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

0:10 Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history in Factor. It's about today visit in back cool Media. Today's October the twenty third. Here you go to the city, the city called Boston, and you want to eat some pies. There's only one kind of pie that you ought to go out in by. It's called the Boston Cream Pie. It's the best ef third to eat in the whole city of Boston. Today is National Boston Green Pie Day. Boston Green Pie. It's that yellow butter cake filled with custard or cream and top with chocolate. So I has to call a pie and not a cake. Well it's easy say. It's baked in a pipe in a French chef. He created at the Parker House Hotel in Boston in eighteen fifty six.

0:58 Now students at the Southern New Hampshire University. They just set the record for the biggest Boston cream by ten feet across and one and a half inches thick. Oh, even if you're not from New England, I guess you can enjoy some Boston Cream pie today. And now see I'm in training. I'm trying for a half marathon, so I cannot partake in some Boston cream 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. So if you don't hear me tomorrow, now you know why. All right, this is going on in entertainment on October the twenty third. It's back to nineteen seventy nine. Number one album was in Through the Outdoor. I led Zeppelin, Herb Albert Ye had the number one song with Rise, Larry Gatlin and the Gatlin Brothers. The number one country song with all the Gold in California and all the.

2:05 Gold in cal. He's in a back. Legs and somebody who says the name. The number one book was The Establishment by Howard Fast. The top movie was ten Deadley Moore has a midlife crisis and he blows off his girlfriend Julie Andrews, and he becomes infatuated with Bo Derek. Oh, she just got married. She's only mooning in Mexico. Nineteen fifty eight. The Smurfs, they debuted on TV well over in Belgium. They won't come out into the United States until nineteen eighty one. All right, what happened in October the twenty third sixteen ninety four the Spanish. They control the city on the North African coast called Schwartze, Morocco. They did not like Spanish controlling that city kind of in their territory, so they became as they began a siege. Now Spain hungk Tug that ended up being the longest in world history, lasted twenty six years. Finally the Moroccan government was overthrown.

3:04 Then when the new government took over, they couldn't figure out why they were a siezing Swerta, so they pulled out all their trips. Spain won eighteen fifty in Worcester Man, Massachusetts. Over one thousand delegates, all women met at the first US 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 seventy years from we get that right to vote. Nineteen twenty three, American Sebastian Hinton, he invented the playground structure we call monkey bars. Yeah, I got a patent for it and everything. He said it reminded him of monkeys. In nineteen thirty four, over Lake Gary, Jean Picard and his wife Janette. Yeah, they set an altitude record. Yeah, they were able to get it an hot air balloon up to eleven miles high.

3:51 And he wondered why they did it over Lake Erie. They really didn't think that water would help break the follow something happened, did they? Nineteen forty four, off the Philippines, the Battle of Late Day Gulf was fought. It was the largest naval battle of World War Two. Over the next three days, the United States and the Australian navyes just put a butt whooping on the Japanese Navy. Now, the US and Ausse's they lost six ships in two hundred and twenty five planes. Japan and they lost twenty eight ships and three hundred planes. And that's the first battle when Japan started using Kama Kazi's. Yeah, pan they never could recover from that loss. Nineteen seventy seven, Paleontollige just found the oldest fossil ever. Yeah, they found it in Western Australia. It's a one silk organism. It was found in a rock. Now it dated back to three point four billion years now. A couple of years ago.

4:34 It's about scientists they started ever rethinking and there is no way that anything was possible to live on Earth three point four years ago. So they wanted to debunk it. Yeah, they wanted to say that was both. So they retested that rock and they were right. We actually dated back three point five billion years. Nineteen eighty three, there's a multinational peacekeeping force over in Lebanon trying to stop all the violence. They were having a civil war with all different types of the terrorist organizations fighting United States. They were one of the nations that said troops to try and get everything to chill out. Six twenty AM, Islamic terrorists drove a truck loaded with explosive into a barracks in Beirut. The United States Marines they were staying there. Two hundred and forty one yes Marines were killed. It was the largest terrorist attack against the United States before September eleventh. Now, another truck bomb hit to where the French soldiers were staying and killed fifty eight French soldiers.

5:20 In two thousand and one, Apple they started selling the iPod. I did not know this, but Apple stopped making the iPod made tenth in twenty twenty two. This is actually kind of scary. In twenty nineteen, Google. They were able to perform calculations in three minutes that would have taken a supercomputer ten thousand years to calculate. Doke Co joked, joke shuge thish shivers Day. Please don't he left this shiverfday. We got simple tags. Left this shibs day. You don't do birthday. Let's just check out. It was born in October the twenty third. Now, Ladies and gentlemen, Gee.

