Sept. 24, 2024

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

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National Mofongo day. Entertainment from 1985. First KFC opened, Mormans told no more teaching or practacing poloygamy, China banned everything Japanese. Todays birthdays - Audra Lindley, Jim Henson, Gerry Marsden, Phil Hartman, Kevin Sorbo, Nia Vardalos. Dr. Suess died.

Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard https://defleppard.com/
Mofongo song - Alma's Way
Money for nothing - Dire Straits
Lost in the 50's tonight - Ronnie Milsap
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent https://www.50cent.com/
Three's Company TV theme
The Muppets Theme
How do you do it - Gerry & the Pacemakers
Exit - In my dreams - Dokken https://www.dokken.net/

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Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history. In

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fact too. It's about today. It isn't about cool media today.

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September the twenty fourth, Today is National my Fungo Day.

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We're going oh Puerto Rican Day. It's a national dish. There.

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Main ingredient is pantains. Then you add some pork, olive oil,

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garla broth. Then you smash it all together in a

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wooden bowl, fry it up and add some shrimp or

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chicken or beef and lots of vegetables. Then you just

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chow down my fungo. It comes from an Angola slave term.

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It actually means great amount of anything. It is prett

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healthy for you. So whatever you do, just enjoy some

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a fun go today, all right, sit up in entertainment.

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On September the twenty fourth, it's back the year nineteen

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eighty five. Number one album was Brother in Arms by

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Dire Straits. Dire Straits, Yeah, the number one song with

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money for Nothing.

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That's the way you do it.

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Joys for Nothing to chicks, We.

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To this long eleven to kitchen to live, We got

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the moon, We got to lose.

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Call its Rodney millsap here the number one country song,

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was lost in the fifties tonight, Oh.

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Shoo, so.

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So lost in the fifties Tonight. The number one book

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was Lake Well Biga Days by Garrison Keeler. Todd movie

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was Invasion USA. When Communists invaded the United States, a

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one man army named Chuck Norris comes to the rescue,

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except they called Chuck Matt Hunter. All right, see what happened.

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On September the twenty fourth, fourteen ninety three, Christopher Columbus

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set sail on his second expedition to the New World. Now,

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if you remember, on his first expedition he had those

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three ships. This expedition he about seventeen ships. Eighteen ninety

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Wilfred Woodruff, he was the president of the Latter day Saints.

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He issued a manifesto saying that teaching and practicing polygamy

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should be abandoned. So Utah was the United States now,

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and the Mormons they could get a lot of trouble

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with the United States government if they kept practicing polygamy.

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Nineteen fifty two, Kentucky Fried Chicken opened up its first

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franchise restaurant, Salt Lake City, Utah. In twenty twelve, China,

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they banned all books written by Japanese authors and all

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books about Japan. Let's go back. There's a lot of

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TV shows on that started today. So let's say first

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one who had been the Months in nineteen sixty four,

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sixty Minutes in nineteen sixty eight. Yeah, that one is

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still on the Love Boat in nineteen seventy seven, Big

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Bang Theory in two thousand and seven, The Goldbergs twenty thirteen,

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Black Is twenty fourteen.

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Coat coat, coat coat, goat Sharge, this Shiverfday.

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We're gonna pause.

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He left this shiverfday. We don't sit with Targe like

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it's shiver birthday. And you know we don't get because

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that's your birthday.

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All right, let's check out who was born on September

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the twenty fourth, Come.

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And knock on our door.

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We've been waiting for you.

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With a kiss.

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Is a person person his plees coming in to actress

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Rodre Lindley. She was born in Los Angeles in nineteen eighteen.

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She started acting out on Broadway nineteen forty two. Then

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she took a long break from acting to raise five kids.

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Started acting again in the nineteen seventy Shit Really Big,

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playing Missus Roper on three's company. Then they tried to

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spin it off into his own sit The Ropers. Yeah,

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they thankfully bad. Audrey. She started active pretty much acting

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in her rest of her life. She died from leukemia

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in nineteen ninety seven and seventy nine years old. She's

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married to her first husband from forty three to nineteen seventy.

