April 1, 2026

April 2nd- Buddy Ebsen, Alec Guinness. Joe Friday, Marvin Gaye, Emmylou Harris, Bananarama, Billy Dean

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National ride your horse to a bar day/ Entertainment 2004. Ponce De Leon finds Florida, 1st person shot out of a cannon. Todays birthdays - Buddy Epsen, Alec Guinness, Jack Webb, Marvin Gaye, Emmylou Harris, Christopher Meloni, Keren Woodward, Billy Dean. Pope John Paul II died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
Beer for my horses - Toby Keith
Yeah! - Usher Lil Jon Ludacris
When the sun goes down - Kenny Chesney Unkle Kracker
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent https://www.50cent.com/
Dragnet tv theme
Heard it through the grapevine - Marvin Gaye
Two more bottles of wine - Emmylou Harris
Venus - Bananarama
Billy the kid - Billy Dean
Exit - The river song - Mark Mckinney https://www.markmckinney.com/

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Hello everyone, I am Jeff, and welcome to history and

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Factoid's about today? Today's April a second nothing.

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Guns supposed to settle us.

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Will say something jury too.

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I will have a little vocal. We'll raise up our

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glasses against evil forces, singing whiskey for my man before

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my horse.

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Today is national ride your horse to a bar day.

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How if you're able to physically, you are supposed to

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ride your horse to a bar.

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Now.

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I was in Fort Pierce, South Dakota about ten years ago.

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A guy literally rode his horse into the bar. Now,

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the locals, they just kind of shook their head and smiled.

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Rest of us are wondering, what the hell they butting

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our beer?

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Now.

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You shouldn't let your horse drink, though, because if your

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horse is sober, yeah, you won't get a ticket for

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riding it drunk, as long as it knows how to

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get you home. Well, in some states, yeah, you don't

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need a horse. You know, you can just saddle up

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an uber. I think the most important thing about today is, hey,

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go to a bar. It's also peanut butter and jelly

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sandwich day today too, so I guess you can enjoy

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that after you come back from the bars. All right,

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let's he's going on entertainment on April the second, It's

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back here in two thousand and four, then when album

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was Fills Like Home by Nora Jones. Uh sure, Little

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John Ludacris, they had the number one song with Yeah

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he had.

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Listen and she come cat me, Come Cat, I got

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she said, Baby, Let's go.

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Kenny Chasney and Uncle Cracker had the number one country

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song when when the Sun goes down.

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Rest up for long long nut was when the sun

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goals down, will be grooving When the sun goals down.

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You're feeling all right. When the sun sax down over

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the waters. Everything gets hotter when the sun goes down.

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The number one book was Third Degree by James Patterson

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and Andrew Gross. Top movie was hell Boy. A demon

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is rescued from Nazis and becomes a defender against forces

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of darkness stars Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, and John Hurt.

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Nineteen oh two in Los Angeles, the Electric Theater opened up, Yeah,

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the first full time movie theater in the United States.

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All let's see what happened On April the second, fifteen

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thirteen Punts Da Leone. He anchored off of what is

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now Saint Augustine, Florida claimed the whole thing for Spain.

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They were the first Europeans actually reached Forlida. Eighteen sixty six,

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United States President Andrew Johnson. He declared that the Civil

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War is officially over. Well lookscept for Texas. See Texas.

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They hadn't formed a new state government yet to replace

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their Confederate one. Eighteen seventy seven, in London, England, the

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first person ever was shot out of a cannon. She

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was fourteen year old Rosa Matilda Richter. She flew sixty

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feet over the head of the stunned crowd. Now the

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explosion was just for show. She was ejected by springs

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and tensioners and that kind of stuff. Now today they

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used compress eric, but the explosion is still off. Fake.

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Nineteen seventy eight, the TV show Dallas premiered. That was

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just supposed to be a five week mini series, but

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the ratings were so high they turned it into a series. Yeah,

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it ran for thirteen years. Joke joke, joked, joke, shog

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dish shibirth day.

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Please don't tag he left this shiver birthday.

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We want simple tage.

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He like this shilbirth day.

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And you know we don't get birthday, Well, let's check

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out it was born on April. The second actor, Buddy Ebson.

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He was born in Belleville, Illinois, in nineteen oh eight. Now,

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he was originally cast to play the tin Man in

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the movie Wizard of Oz. Yeah, he recorded all the

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songs and the ten Man sang and everything. But then

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when they started filming it, he got really sick and

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ended up in a really long hospital stay. He had

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a really severe allergic reaction to that aluminum dust that

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they used for the ten Man's makeup. Yeah, he had

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to drop Battle of the movie. Well, we got to

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know mister Epsen when he started as Jed Klempett and

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the Beverly hill Billies. After that he did Barnaby Jones

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nineteen seventy three or nineteen ninety three, they did the

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movie The Beverly hill Billies. Yeah, he played Barnaby Jones

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on it. But he had two daughters from his first wife.

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He was married to a second wife for thirty nine

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years when they divorced, and they had four daughters of

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one son married his third wife in nineteen eighty five.

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They were together until he died in two thousand and three,

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ninety five years old, from respiratory failure. Actor Sir Alec Guinness.

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He was born in Maldevale, England, in nineteen fourteen. Started

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out in theater when he was twenty years old. He

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was one of the best British Shakespearean actors of all time.

