October 25, 2025 • 12 mins
(2024) National pumpkin day. Entetainment from 1969. Erie canal opened, Gunfight at OK Corral was fought, Stonehenge donated to British People, Todays birthdays - Hamalia Jackson, Bob Hoskins, Jaclyn Smith, Pat Sajak, Rita Wilson, Dylan McDermott, Natalie Merchant, Keith Urban, Seth MacFalane, Jon Heder. Hattie McDaniel died.
Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard http://defleppard.com/
Pumpkin song - Mary Lu Walker
I can't get next to you - The Temptations
The ways to love a man - Tammy Wynette
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
I will move on up a little higher - Mahalia Jackson
Charlies Angels TV theme
Wheel for Fortune opening 1980's
Beacause the night - 10,000 Maniacs
I wanna kiss a girl - Keith Urban
Almost like being in love - Seth MacFarland
Exit - In my dreams - Dokken http://dokken.net/
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Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard http://defleppard.com/
Pumpkin song - Mary Lu Walker
I can't get next to you - The Temptations
The ways to love a man - Tammy Wynette
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
I will move on up a little higher - Mahalia Jackson
Charlies Angels TV theme
Wheel for Fortune opening 1980's
Beacause the night - 10,000 Maniacs
I wanna kiss a girl - Keith Urban
Almost like being in love - Seth MacFarland
Exit - In my dreams - Dokken http://dokken.net/
Follow Jeff Stampka on facebook and cooolmedia.com
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history and factoids,
about to day pas about cool media. Today's August the
twenty sixth.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Big round pumpkin lying on the ground, Little fat pumpkins,
orange and broun pumpkin on the vine, looking something vine,
Gonna take your home. It's Halloween tongue. Pumpkin on the
bottom looking some fun, Gonna take you home, mis hallowing tongue.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Today is National Pumpkin Day. With Halloween only a couple
of days, wait, perfect day to celebrate the pumpkin. Now,
pumpkins there are more than just that Jacqueline and you
throw away when you're done with Halloween. Pumpkins are really
healthy for you. They're high in antioxidants, fiber, potassium, vitamin C.
Pumpkins are actually a fruit. Yeah, they're part of the
squash family. Yeah, squash or fruit pumpkins. They areative to
(01:00):
North America. Now today I just enjoy like carving your
pumpkin and make sure you bake the pumpkin seeds. Yeah,
it'll probably be the healthiest thing you eat all Halloween.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
All right.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
See what happen on entertainment on October twenty sixth, Go
back there in nineteen sixty nine number one album was
Green River by Creating's clear Water Revival. The Temptations had
the number one song with I Can't Get next to You.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
We Wotle Castle, I'm say.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I didn't make it Your.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Sail, my business complet.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Jack and next to You Tammy Why Need? She had
the number one country song with the Way Used to
Love Them in he Is.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Only Do W.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Do You?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
And I Can't.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Coach Paul Please the Love of Man.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
The number one book was The Godfather by Mary Opoozle.
The top movie was Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
in Wyoming. Butch and Sundance, they lead a gang of
at eyes end up running from the law. Stars Paul Newman,
Robert Redford, and Catherine Ross. Okay, what happened on October
the twenty sixth, eighteen twenty five, The Erie Canal opened up.
It connected the Hudson River and Lake Erie. It still does.
(02:33):
Eighteen eighty one, The most famous gunfight in the wild
West took place in Tombstone, Arizona, at the ok Crow
their brothers and Doc Holliday. They went at it with
the Clayton and the McClary brothers and Billy Claiborne. Now
the shooting only lasted thirty seconds. Tom and Frankin McCleary
and Billy Claiborne were all killed. Now, no one knows
for sure who fired that very first shot that started
(02:53):
the whole thing, But therps were charged for murder, but
they got off. Let's just say that no one in
none of those participants were any good guys. The Ok Corral,
it was actually the old Kindersley Corral, but once it
became a big tourist attraction in Tombstone, Yeah, they shortened
it to Ok. Carrell nineteen eighteen and Britain Cecil Chubb
he gave the prehistoric monument stoneheage to the British people. Yeah,
(03:14):
he told him they could do with it what they want. See,
he had actually bought stone pins at an auction for
sixty six hundred pounds is a gift for his wife.
Well his wife she wasn't impressed at all. She didn't
want anything to do with that damn thing. No, she said,
get rid of the bloody damn thing. Well, he couldn't
find anyone to buy it from him, so he just
donated to the Prettish nation. Now sixty six hundred pounds
in nineteen eighteen. That would be one hundred and thirty
(03:35):
five thousand dollars today, So she was pissed about receiving
a one hundred and thirty five thousand dollars present. I
think I would have kept the rocks and got rid
of her baseball. In nineteen thirty four, the Washington Senator's manager,
Joe Cronin now He was on his honeymoon with his
new wife, Mildred now Mildred. She was also the daughter
of Clark Griffith, who owned the Washington Senators. Well, they
(03:56):
found out that their father had so Jolder of the
Boston Red Sox. Nineteen seventy two, the Park Service started
giving tours of the former prison Alcatraz. It was closed
in nineteen sixty three. In twenty eighteen, Catholics around the
world celebrated Woo singer Sinad O'Connor. She announced she had
converted to Islam.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Joppe jpe co joke jope sharge thish shiverthday.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Please gonna pause he left this shiver birthday. We gonna
simple tag like this shibirthday. And you know we don't
get that don't work to you Let's see It. Was
born in October the twenty sixth Mahelia Jackson. She was
one of the greatest, if not the greatest, gospel singer
of all time.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I'm going to move me, oh man, that call me.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Shifted up my hey li. She was born in New
Orleans in nineteen eleven. She sold over twenty two a
million records, which was big nowadays for gospel music. So
it was huge for gospel records during her lifetime. That
song we played, I Will Move On Up a Little Higher,
got it at number two on the pop charts. In
nineteen forty eight. She sang at John Kennedy's inauguration. She
(05:14):
sang at Martin Luther King's funeral, did a bunch of
sold out tours all over Europe. She had two short marriage.
She died in nineteen seventy two during surgery to remove
a battle obstruction. Sixty years old. Yesterday we celebrated at
Minnie Pearl's birthday. Minnie Pearl and Mahala Yep. They owned
a chain of chicken restaurants together. After Bob Hoskins. He
was born at bury St, Edwards, England, in nineteen forty two.
(05:37):
He played the band manager in Pink Foyd's movie of
the Wall, and he's in Mona Lisa who framed Roger
Rabbit Mario Brothers. He had two children from his first wife.
Second wife he married in nineteen eighty two, and they
had two children. Bobby died in twenty fourteen from pneumonia.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Once upon a time, there were three little girls who
went to the police academy and they were each assigned
very essiveist duties. But I took them away from all that,
(06:14):
and now they worked for me. My name is Charlie.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Now, if you want to talk about aging, well, seventy
nine year old the actress Jacqueline Smith. She's one in Houston, Texas.
In nineteen forty five, started out studying to be a
ball arena, found out that modeling paid a lot better.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Then.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
She had huge on TV's Charlie's Angels. She's made a
whole bunch of TV movies over the years. She's been
a very very successful business owner. Yeah, she had her
own fashion line, her own line at Home Apparel. Now
on The Simpsons, they even had an episode where they
made fun of her business success, So I guess you
know you made it. Then. She had two children from
her the third husband. She made her fourth husband nineteen
(06:50):
ninety seven. Now, if that doesn't sound familiar, that was
from the nineteen eighties. Pat say Jack. He's seventy eight.
(07:12):
He's born in Chicago in nineteen forty six. He was
a radio DJ. Then he got drafted in the army,
sent to Vietnam. Then he ended up following Adrian Knaur. Yeah,
Adrian conaw he is the DJ that Robin Williams played
in the movie Good Morning of Vietnam. So when Adrian
came home, Pat he took his spot on Armed Forces
Radio Vietnam. Then when Pat came home, he went back
to work as a DJ. Then he got a job
(07:33):
as a TV weather man. MERV Griffin saw him. Yeah,
game in the job of hosting Wheel of Fortune in
nineteen eighty one. Yeah, he just retired not too long ago.
Patty's been married to his second wife since nineteen eighty
nine and they have two children. Actress Rita Wilson. She
was born in Los Angeles in nineteen fifty six, sixty
eight years old today. Her first acting job was nineteen
(07:53):
seventy two. Yeah, she had a guest appearance on The
Brady Bunch. She was going against Marsha for head cheerleader.
Sm Rid. His movies Volunteers, That Thing You Do, run
Away Bride, Jingle All the Way. She married actor Tom
Hanks in nineteen eighty eight and they have two sons.
Actor Dylan McDermott. He was born in nineteen sixty one
in Waterbury, Connecticut. He's sixty three. His first acting job
(08:15):
was in the movie Hamburger Hill, and he's in Twister
Steel Magnoia is The Cowboy Way. Biggest success has been
TV You Start on the Practice in an American horror Store.
