(2024) National mashed potato day. Entertainment from 2018. US bought Alaska, US won Puerto Rico, Pop up toaster invented. Todays birthdays - Chuck Berry, George C. Scott, Peter Boyle, Dawn Wells, Pam Dawber, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Erin Moran, Zac Efron. Colin Powell died.
Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard http://defleppard.com/
Mashed potatos - Dee Dee Sharp
Girls like you - Maroon 5
Blue Tacoma - Russell Dickerson
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry
Gilligans Island TV theme
Mork & Mindy TV theme
Happy Days TV theme
Exit - In my dreams - Dokken https://www.dokken.net/
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Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard http://defleppard.com/
Mashed potatos - Dee Dee Sharp
Girls like you - Maroon 5
Blue Tacoma - Russell Dickerson
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry
Gilligans Island TV theme
Mork & Mindy TV theme
Happy Days TV theme
Exit - In my dreams - Dokken https://www.dokken.net/
Follow Jeff Stampka on facebook and cooolmedia.com
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Hi there, I am Jeff and welcome to history. In fact,
it's about today, presented by Cool Media Days. October the eighteenth.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
He shows.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Today is mash potato Day. Humans. They've been eating potatoes
around eight thousand years. Sir Walter Raleigh. He brought the
first potatoes from South America to Ireland and fifteen eighty nine.
Eventually they spread throughout Europe. In sixteen twenty, the governor
of the Bahamas sent a gift basket to the governor
of Virginia. It contained potatoes. That's how potatoes made their
(01:01):
way to the United States. So who created a mash
potatow No one knows. I'm guessing it was somebody with
bad teeth. Now potatoes, that potatoes, they could be fairly healthy,
but we put so much crap on them. They're not
healthy at all. Four US. So weather you make them
yourself or you go out to date, just enjoy some
mashed potatoes today. If that's not your thing, have fun
dancing the d d sharp the mashed potato. Now. I
(01:23):
would like to thank you for sending my mom so
many birthday wishes yesterday. She might not really understand what
was all going on, but she thought it was really cool.
She had a really big smile all day long. So
thank you all. All right, this is going on in entertainment.
In October the eighteenth, She's Got twenty eighteen number one
album was Carter five by Lil Wayne Roon five and
Cardi B had the number one song with girls like you.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Now It's all good then Wood, then let Meat, These
girls like tool out with guys like do use some
going up Calm tool Punty liked tup on You Me
to It out On went on Canon.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
D Julia Russell Dickerson at the number one country song
with Blue Tacoma.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Pleasy Shining One.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Cold Road, Always having Head Californio right. The number one
book was Vince Flynn by Kyle Kyle Miles Todd. Movie
was Halloween On Halloween Laura Escape Mask Murder Michael Myers
(02:39):
forty years ago, Now they have to go At It
Again stars Jamie Lee Curtiz, Judy Greer, and Andy Metikick.
Back in eighteen fifty one, the classic novel Moby Dick
written by Herman Melville, that went out sale. No one
bought it up in Melville's whole lifetime, only thirty two
hundred copies of Moby Dixel. Then after he died, Boom
huge classic. Now, yeah, that do him any good? They
(03:00):
did it all right. What happened on October the eighteenth,
it's about sixteen forty eight. The first labor union was
organized in the North American colonies. It was in Boston.
It was the Boston Shoemakers. No, they literally made shoes.
I mean it sounds like an old baseball team though.
