Oct 29-Oatmeal, Richard Dryfuss, Quiet Riot, Homer Simpson, Winona Ryder, Tracee Ellis Ross, 1 Legged Gymnist wins gold

0:10 Hi, I am Jeff and today is October twenty ninth, and welcome to history and facto. It's about today. Oh eighteen elm oh eighteen mp a el okil everywhere. Oh ag mtk el oh agmt a el oatmeal everywhere. Today is National Oatmeal Day. I guess we're suppose to need healthy before Halloween. Now, oh it's They were the last grain to be domesticated, started farming about three one thousand years ago. Now originally they were just growing for horse feed. Yeah, people wouldn't need them. And then Scotland and the sixty nine ers they're the first one to start eating oats eighteen seventy seven and Ravine, Ohio Quaker oats began oat man. It took off from popularity all across the United States and sped over to Europe. Now they didn't know it at that time, but oatmeal is one of the most nutritious foods that you can actually eat.

1:05 It lowers your risk of heart disease, It lowers cholesterol, slow and fat, low calories, great source of fiber. Now, if you want to whine about how plain it is, well that's your fault. Yeah, you can make it outever you want. We can add cinnamon, fruits, nuts, berries, granala. Yeah, whatever you like. So, whether you want to go oat school and make it the hard way or and go instant, just enjoy some oatmeal today. All right, this is going on entertainment. On October twenty ninth, Let's beat to Your nineteen eighty number one album was Guilty by Barbara Streiss, and Barbara had the number one song with Woman in Love I'm too away from but.

1:51 To get You. Whaling Jennings had the number one country song with good Old Boy, It's a thing from Dukes of Hazzard. Some Day the Mountain Mind, good Old the Hole, taking away. The only way, didn't know how. Let's John. The number one book was The Covenant by James Mitchener Todd. Movie was Private Benjamin, a rich, spoiled woman joins the United States Army, stars Goldie On, Ileen Brennan and Armanda Something all right? What happened in October the twenty ninth Walter Raleigh. He was an English explorer who first brought back tobacco from America to England. Now he was great friends with Queen Elizabeth. She financed all his trips and he brought her back all kinds of good stuff. Now when she died, she died childless. So Scotland's King, James the First became the King of England. He believed that Raleigh and the other people that hung around Raleigh, they were conspiring against him. So today, in sixteen eighteen, he had him all beheaded now truthfully, and those other guys, yeah, they were trying to overthrow them. So they were kind of guilty in treason. But I'm not saying that another king was a good guy or anything like that. There are two sides to every story. Eighteen eleven, the first Ohio River steamboat was called the New Orleans set out in his first voyage, left Pittsburgh on his way down to New Orleans. Gets down in New Orleans on January the twelfth. In nineteen oh four, at the Olympics in

3:22 Saint Louis, American gymnast George iSER he won six medals in one day. He won three golds for the parallel bars, the vault and the rope line, won two silvers for the palmmel horse in the all around. Then he went a bronze for the horizontal bar. Pretty impressive, wuldn't you say? Yeah, especially you find out George he only had one leg. Yeah, he lost his other leg when he's a little kid. He got hit by a train. Well what well the way he competed in the Olympics, he actually had a wooden prosthetic. Nineteen twenty three on Broadway to play Running Wild debut. It introduced a new dance that just spread like wildfire across the country. It's called the Charleston. Nineteen twenty nine, it was Black Tuesday. That's the day that the stock market just crashed. That started the whole Great Depression.

4:05 In nineteen forty five, twelve dollars and fifty cents with worth two hundred and six dollars and eighty cents today. Okay, got that so today? In nineteen forty five, the first ballpoint pins went on sale. Yep, you guess that. They were twelve dollars and fifty cents a piece. No, not a pack a piece, so ten thousand in the first day. Nineteen ninety nine, the deadliest Indian ocean hurt tropical cyclone. Yeah, it went through today. It hit mainly on Adisha, India. They had a Winnesdy's up to the three hundred miles an hour eight hundred and eighty five people were killed, over one point five million were left homeless. After thirty five years and twenty fifteen, China did it. Yep, they ended their one child policy. So now the Chinese people they could just procreate like crazy if they wanted.

