Oct 8-Chevy Chase, Sigourney Weaver, Kool & the Gang, CeCe Winans, Matt Damon, Bruno Mars, Nick Cannon

0:19 Hello, I am Jeff, and welcome to History and Factoids About Today, presented by Cool Media. Today's October the 8th. Fluff, fluff, fluffernutter! Oh, you need fluff, fluff, fluff to make a fluffernutter. Marshmallow fluff and lots of peanut butter. But you should spread, spread, spread your bread with peanut butter and marshmallow. Fluff and have a fluffernutter. Today is National Fluffernutter Day. Go! I think you had to grow up back east to enjoy fluffernutter. Now, what is fluffernutter? Well, it was created in Somerville, Massachusetts around 1917. It's basically whipped marshmallows. Now, instead of putting jelly on your peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, yeah, they use peanut butter and fluffernutter. I guess you don't have to have grown up back east to be a New Englander. You know, try some fluffernutter today. Give it a shot.

1:12 Who knows? Maybe you'll be a fluffernutter-arian. Okay, let's hit those crazy kids we're doing for entertainment on October 8th back in 2001. Jay-Z had the number one album with The Blueprint. Alicia Keys had the number one song with Fallin'.. Loving you darling Makes me so confused I keep on falling In and out of love with. You Alan Jackson had the number one country song with Where I Come From.

1:53 I don't know about that accent, son. Just where did you come from? I said where I come from It's cornbread and chicken Where I come from A lot of front porch sittin' Where I. Come from Tryin' to. Make a livin' And workin' hard to get to heaven Where. I come from. The number one book was The Corrections by Jonathan Frazen. The top movie was Training Day. A rookie L.A. cop. Well, he spends his first day training with a guy who's a narcotics officer. Yeah, not a good guy. Stars Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke. All right, what happened on October the 8th? Today in 1871, it was a really bad day for fires in the United States. In northeastern Wisconsin, they had the deadliest fire in U.S. history. It's called the Peshtigo Fire. A small fire was set to clear some land for railroad construction. The area had been going through a drought all summer. Then a front came through and that wind just whipped that small fire into a firestorm.

2:54 Peshtigo and 12 towns that surrounded it all burnt to the ground. The fire burnt 1,875 square miles. That's bigger than the state of Rhode Island. Now, they know for a fact that between 1,500 and 2,500 people died, but they don't know for sure exactly how many, though, because all the records saying who was living in the area at that time, yeah, they all burned up in the fire. Now, you would think that the deadliest fire in the United States history would be a lot more popular. Well, no. See, that same day, the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, it burnt three and a half square miles of Chicago to the ground. 300 people died. 300,000 people were left homeless. 17,450 buildings burnt to the ground. Now, that's a lot closer to a population, a lot more media, so you hear a lot more about that than up in Wisconsin. Now, the initial story was that a cow kicked over a lantern at Mrs. O'Leary's barn. Ah, that was just made up.

3:44 A reporter wrote that. It was pretty, yeah, fake news. No one knows what started that damn thing. 1906, over in London, England, Carl Nessler, he invented the first machine that was able to put waves and curls in women's hair. He demonstrated it today in the women. They wore a dozen brass curlers. Each curler weighed two pounds. Then they had to sit there for six hours. World War I in 1918, United States soldier, private Alvin York, he became a legend. York and his fellow soldiers, they were behind enemy lines when a German machine gun opened, fired on him. Immediately, six U.S. soldiers were killed. All the rest of the people, the soldiers, they dove for cover and started to care for the wounded. York, he single-handedly charged that machine gun, killed 25 German soldiers, and six more charged him with bayonets when they thought he was out of ammo. He just pulled out his pistol and took those six out.

4:31 Now the German officer who was in charge, he ran out of ammo shooting at York, so he just surrendered himself and all his men. So then York, he just marched that 132 German prisoners back to the American lines. Private Alvin York was now War Hero Sergeant York. 1945, Piercy Spencer. He patented the microwave oven. Yeah, it was six feet tall, weighed 750 pounds, and cost five grand. Not a lot in college dorms, probably. 1962, North Korea. They reported a 100% election turnout. What's miraculous about that, though, is the entire 100% all voted for the same guy. 1978, in Australia, Ken Warby. He got his jet boat up to 317.59 miles an hour. That's still the fastest anyone's gone on water. Since then, 13 people have tried to break that record. Seven of them died. No one's even actually gotten close. So we want to know who was born on October 8th. Well, Eddie Rickenbacker. He was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1890. During World War I, he was a fighter pilot. He has 26 aerial combat victories.

