Oct 2-Gandhi, Bud Abbott, Chris LeDoux, Sting, The Human League, Kelly Ripa, Tiffany, Thank You Custodians

0:10 Well there, I am Jeff, and welcome to history and factory is about today visitt about cool media. Today's October two. That means it's National Custodian Day. Pashkins are filled in our classrooms, bags. Are so full. Sitting, there's some mud in the hallway, everywhere everywhere. Then you appear saving the day, cleaning our school. So we are here to. Say thank you. Yeah, we are here to say thank you to our custodio friends today. Today we celebrate those who work really hard to keep our schools, public facilities, on workplaces looking good and SANATORI say, a pretty thankless job. And they are the front lines against germs and they have to take care of messes that none of us want to touch.

1:07 So it'd be cool now when you see your custodian thank them for the hard work they put in and better, yeah, you know, give them a gift card or something else to let them know how much you appreciate exactly what they do. All right, let's sit up In entertainment October the second that's about. The nineteen seventy six and one album was Frampton Comes Alive by Peter Frampton. Wow Cherry had the number one song with play that funky music some Tan You Tucker. She had the number one cutry song with Here's Some Love This he close saving. Third number one book was Trinity by Leon URIs. The top movie was Marathon Man. After a student's brother is murdered.

2:22 Student has to deal with a corrupt government agent and a Nazi war criminal who's trying to smuggle diamonds. Stars Dustin Hoffman, Lawrence Olivier, Roy Schreider, and William Devane. Nineteen fifty the comic strip Peanuts debut, you know, the one that Charlie Brown and all his spouts now snoopy. He didn't make his debut till the third strip Peanuts. It ran until Charles Schultz died in two thousand. Now before Penits was called Little Folks. Al what happened in October the second eighteen eighty nine here in Colorado Nicholas created He Struck it Rich with a huge silver discovery. Yeah, it caused the last silver rush or silver boom in the United States history. Now create it's in the southern part of the state. It's named after him, really pretty part of the state. Actually, eighteen ninety three, it's called the Great October storm. It's the third worst hurricane that ever hit the United States and hit Louisiana. Eighteen hundred people were killed. Now, I remember it was eighteen ninety three, so Louisiana doing that populated, but it was one of the first of the hurricanes that they actually categoryized as a Category four. Nineteen forty two, the largest passengership in the world, the Queen Mary. She was carrying thousands of US soldiers to go fight in Europe. As she was crossing the Atlantic Ocean, she had one of her convoy ships. Yeah, it's called the Curracle. Sliced it right in half. Killed two and thirty nine sailors on the Curraca. Queen Mary, Yeah, she was fine. She just lost a little paint. Now, this one's really hard to believe. In San Francisco in nineteen sixty seven, every single member of the Grateful Dead Man. Yeah, they're arrested for possession of marijuana. Nineteen sixty eight, In order to protect the tallest trees in the world, Redwoods National Park was created up there in northern California. Nineteen

3:54 eighty four. Papa John's Pizza. It was founded in Jeffersonsville, Indiana, joked. Joked, Jake shod Thish shiverbirth day. He left this shirebirth day. We want simple carge. He left this shirebirth day and you don't do birthday okay. He was born on October the seventh Mahama Gandhi. He was born at Port Vander, India in eighteen sixty nine. Now he's born Mahondas, but he's best known as Mahatma Now. When he was nineteen years old, he left India went to England to study law. After he graduated, he took a job in South Africa. When he got down there, he couldn't believe how bad the Indian people in South Africa were being treated. So I had to help the Indians who worked and lived in South Africa. He started his campaign a passage resistance.

4:38 After twenty years he went on Yeah. He wanted to help India get his independence from Great Britain. He became a leader in India's independence movement using his passive resistance theory. He got married in eighteen eighty three. That was when he was thirteen years old. Well so was she. They'd been engaged since they were seven. It was an arranged marriage. They were married till She died in nineteen forty four. They had four children. Gandhi, who had lived his whole life on the creed of non violence, was assassinated in nineteen forty eight. Yeah, the shooter and one other participant were hung, but six others they had to serve life in prison. Gandhi seventy eight years old. Thank Louie teen. If we have who's on first, what's on second? I don't know he's on third. That's what I want to find out. I want you to tell me the names of the fellows on a St. Louis team. I'm telling you who's on first, what's on second? I don't know it's on third. Do you know a fellow's name, jess Well, then who's playing first?

5:24 Yes? I mean the fellow's name on first base, the fellow playing first base for Saint Louis. Who the guy on first base? Who was on first? But Abbott he was a straight man in the comedy deal Abbot in Costel he was a skinny guy now. He was born in Asbury Park, New Jersey, in night eighteen ninety seven. Teamed up at Louke Costello in nineteen thirty six. From nineteen forty to nineteen fifty six, they were one of the biggest box office jobs and the highest paid entertainers in the whole world. Made thirty six movies. They were the most successful comedy team of all time. And then they broke up nineteen fifty seven. Turns out they couldn't stand each other for the last ten years. I neither did anything after that. But he'd married nineteen eighteen and they had two children. He died nineteen seventy four, at seventy six years old from cancer. So FINEVI Miss American Pie, Doro Ma Chevy to the Levy, but the Levy was dried an the good old boys. When he drinking whiskey and ride singing this sub the day that I die.

