July 26, 2025

(2024) July 27-Scotch, Bill Engvall, Maya Rudolf, Bugs Bunny, Bobby Gentry, Gary Gygax, Bob Hope,

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National Scotch day. Entertainment from 1966. Korean War ended, First tobacco from Virginia lands in England, Atlanta Olympics bombing. Todays birthdays - Allen Breed, Jerry Van Dyke, Gary Gygax, Bobbie Gentry, Bill Engvall, Julian McMann, Maya Rudolph. Bob Hope died.

Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard https://defleppard.com/
Whiskey Scotch Whiskey - The Real McKenzies
Hanky Panky - Tommy James & the Shondells
There goes my everything - Jack Greene
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent https://www.50cent.com/
Coach TV theme
Ode to Billy Joe - Bobbie Gentry
Bill Engvall live
Thanks for the memories - Bob Hope
Exit - Its not love - Dokken https://www.dokken.net/

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Hello, I am Jeff and welcome to history. In fact,

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it's about today, presented by Cool Media. Today is July

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the twenty seventh shot. It is National Scotch Day.

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Now.

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In order for it to be Scotch whiskey, it has

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to be made in Scotland, no way around that. And

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it has to be fermented malted barley. It has to

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be aged in oak barrels at least three years, and

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it can't have a higher than ninety four point eight

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percent alcohol content. Now, Christian monks, they must have been borrored.

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They invented scotch in the twelfth century. Oh maybe they

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just started drinking one. But I'm giving you a heads

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up today. This isn't like our national beer days. No

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to celebrate scotch today. You sip it, you chug it.

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But it is Saturday, so enjoy yourself some scotch, all right?

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What happened to entertainment? On July twenty seventh In the

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year nineteen sixty six, number one album with Strangers in

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the Night by Frank Sinatra, Tommy Tommy James and the

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Chandell's had the number one song with Hanky Pinky, My Babe.

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It does the hanky Panky.

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Jack Green had the number one country song with there

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Goes My Everything, Oh My.

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Dream there Cole Smile.

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The number one book was Valley of the Dolls by

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Jacqueline Suzanne. The top movie was Who's Afraid of Virginia

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Wolf a college professor and his wife. They used alcohol

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to ruin the party. Guest Tonight Big Time stars Elizabeth Taylor,

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Richard Burton, George Siegel, and Sandy Dennis. All Right, what

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happened on July the twenty seventh, fifteen eighty six Walter Raleigh.

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He brought the first load of tobacco to England from

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the American colonies, well Virginian be more specific. Eighteen sixteen,

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the United States Army destroyed a seminole Indian fort in

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Florida called Fort Appalachicola. Now is to punish the Indians

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for harboring runaway slaves. Today, in eighteen thirty seven, the

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United States Mint in Charlotte, North Carolina opened up.

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Today.

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In eighteen forty four, fire destroyed the US Mint in Charlotte,

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North Carolina. Now, I want why this didn't get a

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lot more popular. Eighteen eighty eight, Philip Prapp, he invented

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the first electric tricycle nineteen oh nine, orvile right he

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tests flied the world's first military are plane called the

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Right Flyer. I flewed around for an hour and twelve minutes.

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Crank dre up to forty miles an hour.

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And what's up dock.

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Bugs? Bunny's eighty four years old today?

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Yay. He appeared in a cartoon back in nineteen thirty eight,

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but he was just an unnamed standing today. In nineteen

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forty he got his first starring role in the movie

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A Wild Hair. Now what Mickey Mouse is for Disney, Yeah,

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that's what Bugs is for Warner Brothers. Been in over

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one hundred and sixty seven in short films, cartoons, and movies.

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Last movie was Space Jam, A New Legacy, just a

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few years ago.

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Now.

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Critics they say that Bugs he doesn't look any different

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than he has over all these years.

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He's aged really well.

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Nineteen fifty three of the Crean War ended South Korea,

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and the United States signed an armistice with North Korea

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that ended all the fighting. D Miller Taryer his own.

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It was created on the border between the two countries.

