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October 30, 2025 15 mins
National candy corn day. Entertainment from 2002. Time clock invented, Soviets detonate largest nuclear bomb ever, Bosphorous Bridge opened in Turkey. Todays birthdays - John Adams, Ruth Gordon, Patsy Montana, Grace Slick, Otis Williams, Henry Winkler, Harry Hamlin, T. Graham Brown, Kevin Pollack, Gavin Rossdale. Steve Allen died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran   https://www.diannacorcoran.com/ 
Candy corn song - Jensens
Dilemma - Nelly   Kelly Rowland
Somebody like you - Keith Urban
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent      http://50cent.com/
I want to be a cowboys sweetheart - Patsy Montana
Somebody to love - Jefferson Airplane
I aint got nothing - The Temptations
Hell and High water - T. Graham Brown
Comedown - Bush
Exit - Single & Stoned  - Robinson Treacher     https://robinsontreacher.com/

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Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factor.
It is about today. Today's October the thirtieth.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Cons yellow orange whites. Can anybody just treats me? Rice
Jilly Cover yellow orange white, just walz.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Today is National candy Corn to day.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Now.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
I like the ones that come in the bags with
the little pumpkins in it.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
Now.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
George Rdenawer he created candy corn in Philly in the
late eighteen hundreds. A candy corn. It is made from
sugar corn syrup, marshmallow syrup and carubo wax. Obviously it's
not healthy for you at all. I chucked skittles is
actually less healthy than candy corn. You can have fun
with candy corn, especially with your kids. You can put
them on cookies and cupcakes and all that kind of stuff.

(01:12):
So what you do today is eat some candy corn.
They eat the good stuff tomorrow, all right? This he's
going on In entertainment October thirtieth. Let's back to two
thousand and two Number one Elva. The album was Elvis
thirty number one hits by Elvis, Presley, Nelly and Kelly
Rowland had the number one song with Dilemma Till Me

(01:34):
was it.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
Going to be? She said, you don't know what.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
You Keith Urban had. The number one country song was
something like You.

Speaker 5 (01:53):
There's a.

Speaker 4 (01:56):
Lack of never No, I'm breathing he Brew. Then I've
ever heard them and sure feels good.

Speaker 5 (02:05):
The filing Few Way new, I won't.

Speaker 4 (02:11):
Love somebot It love song bad.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
I Like You.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
The number one book was Qs for Corey by Sue
Grafton Todd. Movie was Santa Claus two Santa He Has
to Find a Missus. Santa stars Tim Allen, Elizabeth Mitchell,
David Crumholtz, and Jege Reynolds. All right, let's see what
happened on October the thirtieth, eighteen sixty four. Helena, Montana
was for him. Yeah, it's a slow day, Helena. It's

(02:38):
the capital of Montana. It's got a population about thirty
two thousand people, has a semi arid climate. Eighteen sixty six,
Jesse James and his gang they robbed a bank in Lexington, Missouri.
Got away with two grand. That'd be about forty one
thousand dollars today. Now The Greatest Show on Earth P. T.
Barnum Circus AD debuted in New York City today. In
eighteen seventy three. Now Barnum he had had this it's

(03:00):
really weird Macob Museum out there in New York. So
it's about nine eighteen forty one, all kinds of freak
shows and really weird stuff. You had to take it
down the road. You have then me see him burn down.
Nineteen forty five the gun in the United States government started.
They ended shoe rationing. That's right. See up till then
civilians they could only have two pairs of shoes a year. Yeah,
the leather and rubber they were needed for the war.

(03:22):
So how would you know, Well, like all the rashing
that was taking place, you got these little bucks and
they had stamps in it, and you couldn't go buy
a pair of shoes with if you didn't have one
in the stamps. So like if you had a family
of four, you'd have eight stamps. So your kids who
were actually growing through their shoes, Yeah, the parents would
have to give the kids basically one of their stamps
to get a bigger size of their shoe. Back in

(03:42):
nineteen twenty four, Clarens Bird's Eye, he came up with
the idea and he patented freezing food. Problem was, no
one had any freezers back then. Nineteen fifty two, Bird's Eye.
So this first frozen food. Yeah, so the first frozen peas.
Nineteen sixty one, the Soviet Union detonated zar Bamba. It
was a fifty eight megaton hydrogen bomb. It's still the

(04:03):
most powerful nuclear bomb ever. After that, all the scientists
kind of, we don't need to go any bigger than that.
Nineteen seventy three, the Bosphorus Bridge you'd opened up, and
it's in Bold, Turkey. See half of Istanbul it's in
Asia and the other half of Istanbul is in Europe.
It's separated by the Bosphorus River. Now, this was the
first time that the two sides of Istanbul had been

(04:24):
connected since the Pontoon Bridge ran across the river in
four sixty BC.

