Aug. 1, 2025

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

Show Notes
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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 Gurlong. 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

countryundergroundradio.com
History & Factoids 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 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. Dish 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 with a sponge cake

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and not cookies. Okay, that says Going On Entertainment on

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August the second after nineteen sixty nine number one album

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was Blood, Sweat and Tears. By Blood Sweat and Tears,

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Ziegern Evans had the number one song with in the

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year twenty five twenty five. In the twenty five twenty.

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Far if man is still alone, if.

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Woman can survive, they may for fuck Dnes and his

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buckeroos at the number one country song with Johnny be good.

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Let's say axles under walleys back complaining hills on my game.

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Very great.

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Let's stood an old cap and dat a birthday wood.

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But after cut the boy name Tony to be good.

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They never ever learned to reader right so well. But

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he could play a Gauiti NFL.

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The number one book was The Love Machine by Jacquelin Shusan.

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Top movie was Easy Rider. Two bikers. They take a

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road trip from Los Angeles to New Orleans. They took

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up with the hippie along the way stars Peter Fonda,

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Dennis Hopper, and Jackie Nicholson. Ah, what happened on August

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the second really big day in American history? Today most

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Americans don't even know about it. It was the signing

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of the Declaration of Independence. You're saying, what wealth he

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had paid attention? On July fourth Congress they approved the

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Declaration of Independence. The only person who actually signed it

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was John Hancock, and that's because he was the President

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of the Continental Congress. See. Then it went to the

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printers and they printed him off, bought him back today

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and the other fifty five members of the Continental Congress.

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He define me signed him today. Nineteen nine or seventeen ninety,

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the United States, they conducted their first census, said the

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United States had three million, nine twenty nine, two and

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fourteen people living here. Six hundred ninety seven six hundred

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and twenty four of the people were slaves, at least

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they counted them. Eighteen fifty eight, the first mail boxes

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were installed in Boston and New York City. Now before

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then people didn't have mailboxes at their house. They had

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they had to go pick up their mail at the

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post office. Taverns are ins eighteen sixty three and Saratoga Springs,

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New York, the Saratoga Horse Racing Track open yep build

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their first races today. Now not only is Saratoga the

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oldest horse track in the country, it's the oldest sporting

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venue of any kind in the United States. And yeah,

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Saratoga Springs that's where French fries were invented. Also nineteen

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oh nine, the United States issued the first penny called

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that the Lincoln Penny. From nineteen oh nine to nineteen

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fifty eight, that abe on one side and wheat on

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the other side. They're called wheedies. There's still someonem floating

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around out there. Nineteen fifty nine, they had ABE on

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one side and the Lincoln Memorial on the other side.

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Twenty ten, Yep, still ab on one side, and then

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they had that shield on the other side. Yeah, that's

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why it's called the Lincoln Penny. Nineteen twenty three, United

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States President Warren G. Harding he died. He had a

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heart attack out in San Francisco. Yeah, he was doing

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a speaking tour. Vice President Calvin Coolidge, he was up

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visiting his parents in Vermont and their farmhouse. He didn't

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have any electricity, no phones, nothing like that, so they

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just inded a messenger to let it Coolies know about Arting. Well,

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they woke him up in the middle of the night,

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so Coolies, he got up, he got dressed, he said,

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his parers came downstairs. He mailed with a couple of media.

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They had actually showed up. And Coolidge's dad, he was

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the justice of the peace out there. So by the

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light of a kerosene lamp in the family the home parlor. Yeah,

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his dad administered the oath of office, and Calvin Coolidge

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was officially the thirtieth President of the United States. Well,

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I was officially at twelve forty seven am on August

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the third. Now he thanked those in the media came

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out to see him. Then he went upstairs, went back

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to bed, woke up the next morning, and headed off

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to Washington, d C. To get to work. Nineteen seventy

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five and Providence they set the Rhode Island state record

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when they hit one hundred four degrees hot to stemp

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Ever and Rhody now Massachusett, Yeah, the Chester and New

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Bedford they set their state record one hundred and seven.

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Nineteen ninety. Iraq invented coop or invented. In nineteen ninety,

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Iraq invaded Kuwait. Yeah, that was the start of the

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First Gulf War. Twenty eighteen. Apple they became the first

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American company. If you worth a trillion dollars today there

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were three trillion dollars. But get this in video and

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Microsoft have passed him in videos the most. Now it's

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like four or four trillion dollars.

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Joke Coo joked, coke joke shoge thish Shivers Day.

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Please Donna pause, he left this shumarday.

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We don't simple target this Shivers Day.

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And you know you don't give up good to you.

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

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second boy no Way playing songs per way nice, gosh,

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we hadn't made clothes. Actorate care Jaello O'Connor. He was

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born in Manhattan, New York in nineteen twenty four. On TV,

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he's best known for man Archie Bunker, Yeah, on All

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in the Family. Then he did Archie Bunker's plays. Heated

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the Night. Biggest movie was Kelly's Heroes. They married in

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nineteen fifty one. They had one side Carly died in

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two thousand and one and seventy six years old from

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a heart attack. Actor Peter O'Toole. He was born in Leeds,

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England in nineteen thirty two. Nominated for eight Best Actor Oscars,

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never one. Now you probably don't know any of those movies,

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to be honest with, So here's who. He lost to

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Gregory Peck, Rex Harrison, Cliff Robertson, John Wayne, Marlon Brando,

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Robert de Niro, Ben Kingsley, and Fort Whittaker at eight

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times without winning. That's a record. Yeah, no one else

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has been nominated eight times and that went well on

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the men's side. See Glenn Close on the woman's side.

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She's also been nominated eight times and number one Peter.

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He is married for twenty years and they had two

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daughters when they divorced. After that, he had a son

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from a girlfriend. He died in twenty thirteen at eighty

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one years old from stomach cancer. Horror movie maker Wes

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Craven He was born in Cleveland, Ohio in nineteen thirty nine.

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Some movie he amazed that he wanted to scare us with,

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were the Hills Have Eyes, The Swamp Thing, The Nightmare

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on elm Street Movies scream movies. He had two children

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from his first wife, married his third wife in two

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thousand and four. Then West died in two thousand and

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five from a brain tumor seventy six years old. That

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was Apollonia. She was the lead singer for Apollonia six.

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She was born Patricia Appollonia Cato nineteen fifty nine in

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Santa Monica, California. Sixty six years old today. Now she

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got famous goh starring with Prince in the movie Purple Rain.

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Now Apollonia six. They only put out one album that

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was from the movie Purple Rain solo, and she had

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a couple of minor heads. Take Me with you since

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I fell for you. She was married to her first

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husband for five years and she married her second husband

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for ten years. Actress Mary Louise Parker sixty one. She

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was born in Columbia, South Carolina in nineteen sixty four.

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Started out on the soap opera Ryan's Hope. Then she

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went to Broadway, did that for a while, got nomina

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for a Tony, and she went to the movies, got

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known for Fried Green Tomatoes, then The Grand Canyon, Mister Wonderful,

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the Client on TV. She went back to that, she

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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 five year old. First movie that he wrote

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and directed was Clerk's then Maul Rats, Chasing Amy, Dogma,

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The Jay, and Silent Bob movies. You don't know he's

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sighted on Bob. Now he's a really big comic guy. Yeah,

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he even owns a big comic book store back there

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in Red Bank, New Jersey. He married in nineteen ninety nine.

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And then have a daughter. Actor Sam Worthington. He had

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born in nineteen seventy six in England. He moved to

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Australia when he is six months old. He's forty nine

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today now. He was really popular Australian actor. But then

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he hit big in the United States and worldwide and

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Terminator Salvation, then the Avatar movie, his Clash of the Titans,

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Hacksaw Ridge. He has three movies coming out later this year.

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Yeah.

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One of them is another Avatar movie. It's going to

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come out right before Christmas. He got married in twenty

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fourteen and they have three sons. Actor Edward for Long.

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He's forty eight. He was born in Glendale, California, in

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

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

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Connor and 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. Vin says, if you want to make God smile,

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tell him your plans. Thank you all for listening. Make

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sure you follow us on whoever you listen to his

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son so we can write to you every time and

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you can see it's at cool media dot com. That's

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cool with three of us our country underground radio artists today.

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It comes from Troy in Springfield, Missouri. You don't to

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see her. Bobby Cool and his song Dancing in the Rain.

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You guys have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow.

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And I'll starting bicic Aultry were young and we read

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it go I want you and you won't mean and

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that's all we mean. No things got hot on song

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went now, Pantathono was getting wrong in dig up and

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the rain takes down. We didn't let ruin shows spearing

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dancing now in rain, slee Road, maas and ring were

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I guess the count up born out that we run

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shot out time you look me and out of you

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and out never you look it. Fu be pulled up

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bang nobody while we're singing that another Songbong but birds

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these hands stickamunties, No really dancedes not big brains.

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He wrote, fasick

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Does not make the rail

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