April 24, 2026

April 25-Hug a Plumber, Ella Fitzgerald, Al Pacino, Talia Shire, Erasure, Apu, Rene Zellweger, Jason Lee

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Hug a plumber day. Entertainment from 1967. Gullotine 1st used, First submarine to circumnavigate the Earth submerged, 1st solar powered battery. Todays birthdays - Ella Fitzgerald, Al Pacino, Talia Shire, Andy Bell, Hank Azaria, Rene Zellweger, Jason Lee. Ginger Rogers died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
Plumber - Weird Al Yankovich
Something stoopid - Nancy & Frank Sinatra
Need you - Sony James
Ind da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
It don't mean a thing if you ain't got that swing - Ella Fitzgerald
A little respect - Erasure
Somewhere over the rainbow - Rene Zellweger
My name is Earl TV theme
Exit - Whenever your around - The Charlesys https://www.charlesy.co.uk/the-

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Well, hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History

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and Facto. It's about today. Day's April the twenty fifth.

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Today is National Hugga Plumber Day. Now, let's be honest.

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Who would you rather live next door to a famous

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movie star, singer, the CEO of a big company, an

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athlete or a good plumber. Of course you take the plumber.

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Knowing a good plumber, that's a very valuable asset. Now,

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the first plumbing pipes, they're actually lad in twenty seven

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hundred BC in northwest India, Pakistan, that kind of area.

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So today show some appreciation, you know, plumber. If you

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come across one, now, you don't have to give him

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a hug, just a fist bumpledo. Just let him know

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that you really appreciate that skill. You never know when

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I might come back and say your butt. Let's see

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what was going on and entertainment in April twenty fifth,

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let's back to nineteen sixty seven. Number one album was

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More of the Monkeys by the Monkeys. Now Nancy and

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Frank's not Drad. The number one song was something stupid.

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And afterwards we dropped him to acquired little place and

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have a dreams caught you, and then I go and

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spoil it all by saying something stupid.

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Love dude.

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Sunny James had the number one country song, would Need You.

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Ah OHI.

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Sarlonly Sin Switt Hall. The number one book was The

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Arrangement by Ile Hazan. The top movie was thoroughly modern

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Milly Billy. She's a flopper in New York City during

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the jazz age. Now she is on a mission to

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marry her boss. Well it didn't go so well, sar As,

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Julie Andrews, Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Channing and James Fox.

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All right, what happened on April twenty fifth, sixteen forty

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four are over in China? The last emperor the Ming

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dynasty Chungsen. Yeah, he hung himself from a tree outside

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of Beijing. Yeah, he didn't want to be captured as

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his empire was falling. Now the means they had been

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in power since about two hundred and eighty years. Now

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the queens, they were in power. Seventeen nineteen, writer Daniel

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the Foe his book Robinson Caruso was published. Robinson Cruso.

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It was based on a real guy. That guy's name

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is Alexander Solkirk. Now this must have been one hell

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of a house, and we're still talking about it today.

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In seventeen fifty, doctor Thomas Walker, he built the first

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house in Kentucky. Really pissed off the natives. Now I

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was on next to the Tennessee border in the southwest

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part of the state, and hear what today is called Barberville. Now,

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this French doctor's name is Joseph Guillotine. He wanted a

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more humane way of performing execution, so he created the guillotine.

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It worked great. Now was used for the first time

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to day in seventeen ninety two over there in France.

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Now convicted murder, Nicholas Pelletier. He got to honor me

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in the first one to have his head locked up.

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Nineteen oh one, New York they begin the first state

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to require automobiles to have license plates. Now they didn't

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issue him. The car owner had to go get a

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maid by himself, and then they had to go and

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spend one dollar to register it with the state. New

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York didn't start issuing license plates until nineteen ten, after

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they saw on Massachusetts start doing it. Nineteen forty five,

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in World War Two, American soldiers and Soviet Union soldiers

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met up in tour Gay, Germany on the Elbe River.

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Soviets had fought there from the east, US from the west.

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It is a pretty big day over in Europe. Actually

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called LBDA. Nineteen forty seven and US President Harry Truman

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he had a bowling alley installed in the White House.

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It's still there. Yeah, Richard Nixon the actually I had

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it all improved. He said that Truman had the bowling alley.

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So what leaned to the left? Nineteen fifty four Beilla Labs.

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They announced that they had made the first solar powered

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battery had a six percent efficiency rate. I know, with

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all these years of technology and all that kind of stuff,

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that we really improved our solar batteries.

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Yeah.

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Now a good solar battery has a twenty percent efficiency rate.

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Look it up. Nineteen fifty nine and the Saint Laura

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Seaway opened up. It allows ships to travel from the

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Great Lakes to the Pacific Ocean, mostly in Canada and

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parts of Upper New York. Nineteen sixth day of the

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United States Navy submarine the Triton IF it came the

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first submarine to completely circumnavigate the Earth. Submerged Yeah, it

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was submerging the entire time. It took him sixty days

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and twenty one hours to make that trip. That's a

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long time to be under water. You know that subad

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to stink when they got here. I'm just saying. Nineteen

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eighty five, West Germany, they ruled that it was illegal

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for anybody to deny deny the Holocaust.

