Oct 5-Get Funky! Steve Miller, AC/DC, Karen Allen, Bernie Mac, Kate Winslet, Jesse Eisenberg, The Dalton Gang

0:18 Hi everyone, I am Jeff, and welcome to History and Factories About Today, presented by Cool Media. Today's October the 5th. If I read the thing I do, gonna be funky from now on. Yeah. If I read the thing I do, gonna be funky from now on. Just to be myself and do my thing, a little soul can't do no harm. Yeah. Today is National Get Funky Day. Today is all about being yourself. You know, that's for celebrating life and spreading love and laughter wherever you go. Show how funky you are by being unconventionally stylish. You'll wear crazy and bright clothing, do something crazy with your hair, crank up some funky music.

1:04 Just have fun today, but do take a shower. It's not that kind of funk day. Let's check out what happened in entertainment on October 5th. Let's go back to 1991. Number one album was Use Your Illusion 2 by Guns N' Roses. Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch had their number one song with Good Vibrations. Yo, it's about that time to break forth. The rhythm and the rhyme. I'ma get mine, so get yours. I wanna see sweat. Coming out your pores. On the house, tip of. Sound, swinging this. Strictly hip-hop, boy, I ain't singing this.

1:46 Clinton Black, he had the number one country song with Where Are You Now? And there's a burning question, a fire in my mind. You always had the answers, the ones I couldn't find. So all I'm asking is where. Are you now? The number one selling book was The Son of All Fears by Tom Clancy. Top movie was The Fisher King. Jeff Bridges. Now, he is a really suicidal radio DJ because of a really terrible mistake he had made. But he gets redemption. Yeah, he helps a.

2:27 Mentally unstable man who was actually the innocent victim of what Bridges did. That guy, Robin Williams. 1973, Elton John. He released his album Yellow Brick Road. That is his best-selling album. Sold 30 million of them. Now, he took Bernie Top and he wrote all the lyrics in two and a half weeks for that album. Elton took him three days to put music to all those lyrics. All right, what happened on October 3rd? War of 1812 and 1813 in Canada near Chatham. The Battle of the Thames was fought. British soldiers and Native American Indians, yep, they had teamed up. They formed a pact together with a bunch of tribes and the soldiers and all that kind of stuff. They were going to whoop the United States butt. Well, they were led by a Shawnee chief named Tecumseh. Now, the United States under General William Henry Harrison, they were able to kill Tecumseh. Yeah, that took the fight right out of the natives. They all left, so the United States easily routed the remaining British troops. The United States, they were now in control of Ontario, and their big prize was, yeah, they got Detroit. The Dalton Gang, they were made up of four Dalton brothers and a friend. They were raising hell across the West, mainly California, Kansas, Oklahoma, the Indian Territory.

3:28 They stole horses. They robbed trains. They robbed banks. In 1892, they tried to rob two banks at the same time in Coffeyville, Kansas. Ah, the citizens kind of saw it coming, and they were on to it. Big shootout took place. Four of the Dalton gang members were killed. Emmett Dalton, he actually lived, but he'd been shot 23 times. When he was strong enough to stand trial, he was sentenced to life in prison. He was pardoned after 14 years, and he moved to California and became a real estate agent, author, and actor. 1914, in World War I, over in France... The first airplane dogfight that resulted in a kill was fought. Now, the French pilot and his tail gunner, they were able to gun down a German plane, and they just became huge stars. It was in all the papers. But Russia, they were mad. They said that one of their pilots had taken down a German plane three weeks earlier, so he should be getting accolades. Well, the Russian pilot, he rammed the other plane and killed them both. So everybody's like, that didn't count. 1947, President Harry Truman gave the first televised speech from the White House. 1970, PBS went on the air. Their first show, it was The French Chef by Julia Child. So Bert, Ernie, and Big Bird, they had to wait. Let's see who was born October the 5th.

4:40 Chester A. Arthur. He was born in Fairfield, Vermont in 1829. He was a lawyer, then he was a general for the Union in the Civil War. 1881, he was the vice president, served under Garfield. Did it for six months, and then Garfield was assassinated, so Arthur became the 21st president. Served one term from 1881 to 1885. He married back in 1859. His wife died one year before he was vice president. They had three children together. He died one year after he was president in 1886 from a stroke, 57 years old. You probably want to be married now.

5:22 Why? Steve Miller is 83. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is the only original member of the Steve Miller band that's still there, but he's kind of integral. Formed in 1966. They started out as a blues band, but by the mid-1970s, they had become a rock band. Some of their biggest hits are The Joker, Take the Money and Run, Fly Like an Eagle, Jet Airliner, Swing Town. Now, the guy who invented the electric guitar, Les Paul, he taught Steve how to play guitar when Steve was five years old. Yeah, he was Steve's godfather. Now, Miller, he's been married to his fourth wife since 2012. I can't do it.