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After World War Two he started doing movies. Won an

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oscar for The Bridge Over the River Kwai. He was

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nominated for an oscar playing Obi Wan Kenobi in the

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very first Star Wars movie. Of course, he played Obi

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Wan and all three of those. He got married nineteen

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thirty eight and they had one son. He died in

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two thousand and eighty six years old from prostate and

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liver cancer.

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The story you were about to see is true. The

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names have been changed to protect the innocent.

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Actor Jack Webb. He was born in Santa Monica, California.

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In nineteen twenty. He played Joe Friday in Dragnet Now.

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I started off on the radio, then they moved it

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to TV for like ten years now. After that, he

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was the executive producer for the TV show in the

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seventies called The Emergency. If you remember that, he wrote

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all one hundred and seventy four episodes. He had two

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daughters from his first wife, married his fourth wife two

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years before he died in nineteen eighty two from art attack.

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Sixty two years old. Marvin Gaye he was going to Washington,

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DC in nineteen thirty nine. Started out as a very

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successful songwriter once they let him sing. He tried at

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forty one top forty hits. How sweet it is to

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be loved by you? Ain't nothing like the real thing.

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What's going on? Let's get it on? Heard it through

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the grape vine, though. There are some of Marvin's classic kids.

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He had wenchil from his first wife, two from his

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second wife. Now yesterday. Back in nineteen eighty four, Marvin

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he was breaking up a fight between his parents at

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their house. His dad pulled out a gun and shot

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and killed him. Yeah, his father never did do you

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any prison time after they took him in and everything

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and found out he had a brain tumor. So yeah.

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He died a couple of years after that. Marvin forty

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four years old. When he died, he.

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Beheld Let send the West Coastones tis all Mottles.

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Smart country singer Emmy Lou Harris is seventy nine. She

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was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in nineteen forty seven. The

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Queen of country rock. She started out singing with Graham

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Parsons when he died unexpectedly in nineteen seventy three, As

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You Went to Solo. She has the last twenty five albums.

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Since then, she's won fourteen Grammys. She's had fifteen number

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one songs. Some of those are Together Again, Lost His

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Love on Our Last Date, Two More Bottles of Wine,

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Sweet Dreams. Now she still performed sung Yeah, she does

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some shows every year now. Hair actually has three times divorced.

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She had one child from her first husband and one

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child from her second husband. Actor Christopher Maloney. He was

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one of Washington d C in nineteen sixty one. He's

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sixty five today. Now he has played Detective Elliott Stabler

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on Law and Order Special Victims Unit since nineteen ninety nine.

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Got married nineteen ninety five and they have a doctor

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and his son.

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Jesus.

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That was Karen Woodward singing for Banana Ramma. She's also

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sixty five. She's born in Bristol, England. She helped formed

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Bananaama in nineteen seventy nine. Now they took the name

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Banana Rama. It was from a Moxie music song called

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pie Jamarama. It's how they got their name. Hey, they

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started out as a trio, but they've been at duo

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since nineteen eight ninety one. Shy Boy Cirl Summer more

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than Physical. I heard a rumor venus some of their hits.

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They do tour, but only in the UK and over

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in Europe and that kind of stuff. Karen, she had

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a son from a boyfriend. Then she lived with Andrew Ridgley, Yeah,

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the guy from Whim.

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Yeah.

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They lived together for seventeen years, broke up in twenty seventeen.

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Days got cause saults.

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I wanted to wear he.

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Billy the ky country singer Billy in sixty four. He's

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born in Quincy, Florida, in nineteen sixty two. Now he

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had a basketball scholarship to college. Then he quit after

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one season. Yeah, he wanted to go pursue music. That

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was his true love. Oh, he did win star starts

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and then he had some big HiT's only here for

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a little while. If there hadn't been you only the

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win Billy the kid. Billy had two children from his

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first wife, married a second wife in two thousand and five.

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All right, our quote of the day today we're in

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and we had Pope John Paul the Second. He died

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today in two thousand and five, at eighty four years old.

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John Paul said, an excuse is worse and more terrible

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than a lie. An excuse is just a lie guarded.

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All right, well, you guys, thank you all for being

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here today and listening. We appreciate it. Don't forget to

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follow us. I know you listen to us on as

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we're always. We're gonna end with our country underground radio

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artist of the day. They're gonna end with Mark McKinney.

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We're gonna play his song, the River Song. You guys,

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have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow.

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This sex Bouts gets me. It's been fifty six.

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Days over a hundred to grease and it's kind of

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gotten to my head.

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My attitude's been lit lone years ago.

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Watch you say we get out of here, you know,

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talking about a river and a cool or beer, and

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I've been holding we need nothing else.

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Just you bring out good look itself.

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I'm going off on a cool river.

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Call a key portraying mine and I can't remember what it.

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Was that I couldn't get out.

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Well here we are. Well be a good time.

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Last one hand's got a Barten, so grab me in

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the number one.

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I'm ready again. Girl.

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That bikini show looks nice. I really like the way

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it brings out.

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I have no little head giving me a kiss.

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I don't get no better than this. Sorry, been stressed

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the last few days, but thank god, the water just

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takes it away.

April 2nd- Buddy Ebsen, Alec Guinness. Joe Friday, Marvin Gaye, Emmylou Harris, Bananarama, Billy Dean

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