Speaker 6 (04:29):
Joke, joke, joked, joke, shug this Shibbert day, Wenna, he
left this shiverfday.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
We got simple tage. He left this shibirf day.

Speaker 4 (04:41):
And you don't.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
Okay. He was born on October the thirtieth. John Adams.
He was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, in seventeen thirty five.
Now his second cousin, Samuel Adams, he's the one who
was raising hell with the suns of liberty. You have
to starting that whole US independence movement. John on there.
Then he took the diplomatic approa she was behind the
scenes guy. He was a lawyer and administrator and all
that stuff. Got didn't be the first vice president though,

(05:06):
then the second US president, Serre from seventeen ninety seven
to eighteen oh one. He married Abigail in seventeen sixty
five and they had six kids. His oldest son, John
Quincy Adams, was the sixth President the United States. Now
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson they hated each other. They
couldn't even in the same room together. Then over the years,
as they got older, they became kind of cordial. Eventually
they became very good friends. Then on July fourth and

(05:28):
eighteen twenty six, on the fiftieth anniversary, that's signing the
Declaration of Independence. John he died at ninety years old,
just a couple hours before Jefferson did. Actress Ruth Gordon.
She was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in eighteen ninety six.
Most of us all probably know her best for the
Clint Eastwood movies any which way, but loose in any
which way you can. Yeah, that's kind of our generations

(05:49):
were younger. But she had a really big acting career
before that. She was on Broadway when she was only
nineteen years old. She went an Oscar for the movie
Rosemary's Baby. She was nominated for three Oscars for writing.
Now she had a son from a boyfriend. She married
her second husband in nineteen forty two. There together to
Root die from a stroke nineteen eighty five, at eighty
eight years old. I wanna be a Coliborn.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
I wanna learn old man ride.

Speaker 4 (06:16):
I wanna ride all the planes.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
Rember never Im went on the Way Divine.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
That was Patsy Montana Now. That song I Want to
be a Cowboys Sweetheart. It was the first country song,
that's for It was the first country song that was
sung by a woman to sell a million records. Nineteen
thirty six. Patsy Now she'd gone to college the UCLA
to study violin. While she was there, she entered a
talent contest she won for Jodlin. So she ditched the

(06:45):
violin and went into country music. Now, she pretty much
retired in the nineteen fifties. She's this wife and a
mom and that kind of stuff. But she did release
one more album in nineteen sixty four. She had this
young guy played guitar for her on the album. It was
the first time that Waylan Jennings ever got paid for music.
Patsy she was born in Badre, Arkansas, in nineteen oh eight.
She married nineteen thirty four. They had teach other. She

(07:06):
died in nineteen ninety six at eighty seven years old.

Speaker 4 (07:10):
Two two.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
That was Gray Slick singing for Jefferson Airplane. Grace, She's
eighty six. She was born in Highland Park, Illinois, in
nineteen thirty nine. Now she's in the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame with Jefferson Airplane. Now not Jefferson's Starship
or Starship, Nope, They're not in there, just Jefferson Airplane.
She half formed Jefferson Airplane in nineteen sixty five. They
had The Big White Rabbit and Somebody to Love. Broke

(07:46):
up in nineteen seventy three. In nineteen seventy four are
Grace and most of the guys they all got back
together and wanted to go back together. Legal reasons they
couldn't use Jefferson Airplane though, so Jefferson's Starship. It was
then in the nineteen eighties, just starship Grace. She retired
nineteen nine. She's been selling her art ever since. About
I guess our painting's really hit in nineteen ninety five
somewhere around there. Yeah, she paints.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
Now.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
She was married for ten years. Then after they divorced,
she decides she will to have a daughter, so she
had one with Paul Kentner, he was in Jefferson Airplanes.
Then she married another guy for eighteen years after that.
Now great. She had a lot, a lot of trouble
with drugs and now call over there, and she couldn't
quit no matter how hard she tried. Finally in the
nineties she went to rehab with her daughter. Well, it
sounds like it work. They're both still alive and they're

(08:28):
both out of jail. It's on the fun tell me.
Henry Winkler is eighty years old. Henry was born in Manhattan,
New York, in nineteen forty five. He got famous as
the Fawns or Arthur Fawns are really if you prefer,
on the TV show Happy Days. He's done a lot
of acting. First got known in the movie The Lord's
of Flatbush. That was with Sylvester Stallone. His best movie

(08:49):
is night Shift. I know you younger generation are going to
go with water Boy. No, it's night shift now. Besides
directing and producing, he's also written twelve books. He married
nineteen seventy eight and they have a son in a daughter.

