History & Factoids about today
Oct 8-Chevy Chase, Sigourney Weaver, Kool & the Gang, CeCe Winans, Matt Damon, Bruno Mars, Nick Cannon
National Fluffernutter day. Entertainment from 1987.Chicago fire of 1871, In Wisconsin worst fire in recorded history, Sgt. York war heroics, water speed record set. Todays birthdays - Eddie Rickenbacher, Paul Hogan, Chevy Chase, R.L. Stine, Sigourney Weaver, Robert "Kool" Bell, CeCe Winans, Matt Damon, Nick Cannon, Bruno Mars. Al Davis died.
Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard http://defleppard.com/
Fluffernutter commercial
Didn't we almost have it all - Whitney Houston
The way we make a broken heart - Rosanne Cash
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
Get down on it - Kool & the Gang
Never lose - CeCe Winans
Grenade - Bruno Mars
Exit - it's not love - Dokken http://dokken.net/
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Well, it was created in Somerville, Massachusetts around 1917. Basically, whip marshmallows. Now, instead of putting jelly on your peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, yeah, they use peanut butter and fluff or nutter. Now, I guess you don't have to have grown up back east to be a new Englander. You know, try some fluff or nutter today. Give it a shot. Who knows? Maybe it'll be a fluff or nutter area. All right, let's see it happen in entertainment on October the 8th. Let's back to 1987. Number one album was Bad by Michael Jackson. Whitney Houston had the number one song with "Didn't We Almost Have It All?" ♪ Didn't we almost have it all ♪ ♪ When love was all we had for giving ♪ ♪ The ride with you was worth the fall ♪ ♪ My friend ♪ Rosanne Cash had the number one country song. The way we make a broken heart. ♪ You'll get who you used to ♪ ♪ Telling lies ♪ ♪ You're telling lies ♪ ♪ Feeling sorry when she cries ♪ ♪ Now that the strings are attached ♪ ♪ You'll catch off ♪ ♪ We've done our part ♪ ♪ Oh, this is the way ♪ ♪ We make a broken heart ♪ The number one book was "Patriot Games" by Tom Clancy. The top movie was "Fatal Attraction." And married guys, one night Stan comes back to haunt him big time. Stars Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, and Ann Archer. All right, what happened on October the 8th? It's today in 1871. It was a really bad day for fires in the United States. In northeastern Wisconsin, they had the deadliest fire in US history. It's called the Pestigo Fire. A small fire was set to clear some land for railroad construction. The area had been going through a drought all summer. Then a front came through and that wind just whipped that small fire into a firestorm. Pestigo and 12 towns that surrounded it all burnt to the ground. The fire burnt 1,875 square miles. That's bigger than the state of Rhode Island. Now they know for a fact that between 1,500 and 2,500 people died, but they don't know for sure exactly how many though, because all the records saying who was living in the area at that time, yeah, they all burnt up in the fire. Now you would think that the deadliest fire in the United States history would be a lot more popular. Well, no, see that same day, the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. It burned 3 1/2 square miles of Chicago to the ground. 300 people died, 300,000 people were left homeless. 17,450 buildings burnt to the ground. Now that's a lot closer to the population, a lot more media, so you hear a lot more about that than up in Wisconsin. Now the initial story was that a cow kicked over a land and it misses a Larry's barn. Yeah, that was just made up. It was a reporter wrote that. It was pretty, yep, fake news. No one knows what started that damn thing. 1906, over in London, England, Carl Nestler, he invented the first machine that was able to put waves and curls in women's hair. He demonstrated it today and the women, they wore a dozen brass curlers. Each curler weighed two pounds. Then they had to sit there for six hours. World War I in 1918, United States soldier private Alvin York, he became a legend. York and his fellow soldiers, they were behind enemy lines when the German machine got opened, fired on him. Immediately six US soldiers were killed. All the rest of the people, the soldiers, they dove for cover and started to care for the wounded. York, he single handedly charged that machine gun, killed 25 German soldiers and six more charged him with bayonets when they thought he was out of ammo. He just pulled out his pistol and took those six out. Now the German officers in charge, he ran out of ammo shooting at York, so he just surrendered himself and all his men. So then York, he just marched that 132 German prisoners back to the American lines. Private Alvin York was now a war here at Sergeant York. 1945, Piercy Spencer, he patented the microwave oven. Yeah, with six feet tall, weighed 750 pounds and cost five grand. Not a lot in college dormers probably. 1962, North Korea, they reported a 100% election turnout. What's miraculous about that though, is the entire 100% all voted for the same guy. 1978 in Australia, Ken Warby, he got his jetboat up to 317.59 miles an hour. That's still the fastest, anyone's gone on water. Since then, 13 people have tried to break that record, seven of them died, no one's even actually gotten close. ♪ Go, go, go, go, go, go, go ♪ ♪ Go, go, go, go, go ♪ ♪ We gon' party like this shiver ♪ ♪ We gon' sit in the car like this shiver ♪ ♪ And you know we don't give up ♪ ♪ 'Cause that's your birthday ♪ - So, we wanna know who was born in October 8th. Well, Eddie Rickambacher, he was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1890. During World War I, he was a fighter pilot. His 26-area combat victories, that's dog fights, that's still the most of any US pilot. He was the most awarded United States serviceman for valor during the entire war. Now, before the war, Eddie, he was a race car driver. So, after the war, he had a little cash. Yeah, he bought the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. He sold there about 20 years later. Now, Eddie, he remained a consultant for United States Air Force his entire life after the World War I. I married in 1922 and they had two sons. Eddie, he died from pneumonia in 1973. 82 years old. Actor Paul Hogan's 85 is born in Parramatta, Australia in 1939. Now, that is a suburb of Sydney. He never lived in the outback or the bush. But he is best known for starring as Crocodile Dundee and all those Crocodile Dundee movies. He was also in almost an angel. He was in the movie Flipper. Between 1958 and 1989, he married his first wife twice. They had five kids between the two marriages. Then they married actress Linda Kozlowski for 24 years. They had one child. Actor Chevy Chase, he's 81. He was born in Manhattan, New York in 1943. First guy known as Saturday Night Live. He was only on it though for a year and a half. Then he went to movies. Caddy Shack, the Fletch movies, vacation movies, spies like us, three amigos. Chevy, he had a son from a flang. Then he married his third wife in 1982 and they have three daughters. Writer, R.L. Stein, he's also 81. He's born in Columbus, Ohio. Now, he is the Stephen King of children's books. Yeah, he wrote all those Goose Pump and Fear Street book series. Sold over 400 million bucks. He married in 1969 and they have one son. I think that little boy liked to have his dad tell him bedtime stories. Actress Sigourney Weaver, she was born in New York City in 1949. That man was her 75. She first got famous in the movie Alien and Ghost Busters. I think her best movie was Galaxy Quest. Now, she was nominated for Oscars for Aliens. Grill is in the Miz and Working Girl. Sigourney, she married in 1984 and they have a daughter. ♪ How you gonna feel if you really don't wanna dance ♪ ♪ By standing on the wall ♪ ♪ Hit your back up on the wall ♪ ♪ And tell me ♪ ♪ How you gonna do it if you really don't wanna dance ♪ ♪ By standing on the wall ♪ ♪ Hit your back up on the wall ♪ ♪ I heard all the people saying ♪ ♪ Get down on it ♪ ♪ Come on in ♪ ♪ Get down on it ♪ ♪ You really want it ♪ He has never sung late but the group has named for him. Robert Coolbell, he was born in Youngstown, Ohio in 1950. 74 today. Now, cool on the gang. They formed in 1964. Robert and six of his friends in high school. They formed it in New Jersey. It took him a few years before the finally-founding name that stuck. Yeah, they picked Cole in the gang. They just took his nickname. Now, he gave himself the nickname Cole when he was a little boy. Some of their biggest hits are celebration. Get down on it. Ladies' night, too hot. Sold 70 million in records. Now, Cole, he married in 1971 to his high school sweetheart. Yeah, they had one sung together. She died in 2018. ♪ I know you're able ♪ ♪ And my goal ♪ ♪ Come through again ♪ ♪ You can do all things ♪ ♪ You can do all things but fear ♪ Now, it's CC Wine and she's 60 years old today. She's born in Detroit in 1964. She has the best-selling and most-awatered gospel singer of all time. Started singing in public when she was eight years old. She has one of 10 wine and skits. She's had a lot of success singing duets with her brother, BB. I know, CC and BB. But that whole family is really successful in music, really talented musical family. So you see, she married in 1984 and they have two children. Actor Matt Damon, he was born in 1970 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 54 year old, been nominated for acting Oscars for Goodwill Hunting, Invictus, and The Martian. He won an Oscar for writing Goodwill Hunting. I think his best movie might've been the Rainmaker. I just saw that not too long ago. He did a good job in that. Now, the Ocean 11 movies, they're the movies of his that have made the most money. Got married in 2005 and they have three daughters. TV personality, Nick Cannon was born in San Diego in 1980s, 44. He says he's a comedian and rapper. We're just gonna say he's a TV host. Hosted, America's got talent and lip sync battles. Been hosting the mass singer since 2019. He was married to singer Mariah Carey for eight years. They had a boy and a girl, they were twins. Since then they're divorced in 2016. Nick has had 10 more kids from five women. ♪ Gave you all I had and you tossed it in the trash ♪ ♪ You tossed it in the trash you did ♪ ♪ To give me all your love is all I ever had ♪ ♪ 'Cause what you don't understand is I catch a grenade ♪ ♪ Oh yeah ♪ ♪ Throw my hand on a blade, oh yeah ♪ 39-year-old Bruno Mars was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1985. Bruno and his band, The Hooligans, they are well known for their live shows. Now, The Hooligans, they've been with Bruno since he started in 2010. Some of their hats, just the way you are, grenade, uptown funk, you know that was Mark Ronson. Bruno, he's been dating Jessica Caban since 2011. Bruno and The Hooligans, they will be doing a bunch of shows in Las Vegas in December, kind of like a mini residency. Now, earlier I told you about the heroics of Alvin York. Now, originally York, he tried to get out of the army. He claimed he was a conscientious objector and didn't want to kill anyone. Well, thank you for listening today. Don't forget to follow us, and whoever you're listening to us on, come see us at coolmedia.com, that's cool, three of us. Former owner of the Oakland Raiders, Alan Dayless, he died today in 2011, 82 years old. Al says, "One lie has the power to tarnish 100 truths." You guys have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow. 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