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Our ministice. It did in the fighting, but a peace treate.

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He has never been signed, so technically the war is

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still on, but the United States never officially called the

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Korea a war. So yeah, they're all kind of semantics.

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So I just hope that everything stays cool. Nineteen sixty five,

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President Lyndon Johnson he signed a law that required all

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cigarette makers to print warning labels on their packs of

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cigarettes YEP, warning of the effects of smoking. Nineteen ninety six,

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at the Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, a pipe

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bomb exploded at the Olympic Park. Two people were killed,

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one hundred and eleven were injured. A security guard named

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Richard Jewel he was blaming for it, although he claimed

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he had nothing to do with it, and an authorities

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never did have any kind of proof that he did

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add anything to do with that. Well, it ruined his

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entire life. Then, oh sorry, Richard. This total nut job

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named Eric Rudivalt did it. But Clint Eastwood, he did

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make a movie about how Richard Juell got screwed over,

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so he's got that. Two thousand and seven, at Phoenix, Arizona,

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had two news helicopters, one from KNXV and the other

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from k TVKE. They were covering a high speed police chase. Yeah,

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they fling away into each other. No survivors. Where stave

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is aviation disaster in Phoenix history. In twenty fourteen, Palestinians

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were shooting missiles into Israel. United States President Barack Obama,

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he wanted to clarify that the US policy was that

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Israel does have a right to defend itself. Then he

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condemned Israel for returning fire. Now, this is a cool story.

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Singer Neil Diamond. He had retired from singing after his

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diagnose with Parkinson's disease. Neil, he lives up here in

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the mountains near Basalt, Colorado. In twenty eighteen, Since July third,

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over four and fifty firefighters had been fighting a twenty

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square mile forest fire up there. Now, it took him

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twenty four days, but they were finally able to get

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that fire under control. So once it was under control,

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Neil grabbed his guitar and went to the fire command

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center gave an imprompted concert for all those firefighters. He

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has his way of saying thank you for saving his community.

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Coat.

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Coat, coat, show this shimmer O day we're gonna pull

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he left this shivery. We won't sit patage.

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He's like this ship birthday, and you know we don't

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because that's a birthday.

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All right.

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It was born on July the twenty seventh. Alan Breed.

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He was born in nineteen twenty seven in Chicago. It's

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what Alan did.

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Oh, he invented your car's airbags. Now, well, actually a

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Swedish guy invented the bag itself.

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See Allen.

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He invented the censor that causes the bag to deploy.

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Now the bags are nice and noll, but without that

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censor to deploy him, they're pretty much worthless. He died

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in two thousand and seventy two years old. They very

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rich men. Yeah, that's a hard one. It's from the

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sitcom Coach. Actor comedian Jerry Van Dyck was born in Danville, Illinois,

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in nineteen thirty one. Yes, he was Dick Van Dyke's

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younger brother. Now you might know Jerry Bess for playing

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Luther the TV show Coach. He was assistant coach. His

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first acting job was on The Dick Van Dyke Show. Yeah,

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it was a real stretch. He had to play Robert

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Petrie's brother in several episodes. His first starring role on

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TV was in the Show My Mother the Car that

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is considered the worst TV show ever. He had three

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children from his first wife. He married his second wife

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in nineteen seventy seven. He died in twenty eighteen at

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seventy six years old from heart failure. Gary Guy GaX

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He was born in Chicago in nineteen thirty eight. Now.

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Along with his friend Dave Arness, they created the role

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game Dungeons and Dragons Yeah nineteen seventy four, and Gary

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Inn stopped there. He created Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. Then Gary,

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he really shocked the world, might be the first D

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and D guy ever who actually got girls.

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Yeah.

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He got two of them. Married.

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The first one she was married for twenty five years

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and they had two kids. After they divorced, he was

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able to marry another girl in nineteen eighty seven and they.

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Had four kids. Gary.

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He died in two thousand and eight at sixty nine

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years old from an abdomino ajortic aneurysm.

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And Mama hollered at the back door, y'all remembered, wipe

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your feet, and then she.

