Sept 18th Cheese Burger, Cup O Noodles, Frankie Avalon, James Gandolfini, Fred Willard, Jason Sudeikis

0:19 Hello, I'm Jeff, and welcome to History and Factoids About Today. Today's September the 18th. I like mine with lettuce and tomato, pies, 57, and french fried potatoes. Big kosher pickle and a cold wrap farewell. Good God Almighty, which way. Do I steer from my. Today is National Cheeseburger Day. Who do you think the culinary geniuses were who decided to put cheese on a hamburger? Well, that would be the Humpty Dumpty Drive-In right here in Denver, Colorado. Now the building's still there, but it doesn't serve food anymore.

1:07 It's just a memorial to the cheeseburger they created in the 1930s. Now today, everybody is having deals from all the fast food burger restaurants to the sit downs like Ruby Tuesday or Applebee's. You know what? Even Buffalo Wild Wings is having that. Yeah, I didn't know they sold cheeseburgers. I thought it was just Wild Wings. But no, they're actually giving away free cheeseburgers today. So enjoy a cheeseburger. Well, unless you're lactose intolerant, then I guess just a burger. What happened in entertainment on September the 18th back in 2018? Eminem had the number one album with Kamikaze. Drake had the number one song with In My Feelings. Kiki, do you love me? Are you riding? Say you'll never ever leave from beside me. Cause I want you and I need you.

1:49 And I'm down for you always. KB, do you love me? Are you riding? Say you'll never ever leave from beside me. Cause I want you and I need you. And I'm down for you always. Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line, they had their number one country song with Meant to Be. I ain't gonna lie, ain't gonna lie. Cause I'm tired of the fake love. Show me what you're made of. Boy, make me believe. Oh, hold up, girl. Don't you know you're beautiful? And it's easy to see. If it's meant to be, it'll be, it'll be. Baby, just let it be.

2:29 The number one book was A House with a Clock in Its Walls. Now, did you see the other Predator movies back in the 80s and 90s? Well, in this one, back in 2018, a boy, he causes Predators to come back to Earth. Now some ragtag ex-soldiers have to unite in order to save the human race. Stars Boyd Halbrook, Trevon Rhodes, and Jacob Trimbley. All right, let's see what happened on September the 18th. 1793, the United States President George Washington, he laid the cornerstone for the U.S. Capitol building. Yeah, construction was beginning at Fort Washington, D.C., Now George should have known what to do. He was a Freemason. 1837 in New York City, Charles Tiffany and John Young, they opened up the Stationarium Fancy Good Emporium. Their department store, it changes its name to Tiffany's in 1853. Now today, it's also National Chiropractic Day. Yeah, I don't know if you've been to a chiropractor, but sometimes you definitely want to yay. It was in Davenport, Iowa that Daniel Palmer, he opened it up in a magnetic healing office, basically.

3:32 But it was today in 1895, a janitor was cleaning his office. And the janitor, he was pretty much deaf and he had a really bad back. And he met Palmer and they got to talking. He said that he heard a loud pop in his back and then he couldn't hear anymore. Well, Palmer kind of gave him a look over and noticed that his vertebrae were all out of line. So he cracked his back to try and straighten all those vertebrae out. Next day, the janitor came in. Yeah, his back felt good. He was fine. And he could hear again. Yeah, that is considered the first world's first chiropractic adjustment. Now, two years later, Palmer, he opened up a school. Yeah, they taught how to do chiropractic adjustments. World War II in 1944, the British submarine, the Tradewind, it torpedoed the Japanese ship, the Jungle Maru. Well, they sank it, and sadly, there was 5,600 people who died, but of those 5,600, 1,377 of them were allied POWs, and 4,200 were just Japanese slave laborers. 1958, out in Fresno, California, the Bank of America, They married out 60,000 Bank of America cards. Yeah, to all the residents of Fresno. It's basically the first credit card, the real one. There were some around, but they weren't like the kind we use today. Then in 1976, they changed from Bank of America card to Visa. Momofuku Ando, we talked about him. He hit huge when he brought out ramen noodles. Today in 1971, yeah, he started selling cup of noodles. Yeah, those noodles that are in a styrofoam cup. Not as good as just ramen, but hey.

