Oct 23-Boston Cream Pie, Johnny Carson, Dwight Yoakam, Weird Al Yankovic, Ryan Reynolds, Emilia Clarke

0:19 Hi everyone, I am Jeff, and welcome to History and Fact Toys About Today, presented by Cool Media. Today's October the 23rd. Here you go to the city, the city called Boston, and you want to eat some pie? There's only one kind of pie that you ought to go out and buy. It's called a Boston cream pie. It's the best dessert to eat in the whole city of Boston. Today is National Boston Cream Pie Day. Boston Cream Pie, it's a yellow butter cake filled with custard or cream and topped with chocolate. So why is it called a pie and not a cake? Well, it's easy. See, it's baked in a pie pan. A French chef, he created it at the Parker House Hotel in Boston in 1856. Now, students at the Southern New Hampshire University, they just set the record for the biggest Boston Cream Pie, 10 feet across and 1 1⁄2 inches thick. Now, even if you're not from New England, I guess you can enjoy some Boston Cream Pie today and enjoy it. Now, see, I'm in training. I'm trying for a half marathon. So I cannot partake in some Boston green pie. And even though that I do not ever condone violence, today I think I'm going to participate in National Slap Your Coworker Day.

1:30 So if you don't hear me tomorrow, now you know why. Okay, let's see what happened in entertainment on October 23rd. Let's back to 2013. Number one album was the 2020 Experience by Justin Timberlake. Lorde had the number one song with Royals. Crystal Maybach, diamonds on your timepiece. Jet planes, islands, tigers on. A gold leash. We don't care. We aren't caught up in your love affair. And we'll never be royals. It's a run in our blood. That kind of love just ain't for us. We crave a different kind of bud. Luke Bryan had them on Country Song with That's My Kind of Night. But you look like the kind that likes to take.

2:15 It way out. Out where the cornrows grow, row. Row my boat. Floating down the Flint River, catch us up a little catfish dinner. Gonna sound like a winner when I lay you down and love you right. Yeah, that's my kind of night. That top-selling book was Stormfront by John Sanford. The top movie was Jackass Presents Bad Grandpa. 86-year-old Irving, he takes eight-year-old grandson Billy from Nebraska to North Carolina to be with his father. Stars Johnny Knoxville and Jackson Nickel. 1958, the Smurfs, they debuted on TV. Well, over in Belgium. They won't come out into the United States until 1981. All right, what happened on October the 23rd? 1694, the Spanish, they control the city on the North African coast called Suerta. Morocco, they did not like Spanish control in that city, kind of in their territory. So they began a siege. Now, Spain hung tough. That ended up being the longest siege in world history. It lasted 26 years. Finally, the Moroccan government was overthrown. Then when the new government took over, they couldn't figure out why they were seizing Suerta. So they pulled out all their troops. Spain won. 1850 in Worcester, Massachusetts, over 1,000 delegates, all women, met at the first U.S.

3:29 National Women's Rights Conference. The main issues were the right to vote, equal pay, women's property rights, and marriage reform that included fairness for women. Well, it took 70 years for him to get that right to vote. 1923, American Sebastian Hinton. He invented the playground structure we call monkey bars. Yeah, he got a patent for it and everything. He said it reminded him of monkeys. In 1934, over Lake Erie, Gene Picard and his wife Jeanette Yeah, they set an altitude record. Yeah, they were able to get a hot air balloon up to 11 miles high. And you wonder why they did it over Lake Erie. They really didn't think that that water would help break the fall if something happened, did they? 1944, off the Philippines, the Battle of Leyte Gulf was fought. It was the largest naval battle in World War II. Over the next three days, the United States and the Australian navies just put a butt whooping on the Japanese navy. Now, the U.S. and Aussies, they lost six ships and 225 planes. Japan, they lost 28 ships and 300 planes, and that's the first battle when Japan started using kamikazes. Yeah, Japan, they never could recover from that loss. 1977, paleontologists found the oldest fossil ever. Yeah, they found it in Western Australia. It's a one-celled organism.

4:40 It was found in a rock. Now, it dated back to 3.4 billion years. Now, a couple years ago, scientists, they started rethinking it. There is no way that anything was possible to live on Earth 3.4 billion years ago. So they wanted to debunk it. Yeah, they wanted to say that that was bull. So they retested that rock, and they were right. It actually dated back 3.5 billion years. 1983, there was a multinational peacekeeping force over in Lebanon trying to stop all the violence. They were having a civil war with all different types of terrorist organizations fighting. United States, they were one of the nations that sent troops to try and get everything to chill out. 6.20 a.m., Islamic terrorists drove a truck loaded with explosives into a barracks in Beirut. United States Marines, they were staying there. 241 U.S.

5:21 Marines were killed. It was the largest terrorist attack against the United States before September 11th. Now, another truck bomb hit to where the French soldiers were staying and killed 58 French soldiers. In 2001, Apple, they started selling the iPod. I did not know this, but Apple stopped making the iPod May 10th in 2022. This is actually kind of scary. In 2019, Google, they were able to perform calculations in three minutes of That would have taken a supercomputer 10,000 years to calculate. Let's just check out who was born on October the 23rd. And now, ladies and gentlemen, here's Johnny!

