October 22, 2025 • 12 mins
(2024) National Boston Cream pie day. Entertainment from 1979. Longest seige in world history, WWII Battle of Leyte Gulf, Oldest fossil ever found, Apple released IPOD. Todays birthdays - Johnny Carson, Michael Crichton, Dwight Yoakam, Weird Al Yankovic, Jimmy Wayne, Ryan Reynolds, Emilia Clarke. Jerry Jeff Walker died.
Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard http://defleppard.com/
Boston cream pie is the best - The Hungry Food Band
Rise - Herb Alpert
All the gold in California - Larry Gatlin & the Gatlin Brothers
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
Guitars & Cadillacs - Dwight Yoakam
Another one rides the bus - Weird Al Yankovic
Do you believe me now - Jimmy Wayne
Mr. Bojangles - Jerry Jeff Walker
Exit - In my dreams - Dokken http://dokken.net/
Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard http://defleppard.com/
Boston cream pie is the best - The Hungry Food Band
Rise - Herb Alpert
All the gold in California - Larry Gatlin & the Gatlin Brothers
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
Guitars & Cadillacs - Dwight Yoakam
Another one rides the bus - Weird Al Yankovic
Do you believe me now - Jimmy Wayne
Mr. Bojangles - Jerry Jeff Walker
Exit - In my dreams - Dokken http://dokken.net/
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history in Factor.
It's about today visit in back cool Media. Today's October
the twenty third.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Here you go to the city, the city called Boston,
and you want to eat some pies. There's only one
kind of pie that you ought to go out in by.
It's called the Boston Cream Pie. It's the best ef
third to eat in the whole city of Boston.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Today is National Boston Green Pie Day. Boston Green Pie.
It's that yellow butter cake filled with custard or cream
and top with chocolate. So I has to call a
pie and not a cake. Well it's easy say. It's
baked in a pipe in a French chef. He created
at the Parker House Hotel in Boston in eighteen fifty six.
Now students at the Southern New Hampshire University. They just
(01:01):
set the record for the biggest Boston cream by ten
feet across and one and a half inches thick. Oh,
even if you're not from New England, I guess you
can enjoy some Boston Cream pie today. And now see
I'm in training. I'm trying for a half marathon, so
I cannot partake in some Boston cream Pie. And even
though that I do not ever condone violence, today I
think I'm going to participate in National Slap your Coworker Day.
(01:23):
So if you don't hear me tomorrow, now you know why.
All right, this is going on in entertainment on October
the twenty third. It's back to nineteen seventy nine. Number
one album was in Through the Outdoor. I led Zeppelin,
Herb Albert Ye had the number one song with Rise,
(01:58):
Larry Gatlin and the Gatlin Brothers. The number one country
song with all the Gold in California and all the.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Gold in cal.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
He's in a back.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Legs and somebody who says the name.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
The number one book was The Establishment by Howard Fast.
The top movie was ten Deadley Moore has a midlife
crisis and he blows off his girlfriend Julie Andrews, and
he becomes infatuated with Bo Derek. Oh, she just got married.
She's only mooning in Mexico. Nineteen fifty eight. The Smurfs,
they debuted on TV well over in Belgium. They won't
come out into the United States until nineteen eighty one.
(02:44):
All right, what happened in October the twenty third sixteen
ninety four the Spanish. They control the city on the
North African coast called Schwartze, Morocco. They did not like
Spanish controlling that city kind of in their territory, so
they became as they began a siege. Now Spain hungk
Tug that ended up being the longest in world history,
lasted twenty six years. Finally the Moroccan government was overthrown.
(03:04):
Then when the new government took over, they couldn't figure
out why they were a siezing Swerta, so they pulled
out all their trips. Spain won eighteen fifty in Worcester Man, Massachusetts.
Over one thousand delegates, all women met at the first
US National Women's Rights Conference. The main issues were the
right to vote, equal pay, women's property rights, and marriage
(03:25):
reform that included fairness for women. Well, it took seventy
years from we get that right to vote. Nineteen twenty three,
American Sebastian Hinton, he invented the playground structure we call
monkey bars. Yeah, I got a patent for it and everything.
He said it reminded him of monkeys. In nineteen thirty four,
over Lake Gary, Jean Picard and his wife Janette. Yeah,
(03:46):
they set an altitude record. Yeah, they were able to
get it an hot air balloon up to eleven miles high.
And he wondered why they did it over Lake Erie.
