talk about Toaster some more. Now, the first toaster, it was called El Tosto. 75 million people eat toast every single day in the United States. Well, thank you for listening to us today and joining us. We appreciate it. And don't forget to follow us on whoever you listen to us on. Come see us at coolmedia.com. That's cool with three O's. Let's end with former Army General and Secretary of State Colin Powell. Colin died today in 2021 at 84 years old.

10:42 He says, a dream doesn't become a reality through magic. It takes sweat, determination, and hard work. Our Country Underground Radio Artist of the Day comes from Cary up in Loveland, Colorado. She wants to hear Tyra Madison's song, Three Wise Men. You guys have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow. I've been doing my best impression of. A good, good girl. One that's learned her lesson. I'm in church on Sunday morning counting blessings. Swear I ain't a sinner, Lord, but I've got a confession. I went out with the three wise men.

11:23 Just something about Johnny, Jack, and Jim. I'm better. Wrecking blacked out at that stupid bar Drinking holy water till I'm seeing stars I'm dancing on the table tops like I won't have no regrets But I know when the morning comes I can't put the blame on them Yeah, I'm telling you, telling myself again There. Ain't no such thing as three wise men. Bad decisions I got whiskey ghosts I got blurry visions and a bad taste in my.

12:06 Mouth hypocrite cause I've been preaching to the choir and going right back down again going down with the three wise men throwing back. A Johnny Jack and Jim. Black and blacked out at that stupid bar. Drinking oh We'll be right back.

13:01 Cause you'll be Back in Blacktown And that stupid bird Drinking holy water Till you're. Seeing stars Dancing on the tabletops Like you won't. Have no regrets But when the morning comes You can't put the blame on them Yeah, and then you tell myself again There ain't no such Thing as Three wise men