Sept 4th-Macadamia Nuts, Beyonce, Damon Wayans, Paul Harvey, Ione Skye, Murderer Electrocuted on Toilet

0:19 Well, hi, I am Jeff, and welcome to History and Fact Dudes About Today. Today's September the 4th. I act like a nut, so they call me Macadamia. I dance like a klutz on a show called Animania. Am I a cutie? Absolutely. And a beauty? You can bet you're patootie. But if you touch me or even get near me, I'll have you arrested. Do you hear me? Dot is a nut, so they call her Macadamia. She's cracked in the head and kooky in the brain. Each line in this song sounds pretty much the same-ia. Oy, Macadamia! Today is National Macadamia Nut Day. Now, macadamia trees, they are native to Australia. Grow up between 40 and 60 feet tall. The Aborigines, they've been eating macadamia nuts for as long as they know. Now, they're actually named after a Scottish guy named John Macadamia. 1882, macadamia trees were planted in Hawaii. Yeah, they wanted them for windbreaks for the sugar cane fields. Well, people really liked those nuts, so they started farming them in 1921. Hawaii, it's the largest producer of macadamia nuts in the world. Now, they are healthy, but they're a little high in the calories, and they're pretty expensive for a nut. You can put them in creamer for your coffee, eat them as a snack.

1:23 It is really good on baked goods like cookies and muffins and stuff. Whatever you do, enjoy some macadamia nuts today. Let's see what happened in entertainment on September 4th back in 2016. Number one album was Suicide Squad, the movie album. Halsey and the Chainsmokers had the number one song with Closer. So baby, pull me closer in the backseat of your Rover bed. bite that tattoo on your shoulder pull the sheets right off the corner of the mattress that you stole from your roommate back in boulder we ain't never. Getting older florida georgia line had the number one country song with holy.

2:03 Because you're the first thing i know i can't believe. I am loving you. I am loving you. The number one selling book was The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. Top movie was Don't Breathe. Now, three punky, really bad guys, they break into the house of this blind war veteran. Yeah, they want to steal all his money. Turns out the dude's a badass. Starring Stephen Lang, Jay Levy, and Dylan Minnette. 1965, The Band The Hook. They were out shopping for a guard dog when they went inside to buy the dog. $ 10, 000 worth of musical equipment was stolen from their van. How much do you think that dog cost? All right, what happened on September the 4th? 1639 in Massachusetts, they banned drinking toasts. Yeah, they thought toasting while you were drinking was stupid and no one should do it. Six years later in 1645, they realized there's no way to enforce that, so they repealed the ban on toasting while you're drinking. Now, the object of that story is just to show you how much the Puritans were big drinkers. 1781, out there in what would be California, Los Angeles was formed by 44 Mexicans. Yeah, they named it in honor of the Virgin Mary. They called it El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora Reina de Los Angeles del Rio Porcigalula. It means the town of Our Lady, the Queen of Angels of the River of Porcigalula, or L.A. 1833, the New York Sun.

3:37 They had the world's first newspaper boy. It was 10-year-old Blarney Flehe. Now Barney would walk up and down the streets of New York hawking the paper. Now whenever you see those old newspaper boys from back then, yeah, they were all homeless. 1886 in Skeleton Canyon in what today is southeastern Arizona, Apache Indian Chief Geronimo, he surrendered. That ended the last major United States Army-Indian war. Now, Geronimo, he'd actually been fighting the United States and Mexico for over 30 years. Him and his people, or I guess his tribe, they resettled out in Oklahoma. Do you like NASCAR? Well, if you do, you know all about the Darlington Raceway in South Carolina. Now, they run that Southern 500 out there. Now, it was run for the first time in 1950. Yeah, and Darlington? Yeah, it was the first paved speedway. If you're wondering, it's 1.366 miles around, one of the smaller ones. 1957, the Little Rock crisis started. Nine black students, they were supposed to start going to Little Rock Central High School. Well, the Democratic governor of Arkansas, Orville Faubus, he ordered the Arkansas National Guard to prevent those nine black kids from going into the high school. Well, after three weeks, President Eisenhower, he stepped in. He had had enough. So he federalized the Arkansas National Guard. That meant he was in charge and Faubus was out. So he told them to go home.

5:03 And then he brought in soldiers from the 101st Airborne. Yeah, they provided security for those nine students almost the entire year. Yeah, protecting them pretty good. They were called the Little Rock Nine. 1979, no, 1972. The TV game show The Price is Right debuted. Bob Barker was the host. Drew Carey, he took over in 2007. It's the longest running game show. Now, they have given away over $ 350 million in cash and prizes, and that includes 9,200 cars. South Carolina in 1989. Convicted in murder, Michael Godwin. Now, he had raped and murdered a 24-year-old woman. He was sentenced to die in the South Carolina electric chair. But his death sentence, it was overturned. So now he was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison without parole. Well, he was sitting on the metal toilet in his prison cell. He was naked. And he was trying to fix a set of basically earphones that were hooked to the TV in his cell. When he bit into the cord, he was electrocuted and killed.

6:04 Well, let's check out who. Was born on September the 4th. Hello, Americans. This is Paul Harvey, in part brought to you by the First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Lima. Stand by for news. Legendary radio broadcaster Paul Harvey was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1918. Now he read the news and gave commentary every morning and midday. 20 million people listened to him every day, 1951 to 2008. He was on over 1,200 radio stations and over 400 armed forces stations. Now he read the news with his down-home folksy kind of talk. Yeah, one of the most famous radio dudes in history. Now if you didn't like his conservative values or stuff that he would talk about, everybody didn't matter. They still loved his rest of the story segments.

6:59 He got married in 1940. Now, his wife, her name was Lynn, but he always referred to her Angel. Yep, whether they were in person or he was on the air talking about her. See, he would talk about her because she was his producer. She was actually the first radio producer to go into the Radio Rock Hall of Fame. They did have one son. Paul died in 2009 at 90 years old from natural causes. Now you know the rest of the story. Actress Mitzi Gaynor. She was born in Chicago in 1931. She made her movie debut in My Blue Heaven in 1950. Then she hit some of the biggest movies of all time. There's no business like show business. South Pacific for love and money. Did a lot, a lot of musicals. She got married in 1954. Never married her husband. He lived to 2006. Mitzi, she just died a year ago at 93 years old from natural causes. I'm Freddie Boom Boom Washington. Well, how many of you are old enough to remember the TV show Welcome Back, Cotter? Well, Freddie Boom Boom Washington, he was a sweat hog. He was played by Lawrence Hilton Jacobs. He's 73 today. He was born in New York City. Been in a lot of TV movies and some guest appearances and stuff. He has two daughters. Now, Lawrence, he was the only cast member on Welcome Back, Cotter to be in every single episode. Yep, John Travolta or Gabe Kaplan. Couldn't even pull that off. Actor, comedian, Damon Wayans is 66. He was born in Harlem, New York. Now, he had two older brothers and an older sister and six younger brothers and sisters. 1985, he got hired on Saturday Night Live as one of the primetime players. He

8:30 got fired after 11 shows. See, during a live skit. Now, he improvised. He wasn't supposed to do that. See, he was supposed to be playing this really straight, hard-edged cop. Well, he turned that guy into a really flamboyant gay cop. He was immediately escorted out of the studio. Now, that worked out good for him, though, because he had really begun in living color. Also on TV, he starred on My Wife and Kids and Lethal Weapon. Some of his movies are Gonna Get You, Sucka, The Last Boy Scout, Mo' Money, Major Pain. He was married for 16 years when they divorced and they had two sons and two daughters. Actress Ayaan Skye is 56. She was born in Hampstead, England in 1970. Her dad is a singer, Donovan. Yeah, the mellow yellow guy. Now, her first movie was River's Edge and then Say Anything, Girls in Prison, Gas Food Lodge.

9:14 Her first husband was Adam Horvitz. Remember him from the Beastie Boys? Yeah, they were made seven years. After they divorced, she got pregnant and had a daughter from a boyfriend. Then she married her second husband in 2008, and they have a daughter. Country singer Beyonce Knowles-Carter is 45. Now I just call her Beyonce. She was born in Houston, Texas in 1981. Started out in the all-girl group Destiny's Child.

9:55 They were together from 97 to 2006. One of the top-selling all-girl groups of all time. Now, her and Kelly Rowland, they were in it the whole time. Destiny's Child, 60 million records is how many they sold. That solo Beyonce, yeah, she sold 160 million records. She acts, too. She was in Austin Powers and Goldmember, Pink Panther, Dreamgirls. That's some of her movies. She married Jay-Z in 2008, and they have three kids. All righty, our quote of the day is going to come from the crocodile hunter, Steve Irwin. He died today in 2006 at 44 years old. He said, I have no fear of losing my life. If I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it. Never mentioned Stingray. All right, thank you for listening today. We sure appreciate you being here. Don't forget to follow us on whoever you listen to so you can find us really easy. Come to coolmedia.com, that's cool three O's, and see what's going on on the radio station and the other podcasts. Speaking of the radio station, our country and around radio artist of the day. Guns are Frederick down in Louisiana. Let's hear gin palace gestures. And there's some bottom of the bottle. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

10:58 You gave your hand to another man and left me sitting here seeking consolation in the whiskey wine and beer the liquor numbs my senses but it just can't take your place and at the bottom of the bottle i still see your face At the bottom of the bottle. I still see you waiting there Reminding me what you used to be and how you used to care I slip and fall through the alcohol that looms your memory But when I hit the bottom you're.

11:43 Still waiting there for me. Thank you. Well, I've tried and tried, but I can't hide from your memory. No matter what I do, thoughts of you run after me. The clock above the bar tells.

12:25 Me it's almost closing time. But the bottom of the bottle left you on the mind.