They really didn't think that water would help break the
follow something happened, did they? Nineteen forty four, off the Philippines,
the Battle of Late Day Gulf was fought. It was
the largest naval battle of World War Two. Over the
next three days, the United States and the Australian navyes
(04:06):
just put a butt whooping on the Japanese Navy. Now,
the US and Ausse's they lost six ships in two
hundred and twenty five planes. Japan and they lost twenty
eight ships and three hundred planes. And that's the first
battle when Japan started using Kama Kazi's. Yeah, pan they
never could recover from that loss. Nineteen seventy seven, Paleontollige
just found the oldest fossil ever. Yeah, they found it
in Western Australia. It's a one silk organism. It was
(04:29):
found in a rock. Now it dated back to three
point four billion years now. A couple of years ago.
It's about scientists they started ever rethinking and there is
no way that anything was possible to live on Earth
three point four years ago. So they wanted to debunk it. Yeah,
they wanted to say that was both. So they retested
that rock and they were right. We actually dated back
three point five billion years. Nineteen eighty three, there's a
(04:50):
multinational peacekeeping force over in Lebanon trying to stop all
the violence. They were having a civil war with all
different types of the terrorist organizations fighting United States. They
were one of the nations that said troops to try
and get everything to chill out. Six twenty AM, Islamic
terrorists drove a truck loaded with explosive into a barracks
in Beirut. The United States Marines they were staying there.
Two hundred and forty one yes Marines were killed. It
(05:11):
was the largest terrorist attack against the United States before
September eleventh. Now, another truck bomb hit to where the
French soldiers were staying and killed fifty eight French soldiers.
In two thousand and one, Apple they started selling the iPod.
I did not know this, but Apple stopped making the
iPod made tenth in twenty twenty two. This is actually
kind of scary. In twenty nineteen, Google. They were able
(05:33):
to perform calculations in three minutes that would have taken
a supercomputer ten thousand years to calculate. Doke Co joked,
joke shuge thish shivers Day.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Please don't he left this shiverfday.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
We got simple tags. Left this shibs day.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
You don't do birthday. Let's just check out. It was
born in October the twenty third.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Now, Ladies and gentlemen, Gee.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Johnny. Late night host Johnny Carson was born in Corning, Iowa,
in nineteen twenty five. Grew up in Norfolk, Nebraska. Now,
one of my grandmothers grew up there at the same time,
so I heard all about Johnny Carson. Johnny he was
a culture icon. Well he still is. I mean he
still considered the king of late night TV. Hosted The
Tonight Show from nineteen sixty two to nineteen ninety two.
(06:23):
Ethic man, he was a sidekick that whole run. Johnny
had three sons from his first wife, married his fourth
wife in nineteen eighty seven. They're together until he died
from emphysema two thousand and five at seventy nine years old.
Author Michael Crichton. He was born in Chicago in nineteen
forty two sold over two hundred million bucks. Now before
he began writing books, he graduated with a medical doctory
degree from Harvard. He said, thanks for the diploma, and
(06:46):
I can go write books. Yeah, doctor, that'd be good
to fall back on if I guess with the writing
didn't work out. Some of his biggest books were They
In Dominant Strain, Congo, Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Prey.
He wrote the move his Coma and Twister, and he
created the TV show York. Michael had a daughter from
his fourth wife and married his fifth wife in two
thousand and five and they had his son, Michael. He
died in two thousand and eight to sixty six years
(07:07):
old from lymphoma.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Guitar Camlack, Bill Vill Using Lonely Streets, Alcohol, homes Us,
calac Billvill st Holy thingses Me.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Country singer Dwight Yoakam. He's sixty eight for Pakville, Near
and Kentucky in nineteen fifty six. He's releasing a new
album out November fifteenth. The first singles with Dwighton post
Malone didn't see that coming. Some of Dwight's biggest hits
are Honky Tunk man guitars and catalogs. Ain't that lonely yet?
Fast as you. He's done some acting. He was in
the movie His Sling Blade, Panic Room and Wedding Crashers.
(07:52):
Finally settled down and got himself married. In twenty twenty,
they have a little girl finding the remakesful hand of Stane.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
He was Craymore Wowznissa.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
That is old school weird Al Yankovic from the nineteen
seventies weird Al. He was born in down in California
in nineteen fifty nine, makes him sixty five today. Now
he's just a weird guy. Nope, he's never used profanity,
drinks or drugs. Started out releasing songs on the Doctor
Demento radio show when he was sixteen. Now he's only
released like two songs that he actually made himself. Every
one of his song has pretty much been a parody.
(08:40):
But he's won five Grammys. He's performed over a thousand
concert and I guess his concerts are pretty wild. The kids,
they think they all go between like toddlers and people
in their ages and nineties. So he's kicking off. His
next one is called Bigger and Weirder, and'll start out
at the beginning next summer in June and then run
through the rest of the year. Now, he started playing
the court in when he was seven years old. Who
would an know that that was gonna pay off? Ali
(09:02):
He married in two thousand and one and they have
a daughter. Bill Murray introduced him. Yeah, he sent those
two kids on a blind date. I knew what I
was tall MB.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Remember telling the South cohost Town he's on a song
you made, Jemmy, I'm.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Missing you wait ghost Town.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
So you believe in.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Country. Singer Jimmy Wayne is fifty two. He was born
in Kingsmund, North Carolina, in nineteen seventy two. Jimmy, he
grew up in the foster system, so he's a huge
advocate for foster kids. After he graduated from college, he
worked as a prison guard for four years before making
the move to Nashville and going after music. Some of
his biggest hits are stay Gone, I Love you this much?
Do you believe me Now?
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I will?
Speaker 1 (09:48):
In twenty ten, he walked seventeen hundred miles from Nashville
to Phoenix in seven months. Yeah, it was the raise
awareness for foster children. Nowadays, Jimmy is pretty much a
best selling author and really a big inspirational speaker. Didn't
do a lot of singing. Actor Role Reynolds Reynolds. He's fifth,
fourth after Ryan Reynolds. He's forty eight. He was born
in Vancouver, Canada in nineteen seventy six. First guy known
(10:09):
the United States for the movie Van Wilder. Best known
for X Men, Green Lantern and their Deadpool movies. Just
watched him the other night in Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard. This
is okay to waste an hour and a half he is.
I guess his movie's made like five billion dollars though,
but he's invested himself very well. One of his biggest
investments he's the majority owner of mint Mobile. He married
(10:29):
actress Scarlett Johansson for four years, and then he married
Blake Lively in twenty twelve. They had three daughters and
one son. Thirty eight year old actress Emily Clark. She
was born London, England in nineteen eighty six. Best known
for starring on the Game of Thrones for eight years.
Then she did start in the movie Solo, a Star
Wars movie. She hasn't married yet. Guys, so hey take
your shot. Let's go back to Boston. Green Pie. You
(10:54):
done the Boston Green Pie. No, actually, when the Boston
Green Pie came out, it was really unique at that time,
you know, in eighteen fifty six. It was one of
the very first things ever used chocolate in the recipe
for the dessert. But then pretty much chocolate was always
just served as a beverage. Well, thank you for listening today,
and don't forget to follow us on whoever you listen to.
Some come says at Comedia dot com. Let's end Jerry
(11:15):
Jeff Walker.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
A new Man Lo Jangles, and he danced for you
born out shoe the super hairy ragget shirt.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
To bagg.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
The old soft shoe. Now, he wrote that song in
nineteen sixty eight. It might not be the most famous version,
but he's the one who wrote it. Jerry died it
in twenty twenty at seventy eight years old. He said,
the only way to know how much is enough is
to do more than back off. You guys, have an
awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.
Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history in Factor.
It's about today visit in back cool Media. Today's October
the twenty third.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Here you go to the city, the city called Boston,
and you want to eat some pies. There's only one
kind of pie that you ought to go out in by.
It's called the Boston Cream Pie. It's the best ef
third to eat in the whole city of Boston.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Today is National Boston Green Pie Day. Boston Green Pie.
It's that yellow butter cake filled with custard or cream
and top with chocolate. So I has to call a
pie and not a cake. Well it's easy say. It's
baked in a pipe in a French chef. He created
at the Parker House Hotel in Boston in eighteen fifty six.
Now students at the Southern New Hampshire University. They just
(01:01):
set the record for the biggest Boston cream by ten
feet across and one and a half inches thick. Oh,
even if you're not from New England, I guess you
can enjoy some Boston Cream pie today. And now see
I'm in training. I'm trying for a half marathon, so
I cannot partake in some Boston cream Pie. And even
though that I do not ever condone violence, today I
think I'm going to participate in National Slap your Coworker Day.
(01:23):
So if you don't hear me tomorrow, now you know why.
All right, this is going on in entertainment on October
the twenty third. It's back to nineteen seventy nine. Number
one album was in Through the Outdoor. I led Zeppelin,
Herb Albert Ye had the number one song with Rise,
(01:58):
Larry Gatlin and the Gatlin Brothers. The number one country
song with all the Gold in California and all the.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Gold in cal.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
He's in a back.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Legs and somebody who says the name.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
The number one book was The Establishment by Howard Fast.
The top movie was ten Deadley Moore has a midlife
crisis and he blows off his girlfriend Julie Andrews, and
he becomes infatuated with Bo Derek. Oh, she just got married.
She's only mooning in Mexico. Nineteen fifty eight. The Smurfs,
they debuted on TV well over in Belgium. They won't
come out into the United States until nineteen eighty one.
(02:44):
All right, what happened in October the twenty third sixteen
ninety four the Spanish. They control the city on the
North African coast called Schwartze, Morocco. They did not like
Spanish controlling that city kind of in their territory, so
they became as they began a siege. Now Spain hungk
Tug that ended up being the longest in world history,
lasted twenty six years. Finally the Moroccan government was overthrown.
(03:04):
Then when the new government took over, they couldn't figure
out why they were a siezing Swerta, so they pulled
out all their trips. Spain won eighteen fifty in Worcester Man, Massachusetts.
Over one thousand delegates, all women met at the first
US National Women's Rights Conference. The main issues were the
right to vote, equal pay, women's property rights, and marriage
(03:25):
reform that included fairness for women. Well, it took seventy
years from we get that right to vote. Nineteen twenty three,
American Sebastian Hinton, he invented the playground structure we call
monkey bars. Yeah, I got a patent for it and everything.
He said it reminded him of monkeys. In nineteen thirty four,
over Lake Gary, Jean Picard and his wife Janette. Yeah,
(03:46):
they set an altitude record. Yeah, they were able to
get it an hot air balloon up to eleven miles high.
And he wondered why they did it over Lake Erie.
They really didn't think that water would help break the
follow something happened, did they? Nineteen forty four, off the Philippines,
the Battle of Late Day Gulf was fought. It was
the largest naval battle of World War Two. Over the
next three days, the United States and the Australian navyes
(04:06):
just put a butt whooping on the Japanese Navy. Now,
the US and Ausse's they lost six ships in two
hundred and twenty five planes. Japan and they lost twenty
eight ships and three hundred planes. And that's the first
battle when Japan started using Kama Kazi's. Yeah, pan they
never could recover from that loss. Nineteen seventy seven, Paleontollige
just found the oldest fossil ever. Yeah, they found it
in Western Australia. It's a one silk organism. It was
(04:29):
found in a rock. Now it dated back to three
point four billion years now. A couple of years ago.
It's about scientists they started ever rethinking and there is
no way that anything was possible to live on Earth
three point four years ago. So they wanted to debunk it. Yeah,
they wanted to say that was both. So they retested
that rock and they were right. We actually dated back
three point five billion years. Nineteen eighty three, there's a
(04:50):
multinational peacekeeping force over in Lebanon trying to stop all
the violence. They were having a civil war with all
different types of the terrorist organizations fighting United States. They
were one of the nations that said troops to try
and get everything to chill out. Six twenty AM, Islamic
terrorists drove a truck loaded with explosive into a barracks
in Beirut. The United States Marines they were staying there.
Two hundred and forty one yes Marines were killed. It
(05:11):
was the largest terrorist attack against the United States before
September eleventh. Now, another truck bomb hit to where the
French soldiers were staying and killed fifty eight French soldiers.
In two thousand and one, Apple they started selling the iPod.
I did not know this, but Apple stopped making the
iPod made tenth in twenty twenty two. This is actually
kind of scary. In twenty nineteen, Google. They were able
(05:33):
to perform calculations in three minutes that would have taken
a supercomputer ten thousand years to calculate. Doke Co joked,
joke shuge thish shivers Day.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Please don't he left this shiverfday.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
We got simple tags. Left this shibs day.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
You don't do birthday. Let's just check out. It was
born in October the twenty third.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Now, Ladies and gentlemen, Gee.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Johnny. Late night host Johnny Carson was born in Corning, Iowa,
in nineteen twenty five. Grew up in Norfolk, Nebraska. Now,
one of my grandmothers grew up there at the same time,
so I heard all about Johnny Carson. Johnny he was
a culture icon. Well he still is. I mean he
still considered the king of late night TV. Hosted The
Tonight Show from nineteen sixty two to nineteen ninety two.
(06:23):
Ethic man, he was a sidekick that whole run. Johnny
had three sons from his first wife, married his fourth
wife in nineteen eighty seven. They're together until he died
from emphysema two thousand and five at seventy nine years old.
Author Michael Crichton. He was born in Chicago in nineteen
forty two sold over two hundred million bucks. Now before
he began writing books, he graduated with a medical doctory
degree from Harvard. He said, thanks for the diploma, and
(06:46):
I can go write books. Yeah, doctor, that'd be good
to fall back on if I guess with the writing
didn't work out. Some of his biggest books were They
In Dominant Strain, Congo, Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Prey.
