September 24, 2025 • 10 mins
National Mofongo day. Entertainment from 1977. First KFC opened, Mormans told no more teaching or practacing poloygamy, China banned everything Japanese. Todays birthdays - Audra Lindley, Jim Henson, Gerry Marsden, Phil Hartman, Kevin Sorbo, Nia Vardalos. Dr. Suess died.
Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
Mofongo song - Alma's Way
Best of my love - The Emotions
I've already loved you in my mind - Conway twitty
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent https://www.50cent.com/
Three's Company TV theme
The Muppets Theme
How do you do it - Gerry & the Pacemakers
Exit - Wherever you are tonight - Blue Honey http://www.bluehoneymusic.com/
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Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
Mofongo song - Alma's Way
Best of my love - The Emotions
I've already loved you in my mind - Conway twitty
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent https://www.50cent.com/
Three's Company TV theme
The Muppets Theme
How do you do it - Gerry & the Pacemakers
Exit - Wherever you are tonight - Blue Honey http://www.bluehoneymusic.com/
countryundergroundradio.com
History & Factoids webpage
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Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hey, Hello, I'm Jeff and welcome to History and Factor.
It's about today Day Septem of the twenty fourth.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Today is National My Fungo Day. A fungo.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
It's a national dish of Puerto Rico. Main ingredient in
is plantains. Then you add some pork and olive oil, garlic,
some broth, and then you smash it all together in
a wooden bowl. Then you fry it up and add
some beef, shrimp, chicken, vegetables, whatever you want. Now, my
fungo it's in and go. Las a slave word, it
means a great amount of anything, so that's pretty descriptive.
(01:06):
Enjoy some fungo today, all right, this is going on
entertainment On September the twenty fourth, back to nineteen seventy seven,
number one album was Rumors by Fleetwood Mac. The Emotions
had the number one song with Best of My Love.
So Conway Twitty Ye had the number one country song
(01:43):
with I've Already loved You in my mind.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Thing about It and you Fine, We're not stranger, I'm
all love.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
And the number one book was The Thorn Birds by
Colling mcculluff. The top movie it was Star Wars nineteen
seventy seven, it was just Star Wars nineteen eighty one.
Now they changed the title the Star Wars Episode four
a new hope, saying seventy seven Movie Company, they would
only let George Lucas make Star Wars as a standalone movie.
(02:24):
Then after it was so successful, then George was able
to make it into a trilogy, like he'd want it
all along?
Speaker 4 (02:29):
All right?
Speaker 1 (02:29):
What happened on September the twenty fourth, fourteen ninety three,
Christopher Columbus he set sail on his second trip to
the New World. If you remember, on his first trip
he had three ships. This time he brought seventeen ships
with him. Eighteen ninety Wilfred Woodruff, he was the president
of the Latter day Saints or the Mormons. He issued
a manifesto saying teaching and practicing polygamy.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
They had to stop.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
See Utah, they wanted to become a state, and that
wasn't going to happen if they were doing the polygamy thing. Well,
it worked, I mean, Utah became a state six years
later in eighteen ninety six. Nineteen fifty two, Kentucky Fried Chicken.
They'll open up their first franchise restaurant who was in
Salt Lake City, Utah.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
That was just a coincidence.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
In twenty twelve, China they banned all books written by
Japanese artists, authors and all books about Japan. It's still
kind of effect. Say, if China's mad at Japan, then
they put it into effect. If they're not mad at
Japan at the time, then they kind of don't enforce it. Well,
let's see what TV shows debuted on September twenty fourth,
nineteen sixty four, The Monsters came on TV nineteen sixty
(03:32):
eight sixty minutes. That's still on the love boat at
the TV. In nineteen seventy seven, two thousand and seven,
we got to see The Big Bang Theory, twenty thirteen
The Goldberg's And in twenty fourteen, Blackish.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Joked, joked, joke, shot this shimf day.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Please don't part.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
He left this shiverf day. We won't simple page, he
left this shibf Day.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
You don't do.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Well. Let's check out it was born on September the
twenty fourth, Come.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
And knock on our door. We've been waiting for you.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
With the kiss is a person persons.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Threes comp me too.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Actress Andrew Lindley. She was born in Los Angeles in
nineteen eighteen. Start out on Broadway in nineteen forty two.
After about ten years, she had take a long break
to raise her five kids as she had. But then
in the nineteen seventies the kids are gone. She started
acting in and then she yet really big.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
She played Missus Roper on Three's Company. Then they spun
it off to the Ropers. Yeah, they shouldn't have done that, Audrey.
