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

0:19 Hello, I'm Jeff, and welcome to History and Factoids About Today. Today's September the 24th. Go, go, Mofongo! Go, go, Mofongo! Go, go, Mofongo! Go, go, Mofongo! Go, go, Mofongo! Go, go, Mofongo! Today is National Mofongo Day. Mofongo is the national dish of Puerto Rico. Main ingredient is plantains. Then you add some pork and olive oil, garlic, some broth. Then you smash it all together in a wooden bowl. Then you fry it up and add some beef, shrimp, chicken, vegetables, whatever you want. Now, Mofongo is an Angola slave word.

1:03 It means great amount of anything. So that's pretty descriptive. Enjoy some Mofongo today. So, what happened in entertainment on September 24th back in 2009? Number one album was I Look To You by Whitney Houston. Black Eyed Peas had the number one song with I Got A Feelin'. I know that we'll have a ball If we get down and go out and just lose it all I feel stressed out. I won't let it go Let's go. Way out, face down, losing all control Just fill up my cup Jason Aldean had the number one country song with Big Green Tractor.

1:47 She had on a new dress and she curled her hair. She was looking too good not to go somewhere. Said what you wanted. We can go slow or make it go. Faster The number one selling book was The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks. Top movie was Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. A guy, he creates a machine that can make it rain food. It's voiced by Anna Faris, Bill Hader, James Caan, Mr. T. There's a lot of them in that one. All right, what happened on September the 24th? 1493, Christopher Columbus, he set sail on his second trip to the New World. If you remember on his first trip, he had three ships. This time he brought 17 ships with him. 1890, Wilfred Woodruff. He was the president of the Latter-day Saints, or the Mormons. He issued a manifesto saying teaching and practicing polygamy. They had to stop. See, Utah, they wanted to become a state, and that wasn't going to happen if they were doing the polygamy thing.

2:52 Well, it worked. I mean, Utah became a state six years later in 1896. 1952, Kentucky Fried Chicken. They opened up their first franchise restaurant. It was in Salt Lake City, Utah. That was just a coincidence. In 2012, China. They banned all books written by Japanese authors and all books about Japan. It's still kind of a fact. See, if China's mad at Japan, then they put it into effect. If they're not mad at Japan at the time, then they kind of don't enforce it. Well, let's see what TV shows debuted on September 24th. 1964, The Munsters came on TV. 1968, 60 Minutes. That's still on. The Love Boat hit the TV in 1977. 2007, we got to see the Big Bang Theory. 2013, the Goldbergs.

3:38 And in 2014, Black-ish. Well, let's check out a born on September the 24th. Come and knock on our door. Come and knock on our door. We've been waiting for you. We've been waiting for you. Where the kisses are hers and hers and his. Three's Company 2. Actress Audra Lindley. She was born in Los Angeles in 1918. Started out on Broadway in 1942. After about 10 years, she had to take a long break to raise her five kids that she had. But then in the 1970s, the kids were gone. She started acting again. Then she got really big. Yeah, she played Mrs. Roper on Three's Company.

4:29 Then they spun it off to the Ropers. Yeah, they shouldn't have done that. Audrey, she died from leukemia in 1997 at 79 years old. She was married to her first husband from 1943 to 1970. They're the ones that had the five kids. Then she married another guy for seven years when they divorced. Jim Hansen, he was born in Greenville, Mississippi in 1936. Jim, he created the Muppets in 1958. 1969, he brought the Muppets to Sesame Street.

5:11 Now, Muppet popularity, it just exploded. They ended up getting their own TV show, The Muppets, from 1976 to 81. Now, later on, he created the TV show Fraggle Rock, if you remember that. Now, Jim, of course, he directed all the Muppet movies. He also directed the movie Labyrinth. Yeah, married in 1959, and they had five children. All five of those kids, yeah, they still work for Jim Henson's company. It's called the Jim Henson Company. Yeah, they're still doing Muppet stuff. He died at 53 years old in 1990. He got toxic shock. It was brought on by strep throat.

6:01 That was Jerry and the Pacemakers. Their lead singer was Jerry Marsden. Jerry is born in Tuxteth, England in 1942. Now, they formed in 1956. They are the second most successful band ever from Liverpool, England. Yeah, a band called The Beatles sold more records than they did. Jerry and the Pacemakers, it's how do you do it? I like it. You'll never walk alone. Now, Jerry, he retired from the band, the Pacemakers, 2018. Yeah, for health reasons. He had married back in 1965, and they had two daughters. He died in 2021 at 78 years old from a blood infection in his heart. Comedian-actor Phil Hartman, he was born in Brantford, Indiana. Grant Ford, Canada in 1948. He moved to the United States when he was 10. 1975, Phil and this young comedian named Paul Rubens, they developed the character Pee Wee Herman. Yeah, Phil even co-wrote Pee Wee's Big Adventures with Paul. Phil, he was on Saturday Night Live from 1986 to 94.

6:56 Then he went on the TV show News Radio. Some of his movies are House Gas, Sergeant Bilko, Jingle All the Way. He married his third wife in 1987. They had two children. Now, that wife, she had a lot of trouble with drugs and alcohol. She even went to rehab a couple of times and never took. Then on May 27th in 1998, while Phil was asleep in bed, yeah, she walked in and shot him three times. Then she shot and killed herself. Phil Hartman, he was 49 years old. Actor Kevin Sorbo, he's 68. He was born in Mound, Minnesota. In the early 1990s, he was in 150 TV commercials. Then he played Hercules in five TV movies. They just made that. Yeah, they made a whole series out of him. Do you remember Hercules? Yeah, they spun that off into Xena. But yeah, for five years, he played Hercules. After that, he was on Andromeda. Now he's been starring in Christian movies. God is Not Dead, Joseph and Mary, Let There Be Life, Left Behind. Yeah, there's been a bunch of good ones of those. Kevin, he got married in 1998, and they have three children. Actress, Nia Vardalos. She's 64. She's born in Winnipeg, Canada. Started off doing stand-up comedy, then she hit huge in the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

8:02 Also two and three. But she was nominated for an Oscar for writing the first one. She was also in My Life in Ruins, I Hate Valentine's Day, Helicopter Mom. She was married for 25 years when they divorced, and they had one daughter. All right, and let's go to our quote of the day. It comes from Dr. Seuss. He died today in 1991 at 87 years old. The good doctor says, don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. Yeah, kind of a quick show today, but we're glad you, thanks for listening. Yeah, and don't forget to follow us on you listen to us on. Always go down and look at the notes and show description and all that kind of stuff so you can see how to contact us and See if I miss talking about anything during this show. All right, Country Underground Radio Artist of the Day. It comes from McKenna in San Antonio.

8:44 She wants to hear Blue Honey and their song, Wherever You Are Tonight. You guys have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow. Waiting on time and still waiting So when the hell does moving on start? Every smile, I know. How to fake it. And every song still reminds me of you, yeah. I want to know if you.

9:38 Me maybe that you're. Worried i'm with someone new i know. I try to make it look easy when i see your friends and then i. Don't see you yeah i want to know if you're downtown dancing or have i even crossed your mind I hope you know this ain't the way I planned this. Wherever you are tonight. Wherever you are tonight.