Seventeen seventy six, at a bar in Elmsford, New York,
it was decorated with birdtail feathers, and a drunk customer
(03:21):
asked bartender Betsy Flaning again for a glass full of
those cocktails. Oh they think that's the other word. Cocktails
came into being. Could have been as good as good
a story as anything else. Right. Eighteen sixty seven, it
was official, after spending almost two cents an acre for
a total of seven point two million dollars, the United
States officially owned Alaska. Yep, the check cleared. I think
(03:42):
that still pisses off Russia. Now you can actually see
that check. You just have to like go online and
look it up and you'll see it's date stamped and
everything that is paid in full to the victor go
the spoils. Eighteen ninety eight, the American flag was raised
on the island of Puerto Rico. You just got Puerto
Rico for beating Spain in the Spanish American War. Now,
I will admit this is one of my favorite inventions
(04:03):
of all time. In Minnesota, in nineteen twenty one, Charles
Strait he invented the pop up toaster. Well, this was
pretty chivalrous. Nineteen twenty nine Canada, a lot of cleared
that women are now officially considered persons. Nineteen sixty two
the United States lots of spacecraft Ranger five. It was
just supposed to slam into the moon, so we can
see what happened. Well, we missed the moon. Who knows,
(04:25):
we might have pissed off somebody in the next solar
system over, who knows, What the hell are you doing?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Joke joke, joked, joke, sharge dish shiverthday. We're gonna tause
he left this shiver birthday. We gonna simple targe he
like this shivebirthday, and you know we don't that birthday.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Let's check out who was born on October the eighteenth See.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Down in Lulianic in New Orleans, way back up in
the money. Ever, let's not.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Alone, haven't made a earth?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
And one where leave the country morn Johnny Wood who
never ever learned he mean to right the will, but.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
He could play a guitar just like a ring in
label Johnny Who. Chuck Barry. He was born in Saint Louis, Missouri,
in nineteen twenty six. One of the fathers of rock
and roll. Some of his classic gets are maybe Lane,
roll over Beethoven, Johnny be good my dingling. Now he
was in that first class to go in the rock
(05:24):
and roll Hall of Fame. Chuck stayed out of jail
all those years, he would have been a lot bigger
than he probably always was. Got married nineteen forty eight
and they had four children. Had he stayed faithful, he
wouldn't have been in jail so much now. He died
in twenty seventeen and ninety years old from his natural causes.
After George C. Scott. He was born a Wise, Virginia
in nineteen twenty seven. He had a really gruff demeanor
(05:45):
and usually played a thirty figures, but he was a
true Thesbian. He got nominated for five Tony Awards. He
was known to nominate for oscars for Anatomy and Murder
the Hustler of the Hospital. He won an Oscar for Patton,
then became the first actor declined the award. Yeah, I
thought awards shows were stupid. He said that comparing an
acting performance winning as another Yeah, that was dumb.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Actually what he said was the whole goddamn thing is
a meat parade, and I don't want any part of it.
Scott he had a daughter from his first wife, a
son and a daughter from his second wife, two sons
from his third wife married, then he had a daughter
just kind of fooling around. Married his fifth wife in
nineteen seventy two. They were together until he died in
nineteen ninety nine from a rapture to abdominal aortic aneurysm
(06:26):
seventy one years old. Then, after he died, the Caademy
Awards gave it his fit oscar that he refused to
his family. They took it. Actor Peter Boyle. He was
born in Norristown, Pennsylvania, in nineteen thirty five. You probably
know Peter best for playing the dad in the TV
show Everybody Loves Raymond. He had a long and distinguished
career before that. Though he was the monster in the
movie Young Frankenstein. He was in taxi driver in all
(06:49):
those Santa Claus movies. He married nineteen seventy seven and
they had two children. He died from heart disease in
two thousand and six at seventy one years old.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
The Skip.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Mary actress Don Wells was born in Rena, Nevada, in
nineteen thirty eight. Start out as Miss Nevada competian Miss
America nineteen sixty. She didn't win, but it helped her
get the job. Blamed Marianne on Gilligan's Island, and he
guesses what Marianne's last name was the Summers. She was
Marianne Summers and she her character was based on Dorothy
(07:37):
and the widow of Ohs. Yeah, that's why she had
the pigtails and was some Kansas and everything. Don she
married once for five years in the nineteen sixties. She
died in twenty twenty at eighty two years old from
COVID No no, no, no, Well that was a horrible TV
(08:08):
theme song. Maybe he had to be watching it. Actress
Pam Dubber, She's seventy three She's born in Detroit in
nineteen fifty one. Started as a fashion model, then hit
big on the TV show Marking Mindy. She was Mindy
and she was on My Sister Sam starting over twenty
TV movies. She married actor Mark Harmon in nineteen eighty
seven and they have two sons. Thursday Saturday actress Aaron Moran.
(08:48):
She was born in Burbank, California. In nineteen sixty, she
got Fantaus saying Jony Cunningham on Happy Days, did for
ten years, two and thirty four episodes, then when it
was over, they spun her and Scott Baio off into
Jonia Loves Chucci. Lasted seventeen episodes. That was way too many, Aaron.
She married his second husband in nineteen ninety three. She
died from throat cancer in twenty seventeen at only fifty
(09:08):
six years old. The Muscles from Brussels John Claude von
dam He was born in Brussels, Belgium in nineteen sixty.
Sixty four year old started training in martial arts when
he was ten. His dad thought he was a whimp
and one and toughen him up.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Well.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
It worked. After winning all kinds of different things, he
ended up becoming a professional kickboxer, had a record of
eighteen and one when all his eighteen fights by knockout.
Then he decided going to acting. He first started in
Blood Sport, then The Kickboxer, Time Cop all those expendable movies.
He voiced in the can or Kung Fu Panda movies too.
He's been married five times to four women. Say, after
(09:43):
his fourth divorce, he went back and married his third
wife again. So he has two children from his third
and fifth wife, and he has one child from his
fourth wife. Actor Zach Efron. He's thirty seven. He's born
in sam Lewis, Bispoke, California, in nineteen eighty seven. First
got known in the movie Hairspray. He and three high
school musical movies, and he does seventeen again, Dirty Grandpa
(10:04):
the Greatest Showman now, Zach. He had a lot of
trouble when he was younger, but he's been sober since
twenty thirteen. So congratulations and cool job, Zach. Let's go
talk about toaster some more now. The first toaster it
was called El Toasto. Seventy five million people eat toast
every single day in the United States. Well, thank you
(10:25):
for listening to us today, joining this, We appreciate it
and feel forget to follow us on whever you listen
to us on Come see us at coolmedia dot com.
That's cool A three US. Let's end with former Army
General and Secretary of State Colin Powell. Colon died today
in twenty twenty one at eighty four years old. He
says a dream doesn't become a reality through magic. It
takes sweat, determination, and hard work. You guys, have an
(10:47):
awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow
Hi there, I am Jeff and welcome to history. In fact,
it's about today, presented by Cool Media Days. October the eighteenth.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
He shows.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Today is mash potato Day. Humans. They've been eating potatoes
around eight thousand years. Sir Walter Raleigh. He brought the
first potatoes from South America to Ireland and fifteen eighty nine.
Eventually they spread throughout Europe. In sixteen twenty, the governor
of the Bahamas sent a gift basket to the governor
of Virginia. It contained potatoes. That's how potatoes made their
(01:01):
way to the United States. So who created a mash
potatow No one knows. I'm guessing it was somebody with
bad teeth. Now potatoes, that potatoes, they could be fairly healthy,
but we put so much crap on them. They're not
healthy at all. Four US. So weather you make them
yourself or you go out to date, just enjoy some
mashed potatoes today. If that's not your thing, have fun
dancing the d d sharp the mashed potato. Now. I
(01:23):
would like to thank you for sending my mom so
many birthday wishes yesterday. She might not really understand what
was all going on, but she thought it was really cool.
She had a really big smile all day long. So
thank you all. All right, this is going on in entertainment.