Speaker 4 (09:02):
Everyone and they kill me.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
Ever, that was Otis Wilson. It was Wolfson. That was
Otis Williams singing for the Temptations now. He is the

(09:28):
only original Temptation that's still alive. Yep, he's actually out
in tour with the guys are from the Temptations now. Now,
I don't know how old the guys who are filling
in for the Temptations are Otis. He's eighty four. He
was born in Texarkada, Texas, in nineteen forty and he
grew up in Detroit. Helped form the Temptations in nineteen sixty.
Since he's the only one still alive, he owns the name,
the Temptations and all that royalties, So I guess, yeah, everybody,

(09:48):
it's all used. Notice he's sing the baritone, so he
almost always sang backup. He only sang lee like on
that one sign played and that was about it. He
had a son from his first wife and then he
divorced two more women after that. Actor Harry Hamlin. He's
seventy four. He was born in Pasadena, California, in nineteen
fifty one. Now he found fame in the movie The
Clash of the Titans, but he's best known for tv

(10:10):
LA Love Ronica Mars Madman. He dated actress Ursula Andrews
for four years and they had a son. His second
wife was actress Nicole Sheridan. They were married for a
year and he married his third wife in nineteen ninety
seven and they have two daughters.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
I'll You.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
For You country singer t Graham Brown. He was born
at Ribi, Georgia, in nineteen fifty four. He's seventy one today.
The tea is Stansored Tony. His first name is actually Anthony.
Some of it is It's our come Hell or high Water.
Don't go to strangers, Darling, if you could see me now.
Now he is a king of advertising jingles since nineteen

(11:02):
eighty two. These are only a few of the companies
that he's saying jingles for McDonald's, Budweiser, Taco Bell, Coca Cola, KFC,
dodged Ford, Mountain Deuke. It's a long list. He's been
Mary since nineteen eighty and they have one son, actor
comedian Kevin Pollock. He was born in San Francisco in
nineteen fifty seven. Sixty eight year old is was a

(11:23):
very successful stand up comedian. They started doing this tend
up when he's only ten years old. You haven't seen Kevin.
He does really good impersonations. He doesn't everything from Woody
Allen to al Pacino, from Sylvester ster Loon to Arnold Schwarzenegro. Yeah,
he still got those tours and all kind of stuff.
You wanted to catch his show. He's pretty good. Been
in over eighty movies. Some of them are a few

(11:44):
Good Men, the Grumpy Old Men movies, The Whole nine Yards,
Whole ten Yards, the usual Suspect Kevin. He was married
to comedian Lucy Webb for almost fifteen years.

Speaker 4 (12:01):
To.

Speaker 1 (12:12):
Gavin Rossdale. He's the lead singer for the band Bush.
Gaviny's sixty is born in marily Bone, England in nineteen
sixty five. Helped co found Bush in nineteen ninety two.
Now their original name, Yeah, they were the baby animals
that changed it to Bush. It was from the town
they lived in. It was called Shepherd's Bush English little
things come down glycerin the chemicals between us some of

(12:33):
the bush hits. Gaviny had a daughter from a flag.
Then he married singer Gwenn Stefani for thirteen years and
they had three sons. All right here Court of the Day.
It comes from Steve Allen. He died it in two
thousand and seventy eight years old. Steve says, one of
the nice things about problems, many of them do not
exist accepting our own imaginations. Well, thank you for listening today.

(12:55):
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Day comes from Bonnie and Daanon, Ohio. She wants to
hear Robinson Preacher's song single and Stone. You guys have
an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (13:14):
When I came home, you weren't they the pictures broken,
you close, disappear, sat home floor, the bush back, the past,
wound up.

Speaker 6 (13:31):
Jones that board, the green grass set off things, won't.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
Say swind up.

Speaker 4 (13:45):
You do everything till We're read up.

Speaker 3 (13:54):
Outy the more Town SI SI Long, Single hands Stone.
The last time I saw.

Speaker 4 (14:10):
You at the top of the stairs, you.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
Gave me that warning.

Speaker 3 (14:15):
You made it real clear.

Speaker 5 (14:18):
I wieve the.

Speaker 1 (14:20):
Song shut a ben scared.

Speaker 5 (14:23):
I was too high a nose, too drunk to cable
and set off things want, says Winder.

Speaker 4 (14:38):
You'll be.

Speaker 3 (14:42):
Do ever to wear beat up blue Mounty one more time.
It's I sitting Long, single hands Stone,
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