Sept 29th - Coffee Day, Gene Autry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Halsey, Andrew "Dice" Clay, Heaviest Human Ever

0:18 Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factoids About Today. Today is September the 29th. Way down among Brazilians, coffee beans grow by the billions. So they've got to find those extra cups to fill. They've got an awful lot of coffee in Brazil. Today is National Coffee Day. Woohoo! Makes sense, yesterday was Drink Beer Day. 63% of all Americans drink coffee daily. Average about two and a half cups each. Now, I don't like coffee, but I do drink coffee for every morning. Yeah, one cup for health benefits. Honestly. Coffee, it can lower the risk of heart disease, stroke, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and some cancers.

1:00 So I choke down a cup every morning. Black. Now, if you add stuff to it, yeah, that's just like drinking soda. Now, coffee, it was discovered by a goat farmer out in Yemen in the 1400s. Now, everyone's having deals today. If they sell coffee, they're pretty much giving it away today. I mean, at Krispy Kreme, you even get a free cup, a free donut with your free cup of coffee. Now, if you want to win a bet to get a free cup of coffee, get this one. Coffee, it's actually a fruit. All right, let's see what happened in entertainment back in 1980 on September the 29th. Number one album was The Game by Queen. Diana Ross had the number one song with Upside Down. Respectfully I say to thee I'm aware that you're cheating When no one makes me feel like you do Upside down Boy you turn me Inside out And round and round Upside down Boy you turn me Inside.

2:02 Out T.G. Shepard adding in my country song with Do You Wanna Go To Heaven? Do you want. I said, yeah, just. Lead me on. Take my hand. Can you feel that feeling? I said, yeah, just lead me on. That top-selling book was Firestarter by Stephen King. Top movie was The Elephant Man. It was a true story about Joseph Merrick. He was this really disfigured dude back in England in the 1800s. Yeah, he was all messed up, did circus sideshows, was hunted, all kinds of stuff. Stars Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, and Anne Bancroft. 1963, the Rolling Stones went on tour for the very first time. They were the opening act for Bo Diddley and the Everly Brothers. All right, what happened on September the 29th? 1829, the world's first modern police force hit the streets of London, England. Now, you'd think they'd have given them some cool names, something really intimidating. No, just call them Bobbies. Named them after their boss, Robert Peel. Now, they were dressed in blue coats that had tails and top hats. They were unarmed, too. The VFW, Veteran of Foreign Wars. Yeah, they were founded today in 1899 in Columbus, Ohio.

3:22 Some Spanish-American veterans actually fought in that. We should probably give the VFW a lot more preps than we do. 1960, oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller. He became the world's first billionaire. Today, there are 3,028 billionaires. 1966 Chevrolet they started selling the Camaro they had actually named it the Panther at the last second they changed it to Camaro so that was a pretty good call for them now I'll talk more about Jerry Lee Lewis when we talk about birthdays later on 1976 though Jerry Lee he got really drunk celebrating his birthday pulled out a gun and started shooting all the empty bottles missed every damn one of them but he hit his bass player Norman Owen in the chest twice Norman actually lived yeah another 50 years he just died last December 1990, now it took them 83 years, but construction for the Washington Cathedral was finally finished. Now it's an Episcopal church out there in Washington, D.C., but they don't mind if people from other denominations go check them out. 99, skateboarder Tony Hawk, his Pro Skater video game, yeah, it was released. Since then, sold a billion dollars worth. 2023, in Las Vegas, a sphere opened up. Do you remember what the first concert was there? It was U2. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, shawty.

4:38 It's your birthday. We're going to party like it's your birthday. We're going to sip a card like it's your birthday. And you know we don't give up because it's your birthday. All right, let's check out who was born on September the 29th. I'm back in the saddle again. Out where a friend is a friend. The Singing Cowboy, Gene Autry. He was born in Tioga, Texas in 1907. Between 1934 and 1953, he starred in 93 movies. Now he usually played a straight shooting hero.

5:19 He's a huge country music star too. He recorded over 600 songs. Now between his records and his movies, he made country music more mainstream and not so hillbilly. Now his Christmas songs though, they're pretty legendary. He was the first one to originally record Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman, Here Comes Santa Claus. Sorry about that. Now, he is the only person to have actually five stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Yeah, one for film, television, music, radio, and live performance. Genie married his first wife in 1932. They were together until she died in 1980. Married his second wife in 1981. They were together until Gene died in 1998 at 91 years old from lymphoma. I told you we'd talk about him. Jerry Lewis.

6:06 He was born in Faraday, Louisiana in 1935. Nicknamed The Killer. Now, he was rock and roll's first wild man. one of the greatest piano players of all time. Some of his classic hits are a whole lot of shaking going on. Great balls of fire, high school, confidential, breathless, 1957, 1958. Jerry Lee is the biggest star in the world. Well, he married his 13 year old cousin and not anymore. Everything just crashed and burned on him. Now in the late sixties, early seven, he did pretty good on the country music charts, I guess. Now his cousin, she wasn't his first wife.

6:54 No. See, it gets really complicated with Jerry Lee. Yeah, see, let's just start with, he married his seventh wife in 2012, and they were together until he died in 2022 at 87 years old. See, now it gets kind of really weird. See, his first wife, he married her when he was 16. Then that 13-year-old cousin, she was actually his third wife, but his wives were all kind of still married when he was, well, anyway, he had six kids between those six women, so let's do it. Now, when Jerry died, his cousin performed at a funeral. Jimmy Swagger. Remember that guy? Yeah. Mickey Gilley, that country singer? Yeah, that was his cousin, too. Actor Larry Linville. He was born in OJ, California in 1939.

