Oct 25th-Chucky, Picasso, Minnie Pearl, Helen Reddy, Katy Perry, Yes, Sawyer Brown, Bart Simpson

0:20 Hi, I'm Jeff, and welcome to History and Factoids About Today. Today's October the 25th. This is a song about a doll named Chucky. Me! I'm a good guy, but I'm bad. I'm gonna slash, slash, slash, I love to stab. It's Andy's birthday. Let's play pretend. I'll be your friend until the end. Today is National Chucky the Notorious Killer Doll Day. Yeah, I'm not a big fan either, but hey, Halloween's almost here. And this is Chucky's time of year. Chucky started out in the movie Child's Play in 1988. Now it's just known as the Chucky franchise. Now it started out as slasher movies, but it's kind of evolved into like horror films with dark humor and that kind of stuff. Now, if you own an original Chucky's doll, yeah, they're selling for about 1200 bucks. Now, there are eight Chucky and Child's Play movies. There's a TV series, lots of merchandise.

1:20 So I guess, hey, just get into Halloween by binging on Chucky today. All right, let's see what's going on in entertainment on October 25th. Let's back to 2023. Number one album for All the Dogs by Drake. Taylor Swift had the number one song with Cruel Summer. Killing me slow, out the window. I'm always waiting for you to be waiting below. Devils roll the dice. Zach Bryan and Casey Musgrave have their number one country song with I Remember Everything.

2:04 Do you remember that beat down basement couch? I'd sing you my love songs and you'd tell me about How your mama ran off in pondering I remember, I remember. Everything The number one selling book was Judgment Prey by John Sanford. Top move was Five Nights at Freddy's. A security guard, he starts working at Freddy Fazbear Pizza. After five nights, he realized there's something wrong. Then he finds out the truth about animatronics. Stars Josh Hutchison, Piper Raul, and Elizabeth Lale. 1978, the movie Halloween hit theaters. Now, it was Jamie Lee Curtis' first movie. It cost $ 300, 000 to make, made over $ 65 million, and created a whole franchise. Now, that mask that was worn by Michael Myers, you know, the killer? Yeah, it was a Captain Kirk mask they found at a costume store for $ 1.

3:02 98. Yep, all they did was widen the eyes and spray paint it. So that's how you got Michael Myers to get it. All right, what happened on August the 25th? 1920, the king of Greece, his name's Alexander I, he died. He was only 27 years old. See, three weeks earlier, he was out walking his dog in his palace gardens. And his dog and the gardener's monkey and macaw, they got into a fight. Well, Alexander, he broke up the fight. The monkey bit him, but it didn't seem like a big deal at the time. Well, he ended up getting blood poison from it. Yeah, that's what killed him. 1929, United States President Harding, his secretary of the interior, Albert Fell. He was convicted for his part in the Teapot Dome scandal. He took a $ 100, 000 bribe. Now, he had to spend the next year in prison and had to pay back $ 100, 000 in his fine. Now, he was the first presidential cabinet member who was actually convicted of a crime. So $ 100, 000 in 1929 is about $ 1. 9 million today. 1932 over in Italy, the Italian people, they were starting to not like so much that they were being ruled by a dictator. So to ease all their fears and, you know, get rid of their concerns, Mussolini addressed his citizens and he proclaimed that he would only be a dictator for 30 more years.

4:12 United States submarine, the Tang, it had sank 33 Japanese warships. Then today in 1944, yep, it was lined up on number 34. It had it in its sights. It was already, boom, fired the torpedo. The torpedo malfunctioned. Yeah, it started going in circles. Well, the Tang did everything it could to avoid it, but yeah, it didn't work. So basically, its own torpedo ended up sinking the Tang. Now, 78 sailors died. Nine of them actually survived and got to the surface. Yeah, but they were quickly captured by the Japanese. In 1960, Bolivar, they started selling the first electronic watches. Yeah, the first time you didn't have to wind your watch. 1964 in football, Minnesota Vikings defensive lineman Jim Marshall. He picked up a fumbling and he ran it 66 yards the wrong way for the touchdown. Well, he thought he scored a touchdown.