6:16 Late night host Johnny Carson was born in Corning, Iowa in 1925. Grew up in Norfolk, Nebraska. Now one of my grandmothers grew up there at the same time, so I heard all about Johnny Carson. Johnny, he was a culture icon. Well, he still is. I mean, he's still considered the king of late night TV. Hosted the Tonight Show from 1962 to 1992. Epic man, he was a sidekick that whole run. Johnny had three sons from his first wife. Married his fourth wife in 1987. They were together until he died from emphysema in 2005 at 79 years old. Author Michael Crichton. He was born in Chicago in 1942. Sold over 200 million bucks. Now, before he began writing books, he graduated with a medical doctorate degree from Harvard. He said, thanks for the diploma, now I can go write books. Yeah, doctor, that'd be good to fall back on if I guess the writing didn't work out.

7:02 Some of his biggest books were The Indominus Strain, Congo, Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Prey. He wrote the movies, Coma and Twister, and he created the TV show ER. Michael had a daughter from his fourth wife and married his fifth wife in 2005, and they had a son. Mackley died in 2008 at 66 years old from lymphoma. Country singer Dwight Yoakam is 70. He was born in Pikeville, Kentucky.

7:46 Some of Dwight's biggest hits are Honky Tonk Man, Guitars and Catalogs, Ain't That Lonely Yet, Fast as You. He's done some acting. He was in the movies Sling Blade, Panic Room, and Wedding Crashers. Finally settled down and got himself married in 2020. They have a little girl. We're riding in a bus down the boulevard and the pace was great in fact. But I see so I had to stand where the burgers in the back. It was not in a black locker room. There was junk all over the floor. We're already back in my 30s. We're stopping to pick up more. Look out! Another one rides a bus. Another one rides a bus. That is old school Weird Al Yankovic from the 1970s. Weird Al was born in Downey, California, 67.

8:29 Now he's just a weird guy. Nope, he's never used profanity drinks or drugs. Started out releasing songs on the Dr. Demento radio show when he was 16. Now he's only released like two songs that he actually made himself. Every one of his songs has pretty much been a parody. But he's won five Grammys. He's performed over a thousand concerts. And I guess his concerts are pretty wild. The kids, they all go between toddlers and people in their 80s and 90s. He started playing the accordion when he was seven years old. Who would have known that that was going to pay off? Al, he married in 2001, and they have a daughter. Bill Murray introduced him. Yeah, he sent those two kids on a blind date. And I knew what I was talking about. Every time. The sun goes down, he's the one. Yeah, me, I'm missing you way across town.

9:22 So do you believe me now? Country singer Jimmy Wayne is 54. He was born in Kings Mountain, North Carolina. Jimmy, he grew up in the foster system, so he's a huge advocate for foster kids. After he graduated from college, he worked as a prison guard for four years before making the move to Nashville and going after music. Some of his biggest hits are Stay Gone, I Love You This Much, Do You Believe Me Now, I Will. In 2010, he walked 1,700 miles from Nashville to Phoenix in seven months. Yeah, it was to raise awareness for foster children. Nowadays, Jimmy's pretty much a best-selling author and a really big inspirational speaker. Didn't do a lot of singing. Actor Ryan Reynolds is 50. He was born in Vancouver, Canada. First got known in the United States for the movie Van Wilder. Best known for X-Men, Green Lantern, and the Deadpool movies. Just watched him the other night in Hitman's Wise Bodyguard. I guess it's okay to waste an hour and a half. He is, I guess his movie's made like $ 5 billion, though. But he's invested in himself very well. One of his biggest investments, he's the majority owner of Mint Mobile. He married actress Scarlett Johansson for four years. Then he married Blake Lively in 2012. They had three daughters and one son. 40-year-old actress Emilia Clarke was born in London, England. Best known for starring on the Game of Thrones for eight years.

10:33 Then she starred in the movie Solo, a Star Wars movie. She hasn't married yet, guys, so hey, take your shot. Well, thank you for listening today. And don't forget to follow us on whoever you listen to. Come see us at coolmedia.com. Let's end with Jerry Jeff Walker. Now he wrote that song in 1968. It might not be the most famous version, but he's the one who wrote it. Jerry died today in 2020 at 78 years old. He said, the only way to know how much is enough is to do more than back off. Our Country Underground Radio Artist of the Day. It comes from the artist herself. She goes by Christina B. She contacted me and said, hey, will you play my new song out there on your Country Underground Radio? I listened to it and I said, yeah, I'll play it. And it looks like a pretty good Friday song. So let's hit it. The clock hits five.

11:37 I'm still alive, but I'm dreaming. says keep grinding on but my boots keep tapping it too life's too short for 40 because we're all burning daylight down let's crank that shift make it swift time is what brings upside down clocking out clocking out feeling good no doubt. Working hard, not today Clocking out, clocking out Hey, hey, hey Raise your glass if you've had enough of the Monday through Friday grind We ain't lazy.

12:40 Time for kissing time and chase that cajun sun tell the world we paid our dues now give us a little more fun clocking out clocking out feeling good no doubt kicking back let the music play working hard not today clocking out clocking out