5:46 That's dogfights. That's still the most of any U.S. Pilot. He was the most awarded United States serviceman for valor during the entire war. Now, before the war, Eddie, he was a race car driver. So after the war, he had a little cash. Yeah, he bought the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. He sold it about 20 years later. Now, Eddie, he remained a consultant for the United States Air Force his entire life after World War I. They married in 1922, and they had two sons. Eddie, he died from pneumonia in 1973, 82 years old. Actor Paul Hogan is 87. He was born in Parramatta, Australia in 1939. Now, that is a suburb of Sydney. He never lived in the outback or the bush. But he is best known for starring as Crocodile Dundee in all those Crocodile Dundee movies.

6:26 He was also in Almost an Angel. He was in the movie Flipper. Between 1958 and 1989, he married his first wife twice. They had five kids between the two marriages. Then he married actress Linda Kozlowski for 24 years. They had one child. Actor Chevy Chase is 83. He was born in Manhattan, New York. First got known on Saturday Night Live. He was only on it, though, for a year and a half. Then he went to movies. Caddyshack, The Fletch Movies, Vacation Movies, Spies Like Us, Three Amigos. Chevy, he had a son from a fling. Then he married his third wife in 1982, and they have three daughters. Writer R.L. Stine, he's also 83. He was born in Columbus, Ohio. Now, he is the Stephen King of children's books. Yeah, he wrote all those Goosebump and Fear Street book series. Sold over 400 million bucks. He married in 1969, and they have one son. Think that little boy liked to have his dad telling bedtime stories? Actress Sigourney Weaver was born in New York City. She's 77. She first got famous in the movie Alien, then Ghostbusters. I think her best movie was Galaxy Quest. Now, she was nominated for Oscars for Aliens. Gorillas in the Mist, and Working Girl. So Garnier, she married in 1984, and they have a daughter.

7:32 How you gonna do it if you really don't wanna dance? By standing on the wall. Get your back up off the wall. Tell me. How you gonna do it if you really don't wanna dance? By standing on the wall. Get your back up off the wall. I heard all the people saying, get down on it. Come on then. Get down on it. If you really want it. He has never sung late, but the group has named for him. Robert Coolbell. He was born in Youngstown, Ohio in 1950. 76 today. Now, Cool and the Gang, they formed in 1964. Robert and six of his friends in high school, they formed it in New Jersey. It took them a few years before they finally found a name that stuck. Yeah, they picked Cool and the Gang. They just took his nickname. Now, he gave himself the nickname Cool when he was a little boy. Some of their biggest hits are Celebration, Get Down On It, Ladies Night, Too Hot. Sold 70 million in records. How cool, he married in 1971 to his high school sweetheart. Yeah, they had one son together. She died in 2018. CeCe Winans is 62 years old today. She was born in Detroit in 1964. She is the best-selling and most-awarded gospel singer of all time. Started singing in public when she was

9:02 8 years old. She has one of 10 Winans kids. She's had a lot of success singing duets with her brother Bebe. I know, CeCe and Bebe. But that whole family is really successful in music. Really talented musical family. CeCe, she married in 1984, and they have two children. Actor Matt Damon was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He's 56. Been nominated for acting Oscars for Good Will Hunting, Invictus, and The Martian. He won an Oscar for writing Good Will Hunting. I think his best movie might have been The Rainmaker. I just saw that not too long ago. He did a good job on that. Now, the Ocean Eleven movies, they're the movies of his that have made the most money. He got married in 2005, and they have three daughters. TV personality Nick Cannon is 46. He was born in San Diego. He says he's a comedian and rapper. We're just going to say he's a TV host. Hosted America's Got Talent and Lip Sync Battles. Been hosting the Masked Singer since 2019. He was married to singer Mariah Carey for eight years. They had a boy and a girl.

9:57 They were twins. Since their divorce in 2016, Nick has had 10 more kids from five women. Gave you all I had and you tossed it in the trash. You tossed it in the trash. You did. 41-year-old Bruno Mars was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Bruno and his band, The Hooligans, they are well-known for their live shows. Now, The Hooligans, they've been with Bruno since he started in 2010.

10:37 Some of their hats, just the way you are, grenade, uptown funk. He did that with Mark Ronson. Bruno, he's been dating Jessica Caban since 2011. Now, earlier I told you about the heroics of Alvin York. Now, originally, York, he tried to get out of the Army. He claimed he was a conscientious objector and didn't want to kill anyone. Well, thank you for listening today. Don't forget to follow us on whoever you're listening to us on. Come see us at coolmedia.com. That's cool with three O's. Former owner of the Oakland Raiders, Al Davis, he died today in 2011, 82 years old. Al says, One lie has the power to tarnish 100 truths. Okay, for today's Country Underground Radio Artist of the Day, we're going out to Fresno, California. Joe, he wants to hear a Tristan Robertson song, Girl ADDin'.

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