In October the eighteenth, She's Got twenty eighteen number one
album was Carter five by Lil Wayne Roon five and
Cardi B had the number one song with girls like you.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Now It's all good then Wood, then let Meat, These
girls like tool out with guys like do use some
going up Calm tool Punty liked tup on You Me
to It out On went on Canon.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
D Julia Russell Dickerson at the number one country song
with Blue Tacoma.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Pleasy Shining One.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Cold Road, Always having Head Californio right. The number one
book was Vince Flynn by Kyle Kyle Miles Todd. Movie
was Halloween On Halloween Laura Escape Mask Murder Michael Myers
(02:39):
forty years ago, Now they have to go At It
Again stars Jamie Lee Curtiz, Judy Greer, and Andy Metikick.
Back in eighteen fifty one, the classic novel Moby Dick
written by Herman Melville, that went out sale. No one
bought it up in Melville's whole lifetime, only thirty two
hundred copies of Moby Dixel. Then after he died, Boom
huge classic. Now, yeah, that do him any good? They
(03:00):
did it all right. What happened on October the eighteenth,
it's about sixteen forty eight. The first labor union was
organized in the North American colonies. It was in Boston.
It was the Boston Shoemakers. No, they literally made shoes.
I mean it sounds like an old baseball team though.
Seventeen seventy six, at a bar in Elmsford, New York,
it was decorated with birdtail feathers, and a drunk customer
(03:21):
asked bartender Betsy Flaning again for a glass full of
those cocktails. Oh they think that's the other word. Cocktails
came into being. Could have been as good as good
a story as anything else. Right. Eighteen sixty seven, it
was official, after spending almost two cents an acre for
a total of seven point two million dollars, the United
States officially owned Alaska. Yep, the check cleared. I think
(03:42):
that still pisses off Russia. Now you can actually see
that check. You just have to like go online and
look it up and you'll see it's date stamped and
everything that is paid in full to the victor go
the spoils. Eighteen ninety eight, the American flag was raised
on the island of Puerto Rico. You just got Puerto
Rico for beating Spain in the Spanish American War. Now,
I will admit this is one of my favorite inventions
(04:03):
of all time. In Minnesota, in nineteen twenty one, Charles
Strait he invented the pop up toaster. Well, this was
pretty chivalrous. Nineteen twenty nine Canada, a lot of cleared
that women are now officially considered persons. Nineteen sixty two
the United States lots of spacecraft Ranger five. It was
just supposed to slam into the moon, so we can
see what happened. Well, we missed the moon. Who knows,
(04:25):
we might have pissed off somebody in the next solar
system over, who knows, What the hell are you doing?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Joke joke, joked, joke, sharge dish shiverthday. We're gonna tause
he left this shiver birthday. We gonna simple targe he
like this shivebirthday, and you know we don't that birthday.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Let's check out who was born on October the eighteenth See.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Down in Lulianic in New Orleans, way back up in
the money. Ever, let's not.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Alone, haven't made a earth?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
And one where leave the country morn Johnny Wood who
never ever learned he mean to right the will, but.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
He could play a guitar just like a ring in
label Johnny Who. Chuck Barry. He was born in Saint Louis, Missouri,
in nineteen twenty six. One of the fathers of rock
and roll. Some of his classic gets are maybe Lane,
roll over Beethoven, Johnny be good my dingling. Now he
was in that first class to go in the rock
(05:24):
and roll Hall of Fame. Chuck stayed out of jail
all those years, he would have been a lot bigger
than he probably always was. Got married nineteen forty eight
and they had four children. Had he stayed faithful, he
wouldn't have been in jail so much now. He died
in twenty seventeen and ninety years old from his natural causes.
After George C. Scott. He was born a Wise, Virginia
in nineteen twenty seven. He had a really gruff demeanor
(05:45):
and usually played a thirty figures, but he was a
true Thesbian. He got nominated for five Tony Awards. He
was known to nominate for oscars for Anatomy and Murder
the Hustler of the Hospital. He won an Oscar for Patton,
then became the first actor declined the award. Yeah, I
thought awards shows were stupid. He said that comparing an
acting performance winning as another Yeah, that was dumb.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Actually what he said was the whole goddamn thing is
a meat parade, and I don't want any part of it.