She died from leukemia in nineteen ninety seven and is
seventy nine years old. She was married to her first
house was from nineteen forty three to nineteen seventy the
other ones that had the five kids. Then she married
another guy for seven years when they divorced. Jeff Jim
(05:04):
Henson and he was born in Greenville, Mississippi, in nineteen
thirty six. Jim he created The Muppets in nineteen fifty eight.
Nineteen sixty nine, he brought the Mumpets to Sesame Street. Yeah,
Muppet popularity, it had just exploded. They get their own
TV show, The Muppets from nineteen seventy six to eighty one.
Now later on he created the TV show Fraggle Rock
if you remember that now. Jim, of course, he directed
(05:26):
all the Muppet movies. He also directed in the movie Labyrinth.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Married nineteen fifty nine and they had five children. All
five of those kids. Yeah, they still work for Jim
Hinson's company. It's called the Jim Hinson Company. Yeah, they're
still doing Muppet stuff. He died at fifty three years
old in nineteen ninety. He got toxic shock. It was
brought on by step throat.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Wow, dude, you do watch him do the v I
wish shine. You can't find you? How you do it
to me? I'll do it to you, dude, you do watch.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
That was Jerry and the Pacemakers. Their lead singer was
Jerry Marsden. Jerry was born in Tucksteth, England, in nineteen
forty two.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Now.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
They formed in nineteen fifty six. They are the second
most successful band ever from Liverpool, England. Yeah, a band
called the Beatles sold more records than they did Jerry
and the Pacemakers.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
It's how do you do it?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I like it. You'll never walk alone now, Jerry. He
retired from the band The Pacemakers twenty eighteen. Yeah, for
health reasons. Get married back in nineteen sixty five and
they had two daughters. He died in twenty twenty one
and seventy eight years old from n blood and infection
in his heart. Comedian actor Phil Hartman. He was born
in Brentford, brent Ford, Canada, in nineteen forty eight. He
(06:45):
moved to the United States when he was ten. Nineteen
seventy five, Phil in this young comedian named Paul Rubins.
They developed the character pee Wee Herman.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Phil even co wrote Pee Wee's Big Adventures with Paul.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Phil.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
He was on Saturday Night Live from nineteen eighty six
to ninety four. Then he went on the TV show
News Radio. Some of his movies Our House, Gas, Sergeant Bilko,
Jingle All the Way. He married his third wife in
nineteen eighty seven. They had two children. Now that wife,
she had a lot of trouble with drugs and alcohols.
She even went to rehab a couple of times and
never took Then I made twenty seventh in nineteen ninety eight,
(07:17):
while Phil was asleep in bed, Yeah, she walked in
and shot him three times, and then she shot and
killed herself. Phil Hartman he is forty nine years old.
Actor Kevin Sorbo sixty seven. He was born in Mound, Minnesota,
in nineteen fifty eight. In the early nineteen nineties, he
was in one hundred and fifty TV commercials. Then he
played Hercules and five TV movies.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
They just made that.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Yeah, they made a whole series out of them. You
remember Hercules. Yeah, they spun that off into Zena. But yeah,
for five years he played Hercules. After that he was
on Andromeda. Now he's been starring in Christian movies God
is Not Dead, Joseph and Mary, Let There Be Life
Left Behind.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
He has been a bunch of good ones of those. Kevin.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
He got married nineteen ninety eight and they have three children.
Actors Nina Vardilous. She is sixty three. She just want
to Winnipeg, Canada. In nineteen sixty two, start off doing
stand up commed and then she had huge in the
movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding also two and three,
but she was nominated for an Oscar for writing the
first one. She was also in My Life in Ruins,
I Hate Valentine's Day, Helicopter Mom. She's married for twenty
(08:17):
five years. When they divorced, they had one daughter. All right,
that's quote our quote of the day. It comes from
doctor Seuss. He died today in nineteen ninety one, at
eighty seven years old. The good doctor says, don't cry
because it's over, Smile because it happened. Yeah, kind of
a quick show today, but we're glad.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Thanks for listening. Yeah, and don't forget to follow us.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I and you listen to his aunt, always go down
and look at the notes and show description and all
that kind of stuff. So because he had a contact
us and see what if I missed talking about anything
during this show. All right, Country and to ground radio
artist the day. It comes from McKinnon San Antonio. She
wants to hear Blue Honey in the song wherever you
are tonight. You guys have an awesome day and we'll
talk tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
It's still wait when the hell is moving on?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Start their elfred smile knew how to fake in every song.
