Sept 24-Mofongo, 1st KFC, The Muppets, Gerry & the Pacemakers, Phil Hartman, Kevin Sarbo, Nia Vandalos

0:10 Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history. In fact too. It's about today. It isn't about cool media today. September the twenty fourth, Today is National my Fungo Day. We're going oh Puerto Rican Day. It's a national dish. There. Main ingredient is pantains. Then you add some pork, olive oil, garla broth. Then you smash it all together in a wooden bowl, fry it up and add some shrimp or chicken or beef and lots of vegetables. Then you just chow down my fungo. It comes from an Angola slave term.

0:57 It actually means great amount of anything. It is prett healthy for you. So whatever you do, just enjoy some a fun go today, all right, sit up in entertainment. On September the twenty fourth, it's back the year nineteen eighty five. Number one album was Brother in Arms by Dire Straits. Dire Straits, Yeah, the number one song with money for Nothing. That's the way you do it. Joys for Nothing to chicks, We. To this long eleven to kitchen to live, We got the moon, We got to lose. Call its Rodney millsap here the number one country song, was lost in the fifties tonight, Oh.

1:41 Shoo, so. So lost in the fifties Tonight. The number one book was Lake Well Biga Days by Garrison Keeler. Todd movie was Invasion USA. When Communists invaded the United States, a one man army named Chuck Norris comes to the rescue, except they called Chuck Matt Hunter. All right, see what happened. On September the twenty fourth, fourteen ninety three, Christopher Columbus set sail on his second expedition to the New World. Now, if you remember, on his first expedition he had those three ships. This expedition he about seventeen ships. Eighteen ninety Wilfred Woodruff, he was the president of the Latter day Saints.

2:31 He issued a manifesto saying that teaching and practicing polygamy should be abandoned. So Utah was the United States now, and the Mormons they could get a lot of trouble with the United States government if they kept practicing polygamy. Nineteen fifty two, Kentucky Fried Chicken opened up its first franchise restaurant, Salt Lake City, Utah. In twenty twelve, China, they banned all books written by Japanese authors and all books about Japan. Let's go back. There's a lot of TV shows on that started today. So let's say first one who had been the Months in nineteen sixty four, sixty Minutes in nineteen sixty eight. Yeah, that one is still on the Love Boat in nineteen seventy seven, Big Bang Theory in two thousand and seven, The Goldbergs twenty thirteen, Black Is twenty fourteen.

3:13 Coat coat, coat coat, goat Sharge, this Shiverfday. We're gonna pause. He left this shiverfday. We don't sit with Targe like it's shiver birthday. And you know we don't get because that's your birthday. All right, let's check out who was born on September the twenty fourth, Come. And knock on our door. We've been waiting for you. With a kiss. Is a person person his plees coming in to actress Rodre Lindley. She was born in Los Angeles in nineteen eighteen. She started acting out on Broadway nineteen forty two. Then she took a long break from acting to raise five kids.

3:53 Started acting again in the nineteen seventy Shit Really Big, playing Missus Roper on three's company. Then they tried to spin it off into his own sit The Ropers. Yeah, they thankfully bad. Audrey. She started active pretty much acting in her rest of her life. She died from leukemia in nineteen ninety seven and seventy nine years old. She's married to her first husband from forty three to nineteen seventy. They're the one who had the five kids, and she married a second Esben, for seven years before they divorced. Up right, Jim Henson and he was born in Greenville, Mississippi, in nineteen thirty six. Jim Gredd The Muppets in nineteen fifty eight, then in nineteen sixty nine he joined Sesame Street and his popularity with his Muppets, Yeah, they exploded.

4:43 They got their own TV show, The Muppets from nineteen seventy six to nineteen eighty one. Now later on he actually created the TV show Fraggle Rock. Besides Muppett movies, which were he did quite a few, Jim he directed the movie Labyrinth. He married in nineteen fifty nine and they had five children. All five of the his kids worked for his company, Yeah, the Jim Henson Company. Jim died at fifty three years old. In nineteen ninety he had toxic shock that was brought on by strep throat. How dude, you do watch him? Do it? Be? I wish shine? You never find you? How you do it to me? I'll do it to you? How do you do? Watch him?

5:24 Do do me? That was Jerry and the Pacemakers. Jerry He was Jerry Marsden who was born in Tucksteth, England, in nineteen forty two. They formed in nineteen fifty six. They were the second most successful group from Liverpool, England ever will behind the Beatles. They had the how do you do It? I Like it? You'll never walk alone. Jerry was with the band until he retired in twenty eighteen because of helpful reasons. It married in nineteen sixty five and they had two daughters, and Jerry died in twenty twenty one and seventy eight years old from a blood infection in his heart. Comedian actor Phil Hartman he was born in Brentford on Terio, Canada in nineteen forty eight. Moved to the United States when he was ten. In nineteen seventy five, Phil and a young comedian named Paul Rubins developed the character of pee Wee Herman. Phil Even co wrote the movie pee Wee's Big Adventure with Paul Hartman.

6:13 He was on Saturday Night Live from nineteen eighty six to nineteen ninety four. Then he started on TV show, news radio, some movies. He was in Where House Guests, Sergeant Bilco Jingle All the Way. Married his third wife in nineteen eighty seven and they had two children. Now. His wife, she had a lot of troubled drugs and alcoholics. She went to Like Rehab twice. Then on May twenty seventh, in nineteen ninety eight, while Hartman was in bed asleep, his wife came in and shot him three times. Then she killed herself with the same gun. Phil Hartman he was forty nine years old. Actor Kevin Sorbo sixty six. He was born in Mound, Minnesota, in nineteen fifty eight. In the nineteen nine he was in one hundred and fifty TV commercials. Then he played Hercules in five TV movies, so they turned those five TV movies into the series Hercules ran for five years. After that was over, he did Andromeda. Then he started in the these Christian movies God's Not Dead, Joseph and Mary Let There be Light Left Behind, Rise of the Antichrist Cybo. He married nineteen ninety eight and they have three children. Actress Nea Vardilos, she's sixty two. She just want to Winnipeg, Canada in nineteen sixty two. Start off doing comedy and then she hit big in the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding also two and three, but on the first one, and shears was nominated for an Oscar for writing it. She was also in What My Life in Ruins and I think that O one was like helicopter Mom. She was married for twenty five years when they divorced and they had one daughter. Let's go back to China. Okay, there's been a kind of a lot of controversy about this, but get this in China. TikTok his band. Well, thank you for listening to us today. Can't follow us on whoever you listened to us on. And then it comes to mind and come see us at coolmdia dot com.

7:45 This cool three o's listen end with doctor Seuss. He died it in nineteen ninety one at eighty seven years old. The doctor said, don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. You guys have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow. Install standst