Aug. 18, 2024

Aug 18-Fajitas, Women Can Vote, 1st Miss America, Robert Redford, Patrick Swayze, Christian Slater, Edward Norton

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National Fajita day. Entertainment from 1959. Women gain right to vote, Mt. Whitney climbed for 1st time, First mail order catelog. Todays birthdays - Virginia Dare, Merriweather Lewis, Margaret Gorman, Shelly Winters, Robert Redford, Patrick Swayze, Dennis Leary, Madeleine Stowe, Christian Slater, Edward Norton, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Andy Samberg. BF Skinner died.

Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard https://defleppard.com/
Bad fajitas - Brent Rivera & Eve Gutowski
A big hunk o' love - Elvis Presley
Waterloo - Stonewall Jackson
Birthdays - 50 Cent https://www.50cent.com/
She's a beauty - The Tubes
Like the wind - Patrick Swayze
Malcom & Eddie TV theme
Exit - Its not love - Dokken https://www.dokken.net/

Photo is of Margaret Gorman 1st Miss America

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Well, hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history.

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In fact, it is about today present a bike cool

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meeting is August the eighteenth. Ever since we eat that.

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I should be saying.

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You know, we tell not a lot of songs about Fietez,

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but it is national for he today. Fide is They

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started around nineteen thirty Mexican workers on ranches and farms

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down there in Texas. They started using thrown away cuts

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of beef. You know what's really tough. They're like strip

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steak and stuff. So they would really tenderize them. Then

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they would cut them into really thin strips, and then

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they would season the hell out of it. Ended up

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being really tasty. Nineteen sixties, Sonny Falcon, you started selling

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faidas to the general public for the first time. He

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had a little Taco Faida stand in Kyle, Texas, that's

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between Austin and San Antonio. Now you can make fides

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at home, but you know, they taste so much better

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when you go to restaurants and they come out to

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you and they're really hot in sizzling.

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Now.

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I know up in Loveland we have a couple of

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restaurants that are having deals today. So I'm assuming that

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local Mexican restaurants near you are probably having the same thing,

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only national deals. We heard of a going on on

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the border in Chili's, so enjoy some faidas today, all right?

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What happened in entertainment on August the eighteenth Back there

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in nineteen fifty nine, number one album was the Kingston

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Trio Aret Large by the Kingston Trio. Elvis Presley had

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the number one song with a big hunkle love, Hey

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babyin'tu Lunchin'?

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Don't bells you little you bout to stop me having deal?

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Stonewall Jackson had the number one country song with.

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Waterloo Water, Wherever, Water, every every Water.

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The number one book was Exodus by leon Yurris Todd. Movie.

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It was north By Northwest, an advertising executive goes on

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the run after being mistaken by foreign spies. Starry Carry Grant, Eve,

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Marie Saint and James Mason. It was an Alfred Hitchcock flick.

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All right? What happened? On augusty eighteenth, eighteen seventy two,

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Montgomery Ward issued his first catalog, Yeah It's for his

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mail order business. He had one hundred and sixty three

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items you could order through the mail May Whitney in

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California's I speaking, that continuous forty eight states stands fourteen thousand,

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five hundred and five feet. That's sixty five feet higher

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than Mount Elbert out here in Colorado. Now, when we

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talk about the first time when people have climbed mountains,

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especially mountains of predominance, you know, there's a whole team

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of climbers. They prepared for the climb for a long time.

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They have lots of equipment and lots of supplies. They

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plan out that climb very detailed. Then in eighteen seventy three,

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Charles by Gole, Albert Johnson, and John Lucas they were

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fishing out there and they weren't having any look at

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all on this trip. It was a bus They hadn't

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gotten any fishing a couple of days, and they were

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really getting bored. So now there was a tall ass

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mountain right next to where they're fishing. They decided, you

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know what, since we're not catching anything, let's see if

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we can't get to the top of that damn thing.

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So off they went. Sure enough, they made it the top.

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They got up there and wrote their names under rocks

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and stuff, so everybody knew they got up there eventually,

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But when they came down and told all the locals

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what they did, the locals named a fisherman's mountain, and

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on are those three fishermen. Well a few years later

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the government came through. They're experts. They were surveying everything

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and doing gelig work and all that kind of stuff. Well,

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when they measured it and saw how tat was, they

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named it Mount Whitney, after the team leader. In Tennessee

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in nineteen twenty, they were voting on whether or not

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to approve the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution. Now,

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if they approved it, it would give women the right

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to vote. If they didn't, well they're gonna have to

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wait a while. Say it was all tied. It came

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down to a twenty four year old Harry Burn. Now

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he had previously said he was going to vote no.