Still reminds me.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
I want to know if you downtown dad say, or
have I even.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Cross sharp mind?
Speaker 4 (09:22):
I won't any know you sing with our family wherever
you are night, tell myself you ask about me, maybe
(09:45):
that you're.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Worried I'm a song more yo, I try to make
it look easy. When I see your friends in there,
I don't see here.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
I want to know if Ytown dancing or have I
even crossed Jommine.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
I won't get go the same way. Our bandas cleby
a nice ceby nine
Hey, Hello, I'm Jeff and welcome to History and Factor.
It's about today Day Septem of the twenty fourth.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Today is National My Fungo Day. A fungo.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
It's a national dish of Puerto Rico. Main ingredient in
is plantains. Then you add some pork and olive oil, garlic,
some broth, and then you smash it all together in
a wooden bowl. Then you fry it up and add
some beef, shrimp, chicken, vegetables, whatever you want. Now, my
fungo it's in and go. Las a slave word, it
means a great amount of anything, so that's pretty descriptive.
(01:06):
Enjoy some fungo today, all right, this is going on
entertainment On September the twenty fourth, back to nineteen seventy seven,
number one album was Rumors by Fleetwood Mac. The Emotions
had the number one song with Best of My Love.
So Conway Twitty Ye had the number one country song
(01:43):
with I've Already loved You in my mind.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Thing about It and you Fine, We're not stranger, I'm
all love.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
And the number one book was The Thorn Birds by
Colling mcculluff. The top movie it was Star Wars nineteen
seventy seven, it was just Star Wars nineteen eighty one.
Now they changed the title the Star Wars Episode four
a new hope, saying seventy seven Movie Company, they would
only let George Lucas make Star Wars as a standalone movie.
(02:24):
Then after it was so successful, then George was able
to make it into a trilogy, like he'd want it
all along?
Speaker 4 (02:29):
All right?
Speaker 1 (02:29):
What happened on September the twenty fourth, fourteen ninety three,
Christopher Columbus he set sail on his second trip to
the New World. If you remember, on his first trip
he had three ships. This time he brought seventeen ships
with him. Eighteen ninety Wilfred Woodruff, he was the president
of the Latter day Saints or the Mormons. He issued
a manifesto saying teaching and practicing polygamy.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
They had to stop.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
See Utah, they wanted to become a state, and that
wasn't going to happen if they were doing the polygamy thing. Well,
it worked, I mean, Utah became a state six years
later in eighteen ninety six. Nineteen fifty two, Kentucky Fried Chicken.
They'll open up their first franchise restaurant who was in
Salt Lake City, Utah.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
That was just a coincidence.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
In twenty twelve, China they banned all books written by
Japanese artists, authors and all books about Japan. It's still
kind of effect. Say, if China's mad at Japan, then
they put it into effect. If they're not mad at
Japan at the time, then they kind of don't enforce it. Well,
let's see what TV shows debuted on September twenty fourth,
nineteen sixty four, The Monsters came on TV nineteen sixty
(03:32):
eight sixty minutes. That's still on the love boat at
the TV. In nineteen seventy seven, two thousand and seven,
we got to see The Big Bang Theory, twenty thirteen
The Goldberg's And in twenty fourteen, Blackish.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Joked, joked, joke, shot this shimf day.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Please don't part.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
He left this shiverf day. We won't simple page, he
left this shibf Day.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
You don't do.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Well. Let's check out it was born on September the
twenty fourth, Come.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
And knock on our door. We've been waiting for you.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
With the kiss is a person persons.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Threes comp me too.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Actress Andrew Lindley. She was born in Los Angeles in
nineteen eighteen. Start out on Broadway in nineteen forty two.
After about ten years, she had take a long break
to raise her five kids as she had. But then
in the nineteen seventies the kids are gone. She started
acting in and then she yet really big.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
She played Missus Roper on Three's Company. Then they spun
it off to the Ropers. Yeah, they shouldn't have done that, Audrey.
She died from leukemia in nineteen ninety seven and is
seventy nine years old. She was married to her first
house was from nineteen forty three to nineteen seventy the
other ones that had the five kids. Then she married
another guy for seven years when they divorced. Jeff Jim
(05:04):
Henson and he was born in Greenville, Mississippi, in nineteen
thirty six. Jim he created The Muppets in nineteen fifty eight.
Nineteen sixty nine, he brought the Mumpets to Sesame Street. Yeah,
Muppet popularity, it had just exploded. They get their own
TV show, The Muppets from nineteen seventy six to eighty one.