Been doing FBI Most Wanted since twenty twenty two. He
got married once for fourteen years and they have two
daughters from it. That was Natalie Merchant singing for Ten
(08:53):
Thousand Maniacs. She's sixty one. She's born in Jamestown, New York,
in nineteen sixty three. She joined Ten Thousand Maniacs in
nineteen eighty one. Now she joined just to be a
backup singer. Ended up singing lead on their first seven
hours albums. Yeah, she sang the heads like the weather,
what's the matter here? Because the night she went solo
in ninety three. It's at least nine solo albums since
she married once for ten years and then they had
(09:14):
a daughter, Natalie. She spends a lot of her time
nowadays teaching arts and crafts to underprivileged kids out there
in New York. Now you can see some of her
own paintings. She displays them pretty good on her website.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Go to second So Kiss a Girl.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Country singer Keith Thurban. He was born on Wing Gerray,
New Zealand, in nineteen sixty seven. It makes him fifty
seven a day. But have his family to Australia when
he was two. Then he moved himself to Nashville in
nineteen ninety two. He did some songwriding, he played guitar
lot of other artists records. Finally got his first album,
released it in nineteen ninety nine. All nine of his
albums have gone platinum. He just released his tenth one
(10:07):
not too long ago. Some of his twenty two number
one songs are better Live, Somebody like You, you look
Good in My Shirt, Sweet Thing. Married actress Nicole kidd
Been in two thousand and six and they have two
daughters now. Keith he had a lot of trouble with
Alcoholling cocaine over the years, finally got sober for Nicole.
So he's been Clay since two thousand and seven. Pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
What a day this has been. What a rare mood.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
I'm you why, It's almost like Beard.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Hell, there's a smile on my face for the whole
human race.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Animator, actor, singer, writer, producer Seth MacFarlane's fifty one. He
was born in Kent, Connecticut in nineteen seventy three. Start
out as an animator for Hanna Barbera. He went out
on his own and hit big on TV. The Family Guy,
American Dad, The Cleveland Show. He created a TV show
that wasn't animated, it was The Orville. Then he's done
the movies, The Ted's Movies, both of them. He's a
(11:11):
Million Ways to Die in the West. He hasn't married yet.
Actor John Hyder. He was born in Fort Collins, Colorado,
in nineteen seventy seven. He's forty seventy. He grew up
in Oregon. He had big starring in the movie Napoleon Dynamite,
then The Benchwarmers, Blades of Glory, Mama's Boy, done a
lot of voice work. Met his wife and they were
both going to Brigham Young University. They graduated and got
(11:33):
married in two thousand and two. Now they have four kids.
Let's go back to Halloween. Now, there are either three
or four full moons on Halloween every century. Well, thank
you for listening today. We appreciate you coming. Now, don't
forget to follow us on whoever you listen to us
on it comes. Here's a coolmedia dot com that's cool
with three y ohs. Let's end with actress Haddie McDowell.
(11:54):
She died today in nineteen fifty two, at fifty nine
years old. She said, I did my best and I
did the rest. You guys have an awesome day and
we'll talk tomorrow
Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history and factoids,
about to day pas about cool media. Today's August the
twenty sixth.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Big round pumpkin lying on the ground, Little fat pumpkins,
orange and broun pumpkin on the vine, looking something vine,
Gonna take your home. It's Halloween tongue. Pumpkin on the
bottom looking some fun, Gonna take you home, mis hallowing tongue.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Today is National Pumpkin Day. With Halloween only a couple
of days, wait, perfect day to celebrate the pumpkin. Now,
pumpkins there are more than just that Jacqueline and you
throw away when you're done with Halloween. Pumpkins are really
healthy for you. They're high in antioxidants, fiber, potassium, vitamin C.
Pumpkins are actually a fruit. Yeah, they're part of the
squash family. Yeah, squash or fruit pumpkins. They areative to
(01:00):
North America. Now today I just enjoy like carving your
pumpkin and make sure you bake the pumpkin seeds. Yeah,
it'll probably be the healthiest thing you eat all Halloween.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
All right.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
See what happen on entertainment on October twenty sixth, Go
back there in nineteen sixty nine number one album was
Green River by Creating's clear Water Revival. The Temptations had
the number one song with I Can't Get next to You.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
We Wotle Castle, I'm say.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I didn't make it Your.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Sail, my business complet.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Jack and next to You Tammy Why Need? She had
the number one country song with the Way Used to
Love Them in he Is.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Only Do W.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Do You?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
And I Can't.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Coach Paul Please the Love of Man.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
The number one book was The Godfather by Mary Opoozle.
The top movie was Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
in Wyoming. Butch and Sundance, they lead a gang of
at eyes end up running from the law. Stars Paul Newman,
Robert Redford, and Catherine Ross. Okay, what happened on October
the twenty sixth, eighteen twenty five, The Erie Canal opened up.
It connected the Hudson River and Lake Erie. It still does.
(02:33):
Eighteen eighty one, The most famous gunfight in the wild
West took place in Tombstone, Arizona, at the ok Crow
their brothers and Doc Holliday. They went at it with
the Clayton and the McClary brothers and Billy Claiborne. Now
the shooting only lasted thirty seconds. Tom and Frankin McCleary
and Billy Claiborne were all killed. Now, no one knows
for sure who fired that very first shot that started
(02:53):
the whole thing, But therps were charged for murder, but
they got off. Let's just say that no one in
none of those participants were any good guys. The Ok Corral,
it was actually the old Kindersley Corral, but once it
became a big tourist attraction in Tombstone, Yeah, they shortened
it to Ok. Carrell nineteen eighteen and Britain Cecil Chubb
he gave the prehistoric monument stoneheage to the British people. Yeah,
(03:14):
he told him they could do with it what they want. See,
he had actually bought stone pins at an auction for
sixty six hundred pounds is a gift for his wife.
Well his wife she wasn't impressed at all. She didn't
want anything to do with that damn thing. No, she said,
get rid of the bloody damn thing. Well, he couldn't
find anyone to buy it from him, so he just
donated to the Prettish nation. Now sixty six hundred pounds
in nineteen eighteen. That would be one hundred and thirty
(03:35):
five thousand dollars today, So she was pissed about receiving
a one hundred and thirty five thousand dollars present. I
think I would have kept the rocks and got rid
of her baseball. In nineteen thirty four, the Washington Senator's manager,
Joe Cronin now He was on his honeymoon with his
new wife, Mildred now Mildred. She was also the daughter
of Clark Griffith, who owned the Washington Senators. Well, they
(03:56):
found out that their father had so Jolder of the
Boston Red Sox. Nineteen seventy two, the Park Service started
giving tours of the former prison Alcatraz. It was closed
in nineteen sixty three. In twenty eighteen, Catholics around the
world celebrated Woo singer Sinad O'Connor. She announced she had
converted to Islam.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Joppe jpe co joke jope sharge thish shiverthday.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Please gonna pause he left this shiver birthday. We gonna
simple tag like this shibirthday. And you know we don't
get that don't work to you Let's see It. Was
born in October the twenty sixth Mahelia Jackson. She was
one of the greatest, if not the greatest, gospel singer
of all time.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I'm going to move me, oh man, that call me.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Shifted up my hey li. She was born in New
Orleans in nineteen eleven. She sold over twenty two a
million records, which was big nowadays for gospel music. So
it was huge for gospel records during her lifetime. That
song we played, I Will Move On Up a Little Higher,
got it at number two on the pop charts. In
nineteen forty eight. She sang at John Kennedy's inauguration. She
(05:14):
sang at Martin Luther King's funeral, did a bunch of
sold out tours all over Europe. She had two short marriage.
She died in nineteen seventy two during surgery to remove
a battle obstruction. Sixty years old. Yesterday we celebrated at
Minnie Pearl's birthday. Minnie Pearl and Mahala Yep. They owned
a chain of chicken restaurants together. After Bob Hoskins. He
was born at bury St, Edwards, England, in nineteen forty two.
(05:37):
He played the band manager in Pink Foyd's movie of
the Wall, and he's in Mona Lisa who framed Roger
Rabbit Mario Brothers. He had two children from his first wife.
Second wife he married in nineteen eighty two, and they
had two children. Bobby died in twenty fourteen from pneumonia.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Once upon a time, there were three little girls who
went to the police academy and they were each assigned
very essiveist duties. But I took them away from all that,
(06:14):
and now they worked for me. My name is Charlie.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Now, if you want to talk about aging, well, seventy
nine year old the actress Jacqueline Smith. She's one in Houston, Texas.
In nineteen forty five, started out studying to be a
ball arena, found out that modeling paid a lot better.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Then.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
She had huge on TV's Charlie's Angels. She's made a
whole bunch of TV movies over the years. She's been
a very very successful business owner. Yeah, she had her
own fashion line, her own line at Home Apparel. Now
on The Simpsons, they even had an episode where they
made fun of her business success, So I guess you
know you made it. Then. She had two children from
her the third husband. She made her fourth husband nineteen
(06:50):
ninety seven. Now, if that doesn't sound familiar, that was
from the nineteen eighties. Pat say Jack. He's seventy eight.
