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

0:19 He Hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history and Factor. It is about today days October the twenty ninth. Eighteen elm okag else okill everywhere, ag m a else okagm el oatmeal everywhere. Today is National Oatmeal Day. I guess we're supposed to eat healthy before Halloween. Oats they were the last grain to be domesticated. Only started farming them about three thousand years ago. Now, originally they were just grown for a horse feed. Yeah, people wouldn't need oats. Then the six eonder at Scotland started eating them. Then eighteen seventy seven and Ravine, Ohio Quaker oats began oatmeal. It became popular all across the country, posts post even spread across the Europe.

1:10 Now they didn't know it back then, but oatmeal is one of the most healthy, nutritious foods that you can actually eat. Great source of fiber orchids of items and miniserles helps the lower the cholesterol level your heart disease. And if you whind about it being plain and boring, well that's your fault. You can put whatever you want on it, cinnamon, fruits, nuts, berries, what's just an enjoy some oatmeal and get this, seventy five percent of all US households have oatmeal in it. All right, this is going on entertainment in October twenty ninth, It's back. In nineteen seventy two, number one album was Superfly by Curtis Mayfield. Chuck Berry had the number one on with My Dingling. When I was a little beady boy, my grandmother bought me a cute little toy, silver bells.

1:53 Hanging on a string. She told me it was my dinging. Surprisingly, that was Chucks on the number one song Merle Haggard. He had the number one country song with It's not Love but It's not bad. No, not love. But it's not best. No, it's not love, not love ours. The number one book was Jonathan Livingston's Seagull by Richard Buck.

2:36 The top movie it was This Lady Sings the Blues. It's that story of jazz singer Billy Holliday, stars Diana Ross, Billy d Williams and Richard Pryor. Diana Ross. She was now many for an oscar for playing Billy. She lost Elizamn, Nelly and Cabaret. I would have gone with Diana, all right. What happened on October the twenty ninth. Now this is actual true history, is not just biblical. In five point thirty nine BC, the King of Persia the Great, he marched into Babylon after capturing the Babylonians. So the first thing he did was free all the Jewish slaves being held there, told them go home. Yeah, the Jews had been held in Babylon for almost seventy years. Now. Cyrus, he was a pagan. He believed in all kinds of gods, and he really didn't care about any gods, to be honest with you, even the Jewish gods. Now his only Persian leader who was like that. See the Persians to persecute the Jews. They're the ones who came up with execution by crucifixion. Yeah, it wasn't the Romans, it was the Persians. But Cyrus, he kind of considered himself godlike and he wanted to impress the Jews and their God by what he had done. So he thought he did it all by freeing them. Forget this. See what he didn't know was the prophet Isaiah. He told all about Cyrus when he wrote it down about two many years before Cyrus was born. England's Walter Raleigh, he brought back that first tobacco from England to from America to England. Now, Walter, he was really good friends with Queen Elizabeth. She's the one who paid for all his trips and all that kind of stuff, so he brought her all kinds of good stuff. Well, Elizabeth died and she was childless. So Scotland's King James, he became the King of England. Now King James. He believed that Raleigh and his buddies and business partners, they were all conspiring

4:08 against him. So today, in sixteen eighteen, he had them all beheaded. Now truthfully, Raleigh and the guys, yeah, they were trying to overthrow him. But that king couldn't have known that man, he was just paranoid. Eighteen eleven, the first steamboat on the Ohio River left, yeah, left, Pittsburgh, was going to New Orleans. Now he got down to New Orleans on January the twelfth. That's going down the hills downstream. Nineteen oh four, at the Olympics in Saint Louis, American Gymnast Georgia, iSER he won six medals in one day. Pretty good, right. He won three golds for the vault, the parallel bars, and the rope climb. He went two silvers for the palmel horse and all around. They went to bronze for the horizontal bar. I did forget to tell you though George only had one leg. Yeah, he lost the other leg when he was a kid and got hit by a train. And yes he did wear a wooden leg during the company. Well, woman, wooden't prosthetic, I guess you'd call it YEP. Competed with One nineteen twenty three in New York City on Broadway, the show Running Wild debut. It introduced the dance to Charleston. Now that dance quickly spread all across the whole country. It was christ the phase. Everybody was doing it. Think of something like the twist craze or the macarine or something like that. Now the book the play, though it didn't.

5:14 It didn't invent the Charleston. So you did just the first one. They gave us some exposure. The Charleston was actually created in the Black Club zip around New York in the early nineteen hundreds. Nineteen twenty nine, it was Black Tuesday, the day the stock market crash. It crashed twenty five percent over the next four days, and over the next three years of stockmrier class eighty nine percent. So yeah, that's why today is considered in the first day of the Great Depression. In nineteen forty five, twelve dollars and fifty cents would be two hundred and seven dollars today. So today, In nineteen forty five, the first ball point pins went on sale twelve dollars and fifty cents a piece. Yeah, not a backup piece. Pretty ridiculous. They sold ten thousand that first day. Have you seen the movie The Perfect Storm with George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg and all that. Yeah, it was today in nineteen ninety one that the fishing about behind your grail was actually lost at sea. Yeah, all six fishermen on board after thirty five years. In twenty fifteen, China they entered their one child policy. Yep, the Chinese people can now have as many kids as they wanted, so go forth and procreate. India's catching US. India did pass China for most kids in twenty twenty three.