5:01 He spiked the ball and everything. Yeah, it ended up being a safety, obviously. So that's actually rated the number one NFL blooper of all time. 2017, communist Chinese premier Xi Jinping. He formed his new ruling council for China. None of the five guys that he appointed to the council were young enough to succeed him. Kind of sounds like something Mussolini would have done. who was born on October the 25th. Artist Pablo Picasso. He was born in Borgheda, Spain in 1881. Spent most of his life in France.

5:48 He painted, he sculpted, he did ceramics, all that artsy stuff. He became really famous and really rich. He was the first pop culture artist. Now his painting, Les Femmes d'Alger, it sold for 179.4 million dollars in 2015. Picasso's actually painted six paintings that have sold for 100 million dollars. Now, he was a short, goofy-looking bald guy, but somehow women just loved him. Yeah, he was married twice. He had four children from three different women, and he always had a mistress. Whether he was married or had a girlfriend, yep, he had a mistress. He told them he was going to have a mistress going in. They didn't care. Picasso, he died from heart disease in 1973, 91 years old. Comedian Minnie Burrell. She was born in Centerville, Tennessee in 1912.

6:32 She grew up in money. That's right. Her dad owned a really big sawmill. So she went to the best schools, studied dance and theater. Then she hit big playing a simple poor country girl. I just love her. She performed at the Grand Ole Opry from 1940 to 1991. She was on the TV show Hee Haw for 20 years. Minnie, she married herself with a World War II fighter pilot in 1947. They were married until Minnie died from a stroke in 1996 at 83 years old. Now that price tag that always hung down from the hat that she always wore, it always read $ 1. 98. Sam!

7:14 Actress Marion Ross is 98. She was born in Watertown, Minnesota in 1928. Best known for playing Mrs. C, Marion Cunningham, on the TV show Happy Days. After that, she had recurring roles on The Drew Carey Show and then The Gilmore Girls. She voiced Grandma Squarepants on SpongeBob. Now, before Happy Days, she was actually in quite a few movies. Now, she retired from acting on her 90th birthday, so seven years ago. She said, ah, that's enough. She was married to her first husband for 18 years, and they had a son and a daughter. She was married to her second husband for 23 years when he died in 2011.

8:06 She is woman and she is Helen Reddy. She was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1941. Now when she was four years old, she started performing on stage with her parents. They did like plays and that kind of stuff. They were entertainers. Now she was one of the biggest female music artists in the 1970s. I Am Woman, Delta Dawn, You and Me Against the World, Ain't No Way to Treat a Woman. Those are some of her 12 number one songs that she hit in the 1970s. She was in some movies. She was in Airport 75, Pete's Dragon, The Disorderlies. She had a daughter from her first husband. She married her second husband. They had only known each other three days. Ran out on a blind date, got together, got married three days later. They had a son. They were married 15 years when they divorced. So then, well, I guess just for fun, she married a drummer for 10 years after that. Now, she had Addison's and dementia and got her in 2020 at 78 years old. I'm trying to find out.

8:54 How there's. No way to save it. That was John Anderson singing for the band Yes. He's 82. He's won an Accrington England. Helped co-found Yes in 1968. Now with him singing, there's a little over 30 million albums. Yes was actually bigger in the United States than they ever were back in the UK. Some of the big hits over here were Owner of a Lonely Heart, Changes, leave it, love will find a way. John left in 2008. He still performs, though, but he just kind of sits in with other artists and that kind of stuff. He was married to his first wife for 25 years, and they had three children.

9:43 Married his second wife in 1997. Yo, hey, what's happening, dude? I'm the guy with the best for being you. Terrorizing people wherever I go. It's not intentional, just keeping the flow. Next in test scores, you get the best scores. You're about to banana trees all over. Actress Nancy Cartwright is 69. She was born in Dayton, Ohio. She is famous for voicing Bart Simpson. She's been voicing Bart since The Simpsons started in 1987 when they started out on The Tracy Ullman Show. Now, she actually, originally, she went into audition as Lisa. While she was doing her audition, it wasn't going so well, so she told them, you know what, I can do Bart a lot better. So Matt Goering said, okay, let's hear it. Well, the rest is history. Nancy, she also voices Maggie, Ralph, Nelson, Todd Flanders, a whole bunch more.