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So when he went went and they called his name

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and he cast us but he said yes. Shocked everybody.

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But that meant Tennessee approved the nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution.

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That gave a two thirds majority of all the states.

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So the Nineteenth Amendment was now ratified and women had

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the right to vote. Afterwards, everybody asking her, Harry, Larry,

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why did you change your vote on that? He said, well,

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I got a letter from my mom earlier this day

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and she told me to vote yes, go co Co

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Coke coat Shorge. This shiverbf day, we're gonna page he left,

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this shibirth Day. We gonna sit potage.

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He's like this shibirth day and you know we don't

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get vote.

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That's birthday, all right, I sit Born on August the eighteenth,

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Virginia dare. She was born out of North Carolina on

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Roanoke Island in fifteen eighty seven. She was the first

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child of European parents be born in America and that's

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all we know about Virginia. Say she was one of

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those people on ronen O Kyleer who just disappeared. Yeah,

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the lost colony. They're still trying to figure out what

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in the world happened to that all these years later,

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but they're missing the obvious. Of course, it was Aliens,

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the Lewis and Lewis and Clark Meriwether Lewis. He was

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born in album Earlea County, Virginia, in seventeen seventy four.

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Clark he was responsible for the logistics supply is not

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kind of stuff. Lowis. He was the one who was

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leading the expedition. Yet they were going to explore all

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that stuff that was bought in the Louisiana purchase, and

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they're gonna go all the way to the Pacific Ocean. Now,

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Lewis he was also supposed to develop relationships with Native

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Indian tribes along the way also. Well, they of course

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made it successfully. They were able to travel eighty two

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hundred miles in two years, four months, and ten days. Now,

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after that successful trip, Lewis he was made governor of

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the Louisiana Territory in eighteen oh seven. But by eighteen

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oh nine the United States government hadn't given him any

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money to do it, so he was paying for everything

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out of his own pocket. Yeah, he was getting into

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deep debt, and so he headed to Washington, d c.

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To get him a pony up and give him some money. Well,

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along the way he stayed for a night at an

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inn about seventy miles southwest of Nashville. Now, officially he

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committed a suicide there because he was a heavy drinker

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and in debt, and everyone just assumed that he was

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the one that pulled the trigger on himself. His sister

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didn't buy it though. No, she fought and fought for you.

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She actually fought for forty years before she got him

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to Zumin's body. After they exhumed his body and his

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new autopsy, it read if he committed a suicide. He

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shot himself in the stomach, He shot himself in the head,

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and then he slid his own throat. He was thirty

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five years old when he committed suicide. The first Miss

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America was Margaret Gorman. She was born in Washington, DC

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in nineteen oh five. In nineteen twenty one, sixteen year

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old Margaret she won that first Miss America pageant. Now,

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the winner was decided fifty percent by the judges and

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fifty percent by the audience. Applause. Now you're probably thinking

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she must have really been a looker, right, I'd say

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more kind of cute. Say, yeah, we used her picture

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today for the show That's What's up there today. But

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you have to remember she was only sixteen years old.

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She weighed one hundred and eight pounds. Her measurements for

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thirty twenty five thirty two. Now, after Miss America in

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nineteen twenty five, she married a guy with a lot

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of money. She just spent the rest of her life

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as a socialite and doing traveling. Maury died nineteen ninety

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five and ninety years old. Actor Shelley Winners. She was

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born in Saint Louis, Missouri. In nineteen twenty, she won

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Oscars for the Diary of Anne Frank and Patria Blue.

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She was nominated for an Oscar for Sidon Adventure. On TV,

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she played Roseanne's Grandma and a couple episodes of a

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Roseanne TV show. She always she had a daughter from

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her second husband. She married at four thousand in two

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thousand and six, just a couple hours before she died

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of heart failure at eighty five years old. Yeah, they

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had lived together for nineteen years though. Robert Redford's eighty

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eight He was born in Santa Monica, California, in nineteen

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thirty six. What an Oscar for directing for Ordinary People.

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The only movie he was nominated for acting was was Nesting.

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In case you forgot some of Redford's movies that he

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acted in, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid. He was Sundanced,

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All the President's Men, The Natural, The Last Castle. He

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created The sundown s Fim Festival in nineteen seventy eight.

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He had two sons and two daughters from his first wife.

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They divorced after twenty seven years. Married his second wife

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in two thousand and nine.

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Call right, she's on Just the fool to believe.

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She's on the way. That was Patrick Swayze. He was

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born in Houston, Texas, in nineteen fifty two. Start out

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as a dancer. His first paid dancing gig, Yeah, it

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was a Disneyland. His first movie was Skate Down, and

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then of course The Outsider was Red Dawn, Dirty Dancing,

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Roadhouse Ghost. Now, when he was eighteen, his future wife

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was only fourteen and she was taking dancing lesson from

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Patrick's mom. So after that first meeting, yeah, they married

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five years later in nineteen seventy five. Now, Patrick, you

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started smoking when he was seventeen years old. At one

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point he smoked up the sixty cigarettes every day. Now,

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you wouldn't think about buffing in shape he looked. But yeah,

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and he never even quit. He was still smoking when

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he was going through cancer treatment. Patrick died in two

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thousand and fifty seven years old from pancreatic cancer. Actor

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comedian Dennis Leary. He was born in nineteen fifty seven

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in Westchester, Massachusetts. He's sixty seven. He first got known

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on the MTV game show Remote Control. He's had a

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number of successful stand up comedy specials over the years.

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Some of his movies were The Raft, Suicide Gangs. He

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was in two Spider Man movies. He've always Diago in

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all those Iceman movie Ice Age movies. Dennisee married nineteen

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eighty nine and they have a son and a daughter.

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Actors Madelon Stowe. She was born in Los Angeles in

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nineteen fifty eight. She's sixty six. Her first movie was Stakeout,

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then The Two Jakes, The Last of the Mohicans, We

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were Soldiers. She got married in nineteen eighty two and

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they have a daughter. Actor Christian Slater is fifty five.

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He was born in New York City in nineteen sixty nine.

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His first movie with Legend of Billy Jean, then Heather's

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True Romance Broken Arrow on TV. He hit really big

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on Mister Robat. That kind of resurrected his career. He

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had a son and a daughter from his first wife.

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Married his second wife in twenty thirteen and they have

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a daughter, and they just had a son, a couple

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of weeks ago. Actor Edward Norton. He's also fifty six.

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He was born in Boston. Now he's been nominated for

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Oscars for Primal Fair, American History ex and Birdman or

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The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance. Definitely should have won for

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Primal Fear. Now. He was also in Fight Club, The

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Incredible Hall, The People Versus Larry Flint. He got married

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in twenty twelve and they have a son. Heave You Alone,

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You See You Well. The theme for The Cosby Show

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is so bad we decided to go with Malcolm and Eddie.

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Actor Malcolm Jamal Warner. He's born in nineteen seventy in

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Jersey City, New Jersey. He's fifty four to best known

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for playing Theo Huxtable on The Cosby Show. Then he

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played Malcolm on Malcolm and Eddie, and then he was

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in The Resident. Now he has one child and he

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may or may not be married to it's mom. He

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won't say. Comedian actor Andy Samberg's forty six. He was

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born in Berkeley, California, in nineteen seventy eight. It's on

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Saturday in l I from two thousand and five to

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twenty twelve. Then he was on TV on Brooklyn ninety nine.

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Some of the movies that he's voiced are The Cloudy

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with the Chance of Meatball Movies, The Transylvania Movies, and

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Space chymps Andy. He married in twenty thirteen and they

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have two children. All Right, I told you earlier. The

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first Miss America was sixteen. You know. The youngest Miss

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America was nineteen thirty three, Marianne Bergeron. She was representing

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Connecticut fifteen years old when she won Miss America. Well,

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thank you for being here today. We appreciate it. Don't

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forget about Country Underground radio and the best internet radio

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station out there. It's really probably one of the fastest

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growing anyway. You know what. Listen to a psychologist, BF Skinner.

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He died today in nineteen ninety at eighty six years old.

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BF says, a failure is not always a mistake. It

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may simply be the best that you can do under

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the circumstation circumstances. The mistake is trying to stop you guys,

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have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

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