Sept. 23, 2026

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

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National Mofongo day. Entertainment from 2009. 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 - God did good - Dianna Corcoran https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
Mofongo song - Alma's Way
I gotta feeling - The Black Eyed Peas
Big Green Tractor - Jason Aldean
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 - Wherever you are tonight - Blue Honey http://www.bluehoneymusic.com/

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Hello, I'm Jeff, and welcome to History and Factoids About Today.

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Today's September the 24th. Go, go, Mofongo!

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Go, go, Mofongo! Go, go, Mofongo! Go, go, Mofongo! Go, go, Mofongo! Go, go, Mofongo!

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Today is National Mofongo Day. Mofongo is the national dish

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of Puerto Rico. Main ingredient is plantains. Then you add

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some pork and olive oil, garlic, some broth. Then you

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smash it all together in a wooden bowl. Then you

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fry it up and add some beef, shrimp, chicken, vegetables,

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whatever you want. Now, Mofongo is an Angola slave word.

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It means great amount of anything. So that's pretty descriptive.

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Enjoy some Mofongo today. So, what happened in entertainment on

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September 24th back in 2009? Number one album was I

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Look To You by Whitney Houston. Black Eyed Peas had

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the number one song with I Got A Feelin'. I

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know that we'll have a ball If we get down

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and go out and just lose it all I feel

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stressed out.

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I won't let it go Let's go.

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Way out, face down, losing all control Just fill up

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my cup Jason Aldean had the number one country song

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with Big Green Tractor.

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She had on a new dress and she curled her hair.

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She was looking too good not to go somewhere. Said

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what you wanted. We can go slow or make it go.

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Faster The number one selling book was The Last Song

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by Nicholas Sparks. Top movie was Cloudy with a Chance

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of Meatballs. A guy, he creates a machine that can

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make it rain food. It's voiced by Anna Faris, Bill Hader,

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James Caan, Mr. T. There's a lot of them in

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that one. All right, what happened on September the 24th? 1493,

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Christopher Columbus, he set sail on his second trip to

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the New World. If you remember on his first trip,

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he had three ships. This time he brought 17 ships

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with him. 1890, Wilfred Woodruff. He was the president of

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the Latter-day Saints, or the Mormons. He issued a manifesto

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saying teaching and practicing polygamy. They had to stop. See, Utah,

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they wanted to become a state, and that wasn't going

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to happen if they were doing the polygamy thing.

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Well, it worked.

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I mean, Utah became a state six years later in 1896. 1952,

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Kentucky Fried Chicken. They opened up their first franchise restaurant.

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It was in Salt Lake City, Utah. That was just

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a coincidence. In 2012, China. They banned all books written

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by Japanese authors and all books about Japan. It's still

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kind of a fact. See, if China's mad at Japan,

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then they put it into effect. If they're not mad

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at Japan at the time, then they kind of don't

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enforce it. Well, let's see what TV shows debuted on

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September 24th. 1964, The Munsters came on TV.

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1968, 60 Minutes.

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That's still on. The Love Boat hit the TV in 1977. 2007,

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we got to see the Big Bang Theory. 2013, the Goldbergs.

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And in 2014, Black-ish. Well, let's check out a born

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on September the 24th.

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Come and knock on our door.

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Come and knock on our door.

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We've been waiting for you.

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We've been waiting for you. Where the kisses are hers

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and hers and his.

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Three's Company 2.

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Actress Audra Lindley. She was born in Los Angeles in 1918.

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Started out on Broadway in 1942. After about 10 years,

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she had to take a long break to raise her

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five kids that she had. But then in the 1970s,

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the kids were gone. She started acting again. Then she

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got really big. Yeah, she played Mrs. Roper on Three's Company.

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Then they spun it off to the Ropers. Yeah, they

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shouldn't have done that. Audrey, she died from leukemia in

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1997 at 79 years old. She was married to her

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first husband from 1943 to 1970. They're the ones that

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had the five kids. Then she married another guy for

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seven years when they divorced.

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Jim Hansen, he was born in Greenville, Mississippi in 1936.

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Jim, he created the Muppets in 1958.

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1969, he brought the Muppets to Sesame Street.