6:18 Joke cooked co joked joke shog dish shivers day, please gonna he left this shiverf day. We won't simple car he let thish shibirf day Chan. You don't do. Ah. This is born on October the twenty ninth. Actor Richard Dreyfuss, he's seventy eight. He's one of Brooklyn the Ark. In nineteen forty seven, first got none of the movie American Graffiti. Then he first really hit in the movie Jows and Close Encounters. The third time, he won a Best Actor Oscar for the Goodbye Girl. Now, he was thirty years old when he won that, so he was the youngest ever to win that. Then in two thousand and three, Adrian Brody, Yeah, he won it for the Pianist. He was only twenty nine, so he broke his record.

6:58 Dreyfus was nominated for another Oscar for Mister Hollands Opus. Now my favorite Richard Dreyfus movie, I guess probably Steak Out Richard. He had a daughter and two sons from his first wife, married his third wife in two thousand and six. Okay, I use the Charlie's Angels theme a couple of days ago for Jacqueline Smith, Yeah, for her birthday. So today I had to use Scarecrow and Missus King for Kate Jackson's birthday. Kate she's seventy seven. She's born in Birmingham, Alabama, in nineteen forty eight. Kate. She started out on the soap opera Dark Shadows. Then she went prime time on the Rookies and she hit huge playing Sabrina on Charlie's Angels. She was the smart one.

7:44 Then she has Missus King on the Scarecrow on Missus King. She divorced three times, has one son, and is a two time breast cancer survivor. That was Kevin Deubro singing for Quiet Riot. He was born in Hollywood, California, in nineteen fifty five. He helped formed Quiet Right in nineteen seventy three. In nineteen eighty three, their song mental Health, or their album mental Health, became the first heavy metal album to go number one. Some of the hits on that were come on and feel the Noise, Mom, We're all crazy now, mental Health, bang your head, Kevin. He died from a cocaine overdose in two thousand and seven at fifty two years old. But you might have seen his brother. His brother is a plastic surgeon. His name is Terry Debro. Yeah, he has his own TV show called Botched after Dan Castle Linette. He is sixty eight.

8:51 He's born in Chicago nineteen fifty seven. Dan is famous worldwide for being the voice of Homer Simpson. He also voice is Grandpop, Barney, Krusty, the Clown, grounds Keeper Willer. Now his normal speaking vice, It's not like Homer, Dan says, in order to speak like Homer, he has to put his chin in his chest and turn off his like Q. Now. He does do a little acting on the side, and real acting, not just voice. He's been married since nineteen eighty seven. Actress Jolie Fisher's fifty eight and she was born in Burbank, California, in nineteen sixty seven. Her famous parents Eddie Fisher and Connie Stevens now Carrie Fisher. That was her half sister. Tricia Fisher is her full sister. Joey. She made a name for herself on the TV show Ellen Y Know. She was Ellen DeGeneres's sidekick on the show.

9:35 Then she did till Death. Her biggest movie was An Inspector Gadget. Joey. She married nineteen ninety six and they have three daughters. Actress why Nona Ryder. She was born in Winona, Minnesota in nineteen seventy one. She's fifty four to. Her first movie is Lucas. Then she was in Beatleges, Edward, Scissors Hand, Reality Bites. She's been nominated for Oscars for the Age of Innocence and Little Women Now Why notice she has been with her boyfriend since twenty eleven. Actress Tracy Ellis Ross. She was born in Los Angeles in nineteen seventy two. Fifty three year old's mom is Diana Ross now Tracy. She first started on the TV show Girlfriends and She hit Really Big and Blackish, Grownish, Mixed Dish. Her biggest movie was Candy Kane Lane. It's got to a cute movie. So with Christmas coming up, make sure you check out Candy Kanelane. All Right, I caught it the day It's gonna come from Sir Walter Rawley. Now he was sixty five when he is beheaded today he says it's the basic principle of a tyrant to unarm his people of their weapons, money, and all means they can resist his power. Well, thank you all for listening.

10:34 Don't forget to follow us. I know you're listening to us song so we're easy to find. Make sure you check out the show description. He gives all the links to all the good stuff, and don't forget country and around radio dot com our country and the radio artist of the day today it comes from me gat up in love in Colorado. Here there at least sims song summerfall. You guys have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow. South of the border on a beach of what saying. She SIPs marter red and works on her tan. She's enjoyed her vacation. In fact, she's had a fall. Last night at the fiesta, we danced all line long. She held me closer with every song. That back at the hotel, we got no sleep bed all. She's just here for a.

11:32 Good time to let out her hair. But I'm having a hard time, trying hard not to care. I'm head over hears, swept on my feet by it all. She's had a great summer, and I've had quite a fall. Like a post guard picture, the sea and the sand, two lovers at sunset on a beach, holding hands, a bold little romance, a time to recall, but calmerly morning willboard separate planes. She'll get life back to normal. Mine won't be the same. She's off to Agustine, I'm headed back to Saint Paul's.

12:36 She's just here for a good time to let down her hair, but I'm having a hard time trying hard not to care. A hell of her hens swept off my feet by a