April 11, 2026

April 12-Grilled Cheese, Steppenwolf, David Letterman, Andy Garcia, Vince Gill, Everclear, Shannen Doherty, Claire Danes

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National Grilled Cheese Sandwich day. Entertainment from 2025. Civil War began, 1st human into space, Space Shuttle Columiba launched, Capt. Phillips happened. Todays birthdays - John Kay, Ed O'Neill, David Letterman, Andy Garcia, David Cassidy, Vince Gill, Art Alexakis, Shannen Doherty, Claire Danes, Easton Corbin. Franklin Roosevelt died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
I love grilled cheese sandwiches - The Hungry Food Band
Luther - Kendrick Lamar SZA
A bar song - Shaboozy
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
Born to be wild - Steppenwolf
I think I love you - The Partridge Family
Cinderella - Vince Gill
Wonderful - Everclear
A little more country than that - Easton Corbin
Exit - Tonight - Toby May https://tobymayofficial.com/music

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Hello, and welcome to history and Factor. It is about today.

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I am Jeff. Today's April the twelfth.

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I really love grilled cheese. I love took grew cheese.

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And it's not just grewed cheese. It's actually cheese in middroop,

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two pieces of bread. It's a cheese sandwich. Are your

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mid grilled cheese sandwich?

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Yes?

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Today is national girl cheese sandwich today. How people are

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they been eating cooked bread and cheese for thousands of years?

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About those girl cheese sandwiches that we love today. Yeah,

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they didn't start til the nineteen twenties. Why well, that's

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what sliced bread was invented. Yeah, today it's all about you.

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You can ad your girls she sandwich as playing in

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basic as you wanted, or as fancy and gourmete you

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want only nationwide deal Sonic they're giving away one dollar

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grilled cheese sandwiches today. So and Jordan enjoys some grilled cheese. Alrighty,

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let's see what's going on in entertainment on April or

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twelveth Let's just go back one year. Twenty twenty five

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number one album was Eternal Sunshine by Ariana Grand Kendrick

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Lamar and Za. They had the number one song with

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Luther Roman.

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Almost seven bays is hot. If this roll was in mine,

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not taking James and made nomos a five. If this

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will was mine not taking hand an amazing in front

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of the path, then she'll do something to that like hit

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them stick Lee with the five.

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It's a five video dance and had a lot chill

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fan he a Flyp's just one of combs. Nah shaboozi

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ad the number one country song with a bar song sell.

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Them bringing another out? We need anymore stepping on the table.

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She don't need to to dance for um good Lord

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Smo coming out a double shot of Wishy nails his street.

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There's a party downtown in your fish streets. Everybody had parting.

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The number one book was The Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros.

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The top movie was a Minecraft movie Four Nerds. They

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get sucked into the world of Minecraft. How are they

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ever gonna get home? Stars Jack Black and Jason Momoa.

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All Right?

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What happened? On April the twelfth, eighteen fifty three New

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York They enacted the country's first truancy policy. It was

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a fifty dollars fine if your kid between five and

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fifteen miss school. That'd be about eighteen airred bucks today.

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Eighteen sixty one, the Civil War began is in South Carolina,

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the Confederate Army, and they started shelling the Unions Fort Sumter,

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now the Confederates, they fired on the four for thirty

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four hours for the Union Army actually surrendered eighteen ninety

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two in Samford, Connecticut. George Blickensdorffer, he invented the portable typewriter.

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I know it's not that big a deal, but I

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like Sam Blickendorffer all right. Nineteen eleven and Pierre Pryor,

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he flew the O non sty airplane fight from London

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to Paris. Took him three hours and fifty six minutes,

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so I don't know what he was doing up there.

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Must have been doing some stump flying and loops and stuff,

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because today it takes about one hour and nineteen minutes

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to meet that flight. Nineteen thirty four, on Mount Washington

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in New Hampshire, they recorded a win speed two hundred

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and thirty one miles an hour. That was the highest

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wind speed ever measured in the world until nineteen ninety six.

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Yea Australia they got went up to two fifty three. Yeah,

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we just talked about that a couple of days ago,

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didn't we. Well, New Hampshire, I guess you got the

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North American record still. Nineteen sixty one, Soviet Union's you're

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a Gagaron. He became the first person to travel into space.