10:33 She's done a lot of voice work on the side that you don't hear about, other than The Simpsons, I mean. Now, she married once for 14 years, and she has two children from that. You're painting your nails like you were born. Mark Miller, he sings lead for the country band Sawyer Brown. Mark, he was born in Dayton, Ohio. He's 68. He helped form Sawyer Brown in 1981. Now, they could not come up with a band name to sing their soul. Then one day, one of the guys was looking out the window of the recording studio and saw a street sign that said Sawyer Brown Road. So, Sawyer Brown it was. Now, they won the TV show Star Search in 1984. Some of their hits are Step by Step, The Walk, Thank God for You, some girls do. Now, Mark, he married in 1990. He married Lisa Knight. Now, her brother was actor Christopher Knight. You might know him better for Peter Brady.

11:41 Mark and Lisa, they have two children. Now, there's actually a movie about Sawyer Brown. It's kind of a documentary kind of thing. It's called Get Me On Stage. So you can actually see it on Prime or on Apple TV if you want to go see how Sawyer Brown, basically what their history was, I guess. Ed Robertson, he's been singing lead for the Barenaked Ladies since 1988. He's 56, born in Scarborough, Canada. Now, their name, it actually started out just tongue-in-cheek. They would kind of kid around and say that they were barren, aching ladies, and then they would laugh and laugh. Then the name stuck. Some of their hits are One Week, It's All Been Done, Pinch Me, A Little Too Late. Of course, the theme song for the Big Bang Theory. Now, if you look on their tour, they're touring Canada. Yep, just straight across. No American shows.

12:45 So I don't know if they're just proud to be Canadian or something to do with Trump's tariffs or something like that. Now, he married in 1994, and they have a daughter and two sons. 42-year-old Katy Perry was born in Santa Monica, California. Now, both her parents were Pentecostal ministers, so when she was 16, she released a gospel album. That didn't work at all, so she switched over to pop music and sold 150 million records since. A pretty good call. She was a judge on American Idol for seven seasons. She's played herself in seven movies, and she's played a Smurfette in two Smurf movies. Katie, she married comedian and actor Russell Brand for two years. Then she dated actor Orlando Bloom for nine years, and they had a daughter.

13:45 You just call her Sierra. She's 41 today. She was born on Fort Hood in Texas in 1985. Yeah, she was an Army brat. She was named after the Revlon Fragment Sierra. Now, she went to high school outside of Atlanta. Then right after high school, yeah, she got her first record deal. Some of her big, yeah, I don't know. I guess she's pretty big. She sold 45 million records. Goodies, One Two Step, Love Sex Magic. Some of her hits. I think that one was with Justin Timberlake. Now, she had a son from a former fiance. In 2016, she married NFL quarterback Russell Wilson. They have three kids. All right here, quote of the day. It comes from actor Vincent Price. Pretty good choice this close to Halloween. He died today in 1993 at 82 years old. Price says, a man who limits his interest limits his life. Well, thank you all for listening today. Don't forget to follow us on how you listen to us on. And check out the show's description to find all the links and all that kind of stuff, how to connect with us. Our country underground radio artist of the day comes from Rudy out there in Asheville, North Carolina. He did it. country underground radio.com.

15:10 He said he wants to hear some Jason Sturgeon, his song time bomb. So you guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. I'm living my life way too fast. And I'm down sure that I'm going to crash. I feel it burn, but I'm having a blast. And I don't know any other way to take it as it goes. It's deep out today. As hard as I try, I'll never get away. Got a time I'm takin' underneath my hood Pumpin' through like blood, man, she's runnin' good. Blown 383, drop that hammer down I'm up.

15:54 For no good, gonna rock this town. Hold on tight as you lose control And dig down deep and then give us more Ain't got no bridge, gonna hold it to the floor. And I've seen blood pourin' out of my skin I broke my bones.

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