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

0:19 Hi, I am Jeff, and welcome to history and factoids about today today's October the second. Pashkin's are filled in our classrooms, bags are so full, slipper, some mud. In the hallway, everywhere everywhere. Then you appear. Saving the day, cleaning our school. So we are here to say thank you. We are here to say thank you. Today is National Custodian Day. Yeah, got to a thankless job, isn't it. Yeah, Today we celebrate the men and women who work really hard keeping our schools, public facilities, workplaces all looking good and sanitary. Like I said, it is a thankless job.

1:11 Man. They have to deal with messes the rest of us don't even want to touch. So when you see them today, be cool to you're custodian, thank them for all the hard work they put in. If you can give them like a gift card or a coffee or a soda or something like that, I just let them know how much you do appreciate what they actually do every day. All right, listen is going on entertainment in October. Second, let's got to your two thousand and eight number one album was Death Magnetic by Metallica. Pink had the name Oneths ONW So what Darius Rucker had the number one country song with Don't Think, I don't think about it, between the work and the herd and the whiskey.

2:09 Don't think I. Don't want the b could have been. I know what I feel and. I know what I see, But don't think I don't think about. The Number one book was the story of Edgar Sttel by Daniel Wergilinski. Top movie was Beverly Hills, Chihuahua. While on vacation in Mexico, I really reached Beverly Hills, Johawa. Get Lost, stars Drew Barry, mar George Lopez, and Piper Paper. Nineteen fifty. The comic strip Peanuts debut. Yeah, Charlie Brown and all his friends Snoopy. He didn't debut until the third strip, Peanuts. It ran until Charles Charles Schultz died in two thousand. Before Peanuts, he called the little folks.

2:56 All right, what happened on October the second nine? Here in Colorado, Nicholas Creed. He struck it rich with a really huge silver discovery. Now that caused the last silver rush or silver boom in the United States. Now they named the town Creed after him. It's in the southern mountains down here, it's really pretty part of the state. Eighteen ninety three, it's called the Great October Storm. It is the fourth worst hurricane to ever hit the United States. It hit Louisiana. Over two thousand people were killed. Now that's a lot more than Katrina. And he has to think about it. Louisiana's population the time wasn't nearly what it was when Katrina hit either. It's actually one of the first hurricanes that they gave a Category four rating two nineteen forty two. The largest passenger ship in the world, the Queen Mary. Now she was carrying thousands of US troops over to go fight over in Europe.

3:43 Welus. She hit one of her convoys. She hits that curri CoA, sliced it right in half. Killed two hundred and thirty nine British sailors. Now that on the Queen Mary. Yeah she was fine. She only lost a little bit of paint. This is kind of shocking. In nineteen sixty six in San Francisco, every member of the band the Grateful that. Yeah, they got pop for possession of marijuana. Nineteen sixty seven. Third Good Marshall has sworn in as the first Black Supreme Court justice. Nineteen sixty eight. In order to preserve the tallest trees on Earth, Redwood National Park was created out there in northern California. Nineteen eighty four, Papa John Pizza opened up Yeah, very first one in Jeffersonville, Indiana. John Snatner he founded it. Today it is the fourth largest pizza chain.

4:27 Dop joked, joke, shot this shivers day. We're gonna he left this shiver day. We want simple card like this Shibs Day. And you know we don't do. Okay. It was born October the second Mohammed Gandhi. He was born in Port Barter, India in eighteen sixty nine. Now he's born Mihondas now Mahama. That's just a title that was giving him. It means great soul. So whether you call him Mahatma or Mahonda's mad doesn't matter. When it's nineteen he left India. He 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 badly the Indian people were treated down there in South Africa. So to help the Indian people who work and live down there. Yeah, he started a campaign a passive resistance. Then after twenty years he went home. He decided to go help India get his independence from Great Britain. Yeah, he became a leader in the independence movement over there in India. Yeah, of course, using passive resistance. It worked.

5:26 India got their independence in nineteen forty seven. Now, Ghandhi he married in eighteen eighty three. That's right, he was thirteen years old. Well, so was she. See they had actually been engaged since they were seven. Yeah, it wasn't a arranging marriage. Now they were married until nineteen forty four. They had four children, then she died. Gandhi he lived pretty much his entire life with the creed of non violence. Well, he was assassinated in nineteen forty eight. Now, the shooter in one of his accomplices. They were hung six other people had just been the rest of their life in prison. Gandhi seventy eight years old when he got killed. 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 the name.

6:06 I'm telling you who's on first, what's on second? I don't know it's on third. You know the fellow's name? Yes, Well, then who's playing first? Yes? I mean the fellow's name on fresh base? The fellow playing first base for Saint Louis. Who the guy on fresh base? Who was on first? But Abbot? He was a straight man in the comedy duo Abbott and Costello. He was a skinny guy now. He was born in Asbury Park, New Jersey in eighteen ninety seven. Teamed up a Louke Costella in nineteen thirty six. From nineteen forty nineteen fifty six they were one of the biggest box office draws and highest paid entertainers in the world. They had thirty six movies. Broke up in nineteen fifty seven. Turns out they could not stand each other for the last ten years they were together. But he had married nineteen eighteen and they had teach other. Died in nineteen seventy four from cancer, seventy six years old.

6:51 So far Miss American podro Ma Chevin to the levee, But the levy was in good old boys when drinking whiskey and ride singing this Silvie. The day that I die. In this SI be the day that I. Don McLean's song American Pie is the most popular eight and a half minutes song of all time Donnie's eighty. He was born in New Rochelle, New York in nineteen forty five. Still tour if you go seem some of the other songs. O there are Vincent Wonderful Baby. Since I don't have you now, He's probably more successful than a songwriter. He's in the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He has two times divorced. He had two children from the second wife.

