History & Factoids about today

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

National drink beer day. Entertainment from 1965. 1st private space craft launched that orbited the earth, 2nd worst flood in history, Garth Brooks - 1st country album to debut at #1 on pop chart. Todays birthdays - Ed Sullivan, Tommy Collins, Ben E. King, Jeffrey Jones, Janeane Garafalo, Mira Sorvino, Naomi Watts, Karen Fairchild, Hilary Duff. Herman Melville died.

Intor - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard http://defleppard.com/
Pretty good a drinking beer - Billy Currington
Eve of destruction - Barry McGuire
Only you can brake my heart - Buck Owens
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
You better not do that - Tommy Collins
Save the last dance for me - The Drifters
Day drinking - Little Big Town
Come clean - Hilary Duff
Exit - It's not love - Dokken https://www.dokken.net/

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Broadcast on:: 28 Sep 2024
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The average North Dakota drinks 45.8 gallons of beer every year. What city do you think drinks the most beer? Maybe Green Bay, Wisconsin. That kind of makes sense. I mean, those 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. Yeah, so if you're not in Utah today, enjoy your Saturday drinkin' beer. You know, it is a national day, so it's almost a loss. Alright, let's see it happen in entertainment on September the 28th in 1965. Number one album was "The Help" by Beatles. Barry McGuire had the number one song with evil destruction. You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're toldin'? And even the Jordan River has bodies flokin' butts ya. Tell me over and over and over again, my friend. I don't believe we're on the deal of destruction. Bucko, and see ya at the number one country char with. You can only, you can break my heart. Love like God should not be far apart. Only you can break my heart. The number one book was "The Source" by James Mitchner. 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 flin'. Starts Warren Beatty, Alexandra Stewart and Hurd Huttfield. 1991, Garth Brooks, he released his album "Roping the Wind". First time in history, a country album debuted at number one on the pop charts. Got what happened on September the 28th? Let's start 1542, first Europeans to come ashore in America's west coast. Juan Rodriguez Cabrio and his men sailed into San Diego Bay, named it San Miguel and claimed it for Spain. American Revolution in 1781, 9,000 American and 7,000 French troops began their siege on Yorktown in Virginia. It was the last stand for the British. Spoiler alert, they are going to surrender on October 19th. 1785 and France, 16-year-old Napoleon Bonaparte graduated from their elite military academy, a Colé military. It was 42nd in the class of 1951. 1850, the United States Navy abolished flogging as a form of punishment. Flogging, it was kind of like whipping, but it had a special design whip that inflicted the most pain it could. The tip of the whip was like metal, metal or had barbs on it. In China in 1887, they had built a series of dikes to control the Yellow River. Yeah, they all failed. Flooded 50,000 square miles, killed over 900,000 people, that they knew of, it could have been as high as 2 million people. Now, not counting Noah's flood, that was the second worst flood in human history. The worst flood was also in China in 1931, that one killed over 4 million. New York City in 1904, little Jeannie Lasher, she was arrested for smoking a cigarette on 5th Street. She got 30 days in jail. She got kind of lippy, and she knew better, women weren't allowed to smoke in public back then. You know what? They won't be allowed to vote for another 15 years either. All right, let's talk a little football, 1951, the Los Angeles-Rant Rams quarterback Norm Van Brocklin passed for 554 yards in a game, and that record still stands today. Yeah, Matt Schwab and Warren Moon are the closest they're tied a second for throwing for 527. 2008, SpaceX launched the first ever private space crash to up and orbit the earth. It's called Falcon 1. [MUSIC] Okay, it was born on September the 28th. Ed Sullivan, he was born in Harlem, New York in 1991. Started out as a syndicated entertainment columnist, and then he hosted the Ed Voltz Sullivan show from 1948 to 1971. It's the longest-running variety show in history. Now it was on every Sunday night from 8 to 9 o'clock Eastern time. Now that's really hard for us to grasp nowadays how big and influential the Ed Sullivan show was. Now everyone wanted to be on his show, and everybody watched it. Now if he let you on his show, yeah, then you knew you made it. Eddy married in 1930, he and his wife, they were in such demand to be dinners 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 1973 in March, Eddy died in 1973 in October from the esophachal cancer, 73 years old. That was country singer Tommy Collins, he was born in Bethany, Oklahoma in 1930. He was really popular in the late 50s throughout to the early 70s. 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's you 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 were kind of fun. Tommy died in 2000 and 69 years old. That was Benny King, singing the only number one song the Drifters had. His name was born in Henderson, North Carolina in 1938. He joined the Drifters in 1958. One of the other Drifters 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 hit huge with a song, "Stand By Me" and Spanish Harlem, "Don't play our song." Now over 400 artists have recorded "Stand By Me." I mean you take every big name you can think of like David Bowie, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, all of them. They've 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 1988, he did it with Death Leopard. Now he performed right up until he died in 2015, at 76 years old, and followed a short illness. actor Jeffrey Jones is 78 and he's born in Buffalo, New York in 1946. He played the principal and Ferris Dueller's date off, he's also in Beetlejuice, the hunt for Red October. He did Deadwood, TV and the movies. He had one song. Comedian actress Janine Garofalo is 60, she was born in New Jersey in 1964. It has a stand up comedian, she has a stand up comedian still, she's still tours and stuff if you want to go see her stand up show. Ben and over 50 movies, some of them are reality bites, the truth about cats and dogs, the matchmaker, a little bit coppling. She got married in 1991 until 2012, probably once she didn't know it, now we're in a guy had gotten drunk in Vegas and did it 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 20 year marriage, yeah I've never had one fight or nothing like that. Now she did ask in trouble with alcohol when she was longer, but she's been sober since 2001, had not had a drink since so that's really cool for Janine. Actors Mira Savino, she was born in 1967 in New York City, she's 57, her dad is actor Paul Savino. Mira she won an Oscar for Mighty Aphrodite and she got snubbed big time in Romy and Michelle's high school reunion. She was also in the replacement killers at first sight, Sound of Freedom. Mira, she married in 2004 and they have two sons and two daughters. First Naomi Watts, she was born in 1968 in Shoreham, England, so that makes her, what, 60, 15, 6. Now her dad, he was a road manager and sound manager for the band Pink Floyd, that's kind of cooler than an actor, huh? She was in the movies, Tank Girl, Children of the Corn Four and Babe, the pig in the city. She didn't get nominated for anything for those, but she has been nominated twice for Oscars for 21 grams in the impossible. She had two sons from a boyfriend and she married Billy Kudrop, an actor just last year. That was Karen Fairchild singing for the country group, Little Big Down, she's the brunette. 55 years old today, she's born in Gary, Indiana in 1969. She up for a little big down in 1998. Some of the hits that she sings are Pontoon, Better Man, Day Drinking, Girl Crush, Little Big Down. They're out onto her right now and pretty much till the end of the year and they are releasing a Christmas album on October 14th. Karen, she married Jimmy and Will at Westbrook in 2006, Jimmy, he's one of those four members of Little Big Down. They have a son. That was actress Hillary Duff, she's won seven Kids Choice Awards and 14 Choice Awards. Now Hillary is 37 years old, she's born in Houston, Texas in 1987. She was acting when she was sick, she got really famous playing Lizzie McGuire on TV and in the movies. She was also wearing what, cheaper by the dozen. She had a son from her first dozen, she married her second husband in 2019 and they have three daughters. Let's go back to beer. Beer is the third most consumed drink in the world, it's beyond water and tea. Oh, thank you for listening today. If you want to hear some good country music over the weekend, don't forget about country underground radio. It's on the internet station, the next place country music or you can go to country underground radio.com. Let's end with writer Herman Melville, he's the guy who wrote Moby Dick, he died today in 1891, at 72 years old, Herman said, "It's better to fail an originality than to succeed in imitation. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow." What's next? At Moss Adams, that question inspires us to help people and their businesses strategically define and claim their future. As one of America's leading, accounting, consulting and wealth management firms, our collaborative approach creates solutions for your unique business needs. 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