Scott he had a daughter from his first wife, a
son and a daughter from his second wife, two sons
from his third wife married, then he had a daughter
just kind of fooling around. Married his fifth wife in
nineteen seventy two. They were together until he died in
nineteen ninety nine from a rapture to abdominal aortic aneurysm
(06:26):
seventy one years old. Then, after he died, the Caademy
Awards gave it his fit oscar that he refused to
his family. They took it. Actor Peter Boyle. He was
born in Norristown, Pennsylvania, in nineteen thirty five. You probably
know Peter best for playing the dad in the TV
show Everybody Loves Raymond. He had a long and distinguished
career before that. Though he was the monster in the
movie Young Frankenstein. He was in taxi driver in all
(06:49):
those Santa Claus movies. He married nineteen seventy seven and
they had two children. He died from heart disease in
two thousand and six at seventy one years old.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
The Skip.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Mary actress Don Wells was born in Rena, Nevada, in
nineteen thirty eight. Start out as Miss Nevada competian Miss
America nineteen sixty. She didn't win, but it helped her
get the job. Blamed Marianne on Gilligan's Island, and he
guesses what Marianne's last name was the Summers. She was
Marianne Summers and she her character was based on Dorothy
(07:37):
and the widow of Ohs. Yeah, that's why she had
the pigtails and was some Kansas and everything. Don she
married once for five years in the nineteen sixties. She
died in twenty twenty at eighty two years old from
COVID No no, no, no, Well that was a horrible TV
(08:08):
theme song. Maybe he had to be watching it. Actress
Pam Dubber, She's seventy three She's born in Detroit in
nineteen fifty one. Started as a fashion model, then hit
big on the TV show Marking Mindy. She was Mindy
and she was on My Sister Sam starting over twenty
TV movies. She married actor Mark Harmon in nineteen eighty
seven and they have two sons. Thursday Saturday actress Aaron Moran.
(08:48):
She was born in Burbank, California. In nineteen sixty, she
got Fantaus saying Jony Cunningham on Happy Days, did for
ten years, two and thirty four episodes, then when it
was over, they spun her and Scott Baio off into
Jonia Loves Chucci. Lasted seventeen episodes. That was way too many, Aaron.
She married his second husband in nineteen ninety three. She
died from throat cancer in twenty seventeen at only fifty
(09:08):
six years old. The Muscles from Brussels John Claude von
dam He was born in Brussels, Belgium in nineteen sixty.
Sixty four year old started training in martial arts when
he was ten. His dad thought he was a whimp
and one and toughen him up.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Well.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
It worked. After winning all kinds of different things, he
ended up becoming a professional kickboxer, had a record of
eighteen and one when all his eighteen fights by knockout.
Then he decided going to acting. He first started in
Blood Sport, then The Kickboxer, Time Cop all those expendable movies.
He voiced in the can or Kung Fu Panda movies too.
He's been married five times to four women. Say, after
(09:43):
his fourth divorce, he went back and married his third
wife again. So he has two children from his third
and fifth wife, and he has one child from his
fourth wife. Actor Zach Efron. He's thirty seven. He's born
in sam Lewis, Bispoke, California, in nineteen eighty seven. First
got known in the movie Hairspray. He and three high
school musical movies, and he does seventeen again, Dirty Grandpa
(10:04):
the Greatest Showman now, Zach. He had a lot of
trouble when he was younger, but he's been sober since
twenty thirteen. So congratulations and cool job, Zach. Let's go
talk about toaster some more now. The first toaster it
was called El Toasto. Seventy five million people eat toast
every single day in the United States. Well, thank you
(10:25):
for listening to us today, joining this, We appreciate it
and feel forget to follow us on whever you listen
to us on Come see us at coolmedia dot com.
That's cool A three US. Let's end with former Army
General and Secretary of State Colin Powell. Colon died today
in twenty twenty one at eighty four years old. He
says a dream doesn't become a reality through magic. It
takes sweat, determination, and hard work. You guys, have an
(10:47):
awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow
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