He wrote the move his Coma and Twister, and he
created the TV show York. Michael had a daughter from
his fourth wife and married his fifth wife in two
thousand and five and they had his son, Michael. He
died in two thousand and eight to sixty six years
(07:07):
old from lymphoma.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Guitar Camlack, Bill Vill Using Lonely Streets, Alcohol, homes Us,
calac Billvill st Holy thingses Me.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Country singer Dwight Yoakam. He's sixty eight for Pakville, Near
and Kentucky in nineteen fifty six. He's releasing a new
album out November fifteenth. The first singles with Dwighton post
Malone didn't see that coming. Some of Dwight's biggest hits
are Honky Tunk man guitars and catalogs. Ain't that lonely yet?
Fast as you. He's done some acting. He was in
the movie His Sling Blade, Panic Room and Wedding Crashers.
(07:52):
Finally settled down and got himself married. In twenty twenty,
they have a little girl finding the remakesful hand of Stane.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
He was Craymore Wowznissa.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
That is old school weird Al Yankovic from the nineteen
seventies weird Al. He was born in down in California
in nineteen fifty nine, makes him sixty five today. Now
he's just a weird guy. Nope, he's never used profanity,
drinks or drugs. Started out releasing songs on the Doctor
Demento radio show when he was sixteen. Now he's only
released like two songs that he actually made himself. Every
one of his song has pretty much been a parody.
(08:40):
But he's won five Grammys. He's performed over a thousand
concert and I guess his concerts are pretty wild. The kids,
they think they all go between like toddlers and people
in their ages and nineties. So he's kicking off. His
next one is called Bigger and Weirder, and'll start out
at the beginning next summer in June and then run
through the rest of the year. Now, he started playing
the court in when he was seven years old. Who
would an know that that was gonna pay off? Ali
(09:02):
He married in two thousand and one and they have
a daughter. Bill Murray introduced him. Yeah, he sent those
two kids on a blind date. I knew what I
was tall MB.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Remember telling the South cohost Town he's on a song
you made, Jemmy, I'm.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Missing you wait ghost Town.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
So you believe in.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Country. Singer Jimmy Wayne is fifty two. He was born
in Kingsmund, North Carolina, in nineteen seventy two. Jimmy, he
grew up in the foster system, so he's a huge
advocate for foster kids. After he graduated from college, he
worked as a prison guard for four years before making
the move to Nashville and going after music. Some of
his biggest hits are stay Gone, I Love you this much?
Do you believe me Now?
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I will?
Speaker 1 (09:48):
In twenty ten, he walked seventeen hundred miles from Nashville
to Phoenix in seven months. Yeah, it was the raise
awareness for foster children. Nowadays, Jimmy is pretty much a
best selling author and really a big inspirational speaker. Didn't
do a lot of singing. Actor Role Reynolds Reynolds. He's fifth,
fourth after Ryan Reynolds. He's forty eight. He was born
in Vancouver, Canada in nineteen seventy six. First guy known
(10:09):
the United States for the movie Van Wilder. Best known
for X Men, Green Lantern and their Deadpool movies. Just
watched him the other night in Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard. This
is okay to waste an hour and a half he is.
I guess his movie's made like five billion dollars though,
but he's invested himself very well. One of his biggest
investments he's the majority owner of mint Mobile. He married
(10:29):
actress Scarlett Johansson for four years, and then he married
Blake Lively in twenty twelve. They had three daughters and
one son. Thirty eight year old actress Emily Clark. She
was born London, England in nineteen eighty six. Best known
for starring on the Game of Thrones for eight years.
Then she did start in the movie Solo, a Star
Wars movie. She hasn't married yet. Guys, so hey take
your shot. Let's go back to Boston. Green Pie. You
(10:54):
done the Boston Green Pie. No, actually, when the Boston
Green Pie came out, it was really unique at that time,
you know, in eighteen fifty six. It was one of
the very first things ever used chocolate in the recipe
for the dessert. But then pretty much chocolate was always
just served as a beverage. Well, thank you for listening today,
and don't forget to follow us on whoever you listen to.
Some come says at Comedia dot com. Let's end Jerry
(11:15):
Jeff Walker.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
A new Man Lo Jangles, and he danced for you
born out shoe the super hairy ragget shirt.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
To bagg.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
The old soft shoe. Now, he wrote that song in
nineteen sixty eight. It might not be the most famous version,
but he's the one who wrote it. Jerry died it
in twenty twenty at seventy eight years old. He said,
the only way to know how much is enough is
to do more than back off. You guys, have an
awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.
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