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It took that twenty six year old cosmonaut one hundred

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and eight minutes in order to urbit the Earth landed

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safely in Cauzes Guy's extend. Nineteen eighty one. The United

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States Space shet of Columbia that made its first flight. Yeah,

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the first time he reusable spacecraft went into space. If

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you all seen the movie Captain Phillips, well, if you

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have it, well then this is just a spoiler alert.

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But for the rest of us to remind you, it's

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where Tom Hanks, he plays that cargo ship Captain Phillips. Yeah,

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it was hijacked by Somali pirates. He was taking hostage.

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The Navy seals took out those pirates. Then, yeah, that

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took place today in two thousand and nine. Oh, the

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shooting in of the pirates did, and fring of Captain Phillips.

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The rest happened a couple of days earlier.

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Dope Dope, dope, dope, sharge dish shiver birthday, Please gonna

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he left this shiverthday.

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We won't sit potage like this shive birthday. And you

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know we don't give that's birthday.

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Well, let's check out. It was born on April the twelfth.

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We were ball to me. That was John k.

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He was the lead singer for the Man Steppenwolf. John

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is eighty two today. He was born in Tilsit, Russia,

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by the Soviet Union back in nineteen forty four. Now,

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this family they fled to Canada and they escaped the

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Soviet Union. That's where he grew up. He helped start

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Steppenwolf in nineteen sixty seven. They got the name from

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a German novel called Dirst Steppenwolf, Magic Carpet Ride, Rock

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Me Straight, Straight Shooting Woman, Born to be Wild. That's

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just some of the Steppenwolf's biggest hits. Now they called

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her quits in twenty eighteen. Johnny met his wife in

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nineteen sixty five. She was working at a coffee shop

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where he was playing. Still together and they have one daughter.

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Actor Ed O'Neill, he's eighty today. He was born in Youngstown, Ohio,

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in nineteen forty six. Now he did play college football,

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but not running back. He played defensive line for Youngstown State.

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Now he got a try out with the Pittsburgh Steelers,

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but he was a cut Yeah. During training camp he

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was behind me and Joe green and Elsie and Greenwood,

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both future Hall of famers. So he went into acting.

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It Big Play Now Bundy on Married with Children, then

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Modern Family after that, Now Married with Children was on

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there two and fifty nine episodes. Modern Family two in

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and fifty episodes. That's two pretty rud pretty good runs there.

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Some of the movies that Ed was in were Fort Fairline,

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Dutch Blue Jets, The Boat Collector. He got married nineteen

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eighty six and they have two daughters. Might not look

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like it, but he's a black belt and Brazilian jiu jitsu.

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Late night TV talk show host David Letterman seventy nine.

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He was born in Indianapolis in nineteen forty seven. After college,

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he started out as a weather man on an Indianapolis

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TV station. After five years, he moved to California to

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be a stand up comic. Well, he ended up getting

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the Late Night with David Letterman Show in nineteen eighty two,

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retired in twenty fifteen after thirty three years in six

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thousand and eighty episodes. He married his second wife in

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two thousand and nine and they have one Sonny, I'll.

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Go through this ceiling.

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Didn't know how to deal with and so I just

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decided to myself. I'd heard to myself and man talk

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about and did not go in a shout when you

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watched to the room.

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He was David cat City. He was born in New

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York City in nineteen fifty. Now his dad was actor

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Jack Cassidy. Now, after Jack divorced David's mom, he married

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Shirley Jones and then David and surely they started together

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on The Partridge Family. David he became a teenage idol

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on The Partridges Family, and he left the show to

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concentrate more in music. Some of his biggest hits are cherish,

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how can I Be Sure? Rock Me Baby, lying to myself.

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Over the years, he did a lot of Broadway, and

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he did a lot of residence. He's up there in

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Las Vegas. He had a daughter from a flag then

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he had a daughter from his third wife. He was

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divorced three times, David. He had a really bad alcohol

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probably pretty much his entire adult life. He had got

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up with him. It got himhen he was sixty seven

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years old. Actor Andy Garcia is seventy. He's born in Havana, Cuba,

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in nineteen fifty six. Moved his family in the United

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States when he was five. Now, I first got known

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really big, and then touch the Balls, and then internal affairs.

