Oct 30-Candy Corn, Grace Slick, Henry Winkler, The Tempatations, T. Graham Brown, Kevin Pollak, Bush, Tsar Bomba

0:10 Hey, Hello, I am Jeff and welcome to history and Factoids about today, presented by Cool Media. Today's October the thirtieth. Yellow Orange Whites. Can anybody Jess Tree me rice y Yellow orange White? Just today is National Candy Corn Day. Oh come on. I actually like candy corn. I like the ones that come in the bags with the little pumpkins in it. But it is mainly a tradition. George ritten Hour he created candy corn in Philly in the late eighteen eight hundreds.

0:51 Now they're made from sugar corn syrup, marshmellow syrup, and karuba wax, so obviously they're not idealthy. Now you can have fun with candy corn, putting them on top of cookies and cupcakes and that kind of stuff. So what we'll do is we lead some candy cord today, then we'll eat the good stuff tomorrow and then don't give out candy cord to kids. That'd be uncool. All right, let's it's going on. In entertainment. In October thirtieth, Back to Year nineteen seventy number one album was a Brexfast by Santana. Jackson five had the number one song with I'll Be theres solved Tammy Why Ned had the number one country song with Run Woman, Run.

1:44 Run Run, Go back to him and fix things up. The vistun. Telling you mistim while you were gone, Run. Last to Man. The number one book was Love Story by Eric Saga. Top movie. It was the Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock is bored when a woman comes in and tells him that someone's trying to kill her, so he takes her case, ends up leading him to the Locknest Monster stars Robert Stevens, Christopher Lee, and Colin Blakeley. Al Right, what happened In October thirtieth, eighteen sixty four Helena Montana was founded. It's a slow dick. Eighteen sixty six. James Jesse James and his gang. They robbed a bank in Lexington, Kansas.

2:33 Got away with two grand. I'd be almost forty grand today. The Greatest Show on Earth p T. Barnum Circus. It debuted in eighteen seventy three in New York City, now Barnum. He'd actually had this really weird macab museum out there since about eighteen forty one, so he did that for twenty years. Thirty years before the freak show circus started eighteen ninety four. Daniel Cooper, he invented the time clock. Nineteen forty five, the United States government announced that they were in in shoe rationling for World War Two. Nineteen fifty two, Clarence Bird's Eye he sold his first frozen piece. See Clarence. He had been freezing food since nineteen twenty five, but nobody owned a freezer that could actually hold it for him. Nineteen sixty one, in the Soviet Union they detonated Zarbumba. That was a fifty eight megaton hydra hydrogen bomb.

3:17 It's still the largest nuclear bomb ever. Nineteen seventy three of the Bosporus Bridge opened up in Istanbul, Turkey. Now half of Istanbul is on Asia and the other half of istan Bul is in Europe. It's separated by the Bosphors River. Now this is the first time the two sides have actually been connected by a bridge since a pontoon bridge was ran across the river for sixty BC. Jo joke, joke, joke, shage this shibf day, we gonna. Page he left this shiverth day. We want simple tage. He's like this. Shibirth day and you don't that's birthday. Let's see who was born on October thirty first. John Adams is born in Brainstream, Massachuse. He sits in seventeen thirty five. His second cousin, Samuel Adams, Now, that was the one who was raising hell in the United States independence movement. Yeah, he was the leader of Sons of Liberty.

4:08 John though he took a more diplomatic approach. He was kind of a behind the scenes guy. He was a lawyer and administrator and diplomat. It ended up getting him the first vice presidency of the United States. Yeah, then he became the second US President, starved from seventeen ninety seven to eighteen oh one. He married Abigail in seventeen sixty five and they had six kids. His oldest son, John Quincy Adams, became the sixth President of the United States. Now John Adams, him and Thomas Jefferson hated each other. They couldn't even be in the same room together. Well, eventually, over the years they kind of became cordial. They eventually becoming very good friends. On July fourth and eighteen twenty six, on the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of independence. You know which John did sign. He died ninety years old. Yeah, just a couple hours before Thomas Jefferson died.

4:53 Awada bean a Halibarnly Kawada old Man. I won't to ride all the planes and the neva that were common way divine. That was Patsy Montana. That song I want to be a Cowboys Sweetheart and made Patsy the first female country singer to have a song so one million records back in nineteen thirty six. Now, she had gone to college at UCLA to study violin. While she was there, she won a talent contest for yodlin, so she ditched the violin and went into country music. She married nineteen thirty four and they had two children. She pretty much retired in the nineteen fifties to be a wife and a mom.

5:36 But she did release one more album in nineteen sixty four. Yeah, she had this young guy played guitar for her on it. It was the very first time Wiland Jennings ever got paid. Patsy She was born in Baudrie, Arkansas, in nineteen oh eight. She died in nineteen ninety six at eighty seven years old. Actress Ruth Gordon She was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in eighteen ninety six. Most of us know her for the Clint Eastwood movies. Any which Way but Loose and any which way you can. She had a big career before that, though. She was on Broadway when she was only nineteen won an Oscar for Rosemary's Baby. She was actually nominated for three oscars off for riding. She had a son from a boyfriend. Then she married her second husband in nineteen forty two. They were together until she died from a stroke in nineteen eighty five at eighty eight years old.

