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

0:19 Hey, Hello, I'm Jeff and welcome to History and Factor. It's about today Day Septem of the twenty fourth. Today is National My Fungo Day. A fungo. It's a national dish of Puerto Rico. Main ingredient in is plantains. Then you add some pork and olive oil, garlic, some broth, and 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, my fungo it's in and go. Las a slave word, it means a great amount of anything, so that's pretty descriptive.

1:06 Enjoy some fungo today, all right, this is going on entertainment On September the twenty fourth, back to nineteen seventy seven, number one album was Rumors by Fleetwood Mac. The Emotions had the number one song with Best of My Love. So Conway Twitty Ye had the number one country song with I've Already loved You in my mind.

1:48 Thing about It and you Fine, We're not stranger, I'm all love. And the number one book was The Thorn Birds by Colling mcculluff. The top movie it was Star Wars nineteen seventy seven, it was just Star Wars nineteen eighty one. Now they changed the title the Star Wars Episode four a new hope, saying seventy seven Movie Company, they would only let George Lucas make Star Wars as a standalone movie. Then after it was so successful, then George was able to make it into a trilogy, like he'd want it all along?

2:29 All right? What happened on September the twenty fourth, fourteen ninety three, 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 seventeen ships with him. Eighteen ninety 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. Well, it worked, I mean, Utah became a state six years later in eighteen ninety six. Nineteen fifty two, Kentucky Fried Chicken. They'll open up their first franchise restaurant who was in Salt Lake City, Utah. That was just a coincidence. In twenty twelve, China they banned all books written by Japanese artists, authors and all books about Japan. It's still kind of effect. Say, 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 twenty fourth, nineteen sixty four, The Monsters came on TV nineteen sixty eight sixty minutes. That's still on the love boat at the TV. In nineteen seventy seven, two thousand and seven, we got to see The Big Bang Theory, twenty thirteen The Goldberg's And in twenty fourteen, Blackish.

3:45 Joked, joked, joke, shot this shimf day. Please don't part. He left this shiverf day. We won't simple page, he left this shibf Day. You don't do. Well. Let's check out it was born on September the twenty fourth, Come. And knock on our door. We've been waiting for you. With the kiss is a person persons. Threes comp me too. Actress Andrew Lindley. She was born in Los Angeles in nineteen eighteen. Start out on Broadway in nineteen forty two. After about ten years, she had take a long break to raise her five kids as she had. But then in the nineteen seventies the kids are gone. She started acting in and then she yet really big.

4:30 Yeah. She played Missus Roper on Three's Company. Then they spun it off to the Ropers. Yeah, they shouldn't have done that, Audrey. She died from leukemia in nineteen ninety seven and is seventy nine years old. She was married to her first house was from nineteen forty three to nineteen seventy the other ones that had the five kids. Then she married another guy for seven years when they divorced. Jeff Jim Henson and he was born in Greenville, Mississippi, in nineteen thirty six. Jim he created The Muppets in nineteen fifty eight.

5:11 Nineteen sixty nine, he brought the Mumpets to Sesame Street. Yeah, Muppet popularity, it had just exploded. They get their own TV show, The Muppets from nineteen seventy six to eighty one. 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 in the movie Labyrinth. Yeah. Married nineteen fifty nine and they had five children. All five of those kids. Yeah, they still work for Jim Hinson's company. It's called the Jim Hinson Company. Yeah, they're still doing Muppet stuff. He died at fifty three years old in nineteen ninety. He got toxic shock. It was brought on by step throat. Wow, dude, you do watch him do the v I wish shine. You can't find you? How you do it to me? I'll do it to you, dude, you do watch.

6:04 That was Jerry and the Pacemakers. Their lead singer was Jerry Marsden. Jerry was born in Tucksteth, England, in nineteen forty two. Now. They formed in nineteen fifty six. 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 twenty eighteen. Yeah, for health reasons. Get married back in nineteen sixty five and they had two daughters. He died in twenty twenty one and seventy eight years old from n blood and infection in his heart. Comedian actor Phil Hartman. He was born in Brentford, brent Ford, Canada, in nineteen forty eight. He moved to the United States when he was ten. Nineteen seventy five, Phil in this young comedian named Paul Rubins.

6:50 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 nineteen eighty six to ninety four. Then he went on the TV show News Radio. Some of his movies Our House, Gas, Sergeant Bilko, Jingle All the Way. He married his third wife in nineteen eighty seven. They had two children. Now that wife, she had a lot of trouble with drugs and alcohols. She even went to rehab a couple of times and never took Then I made twenty seventh in nineteen ninety eight, while Phil was asleep in bed, Yeah, she walked in and shot him three times, and then she shot and killed herself. Phil Hartman he is forty nine years old. Actor Kevin Sorbo sixty seven. He was born in Mound, Minnesota, in nineteen fifty eight. In the early nineteen nineties, he was in one hundred and fifty TV commercials. Then he played Hercules and five TV movies.

7:37 They just made that. Yeah, they made a whole series out of them. You remember Hercules. Yeah, they spun that off into Zena. 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. He has been a bunch of good ones of those. Kevin. He got married nineteen ninety eight and they have three children. Actors Nina Vardilous. She is sixty three. She just want to Winnipeg, Canada. In nineteen sixty two, start off doing stand up commed and then she had huge in the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding 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's married for twenty five years. When they divorced, they had one daughter. All right, that's quote our quote of the day. It comes from doctor Seuss. He died today in nineteen ninety one, at eighty seven 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.

8:33 Thanks for listening. Yeah, and don't forget to follow us. I and you listen to his aunt, always go down and look at the notes and show description and all that kind of stuff. So because he had a contact us and see what if I missed talking about anything during this show. All right, Country and to ground radio artist the day. It comes from McKinnon San Antonio. She wants to hear Blue Honey in the song wherever you are tonight. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. It's still wait when the hell is moving on? Start their elfred smile knew how to fake in every song. Still reminds me. I want to know if you downtown dad say, or have I even.

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