7:38 You Ride a Black Tornado ross the Western Sky. Robin ol Blue Northern Ran, Milkin Tennis. Ride, and Old Dog in Mississippi as. Down Flat all before you take this cap for his hands. Rodeo cowboy country singer Chris Lado. He was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, in nineteen forty eight. Grew up in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Started doing rodeo at thirteen. Then he was a champion high school rider. Then he was a college rodeo rider national champion. So I went pro. Yeah, it make some extra money on the side. Though he wrote and recorded songs so the tap side of the back of his pickup trip on the rodeo circuit. Then he won the bareback National Championship of the National Finals Rodeo. Well that dead. That gave him all the exposure and money that he needed to retire from rodeo go all in on music. Now, that was nineteen eighty and he had this huge underground following.

8:36 I mean he released twenty two albums, all independently, never had one song on the radio, but his shows were all so that everybody who was in country million knew who Chris Lado was, and they knew going to a Crystal Dowe show that was a muss see see even had a mechanical bull on stage right even write it during songs. Now Chris, he all of a sudden went in mainstream, you. Know, recall. Now take Chris the Dude. Lonely Women, they seem to be the only friends at. Lift it All. When Garth mentioned his name in that song much Too Young, Philis Damo, Chris yep became a household name baking star. Some of the mainstream hits where this cowboy is at, what you can do with the Cowboy?

9:24 I Live Garth Cadillac Ranch tougher than the rest. Just look at you girl. Chrissy married nineteen seventy four and they had five kids. He died in two thousand and five and fifty six years old from cancer. Very pressu, very Founduly, very step hobby, Choose your res. Staying. He's seventy four. He's been walls in England in nineteen fifty. Now, that song Every Breath You Take It is the most played song on the radio all time. Yeah, I didn't never guess that one. Now, that was when he was with the police. So he started out as Gordon and Sumner in a high school teacher. Nineteen seventy seven, he quit teaching and helped form the band The Place and changed his name to Sting. Now, Sting was a nickname he had gotten when he was like eighteen years old.

10:20 Had something to do with you wear a sweater when he performed on stage, man he made him look like a b or something like that. He had solo in nineteen eighty six. So between The Place and Solo, Solo run a million records. Now he's on world tour right now, but I'm pretty sure he's done with his US part of the world tour. He had two children from his first wife. Married his second wife in nineteen ninety two and they have four kids. Sorry. Philip Boakley he is the lead singer for Human League. Seventy years old today.

11:07 Born in Hinckley, England in nineteen fifty five. Formed Human Leg in nineteen seventy seven. Now it's named after like a science fiction board game over there in England, something like that, You Don't want Me Mirror Man, Fascination Human Yeah, some of their big hits now they still tour, but pretty much just in Europe over there now in the nineteen seventy it's still He did marry once for two years now. When he's on stage, Phil he looks really professional. He always wears an Armani suit. He wants to look the best. But what Phil is most excited or most proud of, I guess you'd say underneath that Armani suit. He has a Prince Albert Piercing. Yeah, he tells everybody about it. I don't know if he shows him or not. Though. If you don't know what appear in Prince Albert Piercing is, yeah, I'm not gonna tell you. Kelly Rippa she was born in nineteen seventy in Stratford, New Jersey. She's fifty five.

11:54 Started out as a dancer. She was on the Dance Party USA show for six years. Then she was on the soap opera All My Children two thousand and one. She placed Kathy Lee and teamed up with Regis of Philman, so it was Live with Regis and Kelly. Well, Regis retired, so Michael Strahan came on, so now it was Live with Regis or Live with Kelly and Michael. Then he left and Ryan seacrafts game, so it was Live with Kelly and Ryan. Then he left, so now it's Live with Kelly and Mark Marks, her husband. Yeah, he's an actor. They got married when they were on the show All My Children together in the nineteen nineties. They had three children.

12:35 Away then. And which almost that was a sixteen year old Tiffany. She probably didn't hang out at malls anymore. She's fifty four. She was born Tiffany Darwish in Norwalk, California, nineteen seventy one. I think we're alone now, have been sim standing there all this time. That's some of Tiffany's it's now. She still does tour and she puts out some new music too. She voiced Judy Jetson on the Jetsons movie Tiffany. She is two times divorced and she has a son from her first marriage. All right, our quote of the day. It comes from Samuel Adams. He died today in eighteen oh three at eighty one years old. Samuel he says, mankind is governed more by its feelings than my reason. Oh, thank you all for listening to don't forget to follow us on who you listen to us on? So we're easy to find, and I always look down at the bottom of the show notes. I will show you what you might have questions about her. Actually, it shows you how to connect with us. That's pretty cool. So our country under around radio artists today because the Stacey Yup and leveland Colorado she has there Bridley Addington song, No thanks, you guys have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow.

13:44 No me, no smoke, no cold beard, no dirty jokes, no contricutings, no cheating drice, no good no us, no thanks. I wanna go where the. Knive's gonna go juke box or a band playing solid country go yet feeling big city gone, getting niddy gritty all with the pretty cherry. Bomm on the dance floor. I wanna feel the wind makes me feel when the good times ruther ain't ren bend in the wig now, I gotta say, that's in my kind of place. So if it is a morning, if it ain't no.

14:29 Thing bout service v IP over reach. There you asked me DJ spend feeling the blame, thank you kind of let it get no things. I wanna go where. The knives gonna go juke box or a band. Playing solid country, go gap we in the big city, an get the ditty gritty all with the pretty jerry. Come on the fansport. I'm on the bill. The wind makes with bill. When the good times little one ain't read, then the.

15:15 Wideo Now, I gotta say that's mick out of play. So if it is a morning, if it ain't no thing,