April 3, 2026

April 4-Carrots, Martin Luther King killed, Muddy Waters, Robert Downey Jr., Heath Ledger, Craig T. Nelson

April 4-Carrots, Martin Luther King killed, Muddy Waters, Robert Downey Jr., Heath Ledger, Craig T. Nelson
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International carrot day. Entertainment from 1964. Martin Luther King assassinated, 1st woman in US elected as a Mayor, World Trade Center opened, NATO formed. Todays birthdays - Muddy Watters, Anthony Perkins, Craig T. Nelson, Robert Downey Jr., Nancy McKeon, Heath Ledger, Natasha Lyonne.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
Carrots are yummy - From Kids English
Can't buy me love - The Beatles
Understand your man - Johnny Cash
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent https://www.50cent.com/
Whats this all about - Muddy Waters
Exit - Cowboys are crazy - Jolie & Sonny https://jolieandsonny.com/

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Hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and fact.

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Dude's about today. Day's April the fourth.

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Carrot sig yumy carosone carrot sigh yumy carrots. I like

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carrotsig yumy carrots. Nice carrots.

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I like. It's International Carrot Day now. Carrots. They're awesome,

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They taste great, super healthy, can be stored forever. During

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World War Two, when there was sugar ashing, people just

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use carrots instead of sugar. How do you think they

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came up with carotcake?

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Now?

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Today's basically remind you that as you're getting ready to

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plant your garden. Yeah, don't forget the carrots. All right,

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let's going on to entertainment. On April fourth, it was

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back to nineteen sixty four and one album was Meet

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the Beatles by the Beatles. Beatles had the number one

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song with Can't Buy Me Love.

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God Bobby by You Do my Friends below right, I

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Get you Anything, my friend Lily below right to I

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Don't care you Much the Money Money Bobby.

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Johnny Cash had the numb one country song with Understand

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your Man.

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I'll lay there then you'll be keeping your mouth shut

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till I'm gone don't give me that old familiar crime

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cussing mom, unlustand you man. I'm a party of bad mouth,

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unlustanding you man.

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The number one book was The Spy Who Came In

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from the Cold by John Lecar. The top movie was

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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Mad World. After a car

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crash out in the desert, the driver's dying words tell

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of a location of a hidden stash. Alot. Well, all

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the witnesses that have pulled over, oh they all make

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a mad dasher try and get to it first. Stars Spencer, Tracy, Milton, Burrow,

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Ethel Berman, Seed, Caesar, Buddy Hacket. Yeah, there's a whole

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bunch of them.

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All right.

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What happened on April fourth and eighteen eighteen Congress they

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enacted in the US Flag Act now stated that the

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United States flag would have only thirteen stripes, and those

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are represented the original thirteen colonies. Then there'd be a

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star from every stripe or for every state that comes in.

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See the United States. They had been adding stars and stripes,

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so every time they added a state, and it got

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ridiculous when they got up to twenty straits to have

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on twenty different stripes. So, yeah, eighteen forty one, United

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States President William Henry Harrison. He died from pneumonia, so

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after only thirty one days in office, so he was

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the first president to die in office. Actually, John Tyler

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he became the tenth President of the United States to

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take over for him. Eighteen eighty seven and outspoken Susan Salter.

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She was elected mayor of Argonia, Kansas. So the first

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woman elected as a mayor in the United States. See

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a group of men they wanted to teach women that

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they didn't have any place in politics and just be quiet,

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because you have to remember, women they couldn't even vote

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back then, so they wanted to just humiliate Susannah so

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they nominated her and put her on the ballot. She

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didn't even know she was running until the morning of

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the election. When she heard about it, she went downtown

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and did some campaigning. Yeah, ended up winning the election

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by two thirds of the vote. Well, she actually went

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and only served her one term and then she proved

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her point something. Yeah, she walked away said I win. Now,

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this show is just how much influenced video and pictures have.

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In nineteen thirty three, a United States Army airship basically

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a blimp. It was called the uss Ex Akron. It

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crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off of New Jersey. Seventy

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three the people on board were killed. Only three survived.

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Now you've probably never heard of the Akron. But when

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the Hindenburg crashed, thirty six people were killed and sixty

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seven lived. But we all know about the Hindenburghs. Could

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we saw the film? Nineteen forty nine, twelve countries they

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signed the treaty creating NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

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In nineteen eighty nine, when NATO got up to sixteen countries,

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they promised in the Soviet Union and Slash Russia that

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they would not add any more countries. Well, today there's

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thirty two countries in NATO. Nineteen sixty eight, Martin Luther

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King was assassinated as he was standing on a hotel

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balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. That was one day after he

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gave it as really famous I've been to the mountaintop speech.

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As soon as word got out about King being killed, Yeah,

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riding broke out and over one hundred cities across the country.

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Army and National Guard had to be called out in

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order to calm everything. Down. Over twenty thousand people were arrested.

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Forty three people were killed during the writing. Nineteen seventy three,

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in New York City, the World Trade Center opened up

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three hundred and fifty feet high one hundred and ten stories,

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world's tallest buildings. Well for one month, then the Serious

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Tower opened up in Chicago. Now I would think if

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you went to jail, you'd want all the other prisoners

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to think that you were really tough. Let's make it

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kind of hard. Nineteen seventy five singer Steve Miller. You

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know from the Steve Miller Man. He got arrested for

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burning his girlfriend's clothes.

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Dope joke, cooke joked joke, shows this shiverthday.

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Please gonna this shiverthday.

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Were gonna simple tag this shiverthday.

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And you know we don't give up.

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That's a birthday.