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They're the one who had the five kids, and she

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married a second Esben, for seven years before they divorced.

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Up right, Jim Henson and he was born in Greenville, Mississippi,

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in nineteen thirty six. Jim Gredd The Muppets in nineteen

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fifty eight, then in nineteen sixty nine he joined Sesame

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Street and his popularity with his Muppets, Yeah, they exploded.

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They got their own TV show, The Muppets from nineteen

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seventy six to nineteen eighty one. Now later on he

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actually created the TV show Fraggle Rock. Besides Muppett movies,

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which were he did quite a few, Jim he directed

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the movie Labyrinth. He married in nineteen fifty nine and

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they had five children. All five of the his kids

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worked for his company, Yeah, the Jim Henson Company. Jim

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died at fifty three years old. In nineteen ninety he

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had toxic shock that was brought on by strep throat.

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How dude, you do watch him?

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Do it? Be?

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I wish shine?

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You never find you?

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How you do it to me?

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I'll do it to you?

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How do you do? Watch him?

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Do do me? That was Jerry and the Pacemakers. Jerry

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He was Jerry Marsden who was born in Tucksteth, England,

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in nineteen forty two. They formed in nineteen fifty six.

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They were the second most successful group from Liverpool, England

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ever will behind the Beatles. They had the how do

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you do It? I Like it? You'll never walk alone.

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Jerry was with the band until he retired in twenty

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eighteen because of helpful reasons. It married in nineteen sixty

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five and they had two daughters, and Jerry died in

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twenty twenty one and seventy eight years old from a

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blood infection in his heart. Comedian actor Phil Hartman he

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was born in Brentford on Terio, Canada in nineteen forty eight.

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Moved to the United States when he was ten. In

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nineteen seventy five, Phil and a young comedian named Paul

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Rubins developed the character of pee Wee Herman. Phil Even

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co wrote the movie pee Wee's Big Adventure with Paul Hartman.

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He was on Saturday Night Live from nineteen eighty six

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to nineteen ninety four. Then he started on TV show,

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news radio, some movies. He was in Where House Guests,

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Sergeant Bilco Jingle All the Way. Married his third wife

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in nineteen eighty seven and they had two children. Now.

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His wife, she had a lot of troubled drugs and alcoholics.

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She went to Like Rehab twice. Then on May twenty seventh,

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in nineteen ninety eight, while Hartman was in bed asleep,

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his wife came in and shot him three times. Then

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she killed herself with the same gun. Phil Hartman he

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was forty nine years old. Actor Kevin Sorbo sixty six.

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He was born in Mound, Minnesota, in nineteen fifty eight.

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In the nineteen nine he was in one hundred and

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fifty TV commercials. Then he played Hercules in five TV movies,

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so they turned those five TV movies into the series

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Hercules ran for five years. After that was over, he

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did Andromeda. Then he started in the these Christian movies

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God's Not Dead, Joseph and Mary Let There be Light

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Left Behind, Rise of the Antichrist Cybo. He married nineteen

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ninety eight and they have three children. Actress Nea Vardilos,

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she's sixty two. She just want to Winnipeg, Canada in

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nineteen sixty two. Start off doing comedy and then she

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hit big in the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding

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also two and three, but on the first one, and

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shears was nominated for an Oscar for writing it. She

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was also in What My Life in Ruins and I

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think that O one was like helicopter Mom. She was

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married for twenty five years when they divorced and they

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had one daughter. Let's go back to China. Okay, there's

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been a kind of a lot of controversy about this,

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but get this in China. TikTok his band. Well, thank

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you for listening to us today. Can't follow us on

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whoever you listened to us on. And then it comes

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to mind and come see us at coolmdia dot com.

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This cool three o's listen end with doctor Seuss. He

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died it in nineteen ninety one at eighty seven years old.

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The doctor said, don't cry because it's over. Smile because

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it happened. You guys have an awesome day, and we'll

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talk tomorrow.

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