6:03 Johnny. Late night host Johnny Carson was born in Corning, Iowa, in nineteen twenty five. 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 still considered the king of late night TV. Hosted The Tonight Show from nineteen sixty two to nineteen ninety two. Ethic man, he was a sidekick that whole run. Johnny had three sons from his first wife, married his fourth wife in nineteen eighty seven. They're together until he died from emphysema two thousand and five at seventy nine years old. Author Michael Crichton. He was born in Chicago in nineteen forty two sold over two hundred million bucks. Now before he began writing books, he graduated with a medical doctory degree from Harvard. He said, thanks for the diploma, and I can go write books. Yeah, doctor, that'd be good to fall back on if I guess with the writing didn't work out. Some of his biggest books were They In Dominant Strain, Congo, Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Prey.

6:56 He wrote the move his Coma and Twister, and he created the TV show York. Michael had a daughter from his fourth wife and married his fifth wife in two thousand and five and they had his son, Michael. He died in two thousand and eight to sixty six years old from lymphoma. Guitar Camlack, Bill Vill Using Lonely Streets, Alcohol, homes Us, calac Billvill st Holy thingses Me. Country singer Dwight Yoakam. He's sixty eight for Pakville, Near and Kentucky in nineteen fifty six. He's releasing a new album out November fifteenth. The first singles with Dwighton post Malone didn't see that coming. Some of Dwight's biggest hits are Honky Tunk man guitars and catalogs. Ain't that lonely yet?

7:47 Fast as you. He's done some acting. He was in the movie His Sling Blade, Panic Room and Wedding Crashers. Finally settled down and got himself married. In twenty twenty, they have a little girl finding the remakesful hand of Stane. He was Craymore Wowznissa. That is old school weird Al Yankovic from the nineteen seventies weird Al. He was born in down in California in nineteen fifty nine, makes him sixty five today. Now he's just a weird guy. Nope, he's never used profanity, drinks or drugs. Started out releasing songs on the Doctor Demento radio show when he was sixteen. Now he's only released like two songs that he actually made himself. Every one of his song has pretty much been a parody.

8:40 But he's won five Grammys. He's performed over a thousand concert and I guess his concerts are pretty wild. The kids, they think they all go between like toddlers and people in their ages and nineties. So he's kicking off. His next one is called Bigger and Weirder, and'll start out at the beginning next summer in June and then run through the rest of the year. Now, he started playing the court in when he was seven years old. Who would an know that that was gonna pay off? Ali He married in two thousand and one and they have a daughter. Bill Murray introduced him. Yeah, he sent those two kids on a blind date. I knew what I was tall MB. Remember telling the South cohost Town he's on a song you made, Jemmy, I'm.

9:20 Missing you wait ghost Town. So you believe in. Country. Singer Jimmy Wayne is fifty two. He was born in Kingsmund, North Carolina, in nineteen seventy two. 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 twenty ten, he walked seventeen hundred miles from Nashville to Phoenix in seven months. Yeah, it was the raise awareness for foster children. Nowadays, Jimmy is pretty much a best selling author and really a big inspirational speaker. Didn't do a lot of singing. Actor Role Reynolds Reynolds. He's fifth, fourth after Ryan Reynolds. He's forty eight. He was born in Vancouver, Canada in nineteen seventy six. First guy known the United States for the movie Van Wilder. Best known for X Men, Green Lantern and their Deadpool movies. Just watched him the other night in Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard. This is okay to waste an hour and a half he is.

10:21 I guess his movie's made like five billion dollars though, but he's invested himself very well. One of his biggest investments he's the majority owner of mint Mobile. He married actress Scarlett Johansson for four years, and then he married Blake Lively in twenty twelve. They had three daughters and one son. Thirty eight year old actress Emily Clark. She was born London, England in nineteen eighty six. Best known for starring on the Game of Thrones for eight years. Then she did start in the movie Solo, a Star Wars movie. She hasn't married yet. Guys, so hey take your shot. Let's go back to Boston. Green Pie. You done the Boston Green Pie. No, actually, when the Boston Green Pie came out, it was really unique at that time, you know, in eighteen fifty six. It was one of the very first things ever used chocolate in the recipe for the dessert. But then pretty much chocolate was always just served as a beverage. Well, thank you for listening today, and don't forget to follow us on whoever you listen to.

11:12 Some come says at Comedia dot com. Let's end Jerry Jeff Walker. A new Man Lo Jangles, and he danced for you born out shoe the super hairy ragget shirt. To bagg. The old soft shoe. Now, he wrote that song in nineteen sixty eight. It might not be the most famous version, but he's the one who wrote it. Jerry died it in twenty twenty at seventy eight years old. He said, the only way to know how much is enough is to do more than back off. You guys, have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.