Now later on he created the TV show Fraggle Rock
if you remember that now. Jim, of course, he directed
(05:26):
all the Muppet movies. He also directed in the movie Labyrinth.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Married nineteen fifty nine and they had five children. All
five of those kids. Yeah, they still work for Jim
Hinson's company. It's called the Jim Hinson Company. Yeah, they're
still doing Muppet stuff. He died at fifty three years
old in nineteen ninety. He got toxic shock. It was
brought on by step throat.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Wow, dude, you do watch him do the v I
wish shine. You can't find you? How you do it
to me? I'll do it to you, dude, you do watch.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
That was Jerry and the Pacemakers. Their lead singer was
Jerry Marsden. Jerry was born in Tucksteth, England, in nineteen
forty two.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Now.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
They formed in nineteen fifty six. They are the second
most successful band ever from Liverpool, England. Yeah, a band
called the Beatles sold more records than they did Jerry
and the Pacemakers.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
It's how do you do it?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
I like it. You'll never walk alone now, Jerry. He
retired from the band The Pacemakers twenty eighteen. Yeah, for
health reasons. Get married back in nineteen sixty five and
they had two daughters. He died in twenty twenty one
and seventy eight years old from n blood and infection
in his heart. Comedian actor Phil Hartman. He was born
in Brentford, brent Ford, Canada, in nineteen forty eight. He
(06:45):
moved to the United States when he was ten. Nineteen
seventy five, Phil in this young comedian named Paul Rubins.
They developed the character pee Wee Herman.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Phil even co wrote Pee Wee's Big Adventures with Paul.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Phil.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
He was on Saturday Night Live from nineteen eighty six
to ninety four. Then he went on the TV show
News Radio. Some of his movies Our House, Gas, Sergeant Bilko,
Jingle All the Way. He married his third wife in
nineteen eighty seven. They had two children. Now that wife,
she had a lot of trouble with drugs and alcohols.
She even went to rehab a couple of times and
never took Then I made twenty seventh in nineteen ninety eight,
(07:17):
while Phil was asleep in bed, Yeah, she walked in
and shot him three times, and then she shot and
killed herself. Phil Hartman he is forty nine years old.
Actor Kevin Sorbo sixty seven. He was born in Mound, Minnesota,
in nineteen fifty eight. In the early nineteen nineties, he
was in one hundred and fifty TV commercials. Then he
played Hercules and five TV movies.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
They just made that.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Yeah, they made a whole series out of them. You
remember Hercules. Yeah, they spun that off into Zena. But yeah,
for five years he played Hercules. After that he was
on Andromeda. Now he's been starring in Christian movies God
is Not Dead, Joseph and Mary, Let There Be Life
Left Behind.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
He has been a bunch of good ones of those. Kevin.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
He got married nineteen ninety eight and they have three children.
Actors Nina Vardilous. She is sixty three. She just want
to Winnipeg, Canada. In nineteen sixty two, start off doing
stand up commed and then she had huge in the
movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding also two and three,
but she was nominated for an Oscar for writing the
first one. She was also in My Life in Ruins,
I Hate Valentine's Day, Helicopter Mom. She's married for twenty
(08:17):
five years. When they divorced, they had one daughter. All right,
that's quote our quote of the day. It comes from
doctor Seuss. He died today in nineteen ninety one, at
eighty seven years old. The good doctor says, don't cry
because it's over, Smile because it happened. Yeah, kind of
a quick show today, but we're glad.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Thanks for listening. Yeah, and don't forget to follow us.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I and you listen to his aunt, always go down
and look at the notes and show description and all
that kind of stuff. So because he had a contact
us and see what if I missed talking about anything
during this show. All right, Country and to ground radio
artist the day. It comes from McKinnon San Antonio. She
wants to hear Blue Honey in the song wherever you
are tonight. You guys have an awesome day and we'll
talk tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
It's still wait when the hell is moving on?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Start their elfred smile knew how to fake in every song.
Still reminds me.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
I want to know if you downtown dad say, or
have I even.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Cross sharp mind?
Speaker 4 (09:22):
I won't any know you sing with our family wherever
you are night, tell myself you ask about me, maybe
(09:45):
that you're.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Worried I'm a song more yo, I try to make
it look easy. When I see your friends in there,
I don't see here.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
I want to know if Ytown dancing or have I
even crossed Jommine.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
I won't get go the same way. Our bandas cleby
a nice ceby nine
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