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The Godfather. He was nominated for Oscar for that one

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Godfather three that's right, he's too young for the first ones.

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Then he did all those Ocean eleven, Ocean twelve, Ocean

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thirteen minutes. And he married nineteen eighty two. Yeah, and

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they have three daughters and one son. Country singer Vince Gill.

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He was born in Norman, Oklahoma, in nineteen fifty seven,

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makes him sixty nine today. Started out playing a whole

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bunch of bluegrass bands. Then in nineteen seventy nine he'd

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getting the lead singer for that country rock band, Pure

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Prairie League. Nineteen eighty three, there so big. He went

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solo some of his number one song since her, I

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Still believe in You Don't let Our Love Die. Cinderella

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won more Last chance. Now when Glenn Fry died back

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in twenty seventeen. You know what the Eagles. Yeah, Vince

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took over Glynn fried spots, so he's been at the

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Eagles since twenty seventeen. Also, his first wife was Janet Oliver.

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She was in this Hearts of the Rodeo. They had

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a daughter. They divorced after seventeen years, and Vince married

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Amy Grant in two thousand and they have a daughter.

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They don't better when I hear them say, everything will

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be wonderful, So.

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Sis news the.

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World so bid. Just don't understand you. Now with almost here,

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fill me.

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Arta Lexicas, he sinks lead for the band Everclaire Already

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in sixty four is one of Los Angeles in nineteen

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sixty two, form Everclare in nineteen ninety one. Some of

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their hits are wonderful, Santa Monica, father of Mine, unemployed

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boyfriend Everclaire. They're actually out until right now. They're gonna

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be out in Tortil beginning November. If you want to

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go check out one of their shows. Now. Already had

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a daughter from his first wife, married his third wife

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in two thousand and nine and they have a daughter.

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Twenty nineteen already announced that he is being diagnosed with

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multiple scrosses. Well, that doesn't has slown him down, So

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that's pretty cool and I'm sure wish him the best.

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Actress Shannon Doherty. She was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in

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nineteen seventy one. Her first acting job was on the

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TV show Little House on the Prairie. She was eleven

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years old. Of course, she had big on that song

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We played Beverly Hills nine o two one. After that Charmed.

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Some of her movies were Heathers mal Rats, Striking Poses.

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She was three times to ours. Shandon died in twenty

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twenty four, fifty three years old, from breast cancer. Actress

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Clare Danes is forty seven. She's born in Manhattan, New York,

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nineteen seventy nine. She first got famous for the TV

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show My So Called Life. Then she was on Homeland

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for nine years. Some of her movies were Little Women,

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I Love You, I Love You, Not Romeo and Juliet

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termin eight or three.

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Now.

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She married in two thousand and nine and they have

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two sons and one daughter.

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I just Walsh, make sure you know just too your

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getting under the soul happened Alles girl.

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Non cond you time, I'll playing games back.

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I'm a little more country and that forty four year

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old country singer Eastern Corbin. He was born in Trenton, Florida,

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in nineteen eighty two. So I'm a Corbyn's biggest that's

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our role with it a little more country than that,

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loving you. It's fun all over the route east and

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he's out on tour right now, all the way till

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the end of August. We're going to chuck East out.

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He married once for six years.

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Allright.

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Our quote of the day, we're gonna end President Franklin Roosevelt.

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Franklin Roosevelt died today in nineteen forty five, sixty three

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years old. He says, when you reach the end of

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your rope, Tian night and hang on. Well, thank you

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all for joining us today and listening to us. Read

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our country underground radio artists today. Because I'm Mitchell in Birmingham.

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He wants here Toby May song tonight, You guys have

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an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

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We'll start shirt at one hundred bucks. I'm guessing my

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old troll tonight to come and pick you up.

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I'm going through the hammered down or my truck for

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that big old town.

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Tonight, we're gonna get wild up you Ever're gonna meet

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your friends in the parking lot past the jar. Have

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a few more shots heavy side the bar. We're gonna

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crack it. Get to night. We're gonna get over up.

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We're gonna dance around like some far poons. All down

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and get back up. You have to night we're gonna

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