Sept 28-Drink Beer Day! Ben E. King, Janeane Garafalo, Mira Sorvino, Naomi Watts, Little Big Town, Hilary Duff

0:10 Well, hi, I am Jeff, and welcome to History and Factor. It's about today, presented by Cool Media Today, September the twenty eighth. I'm not the time to work in a bank. I'm no good all things you're having that from making motors cry, But I'm pretty good draining beer. It is National Drink Beer Day and it's on a Saturday. Today is basically just a whine not day. I mean, why should we all drink beer on September the twenty eighth? Why not? So? What stage do you think drinks the most beer? That be North Dakota. That was North Dakota and drinks forty five point eight gallons of beer every year. What city do you think drinks the most beer? It'd be Green Bay, Wisconsin.

1:00 That kind of makes sense, I mean both kind of like have to shut inside for half the year. This will probably surprise you, though. What state do you think drinks the least amount of beer? Shockingly Utah? You know, so if you're not in Utah today, enjoy your Saturday drinking beer. You know, it is a national day, so it's almost a lost all right? This see that happened entertainment on September the twenty eighth and nineteen sixty five. Then when album was The Help by the Beatles, Barr McGuire had the number one. So on with evil destruction, you. Don't believe in war? What's that gun? Your soldier? And even that Jordan River has body is floky. But tell me. Again, my friends.

1:42 Why you don't believe? We're all the deal, all the destruction? Fucko and see you had the number one country chart with you Can only you can break my heart? God Oh came. The number one book was The Source by James Mitchener. The top movie was Mickey One, a comedian. He steals the identity of a homeless man after the mob tries to kill him, and then he starts fleeing starts Warren Beatty, Alexandra Stewart and Herd Hatfield nineteen ninety one, Garth Brooks.

2:31 He released his album Rope in the Wind, first time in history a country album debut at number one on the pop charts. What happened on September the twenty eighth. Let's Start fifteen forty two. First Europeans to come ashore in America's West Coastjan Rodriguez Cabrill and his Men sailed into San Diego Bay named to send me Gel and claimed it for Spain. American Revolution Is seventeen eighty one, nine thousand American and seven thousand French troops began their siege on Yorktown in Virginia. It was the last stand for the British. Spoiler alert, Yeah, they're going to surrender. On October nineteenth, seventeen eighty five. In France, sixteen year old Napoleon Bonaparte graduated from their elite military academy a coole military Napoleon. He was forty second in the class of fifty one. Eighteen fifty, the United States Navy abolished flogging as a form of punishment. Now flogging it was kind of like whipping, but it had a special designed whip that in flicked the most painting could. The tip of the whip was like metal metal or had barbs on it. In China, in eighteen eighty seven, they had built a series of dikes to control the Yellow River. Yeah, they all failed, flooded fifty thousand square miles, killed over nine hundred thousand people that they knew of. It could have been ashigh as two million people now not counting Noah's Flood. That was the second worst flood in human history.

3:45 The worst flood was also in China nineteen thirty one. That one killed over four million. New York City in nineteen oh four, little Genie Lasher, she was arrestled for smoking a cigarette on Fifth Street. She got thirty days in jail. Ull She got kind of lippy, and she knew better. Women weren't allowed to smoking book back then. You know that they won't be allowed to vote for another fifteen years either. All right, let's talk a little football. Nineteen fifty one, the Los Angeles Want Rams quarterback Norm Van Brooklyn passed for five hundred and fifty four yards in the game. Now that record still stands today. Yeah, Matt Schwab and Warren Moon are the closest. They're tied at second for throwing for five hundred and twenty seven. Two thousand and eight, SpaceX lines the first ever private space crash up in orbit the Earth. It's called Falcon one.

4:26 Jokejke, joke, cooke, joked, joke, Show this Shibbert Day. He's gonna pause. He left this shibirthday. We want simple carge. He let this Shibt day. And you know, we don't do let the birthday, Okay. It was born on September the twenty eighth. Ed Sullivan. He was born in Harlem, New York in nineteen one. Started out as a syndicated entertainment colonist, and he hosted the Ed Vaults whole of his show from nineteen forty eight to nineteen seventy one. It's the longest running variety show in history. Now. It was on every Sunday night from eight to nine o'clock Eastern Time. Now, it's really hard for us to grasp nowadays how big and influential the Ed Sullivan Show was. Now, everyone wanted to be on a show, and everybody watched it. Now, if he let you on his show, yeah, then you knew you made it. Eddie married in nineteen thirty and his wife they were in such demand to beginners at dinner parties. Not only did they have dinner with all the big wigs in the entertainment industry, they actually had dinner with presidents and popes. They had a daughter. His wife died in nineteen seventy three in March. Eddie died in nineteen seventy three in October from esophako cancer, seventy three years old.

5:32 I'm just no matter. Clean I say that. That was country singer Tommy Collins. He was born in beth and the Oklahoma in nineteen thirty. He was really popular in the late fifties through out to the early seventies. Now he's kind of a key guy in that whole country's Bakerfield sound kind of stuff. Some of his biggest hits were what You're Gonna Do Now? It tickles if you can't bark, don't growl now. He had probably more bigger success as a songwriter, but his songs are kind of fun. Tommy died in two thousand and sixty nine years old.

6:19 You can smile if you smile for the man who held your hand for pill. But don't forget. Who's taking you home, and then who's arms You're thought. He'll be so darn say the last dance Hold. That was Benny King singing the only number one song the Drifters had. Ben He was born in Henderson, North Carolina, in nineteen thirty joined the Drifters in nineteen fifty eight. Some of the other Drifter songs that he sang was there Goes My Baby, that Magic moment I count the tears. Now. He went solo as soon as he got big enough to leave the band. He didn't stick around for very long, and he huge with a song stand by Me in Spanish, Harlem, don't play our song. Now, over four hundred artists have recorded stand by Me. I mean you take every big name you can think of, like David Boye, Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen, all them, they've all all recorded it right, but it's still considered the best version. Yeah, Benny King's version the number two best version. Benny King in nineteen eighty eight. He did it with def Leppard. Now he performed right up until he died in twenty fifteen at seventy six years old. That followed a short illness. Actor Jeffrey Jones is seventy eight and he's born in Buffalo, New York. In nineteen forty six, he played the principal in Ferris Duoler's Date Off. It's Also on beatlegis The Hunt for Red October. He did Deadwood TV and the movies.

7:40 He had one son. Comedian actor as Janine Garoffalo was sixty. She was born in Newton, New Jersey, in nineteen sixty four, start out as a stand up comedian. Well she has a stand up comedian still, she's still tours and stuff. If you want to go see your stand up show. Ben and over fifty movies, some of them are reality bites. The Truth about Cats and Dogs, The Matchmaker Coppling. She got married nineteen ninety one until twenty twelve. Problem was she didn't know it. Now We're and a guy and gotten drunk in Vegas and did as a joke. The guy eventually went and tried to get married and found out the joke was on them. You know what, That's probably the best twenty year marriage. Yeah, never had one fight or nothing like that. Now. She did ask some trouble with alcohol when she was younger, but she's been sober since two thousand and one. Had nine drink sent so that's really cool for Janine. Actors MARYA Servina. She was born in nineteen sixty seven in New York City. She's fifty seven. Her dad is actor Paul Servino Maria. She won an oscar for Mighty Aphrodite.

8:31 Then she got snubbed big time in Romey and Michelle's high school reunion. She was also in the replacement Killers at First Sight Sound of Freedom Mary. She married in two thousand and four and they have two sons and two daughters. Actress Naomi Watts. She was born in nineteen sixty eight in Shoreham, England, night so that makes her what sixty fifty six. Now? Her dad he was a road manager and sounding manager for the band Pink Floyd. That's kind of cooler than an actor, huh. She was in the movie Take Girl, Children in the Corn four and Babe the Pig in the City. She didn't get nominated for anything for those, but she had been nominated twice for Oscars for twenty one grams in The Impossible. She had two sons from a boyfriend, and she married Billy Kudrup, an actor. Just last year.

9:13 Had a handscot A Little Simple So now man running here we. Two Same. That was Karen Fairchild singing for the country group Little Big Town. She's the brunette fifty five years old today. She's born in Gary, Indiana in nineteen sixty nine. She up for him A Little Big Down nineteen ninety eight. Some of the hits that she sings are Pontoon, Better Man, Day, Drinking Girl, Crush, a Little Big Town. They're out on tour right now, pretty much till the end of the year, and they are releasing a Christmas album in October fourteenth.

9:58 Karen she married Jimmy will Westbrook two thousand and six. Jimmy he's one of those four members of Little Big Town. They have a son that was actress Hillary Duff. She's won seven Kids Choice Awards and fourteen Choice Awards. Now. Hillary is thirty seven years old. She's born in Houston, Texas, in nineteen eighty seven. Start acting when she was sick. She got really famous playing Lizzie McGuire on TV and in the movies. She's also ana Cheaper by the dozen.

10:39 She had a son from her first dousand. She married her second husband in twenty nineteen and they have three daughters. Let's go back to beer. Bear is the third most consumed drink in the world. It's beyond water and tea. Oh thank you for listening today. Have you want to hear some good country music over the weekend. Don't forget about Country Underground Radio. It's any innate city that actually plays country music. Or you can go to Country Underground Radio dot Com. Let's end with writer Herman Melville. He's the guy who wrote Moby Dick. He died today in eighteen ninety one, at seventy two years old. Herman said it's better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. You guys have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow.