Aug. 1, 2026

Aug 2-Archie Bunker, Wes Craven, Silent Bob, Sam Worthington, Edward Furlong, Ice Cream Sandwich

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National Ice Cream Sandwich day. Entertainment from 1969. Declartion Of Independence signed by the rest of congress, Delaration of Independence actually signed, Apple became worth $1 trillion.
Todays birthdays - Carroll O'Connor, Peter O'Toole, Wes Craven, Apallonia, Mary-Louise Parker, Kevin Smith, Sam Worthington, Edward Furlong. Vin Sculley died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
Ice Cream Sandwiches - The Hungry Food Band
In the year 2525 - Zager & Evans
Johnny B. Goode - Buck Owens & his Buckaroo's
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent https://www.50cent.com/
All in the family TV theme
Sex shooter - Apallonia 6
Exit - Dancining in the rain - Bobby Cool Bobby Cool webpage

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Hi everyone, I'm Jeff and welcome to History and Factor.

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It's about today. Today is August the second ice.

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Cream sandwiches, So Yeoman delicious. You take them out of

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your freezer and then you eat them. Ice cream sandwiches.

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Do not pack them in your lunch box and take

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them to school with you because.

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They will mount.

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Today is National ice Cream Sandwich Day. Pretty simple cookies

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with ice cream in between them.

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Now.

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The first ice cream sandwiches, they were sold from push

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Guards in New York City on nineteen hundred ish cost

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you one cent. Now there are so many common you'll

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find an ice cream sandwich that you like today. You know,

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you try to might make them at home. It might

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be something a little different. Now, the very first ice

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cream sandwiches, they were actually made to a sponge cake

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and not cookies. Let's see what was hot and entertainment

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on August second. Back in twenty twenty one, then one

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album was faced by Pop Smoke Bts had the number

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one song with Butter.

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Small Butter like Criminal Undercover, going pop by trouble wrecking

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into Jaha like that cool cherk.

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Sother chair, Oh It'll tell my mother like summer can

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make you set that up Walker Hey's had the number

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one country song with fancy like he Know We fancy like.

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Apple Bees on a day night. Got a barmesy stay

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with the oil shake, Get some will Crane on the

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top too, two shaws on Shack God, I got you

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boogie like Natty in the Star Fall, Sweet Squeaking and

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the Chub Out the Way Home, sam Alafamia, Chamas Simon,

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the cy Land, the Light Bud.

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I thought we do how we do?

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I thought. Number one book was The Cellist by Daniel Silva.

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The top movie was The Suicide Squad. Supervillains and some

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crazy prisoners. They joined Task Force X and then they're

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dropped off on an enemy island. It was called The

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Maltese Stars. Margot, Robbie, Aidis Alba, John Senna, a whole

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lot more.

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Ah.

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What happened on August this second really big day in

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American history. Today most Americans don't even know about it.

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It was the signing of the Declaration of Independence. You're saying, what, Well,

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if you had paid attention on July fourth, Congress they

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approved the Declaration of Independence. The only person who actually

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signed it was John Hancock, and that's because he was

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the President of the Continental Congress. See then it went

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to the printers and they printed him off, bought him

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back today and the other fifty five members of the

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Continental Congress. Define they signed him today. Nineteen nine or

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seventeen ninety. The United States, they conducted their first census,

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said the United States had three million, nine hundred twenty

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nine two hundred and fourteen people living here. Six hundred

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and ninety seven six hundred and twenty four of the

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people were slaves, at least they counted them. Eighteen fifty eight,

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the first mail boxes were installed in Boston and New

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York City. Now before then people didn't have mailboxes at

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their house, ye had They had to go pick up

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their mail at the post office. Taverns were ins eighteen

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sixty three, and Saratoga Springs, New York, the Saratoga horse

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racing Track open yep build their first races today. Now,

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not only is Saratoga the oldest horse track in the country,

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it's the oldest sporting venue of any kind in the

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United States. And yeah, Saratoga Springs that's where French fries

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were invented. Also nineteen oh nine, the United States issued

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the first penny called that the Lincoln Penny from nineteen

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oh nine to nineteen fifty eight that abe on one

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side and wheat on the other side. They're called wheedies.

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There's still someonem floating around out there. Nineteen fifty nine

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they had abe on one side and the Lincoln Memorial

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on the other side. Twenty ten, yep, still ab on

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one side, and then they had that shield on the

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other side. Yeah, that's why it's called the Lincoln Penny.

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Nineteen twenty three, United States President Warren G. Harding he died.

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He had a heart attack out in San Francisco. Yeah,

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he was doing a speaking tour. Vice President Calvin Coolies,

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he was up visiting his parents in Vermont and their farmhouse.

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He didn't have any electricity, no phones, nothing like that,

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so they justided a messenger to let it Coolies know

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about Arting. Well, they woke him up in the middle

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of the night. So Coolies he got up, he got dressed,

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he said, his parers came downstairs. He mailed with a

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couple of media. They had actually showed up and Coolidge's dad,

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he was the Justice of the peace out there. So

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by the light of a kerosene lamp in the family

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the home parlor. Yeah, his dad administered the oath of office,

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and Calvin Coolidge was officially the thirtieth President of the

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United States. Well, I was officially at twelve forty seven

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am on August the third. Now he thanked those in

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the media came out to see him. Then he went upstairs,

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went back to bed, woke up the next morning, and

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headed off to Washington, d C. To get to work.

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Nineteen seventy five and Providence they set the Rhode Island

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state record when they hit one hundred and four degrees

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hot to stemp Ever and Roady now juices. Yeah, the

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Chester and New Bedford they set their state record one

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hundred and seven. Nineteen ninety. Iraq invented coop or invented.

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In nineteen ninety, Iraq invaded Kuwait. Yeah, that was the

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start of the First Gulf War. Twenty eighteen. Apple they

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became the first American company. If you worth a trillion

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dollars today there were three trillion dollars. But get this

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in video and Microsoft have passed him in videos the most.

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Now it's like four bi or four trillion dollars.

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Joke, joke, goat shoge thish shiver day.

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Please gonna pause.

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He left this shiverardy. We gonna simple target this shiversday.

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And you know you don't get up, get that workday.

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That's just check you out. It was born on August

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the second Boy No Way Millo playing.

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Songs per way nice like gosh, we hadn't made.

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Close a Carol O'Connor. He was born in Manhattan, New York,

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in nineteen twenty four. On TV, he's best known for

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man Archie Bunker on All in the Family. Then he

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did Archie Bunker's plays. Heated the Night. Biggest movie was

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Kelly's Heroes. They married in nineteen fifty one. They had

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one side. Carely died in two thousand and one and

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seventy six years old from a heart attack. Actor Peter O'Toole.

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He was born in Leeds, England in nineteen thirty two.

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Nominated for eight Best Actor Oscars, never one. Now, he

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probably don't know any of those movies, to be honest with,

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So here's who. He lost to Gregory Peck, Rex Harrison,

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Cliff Robertson, John Wayne, Marlon Brando, Robert de Niro, Ben Kingsley,

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and Forest Whittaker eight times without winning. That's a record Yeah,

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No one else has been nominated eight times and that

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went well. On the minside see Glenn Close. On the

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woman's side, she's also been nominated eight times and number

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one Peter. He is married for twenty years and they

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had two daughters when they divorced. After that, he had

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a son from a girlfriend. He died in twenty thirteen

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at eighty one years old from stomach cancer. Horror movie

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maker Wes Craven He was born in Cleveland, Ohio in

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nineteen thirty nine. Some movie he amazed that he wanted

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to scare us with were the Hills Have Eyes, The

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Swamp Thing, The Nightmare on Elm Street Movies scream movies.

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He had two children from his first wife, married his

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third wife in two thousand and four. Then West died

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in two thousand and five from a brain tumor. Seventy

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six years old. That was Apollonia. She was the lead

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singer for Apollonia six. She was born Patricia Appollonia Cato

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nineteen fifty nine at Santa Monica, California, sixty seven years

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old today. She got famous go starring with Prince in

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the movie Purple Rain. Now Apollonia six. They only put

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out one album that was from the movie Purple Rain

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solo Blow. She had a couple of minor heads take

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Me with You since I Fell for You. She was

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married to her first husband for five years and she

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married her second husband for ten years. Actress Mary Louise

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Parker sixty two. She's born in Columbia, South Carolina in

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nineteen sixty four. Started out on the soap opera Ryan's Hope.

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Then she went to Broadway, did that for a while,

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got nomina for a Tony, Then she went to the movies,

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got known for Fried Green Tomatoes, then The Grand Canyon,

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Mister Wonderful, the Client on TV. She went back to that,

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she did she started on Weeds for seven years. A Parker.

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She had a son from actor Billy Credrup, and then

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she's actually adopted a daughter from Ethiopia. Mover maker Kevin Smith.

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He was born in Red Bank, New Jersey, in nineteen

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seventy fifty six year old's first movie that he wrote

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and directed Clerks, then Maul Rats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, The Jay,

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and Silent Bob movies. You don't know he's sighted on Bob.

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Now he's a really big comic guy. Yeah, he even owns

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a big comic book store back there in Red Bank,

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New Jersey. He married in nineteen ninety nine and they

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have a daughter. Actor Sam Worthington was born in nineteen

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seventy six in England, so today he's fifty now. He

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moved to Australia and he was only six months old.

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Now he was really popular Australian actor. But then he

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hit big in the United States and worldwide and Terminator Salvation,

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then the Avatar movie, His Class of the Titans, Hacksaw Ridge.

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He has three movies coming out later this year. He

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got married in twenty fourteen and they have three sons.

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Actor Edward Furlong is forty nine. He's born in Glendale, California,

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in nineteen seventy seven. He hit big at thirteen years old.

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Starred in his very first movie, Yeah it was John Connor,

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A Terminator two, then American History Acts, Detroit, Rock City,

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Cruel World. He married once for three years. He has

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a son from it all right here. Quote of the day.

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It comes from a Hall of Fame baseball announcer Vin Scully.

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He died today in twenty twenty two at ninety four

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years old. Then says, if you want to make God smile,

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tell him your plans. Thank you all for listening. Don't

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make sure you follow us on whoever you listen to

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his aunts. We come write two you every time and

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you can come see it's a cool media dot com

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that's cool with three of us our country underground radio

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artists today. It comes from Troy in Springfield, Missouri. You

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don't see her Bobby Cool and his song Dancing in

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the rain. You guys have an awesome day. We'll talk

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tomorrow and I'll starting bicic vault.

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We were young and we read it gold. I want

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you and you won't mean and that's all we mean.

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No things got hot on song when now be gone

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and was getting wrong. We dig up and the rain

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takes down. We didn't get a ruin show speaking test.

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Dancing not rain.

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They spead fast, but I guess he kept up born

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out and we run shot out time you look at

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me and out of you and out never you look it.

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FA be going up bank nobody while we're singing that

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another song one but berens bees An sycamotes. No, we

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mean dancing.

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Dance, not big

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Bres Me wrote fasides, not big brain

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