(07:12):
He's born in Chicago in nineteen forty six. He was
a radio DJ. Then he got drafted in the army,
sent to Vietnam. Then he ended up following Adrian Knaur. Yeah,
Adrian conaw he is the DJ that Robin Williams played
in the movie Good Morning of Vietnam. So when Adrian
came home, Pat he took his spot on Armed Forces
Radio Vietnam. Then when Pat came home, he went back
to work as a DJ. Then he got a job
(07:33):
as a TV weather man. MERV Griffin saw him. Yeah,
game in the job of hosting Wheel of Fortune in
nineteen eighty one. Yeah, he just retired not too long ago.
Patty's been married to his second wife since nineteen eighty
nine and they have two children. Actress Rita Wilson. She
was born in Los Angeles in nineteen fifty six, sixty
eight years old today. Her first acting job was nineteen
(07:53):
seventy two. Yeah, she had a guest appearance on The
Brady Bunch. She was going against Marsha for head cheerleader.
Sm Rid. His movies Volunteers, That Thing You Do, run
Away Bride, Jingle All the Way. She married actor Tom
Hanks in nineteen eighty eight and they have two sons.
Actor Dylan McDermott. He was born in nineteen sixty one
in Waterbury, Connecticut. He's sixty three. His first acting job
(08:15):
was in the movie Hamburger Hill, and he's in Twister
Steel Magnoia is The Cowboy Way. Biggest success has been
TV You Start on the Practice in an American horror Store.
Been doing FBI Most Wanted since twenty twenty two. He
got married once for fourteen years and they have two
daughters from it. That was Natalie Merchant singing for Ten
(08:53):
Thousand Maniacs. She's sixty one. She's born in Jamestown, New York,
in nineteen sixty three. She joined Ten Thousand Maniacs in
nineteen eighty one. Now she joined just to be a
backup singer. Ended up singing lead on their first seven
hours albums. Yeah, she sang the heads like the weather,
what's the matter here? Because the night she went solo
in ninety three. It's at least nine solo albums since
she married once for ten years and then they had
(09:14):
a daughter, Natalie. She spends a lot of her time
nowadays teaching arts and crafts to underprivileged kids out there
in New York. Now you can see some of her
own paintings. She displays them pretty good on her website.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Go to second So Kiss a Girl.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Country singer Keith Thurban. He was born on Wing Gerray,
New Zealand, in nineteen sixty seven. It makes him fifty
seven a day. But have his family to Australia when
he was two. Then he moved himself to Nashville in
nineteen ninety two. He did some songwriding, he played guitar
lot of other artists records. Finally got his first album,
released it in nineteen ninety nine. All nine of his
albums have gone platinum. He just released his tenth one
(10:07):
not too long ago. Some of his twenty two number
one songs are better Live, Somebody like You, you look
Good in My Shirt, Sweet Thing. Married actress Nicole kidd
Been in two thousand and six and they have two
daughters now. Keith he had a lot of trouble with
Alcoholling cocaine over the years, finally got sober for Nicole.
So he's been Clay since two thousand and seven. Pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
What a day this has been. What a rare mood.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
I'm you why, It's almost like Beard.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Hell, there's a smile on my face for the whole
human race.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Animator, actor, singer, writer, producer Seth MacFarlane's fifty one. He
was born in Kent, Connecticut in nineteen seventy three. Start
out as an animator for Hanna Barbera. He went out
on his own and hit big on TV. The Family Guy,
American Dad, The Cleveland Show. He created a TV show
that wasn't animated, it was The Orville. Then he's done
the movies, The Ted's Movies, both of them. He's a
(11:11):
Million Ways to Die in the West. He hasn't married yet.
Actor John Hyder. He was born in Fort Collins, Colorado,
in nineteen seventy seven. He's forty seventy. He grew up
in Oregon. He had big starring in the movie Napoleon Dynamite,
then The Benchwarmers, Blades of Glory, Mama's Boy, done a
lot of voice work. Met his wife and they were
both going to Brigham Young University. They graduated and got
(11:33):
married in two thousand and two. Now they have four kids.
Let's go back to Halloween. Now, there are either three
or four full moons on Halloween every century. Well, thank
you for listening today. We appreciate you coming. Now, don't
forget to follow us on whoever you listen to us
on it comes. Here's a coolmedia dot com that's cool
with three y ohs. Let's end with actress Haddie McDowell.
(11:54):
She died today in nineteen fifty two, at fifty nine
years old. She said, I did my best and I
did the rest. You guys have an awesome day and
we'll talk tomorrow
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