6:27 This be the day that Die. Don McClain's song American Pie. It is the most popular eight and a half minute song of all time. Donni's seventy nine. He was born and knew Rachelle, New York in nineteen forty five, still tours. Some of his other songs are Vincent Wonderful Baby. Since I don't have you crying, I'd actually probably be more successful a songwriter. He's actually in the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He has two times divorced, and he had two children from a second wife. You Ride a Black Tornado ross the Western Sky. Road and Old Blue Northern Ran Filkin Tennis. Ride and oh Golf in Mississippi.

7:12 Long before You Take This Cowboy's Hands rodeo cowboy and country singer Chris LaDue. He was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, in nineteen forty eight. Grew up in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Started doing rodeo at thirteen and then he was a champion high school rodeo star, and he was a champion rodeo or in college. Then he went pro and then we went pro to make some extra money, started writing and recording songs, sold the tapes out of his pickup when he was on the rodeo circuit. Then he won the bareback National Championship at the national finals. YEP. That gave him all the exposure and money he needed to quit, retire from rodeo basically and concentrate on music. That was nineteen eighty. Now he had a huge underground following at least twenty two albums, all independently. Nope, never had a song on the radio or anything that but he was well, well known for his live concerts. They were a messy for any country fan. So even had a mechanical bull on stage. You would write it during the show between songs.

8:04 Then he got mainstream exposure. Yeah, Garth Brooks mentioned his name on the song much too Young to Feel this damn old tougher proms. You know I can't recall now take for. Chris the dude, Lonely women living bed boots. You seem to be the only friends at Lifted. All Christma's career was now mainstream. He was big time. Some of his hits are this Cowboys Hat, what You're Gonna do at the Cowboy? That was with Garth Cindera or Yes his Cadillac Ranch Tougher than the rest the Last Driving You married nineteen seventy four. They had five children. Chrissy died in two thousand and five at fifty six years old from cancer.

8:47 Pressu very Funduly Steven hobby Watch. Jo sting Is seventy three, is born in Walls in England in nineteen fifty one. Now, that song Every Breath You Take It is the most played radio song of all time. Yeah, Iudy never guessed that either. That was when he was with the police. He started out as Gordon Summer, who was a high school teacher. After a couple of years he quit teaching and helped form the police in nineteen seventy seven. Whatent so in nineteen eighty six.

9:28 Now between the Polace and Solo, he sold over on a million records, won seventeen Grammys, sting. He's touring the US right now. He's doing it about a week before Thanksgiving. He's heading over and doing Europe. Had two children from his first wife, married his second wife in nineteen ninety two and they have four kills. Don't believe you and you say that you love sorry. Philip o'ki. He is still the front man for the Human League. He's sixty nine. He was born in Hinckley, England, in nineteen fifty five. Former Human Lingu in nineteen seventy seven.

10:12 Now it's named after an element in a science fiction board game Some of our heads, Don't you want Me? Mirror Man, Fascination Human pretty much just tour Europe. Philip. He hasn't married yet, but he does have a Prince Albert Piercing that he is really proud of. If you don't know what it is, I'm not gonna tell you. Kelly Rippa she was born in nineteen seventy in Berlin, New Jersey, fifty four today. Started out as a dancer. Yeah. She was on Dancing Party USA for six years. Then she went to the soap opera My Children two thousand and one. She plays Kathy Lee and teamed up with Regis Philman for Live with Regis and Kathy. Regius left and then as Michael Strahan who stepped in. So was Live with Kelly and Michael. Then Ryan Seacres, So is Live with Kelly and Ryan now is Live with Kelly and Mark. Yeah, she does it with her husband, Mark Consuelous.

10:59 They got married eineteen ninety six and they have three children away then. And which almost j. That was fifty three year old Tiffany. She was born in Norwalk, California, in nineteen seventy one. She was sixteen years old when that song I Think We're Alone Now went to number one. Then she had the heads could have been I saw him standing there all this time.

11:39 She still performs and releases new music. She's done some movies. She was in Mega Python Versus Gatoroid with Daddy Gibson, and then she voiced Judy Jetson in the Jetsons movie Jeffant. She's two times divorced and she has a son from her first husband. You know, let's go back to silver. You know, no word rhymes with silver, right, silver? It was the first medal be uses currency. Yeah, even in ancient Egypt, silver was actually more valuable than gold. Well, thank you for joining us today. If you get a chance, follow us. I knowever you listen to us on come see it's at coolmedia dot com. This cool three us Now. We talked about his birthday just five days ago with Samuel Adams. He died today in eighteen oh three, at eighty one years old. Samuel said, mankind is governed more by their feelings than by reason. You guys, have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow.