April 20, 2026

April 21-Bulldogs, Iggy Pop, The Cure, Andie McDowell, Tony Danza, Red Baron, Rome, Texas Independence, Prince Died

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National Bulldogs are beautiful day. Entertainment from 1987. German ace the Red Baron shot down, Texas won its independence from Mexico, Spain declared war on the U.S. Todays birthdays - Anthony Quinn, Charles Grodin, Iggy Pop, Paul Davis, Tony Danza, Andie McDowell, Robert Smith. Prince died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
Billy does your bulldog bite - Sawyer Brown
I knew you were waiting - Aretha Franklin George Michael
Rose in paradise - Waylon Jennings
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
Candy - Iggy Pop
65' Love Affair - Paul Davis
Friday, I'm in love - The Cure
Soft & Wet - Prince
Exit - Keeping the ring - Jessie Lynn https://www.jessielynn.net/

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Hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history and

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factoids about today. Today's April. The twenty first kidding rule

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that's got a dog that's meeting me is don never seen.

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Even a footing for you. It didn't be any way

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you're having so hard to me.

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It is a gold dog bite.

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I gotta see your sister tonight. I hold the kids saying,

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hold of the super around and tell me doll fite.

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Today is National Bulldogs Are Beautiful Day. I got beauty

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as the eyes to be older. But if you're in

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a slobber and wrinkles, bulldogs are hot. Now. The bulldog

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is the fourth most popular breed of dogs in the

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United States. Bulldogs, they were the original pit bulls. Yeah,

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they were bred to be aggressive and help control livestocks. Now,

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that went until nineteen thirty five. That's when they add

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loed bull baiting. Yeah. Once they changed that. Yeah, bulldogs,

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they were no longer bred to be big and aggressive dogs.

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See the bulldogs back then, eighty pound dogs but without

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bull baiting. Yeah, came into these smaller dogs now, the

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kind that you have running around your house today. Wonder

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what bull baiting is. Oh, that's how the Bulldog got

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his name. It was a sport where you bet on

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it's between bulls and dogs. Now, they would stake the

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bull to the ground with a short leash or a tether.

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Then they let the bulldog go and he would try

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and attack the bull by biting it on the nose

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or the neck until he died, and the bull it

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would try and fling the dog with his horns. Yeah,

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pretty gross sport. It was really popular in England and Ireland.

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The United States, we didn't have a lot of bulldogs,

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so we actually came up. Yeah, we used bears, that's right.

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But then they shipped a bunch of bulldogs over here.

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And the people still like the bears. And so if

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you went to the bull baiting here in the United States,

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you had bears going against bulls, bulls going against dogs,

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dogs going against bears. You got a bet on all

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of it. But of course it was always illegal in

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nineteen thirty five. But that is how the bulldog got

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his name and led to that adorable dog that you

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left today. Just remember today bulldogs are beautiful, all right.

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Let's see it happened in entertainment on April twenty first.

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It was back in nineteen eighty seven and one album

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was licensed to ill by the Beastie Boys. Aretha Franklin

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and George Michael had the number one song with I

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Knew You Were Waiting.

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Fault Stop.

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Waylon Jennings had the numb one country song with Rose

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and Paradise Time you Can See the Fire It is.

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With Bold Through the Hill Suddenly the Mongols in Peddi.

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The number one book was Fine Things by Danielle Steele.

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The top movie was the Secret of My Success A

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young man he wants to be a business executive without

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rising through the ranks. Stars Michael J. Fox and Helens Slater.

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Let's see it happened on April the twenty first, seven

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point fifty three BC. Ron meulis a remus. They founded

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the city of Rome. Yeah, they picked the spot. Yeah,

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same place where Rome is today now. They picked that

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spot because when they were orphaned, his infants as she

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will suckle them and kept them alive. Go ahead, look

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it up. Sixteen forty nine, Maryland, they passed the Maryland

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Tolerance Act. It allowed the freedom of worship for all

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Christians regardless of no matter what denomination. Whereas yep, they

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wouldn't criticize you, but if you would be sentenced to

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death if he rejected Jesus. Eighteen thirty six, at the

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Battle of San Jacino, Texas, they won their independence from Mexico.