4:48 To Coke coke coat show this shimmer O day, we's gonna pu He left this shiver day we won't simple cage. He left this ship birthday, we don't. Okay. He was born in October twenty ninth. Actor Richard Dreyfuss. He's seventy seven today. Born in Brooklyn, New York in nineteen forty seven. He first hit in the movie American Graffiti, then Johs Close Encounters a Third Kind. One of the best as Best Actor Oscar for Goodbye Girl. He was thirty years old. He was the youngest ever to win that award, and he wasn't until two thousand and three. That's when Adrian Brody won it for the Pianist and Adrian he was twenty nine now, Richard. He was also nominated for a Oscar for Mister holands Ope Best. I think Steakout was his best movie. Richard. He had a daughter and two sons from his first wife, married his third wife in two thousand and six. Now see, we used the Charlie's Angels theme a couple of days ago for Jacqueline Smith's birthday, so today we went with the scarecirl and Missus King actres Kate Jackson seventy six. He was born a Burminga. I'm Alabama in nineteen forty eight.

6:02 She's pretty much TD was her big gig, start out on the TV show The Rookies. Then she was Sabrina and Charlie's Angels. She was the smart One. Then she was Missus King and the Scarecrow and Missus King. She divorced three times. She has one son, and she has two time breast cancer survivors, so that's pretty cool. That was Kevin Debro singing for Quiet Riot. He's one of Hollywood, California in nineteen fifty five. Helped form Quiet Riote in nineteen seventy three. Nineteen eighty three, their album Metal Health became the first heavy metal album to go number one.

6:51 Some of the heads were her come on feel the Noise, Mama, We're all crazy now, Mental Health, bang your head now. Kevin. He died from a cocaine overdose in two thousand and seven, fifty two years old. You know, you might know his brother. His brother is a plastic surgeon and he goes like Terry Debreu. Yeah, he has his own TV show called Botched. Actor Dan kat and Olnetta. He was born in Chicago in nineteen fifty seven. He's sixty seven. It is most popular for being the voice of Homer Simpson. He also voices Grandpa Barney, Krusty, the Clown, ground keeper Willie. Now his normal speaking voice isn't like Homer, he says. In order to voice Homer, he has to put his chin in his chest and turn off his IQ. He's done quite a bit of other voice working movies and TV show.

7:35 Been married since nineteen eighty seven. Actors Jolie Fisher's fifty seven. She's born in Burbank, California, in nineteen sixty seven. Her farend's famous parents are Eddie Fisher and Connie Stephens now Carrie Fisher. That was her half sister Joy. She made a name for herself on the TV show Ellen. Yeah, she was Ellen's sidekick. Then she did Till Dad Last Man Standing. She was in the movies. Is the mask and inspector Gadget. She married nineteen ninety six and they have three daughters. Actress i Nona Rider. She was born on Winonna, Minnesota, in nineteen seventy one. Fifty three years old today now. Her first movie was Lucas and Beatlegees, Edward Scissors Hands, Reality Bites. It's been nominated for Oscars for What, The Age of Innocence and The Little Women.

8:15 She's been with her boyfriend since twenty eleven. Actress Tracy Ellis Ross. She was born in nineteen seventy two in Los Angeles. She's fifty two. Her mom is singer Diana Ross. Tracy. She's best known for TV, first On Girlfriends and then Blackish, Grownish, Mixed Dish. Biggest movie was Candy Kane Lean. Yeah, my mom loved that when it came out last year. You know what, let's go back and talk some more about oatmel That's sound good, Okay, See if you agree, seventy five percent of all US households they have oatmeal in their kitchen. I'm part of that seventy five Well, thank you for listening today. We appreciate you being here. Don't forget to follow us on whoever you've listening to us on comes see us at cool media dot com. And don't forget about Country Underground Radio. Find it anywhere go to Country Underground Radio dot com. Let's end with Sir Walter Raleigh. He was sixty five years old when he died today. He said, it's a basic principle of a tyrant to unarm his people of their weapons, money, and all means in which they can resist his power. You guys, have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow.