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

0:19 Hey, Hello, I'm Jeff and welcome to History and Factor. It's about today today, September the twenty eighth. I'm not the time to work in a bank. I'm no good saving all things, having that from making motors crying, but I'm pretty good training beer. Today is National Drink Beer Day. Today it's kind of a why not day? I mean, why should everybody drink beer on September twenty eighth. It's about the reason for the holiday. What state do you think drinks the most beer?

0:59 North Dakota. The average North Dakota drinks around forty five point eight gallons of beer every year. New Hampshire is behind them. Now Utah, they need to step it up. They're way behind in last place, the average Utah, and they only drink twelve gallons of beer every year. About ten and a half cans make up a gallon of beer. Now, what city do you think drinks the most beer? Well, that'd be Green Bay, Wisconsin. So I guess today we've just been the day watching football and drinking beer. So hey, whatever, nice Sunday. Now beer, It is the third most drink beverage in the world. That's behind water and tea. All right, this is going on entertainment. On September the twenty eighth, back to nineteen fifty seven, number one album was Loving You by Elvis Presley. Buddy Ally in the Crickets had the number one song with That'll be the Day.

1:47 When You say Goodbye, s the day when you made me say. You Know It's a lot. The day Bobby Elms. He had the number one country song with Frauline by the Babe Topy. River laughter but I can't forget her, miss my pretty for all love.

2:29 Yeah, he is the guy who's saying Jingo Bow Rock. The number one buck was by Love Possessed by James gold Cousins. The top movie was Fire Down Bloo, The Friendship, the Two Boat Hunders. Yeah, it's in trouble. A pretty female passer showed up and so all kinds of chaos starts off between Jack Lemmon, Robert mitchen Manrita Hayworth. Nineteen ninety one, Garth Brooks. He released his album Rope in the Wind, first time in history a country album debuted at number one on the pop chart. All Right What Happened On September the twentieth, fifteen forty two Portuguese explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrio, him and his man they sailed into San Diego Bay. Yeah, they were the first Europeans actually land on the West coast. They named it San Miguel. Oh, the Spanish they renamed a San Diego. And sixteen oh two the American Revolution is seventeen eighty one, nine thousand American and seven thousand French soldiers began the siege on York down in Virginia. Now it was pretty much Britain's last stand. Now spoiler alert, the Brits they're going to surrender on October nineteenth. Yeah, that's the last major battle of the Revolution. Pretty much ended the war. Seventeen eighty five in France, sixteen year old Napoleon Bonaparte. He graduated from their elite military academy a Coole militier, now Napoleon.

3:41 He was forty second in a class of fifty one eighteen fifty. The United States Navy, they abolished flogging as a form of punishment. Flogging it's kind of like whipping, but it's actually designed to cause more pain and they have kind of like metal tips on the end of the whip. So yeah, I'm assuming they actually got rid of whipping too. In eighteen eighty seven, they had built a series of dikes to try and coat and control the Yellow River. Wow. One dyke failed, that led to another dyke fail, and another dyke fail. They all failed, fled in fifty thousand square miles, killed over nine hundred thousand people. Well that they know of. They think I could have killed up to about two million people now, not counting Noah's flood. That was the second worst flood in human history. The worst flood it was also in China in nineteen thirty one.

4:24 That one killed over four million people. Now on fifth straight, New York City. In nineteen oh four, little Genie lasher she was arrested, Yeah, for smoking a cigarette. That's right, Genie. She got thirty days in jail for it. Well, she'd gotten lippy with the costs when she got arrested. And plus Genie knew better. Women weren't allowed to smoke in public, you know. They weren't even allowed to vote for another fifteen years. Nineteen twenty four, our two army planes they ended their around the world fight. They flew from Seattle, Washington all the way around the world. The Seattle Washington made fifty seven stops along the way. In nineteen twenty eight, Warmacks Go Jumpers. They became the first to record a record in Nashville, Tennessee. Two thousand and eight, SpaceX It launched the first private spacecraft to orbit the birth pretty much.

5:09 They called that Falcon one joke joke. Coop joke joke shows this shibf Day, we're gonna pu he left this shiverfday. We want simple carge. He like this shibirf Day. And you know we don't give birthday. Well, let's see. It was born on September the twenty eighth. Ed Sullivan. He was born in Harlem, New York, in nineteen oh one. Eddie started out as a syndicated entertainment rider, but then he moved to TV and host to The Ed Sullivan Show from nineteen forty eight to nineteen seventy one. That was on every Sunday night from eight to nine Eastern Time. But nowadays it's really hard for us to really grasp how big and influential the Ed Sullivan Show was.

5:51 Everybody wanted to be on the show, and everybody watched the show. Now, if you let you perform on his show, YEP then you knew you made it. Eddie married nineteen thirty nine. Him and his wife, they were in such demand to be guessed at dinner parties that not only did they have dinner with all the entertainment big with, they actually had dinner with presidents and the Pope. They had one daughter. His wife died in March of nineteen seventy three. Ed died in October of nineteen seventy three. He had esophac go cancer. He was seventy three years old. No matter how.

6:35 Clean I say. That was country singer Tommy Collins. He was born in Bethany, Oklahoma, in nineteen thirty. Now. He was pretty popular in the late fifties all the way up to the early seventies. He was one of the original founders of that Bakersfield country music sound that came out there. Now. Some of his hits were what You're Gonna Do Now it tickles if you can't bark, don't grown Tommy. He died in two thousand and sixty nine years old. You can smile if you smile for the man who held your hands for pail. But don't forget who's taking you home, And then whose songs you thought It'll be so Dhu, say the last Dance.

7:22 Hold. That was Benny King singing the only number one song the Drifters had, say the Last Dance for me Man. He was born in Henderson, North Carolina, in nineteen thirty eight. He joined the Drifters in nineteen fifty eight. Some of the Drifter songs that he sing laid on, There Goes My Baby, the Magic Moment, I Count the Tears. Now. He went solo as fast as he could. It was only a couple of years before he got famous enough to go solo. Hit huge with a song stand by Me, then Spanish Harlem, Don't play, Don't play our song. Now over four hundred artists over the years have recorded songs stand by Me. You know anybody pretty much every from Bruce Springsteen to Mick Jagger to Paul McCarty and Garth Brooks.

8:05 Everybody's recorded Paisley stand by Me, Ben Yeah. This song is still the number one version of stand by Me. The number two version of stand by Me was in nineteen eighty eight and it was Benny King too, but he did it with def Leppard. He performed right up until he died in twenty fifteen at seventy six years old. He had a short illness and then he died. Actor Jeffrey Jones. He's seventy nine. He's won a Buffalo in New York in nineteen forty six. He played the principal in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. He's also on Beatlegis The Hunt for Red October. Now. He's had a lot of legal issues. Yeah, he Actually, I'm not going to go into all. He asked to register as a sex offender. Jeanine Garoffalo. She was born in Newton, New Jersey, in nineteen sixty four. She's sixty one. Started out doing stand up. Well, she still does. She's a really good stand up comedian.

8:51 She still performs if she's not coming on tour by. Yeah. She posts stuff on YouTube. Yeah, she still does a good job. Been in over fifty movies, Reality Bites, The Truth About Cats and Dogs, The Matchmaker Copland. Now. She married from nineteen ninety one to twenty twelve. She didn't know it and a guy got drunk in Vegas and did it as a joke and thought it was over went their own separate ways. Well, the guy eventually went to get married in surprise. You know what, that is probably the best twenty year marriage of all time. Never had a fight and no argument or anything like that. Now, once they found out they were married, they probably exchanged words. But Janine she has been sober sober since two thousand and one, so that's really cool for her. Actress Mira Servino.

9:32 She was born in New York City in nineteen sixty seven. She's fifty eight today. Her dad was actor Paul Servino. Maria. She went an Oscar for a Mighty Aphrodite. Then she got snubbed big time. Yeah, for the movie Rome and Michelle's high school reunion didn't win anything for it, and she's in the replacement Killers at First Sight Summer of Sam May. She married in two thousand and four and they have two sons and two daughters. Actress Namo Wa Naomi Watts is fifty seven. She was born in Suream, England in nineteen sixty eight. Head her dad he was the road manager and sound manager for the Man Pink Floyd. She was in the movies Tank Girl, Children in the Corn four and Babe Pig in the City. That's how she started off her career. Of course, you didn't get nominated for anyone was that she got nominated for a couple of Oscars. She was nominated for twenty one Grams and The Impossible. I'd not been sarcastic. I honestly think her best movie was King Kong in two thousand and five. Yeah, of all the King Kong movies, that's the best one. Noah.

10:27 She had two sons from a boyfriend. She married actor Billy Krudup in twenty twenty three. Spita Hands got a little simple So now man running here we go. You know a woman's call when she's talking about day drinking. That was Karen Fairchild. She sings for that country group Little Bigdown. She was born in Gary, Indiana in nineteen sixty nine. Fifty six year old grew up in Georgia, though Marietta had to be more specific now. She is the brunette in Little Bigdown. She formed it in nineteen ninety eight. Some hits that she sings or Pontoon, better Man, day Drinking, Girl, Crush, a Little Big Down. They're all playing some shows right now. I don't know if i'd call it a tour, but they're doing some shows anyway. Karen.

11:23 She married Jimmy Westbrook in two thousand and six. He's one of the guys in the group too. They have a son. Actress Hillary duffis thirty eight. She was born in Houston, Texas, in nineteen eighty seven. Started acting when she was sick six not sick, she was six years old. And then she really got famous playing Lizzie McGuire on TV and in the movies like Cody Banks and that kind of stuff. Some of her other movies where Casper meets Wendy, Cheaper by the Dozen, a Cinderella Star now Hilla.

12:08 She had a son from her first husband. She married her second husband in twenty nineteen and they have three daughters already. Cold of the Day it comes from writer Herman Melville. Yeah, he's a guy who wrote Moby Dick Herman. He died in eighteen ninety one and seventy two years old. He says it's better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. Well, thank you all for listening today, and don't forget to follow us and you listen to us on so we're easy to find and if you have any questions, go down to show notes at the bottom of the podcast today and it gives us links how to hook up with this too if you have any questions or anything you want to talk to us about. All Right, The Country and Around Radio artist of the day is Matt After in Centa or Soda, Florida. He wants to hear Clay Rigdens song live in ninety eight Proof.

12:50 You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. Hello, friend, here's enough dy. It's got your name and we now you. All about a drink? Hey, Joe, you make them too? Why the long face? What's getting you down? Somebody's gone turn your world upside down? And I know how you feel. I've been there just like you. So let's raceie glasses and make jobs and say good fine, what we needs? Leadless whiskey, wash boy our bo in town now.

13:57 Gone down and bring you. That from where you're gone being long. That's the stone Pultrup. I'm loving ninety eight Truth