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The Texas they were really outnumbered. But during the battle

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Mexican general and el president they sent Dona. Yeah, he

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was captured Biden. Instead of killing him, Texas General Sam Houston,

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he made him sign a sign of letter of surrender

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that forced the entire Mexican army to start fighting. Texas

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was free. Eighteen seventy eight in New York City, they

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installed the first firehouse poll. Eighteen ninety eight. Spain, they

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declared war in the United States. Four days from now.

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The United States is to say, all right, we declared

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war on you too. Yeah, that Spanish American war doesn't

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work out so well for Spain. World War One in

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nineteen eighteen, German ace pilot Baron von Richtoffen, best known

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as the Red Baron. Now he had shot down eighty

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Allied planes. Well, he was shot down and killed the

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day a Canadian pilot at Arthur Brown. He got credit

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for it, but actually the Red Baron he was straightened

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a bunch of Australian soldiers and they're going, yeah, they

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shot him down. That pably didn't have anything to do

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with but he got credit for it. Red Baron twenty

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five years old. Nineteen sixty two, Brazil, they moved their

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capitol from Rio Dijonere to Brazilia. Now they are starting

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building Brazilia. In nineteen fifty six, yep, just to be

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the capitol. Nineteen eighty four, after thirty seven weeks, Michael

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Jackson's album Thriller was knocked out of that number one

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album spot by the movie soundtrack to Footloose. Twenty nineteen,

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Ukrainian comedian and Vladimir Zelenski he won the Ukrainian presidential

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election by landslide. Yeah. He had played the president on

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a sitcom. Joke joke joke, shog Dish shiberth day.

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We're gonna ta he left this shubfday. We want simple tage.

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He left this shibirth day.

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And you know you don't give up the birthday. Okay

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Let's is born on April the twenty first actor Anthony Quinn.

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He was born in Chihuahua, Mexico. In nineteen fifteen, won

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Oscars for Viva Sapata and Lust for Life. Now, some

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of the movies he might actually know were Guns and

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Navarron Lawrence of A. Now get this. Quinn, as you know,

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obviously is from Mexico. With he is from Chihuahua, but

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for some reason he was cast away Greek guys in

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eleven different movies. He had five children from his first wife.

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Then he had three children from his second wife. Now

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during that marriage he had two more children off to

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the side. That's why they got divorced. So after that

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divorce he had two more kids from his secretary. Married

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his third wife in nineteen ninety seven. Died from cancer

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in two thousand and one, eighty six years old. Actor, comedian,

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tak show host Charles Grodon. He was born in Pittsburgh

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in nineteen thirty five. First got known of the movie

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Heartbreak Kid and then King Kong, Heaven k and Wayne

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did those Beethoven movies. He had a daughter from his

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first wife, married his second wife in nineteen eighty three

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and they had a son. Grodon. He died in twenty

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twenty one, eighty six years old. That was Ziggy Pop.

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He's seventy nine. He was born in Miskegon, Michigan, in

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nineteen forty seven. Jiggy he was a grandfather of punk music,

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at least he gets credit for it. Started out singing

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for the Stooges in nineteen sixty seven Students. They didn't

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sell a lot of records, but there on the Rock

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and Roll Hall of Fame. Broke up in nineteen seventy four.

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I got back together in two thousand and three. Twenty sixteen,

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Iggy had to make that public announcement that the Stooges

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were normalre Nope, all the other members of the band

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had died, and you just can't have a band named

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the Stooges with only one Stooge. He actually had a

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really pretty good solo career on the side all those years.

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Some of his hats Real World Child, Candy, Bang Bang.