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

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That Gypsy Wama told my mother before I was born,

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I got a barn child's coming. He's gonna be a

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son of a gun. They're gonna make for the women's

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chomping shower. Then the world wanna know what the song.

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He might have been born McKinley Morganfield, but he has

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world famous as Muddy Waters. He's gonna jugs Corner, Mississippi.

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In nineteen thirteen. He grew up on a plantation, learned

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how to play the guitar in the harmonica there. Then

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in nineteen forty three Muddy he head off to Chicago

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became the father of Chicago blues. The nineteen fifty Muddy

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in his band. They were so popular they were the

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biggest band in blues in the entire country. They had

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the songs Hoochy Coochy Man, I just want to make

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love to you, I'm ready now, even hit up Big

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across the Pond over in England. Now, Muddy he was

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putting into that rock and roll Hall of Fame in

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nineteen eighty seven. And get this on the side, he

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discovered Chuck Berry. Yeah, so part of Muddy's cleaning face.

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He had three children from a thirty year relationship with

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a woman. She died in nineteen seventy three, so he

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had two more sons of two other women. Then he

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went in and got married finally in nineteen seventy nine.

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They were together until he died in a sleep from

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HEARTFILLI in nineteen eighty three. It's seventy years old. Said

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he get the name Muddy waters Well the God as

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a child because he liked playing in the mud. Actor

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Anthony Perkins, he was born in nineteen thirty two, started

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out in Broadway. Now he switched over to the movie

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his late nineteen fifties. You probably know him best we

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playing Norman Bates in the movie Psycho. He was also

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in Catch twenty two Mortar on their Earning Express. Now,

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everybody in entertainment business all over Hollywood they knew that

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Perkins was gay. He had actually had a lot of

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boyfriends out there, and some of them were pretty big

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names actually. But when he was forty one years old

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he went and got a twenty five year old woman pregnant.

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Everybody in Hollywood they thought it was just kind of

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up front or something that never last.

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Well.

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They ended up getting married and had two sons. They

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were married from nineteen seventy three until Anthony He died

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in nineteen ninety two at sixty years old from aids

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Now his wife and sons they didn't have eades. His

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wife actually died on nine to eleven when they're plane

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crashed in the North Tower of the World Trade Center.

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Actor Craig T. Nelson's eighty two He's Going to spoke

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in Washington in nineteen forty four. Craig started out doing

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stand up comedy Bobin was he wasn't funny, so he

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went into the movies, first hitting the movie Poulter Guys,

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then Silkwood all Right Moves on TV. Starred as Coach.

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He was also in Young Sheldon when last five years

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or so. He had three children from his first wife,

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married a second wife in nineteen eighty seven. Actor Robert

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Downey Junior. He's sixty one. He's one in Manhattan, New York.

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Nineteen sixty five. He was in his first movie when

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he is five years old. Yeah, it was one of

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his dad, Martin Downey Junior's movies. Say. Martin Downey Junior

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is a well known Hollywood movie director. A junior, He's

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made over eighty movies since then. I think his biggest

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sets asked me, probably from Iron Man. He was nominated

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an Oscar for Chaplain and for Tropic Thunder. He did

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win an Oscar fund the last year they gave him

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one for Oppenheimer. I personally think his best movie was

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Back to School Now Robert. He had just spent a

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year in prison because of a serious heroin addiction. I

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think it worked. He's been sober since two thousand and three.

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He had one son from his first wife, married his

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second wife in two thousand and five and they have

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two children. Actress Nancy McKinnon is sixty today. She was

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born in Westburn, New York in nineteen sixty six. Best

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known for playing Joe on the Facts of Life. She

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has done a lot of TV movies. She was in

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the TV show The Division for like four years. She's

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got married in two thousand and three and they have

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two daughters. Actor Heath Ledger. He's born in Perth, Australia

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in nineteen seventy nine. He had some success on Australian TV,

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so we decided to come give the United States a shot.

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It big in the movie and Things I Hate About

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You then The Patriot, a Nights Tale, was nominated for

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an Oscar for Broke Back Mountain. He won an Oscar

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posthumously for Our Dark Knight. Now. He had a daughter

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from actress Michelle Phillips. He he died from an accidental

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overdose of prescription drugs two thousand and eight, only twenty

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eight years old. Forty seven year old actress Natasha Leone

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was born in New York City in nineteen seventy nine.

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First got noon in the movie Slums of Beverly Hills,

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probably best known for the American Pie movies. She also

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did Detroit, Rock City, Blade Trinity. On TV, she was

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Orange on The New Black for all six years that

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it ran. Natasha, she had a really rough stretch there.

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She had a bad heroin addiction. Yeah, I've got in

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all kinds of trouble. She finally kicked that and then

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she had to have open art surgery in order to

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save her life. So it's like she's doing good though.

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She actually has four movies coming out later this year

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and early next year. Go back to Martin Luther King Martin.

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He died today when he was thirty nine. One of

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his most famous quotes are, Darkness cannot drive out darkness,

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only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate,

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only love can do that. Well, thank you all for

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listening today, and don't forget to follow us on whoever

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or coolmedia dot com anyway, So our cuts your underground

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radio artist to the day. We're gonna go with Jolian

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Sonny and they're some cowboys are crazy. You guys have

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an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

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A thousand dollars saddle, an old sleeping bank, a bumper

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history hook to the back of a second generation rusted

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out chev trunk, that torn up shoulder is still on.

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Then your last entry fee was last month's rint for

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this weekend, and tend my change.

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The cowboys all crazy.

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Large you babby, You've got a ould outside at least

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it texxas mile. You're never gonna change you wait, but

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I always love you anyway. Cowboy is crazy the maiby

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baby so am I