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Said, I got some neooze this morning from chock Tovridge.

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Today. Billy Joe McCallister jumped off the Tellertchee Bridge.

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That was singer Bobby Gentry. She's eighty two.

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She was born near Woodland, Mississippi, in nineteen forty two.

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She was one of the first women to be able

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to write and produce her own music. Some of her

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heads were Oh to Billy Joe, let it be me fancy,

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she related to her last album in nineteen seventy one,

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then nineteen eighty two, and she was thirty nine years old.

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She just retired from music completely, said she was tired

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of it and didn't want to do it anymore. So

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she hasn't recorded, performed, or done an interview since. She

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has three times divorced, never lasted longer than two years.

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Her third husband was Jim Stafford. He's a dude who

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sang that song I Hate Spiders and Snakes. They did

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have one daughter.

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I saw eighty on TV this week. I was watching

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one of those animal shows on the Discovery Channel. There

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was a guy inventing a shark bite suit. There's only

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one way to test, man, you gotta get bent by

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a shark. The guy was invented one doing the test,

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and he had his buddy helping him.

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Out.

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That's the conversation I want to be in. Jimmy, come here,

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all right, Jimmy got that shark suit on.

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Looks good.

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Man.

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What we gonna do?

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We gonna strap dead fish all over your body.

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Comedian Bill Ingwall sixty seven. He's winning Galveston, Texas in

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nineteen fifty seven. Started doing stand up in nineteen eighty eight.

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He retired at the end of twenty twenty two. Most

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known for us Here's Your Signed stuff hit huge on

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the part of the Big Blue Collar Comedy Tour, in

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the movies and all that kind of stuff. He did

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have the bill Ingwall TV Show for a couple of years,

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and he was on the Jeff Foxworthy TV Show for

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a couple of years. At least nine or eleven comedy

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albums and twenty thirteen he got fourth place on Dan

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with the Stars.

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Pretty impressive.

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Uh well, he really sucked, but see the fans kept

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voting him through. They just thought it was funny as hell,

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and it really pissed off the judges. Bill he married

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in nineteen eighty two and they have one son and

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one daughter. Actor Julian McMahon. He was born in nineteen

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sixty eight in Sydney Astraa. He's fifty six. His dad

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was the Prime Minister of Australia in the early nineteen seventies.

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Julian first got known on TV first the Profiler charm

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Nip Duck, best known for playing Doctor Doom in the

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Fantastic Four movies. His first wife was singer Danny Minogue. Yeah,

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she was the younger sister for Kylie Minogue. They were

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married for one year, married his second wife for two years,

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and they had a daughter. Been married to his third

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wife since twenty fourteen. Comedian actress Maya Rudolph is fifty two.

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She's born in Gainesville, Florida, in nineteen seventy two. She

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was on Saturday Night Live from two thousand and two

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thousand and seven, been on Big Now since twenty seventeen.

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I guess he's won a bunch of awards for that.

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Some of her movies she did the grown up movies Bridesmaids.

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She voiced on Angry Birds. She's been in I'm in law,

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married since eleven or two thousand and one, and they

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have four children. Now. I want to wish my dad

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a very great and happy birthday today. He wants to

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spend it working out on his land, but we might

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be able to convince him to come inside and have

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a barbecue. He likes to listen to the show, he said,

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puts him to sleep, gives him a good nap.

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So happy birthday, Dad.

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Now, in honor of my father, my mom picked out

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today's factoid that will win you a beer. The average

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person farts between fourteen and twenty times a day. Well,

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thank you for being here, and now don't forget about

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the podcast Let's win you a beer where me and

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Rachel we talk about stuff just like that, stupid stuff

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that will win you a beer. All right, let's end

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with Bob hope.

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Than all the memory of sentimental verse nothing in my

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verse and chuckles when the preacher said for better or

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for worse.

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Bob Op died today in two thousand and three, at

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one hundred years old. He said, when we recall the past,

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it's the simple things, not the great oktions, that give

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off to the greatest glow of happiness. You guys, have

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an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow. No no no, no

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no no no no no no no

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