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Now, Muppet popularity, it just exploded. They ended up getting

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their own TV show, The Muppets, from 1976 to 81. Now,

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later on, he created the TV show Fraggle Rock, if

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you remember that. Now, Jim, of course, he directed all

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the Muppet movies. He also directed the movie Labyrinth. Yeah,

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married in 1959, and they had five children. All five

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of those kids, yeah, they still work for Jim Henson's company.

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It's called the Jim Henson Company. Yeah, they're still doing

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Muppet stuff. He died at 53 years old in 1990.

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He got toxic shock. It was brought on by strep throat.

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That was Jerry and the Pacemakers. Their lead singer was

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Jerry Marsden. Jerry is born in Tuxteth, England in 1942. Now,

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they formed in 1956. They are the second most successful

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band ever from Liverpool, England. Yeah, a band called The

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Beatles sold more records than they did. Jerry and the Pacemakers,

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it's how do you do it? I like it. You'll

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never walk alone. Now, Jerry, he retired from the band,

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the Pacemakers, 2018. Yeah, for health reasons. He had married

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back in 1965, and they had two daughters. He died

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in 2021 at 78 years old from a blood infection

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in his heart. Comedian-actor Phil Hartman, he was born in Brantford, Indiana.

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Grant Ford, Canada in 1948. He moved to the United

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States when he was 10. 1975, Phil and this young

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comedian named Paul Rubens, they developed the character Pee Wee Herman. Yeah,

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Phil even co-wrote Pee Wee's Big Adventures with Paul. Phil,

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he was on Saturday Night Live from 1986 to 94.

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Then he went on the TV show News Radio. Some

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of his movies are House Gas, Sergeant Bilko, Jingle All

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the Way. He married his third wife in 1987.

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They had two children.

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Now, that wife, she had a lot of trouble with

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drugs and alcohol. She even went to rehab a couple

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of times and never took. Then on May 27th in 1998,

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while Phil was asleep in bed, yeah, she walked in

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and shot him three times. Then she shot and killed herself.

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Phil Hartman, he was 49 years old. Actor Kevin Sorbo,

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he's 68. He was born in Mound, Minnesota. In the

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early 1990s, he was in 150 TV commercials. Then he

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played Hercules in five TV movies. They just made that. Yeah,

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they made a whole series out of him. Do you

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remember Hercules? Yeah, they spun that off into Xena. But yeah,

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for five years, he played Hercules. After that, he was

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on Andromeda. Now he's been starring in Christian movies. God

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is Not Dead, Joseph and Mary, Let There Be Life,

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Left Behind. Yeah, there's been a bunch of good ones

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of those. Kevin, he got married in 1998, and they

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have three children. Actress, Nia Vardalos. She's 64. She's born

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in Winnipeg, Canada. Started off doing stand-up comedy, then she

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hit huge in the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

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Also two and three. But she was nominated for an

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Oscar for writing the first one. She was also in

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My Life in Ruins, I Hate Valentine's Day, Helicopter Mom.

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She was married for 25 years when they divorced, and

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they had one daughter. All right, and let's go to

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our quote of the day. It comes from Dr.

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Seuss.

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He died today in 1991 at 87 years old. The

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good doctor says, don't cry because it's over, smile because

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it happened. Yeah, kind of a quick show today, but

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we're glad you, thanks for listening. Yeah, and don't forget

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to follow us on you listen to us on. Always

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about anything during this show. All right, Country Underground Radio

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Artist of the Day. It comes from McKenna in San Antonio.

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She wants to hear Blue Honey and their song, Wherever

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You Are Tonight. You guys have an awesome day, and

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we'll talk tomorrow.

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Waiting on time and still waiting So when the hell

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does moving on start?

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Every smile, I know.

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How to fake it. And every song still reminds me

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of you, yeah. I want to know if you.

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Me maybe that you're.

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Worried i'm with someone new i know.

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I try to make it look easy when i see

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your friends and then i.

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Don't see you yeah i want to know if you're

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downtown dancing or have i even crossed your mind I

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hope you know this ain't the way I planned this.

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Wherever you are tonight.

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Wherever you are tonight.

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

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