4:55 In a pinch. On MTV today in 1893, the band Kiss, they played their first time in public without makeup. No one liked that at all. The band's popularity, it just bombed. A couple years later, they put the makeup back on. Yeah, and they were cool again. Kind of hurt your ego that nobody wanted. To see your face. 1990. Now, this might sound good, but to me, it sounds pretty gross. In Times Square in New York City, Hershey's. They put out a six-foot-tall, 500-pound Hershey's Kiss right in the middle. Now, with all the bugs and the homeless people walking around, I think that's kind of gross. In 2015, the government of Uttar Pradesh, India, they announced that 2.3 million people had applied for 238 menial office jobs.

5:36 Okay, who was born on September the 18th? Actress Greta Garbo. She was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1905. Now, she did silent movies in the 20s. Then she did talkies in the 30s. Then she retired in 1941 at 36 years old. She just got tired of acting. Now, she was one of the best actresses in all of the early Hollywood days. Now, Greta, she was definitely her own woman, though. She did not go to Hollywood parties. Now, she was nominated four times for Oscars. She didn't go to one of those ceremonies. She would not do interviews. She did not give autographs. She never married. She never had any kids. Now, Greta, she died in 1990 at 84 years old from kidney failure.

6:26 Actor Jack Warden, he was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1920. He was nominated for two Oscars, for Shampoo and then Heaven Can Wait. He also did the movies And Justice for All, The Verdict, Bullets Over Broadway. He did win an Emmy Award for the TV movie Brian's Song. He acted from 1945 to 2000. Got married in 1958 and they had one son. Jack died from kidney and liver failure in 2006 at 85 years old. Actor Robert Blake, he was born in Nutley, New Jersey in 1933. Started acting at six years old. He was in 40 Little Rascal movies. Then he did 22 Red Rider movies. They're still kids' movies. Now as an adult, his biggest success was starring on the TV show Beretta. He retired from acting in 1993. He divorced his first wife after 23 years.

7:10 They had had a son and a daughter. Then he married his second wife in 2000. He was her 10th husband. They had one child. Now people close to him, they would claim that their marriage was pretty volatile and raucous. So much so, in 2002, Blake, he was arrested for killing her. Yeah, they... but he got off they found him not guilty but her three kids from her other 10 husbands they actually took him to court they sued him on civil charges there he was found guilty for killing her so he was ordered to pay 30 million bucks he didn't have 30 million bucks so he ended up just filing for bankruptcy he died in 2023 at 89 years old from heart failure comedian actor Fred. Wheeler he was born in Cleveland Ohio. In 1933 he first got known on a tv show called real people Some of his movies were This Is Spinal Tap, Roxanne, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind. On TV, he had recurring roles on Everybody Loves Raymond and then Modern Family.

8:00 Freddie married in 1968. His wife died in 2018, and then Fred died in 2020 at 86 years old from heart failure. They had one daughter. Venus, if you will Please send a little girl for me to thrill. A girl who wants my kisses and my arms A girl with all the charms of you. Teen idol frankie avalon is 86 now they say former teen idol nah he'll always be a teen idol to me frankie is born in philadelphia in 1940 started out as a trumpet player yeah his first two singles were just him playing the trumpet then he got really famous actually in those beach movies with annette finicello Then he was a teen angel in the movie Grease. He sang that song, Beauty Skull Dropout. As a singer, he had 31 hit songs in the late 50s and early 60s. Venus, Why, Just Ask Your Heart, I'll Wait For You. That's some of them.