6:24 Somebody that was Grace Slick singing for Jefferson Airplane. Grace is eighty five. She's born in Highland Park, Illinois. In nineteen thirty nine. She is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Jefferson Airplane. Now not Jefferson Starship or Starship Nope, just Jefferson Airplane. She up formed Jefferson Airplane in nineteen sixty five. It's White Rabbit and Somebody Love broke up in nineteen seventy three. In nineteen seventy four, Grace and most of the guys in the band they all got back together, but they couldn't use the name Jefferson Airplane, so Jefferson Starship it was. Then in the nineteen eighty is just Starship. She left and retired nineteen eighty eight. She's been selling her art since nineteen ninety five.

7:10 Now on her website where she sells her art is Grace slick dot com. You start off with a picture of her flipping you off, and it says Grace doesn't care what you think. Got of a different marketing approach. She was married for ten years and then she had a daughter after they divorced, and that was to their guitar player Paul Cantner from the band Jefferson Airplane. Now she married another guy for eighteen years. Grace, she just had a lot, a lot of trouble, drugs and alcohol. She could not quit, no matter of house or but she tried. Yeah, it didn't work. Finally, in the nineteen nineties she went to rehab with her daughter. Must of work. They're both still alive. It's on the fun Tell Me. Actor Henry Rayklaer is seventy nine. He was born in Manhattan, New York, in nineteen forty five. Best known as TV icon Fawns or Arthur Fonzarelli on Happy Days. Dudeho has done a lot of acting, even got a master's degree in acting form Meale University. First got known in the movie The Lord's a Flatbush with Sylvester Stallone. I think his best movie is Night Shifts. I'm sure you younger crowd will probably think it's Waterboard now. He's done a lot of directing and producing over the years, to have written twelve books. Got married in nineteen seventy eight and they have a son and a daughter.

8:16 Every and. That was Otis Williams singing for the Temptation. He is the only original Temptation that's still alive. And he's out on tour with the Temptation. Yeah. I'm not sure how the other Temptations are, but he's eighty three years old. They're gonna be on tour. They have dates all the way scheduled till May. Otis He was born in Texas, Canada, Texas in nineteen forty one. Grew up in Detroit. That's where helped formed the Temptations in nineteen sixty. He actually owns the right. I guess we're the only ones to alive. Hey, you get all the money, right now he's always he was saying baritone, so that means he was in the backup. He only sang lead a couple of times, like that song I just played. I Ain't got nobody Now. He does have one son from his first wife, and then he divorced two more women just for the hell of it. Actor Harry Hamlin's seventy three. He's born in Pasadena, California in nineteen fifty eight. First got famous starring in the movie Clash of the Titans. He is best known for TV though La Love Veronica Mars Madman. He dated actress Ursula Andres for four years and they had a son. His second wife was actress Nicolette Sheridan. They were married a year and she married his third wife nineteen ninety seven and they have two daughters.

9:54 Help You. Country singer t Graham Brown is seventy years old. Tea stands for Tony. His first name is actually Anthony. He's born in Already, Georgia in nineteen fifty four. He's celebrated by playing a show at the Grand Old Lotpry House in Nashville to night. Some of It's It's our Come Hell or high Water, Don't go to Strangers, Darlene, if you could see me now. Now he is the king of advertising jingles since nineteen eighty two. Now these are only a few of the companies singing jingles for McDonald's, Budweiser, Taco Bell, Coca Cola, KFC, dodge Ford, Mountain Dew and the list goes on. He's been married since nineteen eighty and they have one son, actor comedian Kevin Pollock. He was born in San Francisco in nineteen fifty seven, makes him sixty seven years old today. Very successful stand up comedian.

10:45 He does some really good impressions. They range from Woody Allen to al Pacino and Sylvester Stallona, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ben and over Rady movies. Some of them are a few good Men, the Grumpy Old Men movies, the Whole nine Yards, the whole ten yards, the usual subspects. Now. He was mayor to comedian Lucy we for almost fifteen years, So call that down on. This se down. Gavin Rossdale. He is the lead singer for the band Bush Cavin's fifty nine. He was born in maryly Bone, England in nineteen sixty five. Go form Bush in nineteen ninety two. They started out calling themselves baby animals. Yeah, they changed the name to Bush Bush. It's further town.

11:37 They lived in Shepherd's Bush, England. Some there. That's our little things come down gliscering the chemicals between us. Now, he had a daughter from a fling. Then he married singer Gwen Stefani for thirteen years and they had three sons before they divorced. All right, let's go back and talk about Halloween. What state do you think grows the most pumpkins? The Illinois? I surprise me too. All right, what state do you think it eats the most candy corn? That'd be California. I guess they don't care about their health. Well, thank you for being here today and listening. We appreciate it. Don't forget to follow us on who you listen to us on it comes Here's at coolmedia dot Com. Let's end with Steve Allen. He died today in two thousand and seventy eight years old. Steve says, one of the nice things about problems that many of them do not exist excepting our own imaginations. You guys, have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow.