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Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hi, I'm Jeff. Welcome to History and Factor. It's about today.
Day's October the fifteenth.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
You've heard of Wisconsin. You've heard of our cheese cheese
tasting so good.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
It's heard of.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Please. I can't say enough because it's really good stuff,
Wisconsin cheats. May I have some?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Please? Eat?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Ellsworth is the cheese curd capital. Ellsworth, Ellsworth, Ellsworth, here's
the cheese curd capital.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Today is National Cheese curd Day.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
It was started by Culver's Restaurants in twenty fifteen. Deep
Bride Nugget's a bread and cheese. They're oui, guey and squeak.
We need them now Colver's and Freddy's Restaurants. Yeah, they're
having the best deals to now. When cheese is made,
it separates into curds in way now, trusts me, you
like the curds part. And now, originally cheese curts. They
were just the leftover cheese. They didn't fit into the
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cheese molds, so then they deep fry them. And yeah,
so enjoy some cheese curds today. I feel like lactails
intlerant something you know, like cheese skurt. Yeah, it's also
National crouch Day and it's National Mushroom Day and it's
Nasenal Shrama Day. So you find something you can celebrate today.
This is going on entertainment October fifteenth. It's about in
nineteen seventy then when album was led Zeppelin three by
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led Zeppelin. Neil Diamond had the numb one song with
Crackling Rose.
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Crackling Rolls, Get On Bad We Ride to the Hang,
No More Cheese Love, Dunin.
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No.
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Man Lay, Twilight.
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Train Johnny care She had. The number one country song
was Sunday Morning Coming Down.
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Tend There's Nothing Short to Die, Samassive, South of the
Sleep in the City Side.
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On Sunday Morning Coming Down.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
The number one book was Love Story by Eric Segal.
The top movie was Tora Toro Torah. It's the story
of the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor in nineteen forty one,
stars Jason Robards, Martin Balsom, and so Yama Mirror nineteen
fifty one, I Love Lucy, Debate dB Done TV nineteen
fifty two of the book Sharley's Web went on. So,
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all right, what happened in October the fifteenth? So how
far back do you think people bowld Well in fifteen
twenty England's King Henry the Eighth, he built the bowling
alley into his castle. He had a king. He loved
a bull, but he didn't want poor people are commoners
to do it. No, so he put a big tax
on bowling to keep out all the riff raff. He
wanted to make sure only the rich could bowl. So
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the answer to my own question bowling, it goes back
to ancient Egypt. About five thousand years sixteen sixty in
New Amsterdam, New York today, a Jewish immigrant named Aster Livy.
He was granted one of the first butcher licenses, and
not only that, he is given the first kosher busher license.
After that, he went on to be the first judo
in a slaughter house, first judo actually own a house,
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and the first judo own a tavern in North America.
Eighteen sixty in Westfield, New York, eleven year old Grace Bedell,
she wrote a letter to presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln. She
said she couldn't vote, but she really wanted him to win.
And then she told him that he should grow a beard.
She said, you would look a lot great deal better
because of your thin face. Plus the ladies love the whiskers.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Well.
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Ab wrote her back and said, well, he had never
grown a beard, but he would think about it. He
thought about it and grew beard after he won the election.
On his way to Washington, d c. To be a Nagara,
he had a straight stop in Westfield, New York when
he got off for the traid and he met Grace
and her dad on the platform. Ab bent over and
gave Grace a kiss on the cheeks so she could
feel his whiskers. Now, Lincoln, he was the first president
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to have a beard. Now four other presidents since then
have done it. Now, three presidents have had mutton chops,
and three presidents have had mustaches. No president has any
facial hair since nineteen thirteen. Eighteen eighty one, and the
first fishing magazine went on sale. Yeah, it's called American Angler.
He had the last issue and in twenty twenty, so
it had been gone very long. Nineteen seventeen, over in France,
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a French exotic dancer, her name was Mata Hari. She
was executed by firing squad. So she was a spy
for the Germans dur of World War One. She was
sleep but the Allied officers and then give the information
to the Germans. Now for her execution, she dressed all
up really nice and pretty and everything. She refused to
have a ware of hindfold. She even blew a kiss
to the firing squad before they opened fire on her. Now,
her family would not claim her body after the execution,
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so her body was actually donated for medical study. Now
she wasn't just like yea stripper things. She was like
forty one years old. She was a little chubby. Nineteen
thirty two, Tata Airlines made its first flight. It later
became Air India. That would been cool if Tatai Airlines
are about out by Hooters. Nineteen thirty three, the twentieth
Amendment to the United States Constitution went into effect. So
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that made the presidential turn start in January twentieth instead
of on March fourth, and it had Congress start on
January third instead of March fourth. Yeah, they went to
get rid of that long leam duck time. Nineteen seventy six,
for the first time, they have the vice presidential debate.
Walter Mondale, he went at it. He was running with
Jimmy Carter. He went at it with Bob Dole, who
was running with jerie Ford nineteen ninety two, New York
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subway driver Robert Ray. He was convicted of manslaughter Yeah,
for the death of five of his passengers. See he
fell asleep when he was drunk and driving the subway
killed him.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Joke joke show just shimmer.