6:11 I hate to say it. I've been too long. I'm glad to be back. Yes, I'm dead loose from the news. Escape. Brian Johnson, he's the lead singer for ACDC. He was born in Dunstan, England. He's 79 today. Now, when their singer of ACDC, Bon Scott, had died back in 1980, the guys were trying to figure out how to replace him. But then they remembered Bon talking about the lead singer of a band called Georgie. The guy's name was Brian Johnson. Now, none of the guys even knew anything about him, or they never even heard Georgie or nothing like that. They thought they'd go see what Bond liked about him. Gave him a call, heard him sing. Been the lead singer every year since. Well, he did take a couple years off.

7:00 He had health reasons, so Axl Rose kind of filled in with him. But yeah, Brian's back and everything. He had two daughters from his first wife. He married his second wife, Brandi, just a few years ago. Now, that first album that Brian sang on for ACDC, Back in Black, it is the number two album of all time. Only Michael Jackson's Thriller album has sold more. Actor Jeff Conway. He was born in Manhattan, New York in 1950. He first really got known on the TV sitcom Taxi and then the movie Grease. But before that, for two and a half years on Broadway, he played Danny in Grease. But then when they made the movie, John Travolta got to play Danny. So Jeff, he had to play Knicky. Jeff said he really wasn't that mad. The only thing that kind of pissed him off was on Broadway, Knicky got to sing the song Grease Lightning. But for the movie, they let John Travolta sing it. Now Jeff, he had a major drug problem. Started getting really bad in the 1980s.

7:46 Finally killed him in 2011 when he was only 60 years old. He was three times divorced. His second wife was Olivia Newton-John's older sister, Mona. Actress Karen Allen is 75. She was born in Carrollton, Illinois in 1951. Her first movie was Animal House, and then The Wonders, Raiders of the Lost Ark. I think her best acting was in Starman. She did Scrooge, The Perfect Storm, two more Indiana Jones movies. She's married once for 10 years and has a son from it. Comedian and actor Bernie Mac. He was born in Chicago in 1957. Started out as a very popular stand-up comedian, but then he hit even bigger in the Kings of Comedy. Had the Bernie Mac show on TV for five years. Did all those Danny Ocean movies, the Charlie Angels movies, Bad Santa, Mr. 3000. Bernie married his high school sweetheart in 1977, and they had a daughter.

8:30 For 20 years, Bernie, he had to fight sarcoidosis. Now, it's an inflammatory disease that affects all your tissues and stuff. It's pretty nasty. It gets into your lungs. Bernie died in 2008 at only 50 years old. Actress Kate Winslet. She was born in Reading, England in 1975. Makes her 51. She was nominated for Oscars for Sense and Sensibility, Titanic, Iris, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Little Children, Steve Jobs. She won an Oscar for Reader, a movie that absolutely no one saw. She had a daughter from her first husband, a son from her second husband. She married her third husband in 2012, and they have a son. Actor Jesse Eisenberg is 43. He was born in Queens, New York, but he grew up in New Jersey. His first movie was Roger Dodger, and then Adventureland, then the Zombieland movies, the Now You See Me movies. Nominated for an Oscar for Social Network. Jesse, he married in 2017 and they have a son. Let's go back to funky. Now the word funky, it comes from the Latin word for fumigrain.

9:30 That's how it first started out. And when they first started using it, the 1600s. Yeah, it just originally meant stinky. But it's kind of evolved, I guess, over the last 400 years to mean a lot of different things. So have a funky day. Steve Jobs, he died today in 2011 at 56 years old. Steve said, it's really clear. The most precious resource we all have is time. Thank you all. For listening today. We sure appreciate you joining us. Don't forget to follow us so you make it easy for us to find. I always check underneath episodes so you can get all the connections how to get to us. And yes, the July puzzle book is out, the National Days Puzzles. Yeah, for adults and kids. Our Country Underground Radio Artist of the Day. It comes from Lee out there in Portland, Oregon. She wants to hear Kirstie Krause's song, You Got That Lovin'. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

10:23 End up in a woman and happy alone with no problems sleeping at night and up each morning with no worries in sight thought i had a pretty good lay of the land by taking matters into my own hands with what I need so bad. Yeah, I want it. Yeah, I need it. Gotta have it. Yeah, yeah.

11:03 Cause you got that. Love that I need so In this crazy life you caught my eye. I can't see who has my ride or die. Never needed more than what I already had.

11:44 But you've got that loving that. I need so much. Cause you've got an enemy.