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Nineteen seventy seven, he wrote that song China Girl alongside

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David Bowie. Jiggy he got to record it first. Well,

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it didn't do nothing, It didn't chart or anything. Five

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years later, nineteen eighty three, Bowie released it went up

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to number two in the UK and number ten in

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the United States. Nineteen seventy is Ziggy had a son

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from a girlfriend. He's been married to his third wife

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since two thousand and eight. That was Paul Davis. He's

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born in Meridian, in Mississippi in nineteen forty eight. Now

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he had on the pop charts with a sixty five

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Love Affair and I Go Crazy. Then he went country.

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You have had a whole bunch of number one songs,

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a lot of success, singing duets with Marie Osmond and

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Daniel Tucker. Now Paul, he was married and had one son.

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When he died in two thousand and eight, it was

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one day after his sixtieth birthday. Hey, he had a

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big heart attack. After Tony dans Is seventy five. He

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was worn in Brooklyn, New York in nineteen fifty one.

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Started out as a professional boxer. He had a record

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of nine wins and three losses. Then he quit. He

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wanted to concentrate just on acting, so I got a

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job on the TV sitcom Taxi, where he played a boxer,

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and he was in Who's the Boss. He had the

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Tony Danzis Show for a couple of years. Some of

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his movies were Going Ape, Cannonball, Run Too Crash. I

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think his best movie was Angels in the Outfield. He

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had one son and two daughters from his first wife.

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He was married to a second wife for twenty seven

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years and they had two daughters. Actress Andy McDowell. She

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was born in Gathnew South Carolina in nineteen fifty eight.

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She's sixty eight today. Started out as yeah, she's a

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really top model. So she was roally pretty. So they

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decided to put her in movies. First acting job when

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she was gonna start in the big budget movie Tarzan,

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the Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, but her

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South Carolina accent was so thick that they actually had

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to double voice.

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In the whole movie.

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Yeah, he's looking Glen Glenn close that she did hit

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with her own voice and sex lives and videotapes, Green Card,

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Groundhog Day, four Weddings and a funeral. She had one

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son and two daughters from her first husband. She married

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this former high school guy. Yeah, they carey connected like

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thirty five years later, you know, really romantic. Yah, I

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didn't work it. It lasted like two years, she says.

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He and wait, say so Thursday, I don't care about you.

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With his Friday, Loday.

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You turned.

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Tuesday. We say break my Thursand.

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That was Robert Smith, the lead singer for the Bandic

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Cure yep co found the Cure in nineteen seventy eight.

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Then in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, love Cats,

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Never Enough, Friday, I'm in Love, love Song, Yeah, some

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of their big hits. Now he sings and plays guitar

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and writes all their songs too. Now he claims that

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he did not start goth or the goth movement. See

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he always dressed like that. It was just a pure

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coincidence that goth started about the same time the Cure hit.

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Roberts sixty seven. He's one of Blackpool, England in nineteen

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fifty nine. It's been married since nineteen eighty eight. Him

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and his wife they met actually in class in high school. Yeah,

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they're both fourteen years old. Alrighty. Today's quote of the

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day it comes from Prince. That song Soft and Wet.

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It was the first song that Prince released. It was

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back in nineteen seventy eight, made it up to ninety

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two on the charts. Pramcy died today in twenty sixteen,

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at fifty seven years old. He said, every day I

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feel is a blessing from God and I love new beginning. Well,

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thank you all for listening today, don't forget to follow

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us on whoever you're listening to us song you cann't

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find it everywhere. Now our country underground radio artists today,

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Where do we go with jesse Lynn? She actually just

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got a doctorate too. This is her song keeping the Ring.

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So you guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

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Gone he stood. It was fun at the starch and

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he trembled on my heart and to get out on

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me go man love like some guy on the Conry

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country Zone. Now he's he's gone. S long day tomorrocle.

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That's not a wop, spread my way stuning, but it's

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all right. You'll let me want good in the room.

April 21-Bulldogs, Iggy Pop, The Cure, Andie McDowell, Tony Danza, Red Baron, Rome, Texas Independence, Prince Died

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