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Joke, dope dope joke, joke, sharge dish shivers day. Please

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gonna tase he left this shiverthday.

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We don't simple tage like this shibirthday. And you know

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we don't get birthday.

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Well, let's just check out it was born on April

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the twenty fifth.

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Bo don't would mean a thing if it hang out

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that swing, do out do a.

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Doua doua doua doua doua doua dua.

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It don't hold me the thing. Oh you gotta do

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a thing?

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Do have do doua doua doua doua doua doua dua.

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It makes no difference if it's sweet hard the Queenna

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jazz elephantz Gerald. She was born in Newport News, Virginia,

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in nineteen seventeen. She first found fame singing for the

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Chuck Web Orchestra. Nineteen forty two she went solo. She

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won thirteen Grammy sold over forty million albums. Now that

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is absolutely huge for Back then, she performed with a

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lot with Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington count see all the

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big names. She divorced twice. She had one child from

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her second husband, Ellis. She died from diabetes in nineteen

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ninety six at seventy nine years old. Actor al Pacino's

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eighty six. He was born in East Tarlem, New York

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in nineteen forty started out doing theater on Broadway one

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two Tony's So then he went into the mainstream movies.

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He has been.

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Nominated for Oscars four, Godfather one and two, Surpiico, Dog

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Day Afternoon, and Justice fraw Dick Tracy, I'm Glengarry Glenn

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Ross The Irishman. He did win one yeah for Sin

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of a Woman.

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Now.

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Ali's never married, but he has four kids. He had

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a daughter from a girlfriend back in nineteen eighty nine.

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In the nineties he was with actress Beverly DiAngelo and

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they had twins. Then two years ago, eighty three year

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old al Pacino him and a woman fifty three years

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younger than him. They had a son. Now that tie

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is out at number nineteen all time for the oldest

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man to have become a father. Yeah, in recorded history anyway.

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Actress Talia Shire. She was part of the Cupola family.

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Her older brother is director Francis fort Cupola. She's eighty today.

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She's born in Queens, New York and ieen forty six now.

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She first hit in the Godfather movies, then the Rocky

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movies and Prophecy dead Fall. She was nominated for Oscars

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for Godfather Too and Rocky One. She had a son

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from her first husband. She was married to her second

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of fourteen years when he died and they had two sons.

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Andy Bell sings lead for the duo Eraser.

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Yeah.

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He was born in Dogsthorpe, England, in nineteen sixty four

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sixty two today. Now, him and Vince Clark they formed

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a racer in nineteen eighty five. Some of the hits

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that came across the bond of the United States, right,

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Chains of Love, always a little respect. Now they're still

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really big over there in the UK and they are

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still together. But this summer, yeah, and he's doing his

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own solo stuff on tour, and he is very openly gay. Yeah,

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he is considered a gay icon over there in Britain.

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Now he's been living with HIV since nineteen ninety eight

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and he's been married to his husband since twenty thirteen,

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Hen Kazaria. He's also sixty two. He's born in Manhattan,

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New York. Now he's voiced on the Simpsons since nineteen

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eighty nine. Some of the characters he's voicer Moe, Chief Wiggins,

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comic book guy, Snake, Carl Yeah, who bunch you of

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some TV shows. He was actually on We're Herman's Head

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and Brockmeyer. Some of his movies Godzilla, America's Sweethearts and

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Along Came Pally. He's married to actress Helen Hunt for

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one year. Then he married a second wife in two

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thousand and seven and they have a son. Soinbo way

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line that and he guesses. This actor was Renee Zoewigger

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in the movie Judy about Judy Garland. Renee is fifty seven.

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She's born in Katie, Texas in nineteen sixty nine. Now,

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she had small roles and dazed and confused in reality

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by it, and then she had big and Jerry maguire.

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She was nominated for Oscars for The Bridget Jones Diary Chicago.

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She won Oscars for Cold Mountain and Judy Now. She

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married country singer Kenny Chesney for four months.

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Every time something good happened to me, he's something bad

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was always waiting around the corner.

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Was karma. That's when I realized I had to change.

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So I made a list of everything bad I've ever done,

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and one by one, I'm gonna make up for all

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my mistakes. I'm just trying to be a better person.

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My name is Earl. Actor Jason Lee is fifty six.

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He's born in Santa Enna, California, in nineteen seventy. Started

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out as a professional skateboarder, and then they pulled him

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to make some skateboarding movies. Then he went into mainstream movies,

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Male Rats, Chason, Yamy, Dogma, almost famous on TV. He

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started My Name is Rule Jason. He had a son

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from a girlfriend, married a second wife in two thousand

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and eight and they have three children. Okay, we're our

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quote of the day. Our quote of the day is

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coming from actress Ginger Rogers. Ginger died today in nineteen

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ninety five at eighty three years old, she said, the

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only way to enjoy anything in life is to earn

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it pretty profound. Well, thank you all for listening today.

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awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

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I don't know what.

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Come to.

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Chance come on things, but still gage for the first

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time my world game rock outside side. We never are

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round the stepcomt pose down thinking and if I try

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to speak, comes out like a be dream.

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And then a crowning rom.

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There's no one else. Fuck you, A Gray said, sis quick.

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If only you knew

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