9:00 Got married in 1963. They have eight kids. Yep, they're both still alive and still together. Actor James Gandolfini. He was born in Westwood, New Jersey in 1961. Best known for playing Mafia boss Tony Soprano in The Sopranos. He made a lot more movies than I ever thought. Just some of them are True Romance, Crimson Tide, The Last Castle, Zero Dark Thirty. He had a son from his first wife, married his second wife in 2008, and they had a daughter. James, he died from a heart attack, 2013. Only 51 years old. Actress Holly Robinson-Pete is 62. She was born in Mount Airy, Pennsylvania in 1964. She's best known for TV. She was on 21 Jump Street and then Hanging with Mr. Cooper. She did Mike and Molly, I guess, for one or two seasons at the very end. She married former quarterback Rodney Pete in 1995, and they have four kids. That's why it's hard for me to find.

9:51 Can't get it out of my head. It's her kiss, her lover. That girl. That is possibly the best advice any young man can receive. Never trust a big butt and a smile. That was Ricky Bell when he was singing with Bell Bivdevo. Ricky's 59. He was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Started out in the group New Edition when they formed in 1978. Then when they broke up in 1989, him and Michael Bevins and Ronnie DeVoe, yep, they formed Bill Biv DeVoe.

10:32 Then they went back to New Edition. Then they went back to Bill Biv DeVoe. Since 2002, yeah, they just do them both. Ricky, he married in 2004. I love your way. And now it opens you so wide. And I love this way. Now, that band is called Wicked Wisdom. Their lead singer is Jada Pinkett Smith. Yeah, Will Smith's wife. Yeah, she formed Wicked Wisdom in 2002. Yeah, she likes to rock. Back in the day in 2005, she toured with Ozzy. Yeah, that band did. Yeah, they did Ozfest.

11:14 Now, Jada, she might be heavy metal, but I don't think you could call her a hairband singer. You're welcome, Chris Rock. Jada is 55. She was born in Baltimore. No more for acting, probably. Her first movie was Menace to Society, then The Nutty Professor. She did Scream 2. She was in two of the Matrix movies. Now she married Will Smith in 1997 and they have a son and a daughter. I don't think anybody knows if they're together or what they are. I don't even think they know, to be honest with you. Actor James Marston. He was born in Stillwater, Oklahoma in 1973. James is 53 today. Now he played Cyclops in the X-Men movies. He was Superman in Superman Returns. Then he went and did The Notebook, Sonic the Hedgehog, and My Little Pony movies.

11:57 I don't know. Maybe he wants everybody to think he can be sensitive, too. Now, he was married for 11 years when they divorced, and they had a son and a daughter. After that divorce, he had another son. He was fooling around. Actor, comedian Jason Sudeikis is 51. He was born in Fairfax, Virginia. Jason, he was born with anosmia. That means that he has no sense of smell. He grew up in Overland Park, Kansas. Started out doing improv comedy. Then he was on Saturday Night Live from 2005 to 2013. On TV, his show Ted Lasso was huge. He had big ratings and has won every award you can possibly think of. Some of his movies were Werther Miller's, the Horrible Bosses movies. He voiced in Angry Birds. He was married for six years, then he divorced that, and then he was with actress Olivia.

12:39 Wilde for nine years. They had a son and a daughter. Get this, George Wendt. Yeah, Norm Peterson on Cheers. Yeah, that's his uncle. Quote of the day. It comes from Jimi Hendrix. Jimmy died today in 1970 at 27 years old. Jimmy said, in order to change the world, you have to get your head straight first. Well, thank you all for listening today. And don't forget to follow us on You Listen To Us On. And don't forget to go to the show notes or the discovery or description or whatever it's under on You Listen To Us On. Then you'll have all the links to us and you'll have all the pertinent information from the episode, I guess. Hey, our country underground radio artist of the day. It comes from Patty up there in Minnesota. She wants to hear Angela Harris' song, Let's Go for a Ride. You guys have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow.

13:43 Come on, let's go. For a ride. Remember when the summer sun was warm on our skin? We lay by the riverside, soaking it all in. We kicked up dust in your pickup truck on the back roads into town and you'd say, let's go for a ride. Just you and me, wild and free with the radio. The open road keeps calling me and all I want to do.