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Okay, we're gonna he left this shivery.
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We gonna sit with cage.
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He just shiver.
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You don't, Let's check out it. Born in October the
fifteenth and eleven. She sang her own theme song.
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Linda.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
She was born in Portland, Maine, in nineteen thirty seven.
Now she did a lot of theater in Broadway and
all that. She was nominated six times for Tony's She
did one one time on TV. She started Alice. She
married her third husband in two thousand and five. Linda,
she just died from lung cancer last year, eighty nine
years old. Actress director Penny Marshall. She was born in
the Bronx, New York in nineteen forty three. She first
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got known playing the vern On The Vernon Shirley now
la Vernon Shirley actually started out on Happy Days. They
did a few episodes and they spun them off to
Laverne and Shirley.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Well.
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After that in Penny, she became a big time movie director.
First movie she directed was Jumping Jack Flash. Then Big
Big was the first movie that was directed by a
woman to make over a million one hundred million dollars,
and she did league of her own riding in cars
with boys. Benny, she married and she was in college
and they had a daughter, but that marriage didn't last
very long. Then she married Rob Ryner for ten years. Benny,
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she died in twenty eighteen at seventy five years old.
Him a whole bunch of health issues.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
To watch.
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Now.
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His sister had one of the prettiest singing voices of
all time. Richard Carpenter He's seventy nine. He was born
in New Haven, Connecticut, in nineteen forty six. Now Richard
and Karen, they started the Carpenters in nineteen sixty nine.
Richard he's saying, played the piano and wrote all the songs.
They have sold one hundred million records. Now that is
amazing when you consider that Karen died back in nineteen
eighty three. Since they well, since she died, Richard He's
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done mainly just like arranged records and produced records. For
other artists and that kind of stuff. Got married nineteen
eighty four and they have five kids. That was Kristin Berg.
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He was born in Bonardo, Tortilla, Argentina, in nineteen forty eight.
He's seventy seventy. They grew up in Ireland. His dad
was a diplomat. Now he's sold over forty five million records.
Now Chris he is huge in Norway and Brazil. His
biggest hits of the United States are Don't Pay the
Ferry Man Hai on Emotion. Lady in red I married
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in nineteen seventy seven and they have two sons and
a daughter.
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And his daughter.
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She went Miss World in two thousand and three representing Ireland.
Actress Tanya Robert. She was born in Manhattan, New York,
in nineteen forty five Daniel. She first got known on TV.
She was on Charlie's Angels. The last season was on
the air. Then she was on that seventy show for
five seasons. Some of her movies were Beast Master, She
and Queen.
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In the Jungle.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
She was a bond Girl Interview to a kill As.
She married nineteen seventy four. Her husband died in two
thousand and six Tanya. She died in twenty twenty one
from sepsis, seventy one years old. Comedian actor Larry Miller.
He was born in Brooklyn, New York, in nineteen fifty three.
He's seventy two. He started doing stand up in the
early to mid eighties. Still doing it. He's still really successful.
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He has a lot of specials on like Comedy Central
and HBO and that kind of stuff. Some of his
movies are A Pretty Woman, Ten Things I Hate About
You The Nightti Professor movie is a mighty win. Been
in over fifty movies. He married nineteen ninety three and
they have two children. Celebrity chef and Miro Legacy Emerald Lagasi.
That's right, Emerald Lagatsi. He's sixty six. He's been in
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Fall River, Massachusetts in nineteen fifty nine. Now, like a
lot of chefs in Massachusetts, Emerald he got famous for
his New Orleans style krilla and engaging cooking. Yeah, he's
won every award you can possibly make win for cooking.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
He has had his own TV show since nineteen ninety three.
It's reritten over twenty cookbooks. He has restaurants in New Orleans,
Las Vegas, Miami. Now through you throw in all the
cooking products that he sells. Yeah, he brings us about
a hundred fifty million dollars a year. He had two
children from his first wife. Married his third wife in
two thousand and they have two children.
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Now.
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In the country band Little Big Town, that pretty blonde. Yeah,
her name is Kimberly Shotman. She was born on Tacoa, Georgia,
in nineteen sixty nine. She's fifty sixty today. She had
four Little Big Town nineteen ninety eight. Now she rarely
sings lead. She pretty much sings harmony now. Her first husband,
he died after fifteen years of marriage at only forty
one years old. He had a heart attack. She marrieed
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her second husband in two thousand and six and they
have two daughters. All right, quote of the day, it's
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Paul Allen. Paul died today in twenty eighteen and sixty
five years old. He said, facing your ommortality focus forces
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I can hear the borb and on your breath telling
me what you'll forget.
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Let's say everything I want to hear.
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But in the lad of day it disappeared little birds
on a lady.
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You fall, fall from the.
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Truth, you miss me, Keep you, keep.
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You will saying our first time here. Boy tonight you
sound saying see what you say? Maybe enough.
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I can keep the sun from coming.
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Out with flighty foot he fall fall from you, keep
you speed from it.