7:37 Most known for playing Major Frank Burns on the TV show MASH. Now, he left MASH after five seasons. He wanted to pursue other acting opportunities. Well, there weren't any. That's why he's still known as Frank Burns from the TV series MASH. He had a daughter from his first wife. Married his fifth wife in 1993. They were together until he died in 2000 from complications after cancer surgery. 60 years old. John Minnock. He was born in Seattle, Washington in 1941. He is the heaviest human being in history. Yeah, at his peak, he weighed 1,400 pounds. Now, when he was 12, he weighed 294 pounds. He hit 500 pounds when he was 22. He stood 6'1, if that helps out any. Now, he did have a metabolic disorder and edemia, and then the edemia kind of kept a lot of body fluids too. Now, he weighed 1,400. He went on a diet. I don't know how they did it. But he went from 1,400 to 476 pounds in two years.

8:31 So that 924-pound weight loss, yeah, nobody else has been able to lose that much weight either. But he came back. He ended up being 798 pounds when he died in 1983 at 41 years old. He was married and had two kids. actress, comedian, Madeline Kahn. She was born in Boston in 1942. She was nominated for Oscars for Paper Moon and Blazing Saddles. Some of her other movies were Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety, History of the World Part I, Betsy's Wedding. Now, she was a really good singer. Yeah, she did Broadway. She was married when she died from ovarian cancer in 1999 at 57 years old. Oh, night with the king. That was the original lead singer for Grand Funk Railroad, Mark Farner, Mark 78, born in Flint, Michigan in 1948. Now when the guys were forming the band up there in Flint, Yeah, the Grand Western Railroad ran right through the middle of town. So they got to thinking, hey, they just changed it to Grand Front Railroad, and they were off and running. They had a name now.

9:48 That was 1969. Now, Mark, you left in 1976 to go solo. He's come back a couple times to do some reunion shows. Biggest hits with Mark singing were We're an American Band, The Locomotion, Some Kind of Wonderful, Bad Time. Mark has released seven solo albums over the years. He's actually out on tour with Mark Farner's American Band. Mark has been married for over 40 years. Actress Cindy Morgan. She was born in Chicago in 1954. Best known for playing Lacey Underall in the movie Caddyshack. She was also in the original Tron movie. Now, in that scene from Caddyshack where she walks around the pool, she climbs the ladder to the high dive and then makes that perfect dive off while the guys are standing around the pool with their stomachs tucked in. Now, once she completed filming that scene, everybody on set was relieved. See, Cindy, she was technically blind. Yeah, she really couldn't see what she was doing. So everybody was afraid she was going to fall in the pool or fall off the high dive, do something to hurt herself. But she wanted to do the scene. So she did it and she pulled it off flawlessly. She had one daughter. She died from natural causes in 2023 at 69 years old. Actor, comedian, Andrew Dice Clay. He's 69. Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1957.

10:54 Late 80s, early 90s. He was as big as any comedian could be. But that's when political correctness came in. It kind of ruined his whole shtick. Now, he still tours if you want to go check him out. I think he only has a couple more shows left this year, but I'm sure he'll be out again next year. Some of his movies, Private Resort, Casual Sex, Adventures of Fair Fairlane, Now, he has gotten a lot of critical acclaim for his recent acting. I mean, pretty much all the critics and everybody loved him in Blue Jasmine and then The Star is Born. Dice is three times divorced and he has two sons from his second wife. I've had the rug pulled beneath my feet. I've trusted Dice and untrusted men. Broke down and put myself back together.

11:36 And punched it to shatters Collected the pieces And picked out a tiger I pinched my skin in between my two fingers And wished I could cut some parts off with some scissors. Ashley Fingerpain She is world famous simply as Halsey Turns 32 today She was born in Edison, New Jersey Now her songs have been streamed 6 billion times Sold over 50 million records Some of her hits are Without Me, East Side, Bad at Love Biggest hit was probably with the Chainsmokers Yeah, close her She has one son, and that was from an ex. Now, she is currently engaged, though. All right, our quote of the day is going to come from Helen Reddy. I am a woman, hear me roar In numbers too big to ignore And I know too much to go back and pretend Cause I've heard it all before And I've been down there on the floor No one's ever gonna keep me down.

12:35 Again She died today in 2020 at 78 years old. Helen said, hindsight is wonderful. It's always easy to second guess after the fact. Well, thank you all for listening today. Don't forget to follow us on your listen to us on. We're easy to find. And also check down on the show notes or the show description to see how you can connect with us or, you know, a little piece of trivia we put in there. Erica did it. She went on there and she clicked on the link to Country Underground Radio. And then she left a message. She wanted to hear Christy Lamb as her artist of the day. So here's Christy Lamb and her song, Kiss About It. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

13:16 Phones we could ignore the elephant that's standing in the room you could make excuses for why you're always late I can tell you why my makeup is never put away we could talk in circles going nowhere quick but I got something else on my. Mind let's kiss about it lay your lips on mine and let's forget about. It say sorry for another time don't dance. Let's kiss about it.

14:00 You know, you push my buttons. I push your buttons back, but I like it cause you kiss me better when I. Make you mad. We tonight and let's just kiss about it lay your lips on mine and let's forget about it say sorry for another time don't dance around it just mess around. With it let's skip the argument cause fuck it takes too long.

14:48 Kiss about it. Come lay your lips on mine. Kiss about it. Save sorry for another time. Let's kiss about it. Let's give the argument.