Aug. 28, 2025

Aug 29th-Chop Suey, Michael Jackson, Weezy, Elliot Gould, Rebecca De Mornay, Ishi, Pirate Jean Lafitte

Aug 29th-Chop Suey, Michael Jackson, Weezy, Elliot Gould, Rebecca De Mornay, Ishi, Pirate Jean Lafitte

(2024)  National chop suey day. Entertainment from 1989. Ishi meets civilization, The Fugitive finale, Soviet Union detonates nuclear bomb. Todays birthdays - Jean Lafitte, Ingrid Bergman, Isabel Sanford, Richard Attenborough, Elliott Gould, Michael Jackson, Rebecca De Mornay. Ed Asner died.

Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard http://defleppard.com/
Chop Suey movie sound track
Right here waiting - Richard Marx
I'm still crazy - Vern Gosdin
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
The Jeffersons TV theme song
ABC - Jackson 5
Exit - It's not love - Dokken http://dokken.net/


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Hello, one and all.

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I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factor. It's

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about to day Person by Cool Media. It is August

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the twenty ninth.

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Chop Sue Chop Suee living here. It is very much

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like Chop Suee, Hula hoopsa ball, Doctor Suck and Chota

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cup Ball, Harry Trueman, Truman Kuppo, and Jewey Chat Sue.

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Today is national Chop Suey Day. Chop suey. It is

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a Chinese slash American fusion dish. It began by Chinese

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immigrants in the eighteen hundreds. Chop suey it means miscellaneous

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pieces or odds and ins. So yeah, they were using scraps,

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pretty basic vegetables, meat, eggs, thick sauce, usually served over rice.

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It can be served noodles, but then it becomes how mean,

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that's basically pretty healthy for you. Any deals today you'll

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find will be at Mama and Pop restaurants or Mama

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Heeley's Young yng Yo. That means Mama pop in Chinese.

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I just learned that for you today. Now, if you

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make it at home, you really can't screw up. I mean,

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you make it, you put in whatever you want, so

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if you don't like it, that's all on you. Now

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in the United States to go get your chop suey.

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You go to a Chinese restaurant. If you were in

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China and you want to chop suy, yeah, you can

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go to an American American restaurant. So enjoy some chop

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sue today.

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All Right?

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What happened in entertainment in August twenty ninth in the

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Air two thousand and one number one album? Well, now

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that's what I call music seven by various artists. At

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least your Keys add the number one song with Fallen.

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Up with You.

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Blake Shelton. He had the number one country song with Austin.

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If it's any fat else, way for the town, you

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know what to do in peace? This is host still.

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The number one book was Valhalla Rising May Clive Klessler.

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Top movie was Cheeper's Creepers. Brother and sister are driving

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through the middle of nowhere. Then they come across a

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fresh eat flesh eating creature. Stars Gina Phillips, Justin Longa,

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and Jonathan Breck. All Right, what happened on August the

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twenty ninth. In eighteen eighty three, Steel Tacooon, Andrew Carnegie

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opened up his first public library. It was over in Scotland.

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Now.

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By the time he died in nineteen nineteen, Carnegie had

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opened up twenty five hundred and nine public libraries all

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across the world, mainly in the United States, though he

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felt guilty for the way he acted creating his fortune

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nineteen eleven. Ishi he was a fifty year old man

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who was a member of the Yahee Indian tribe. Now

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he just showed up out of the blue in the

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middle of nowhere in Oreville, California. He is considered the

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last indigenous Native American to make contact with European Americans. Ischi.

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He was the last person from his tribe. So he

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was all alone, sitting up there on the mountains, and

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he just finally thought, you know what, I'm gonna go

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down to that town and see what civilization's all about.

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I guess he liked it. He did live until nineteen sixteen.

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Then he died at to Berkleyosis Well. Thanks to traders

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physicists Claus Fuke and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Today in

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nineteen forty nine, the Soviet Union was able to detonate

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their first nuclear bond. Yep, thanks to all that stolen information.

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Nineteen fifty seven, Democratic Senator Trump Thurman from South Carolina.

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You know the longest filibuster and US Senate history, Well

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it still is if it's all done by one person, Strawm.

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He talked for twenty four hours straight. He was against

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civil rights. Yep. He was supported by his other Democratic senator.

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From nineteen sixty three to nineteen sixty seven, the top

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TV show it was called The Fugitive Now is Today?

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In nineteen sixty seven that they aired their finale, seventy

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eight million people wise police Lieutenant Gerard shoot the One

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Armed Man. Now, that's seventy five million people. That was

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the most to watch the TV show until nineteen eighty

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got beat up by who shot Jr. Nineteen ninety seven

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Netflix was founding. Started out as an online DVD rental

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company in Scott's Valley, California. Two thousand and five, Hurricane

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Katrina hit New Orleans and his Gulf Coast neighbors. One

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and thirty six people died, caused one hundred and twenty

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five billion dollars in damage In and twenty twelve, So

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it's been a while, but see they are found out

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and they announced the banana spider venom. Yeah, it stopped

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erectile dysfunction. But they're having a hard time getting guys

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to be test subjects for the studies for it. Coke coke,

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coke co coat show.

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This shimmer day, we're gonna pull. He left this birthday.

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We don't sit potage.

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He was like this ship birthday and you know we

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don't give up because that's the birthday.

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Okay, let's see who was born on August at twenty ninth.

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Our friends in louisiana'll know this guy, John Lafeet. He

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was born in France in seventeen eighty. By the early

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eighteen hundreds he was a very successful smugglering pilot around

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New Orleans and the Gulf Coast the War of eighteen twelve.

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When the Battle of New Orleans went down in eighteen

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fourteen Andrew Jackson, he was way out numbered and way

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out gunned. All he had was his ragtab group of

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soldiers and the feet. That's right, Lafet. He was able

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to get a whole bunch of pirates to join. Well,

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as you know from the song, they kicked the Britishes,

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but the feet and all the pirates. They received food

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parts for what they did to help. After that, Yeah,

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the feat really liked that. He felt kind of important,

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So he went to the Spanish and he started spying

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for them during the Mexican Resolution didn't work out so

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well though. In eighteen twenty three, at forty two years old,

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Spanish warship opened up on him. Yeah, I killed him.

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He's just off the coast to Honduras. I guess they

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didn't like his info. Actors Ingrid Bergman. She was born

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in Stockholm, Sweden in nineteen fifteen. She's considered one of

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the greatest actresses of all time. She acted for fifty years,

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won three Oscars for Gaslide Anastasia Murder on the Rating Express.

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She's also in Casablanca whom the belt Tolds and Jenna Wark.

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She had a daughter from her first husband, two daughters

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and son from her second other. Married to her third

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husband for twenty years before they divorced. Ingrid she acted

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for eight years, but after she was diagnosed with best cancer. Yeah,

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I finally got her in nineteen ninety two. Nineteen eighty two,

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at sixty seven years old.

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John, I mean to the hold to trying.

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I just to up issuing with that moving home. Now,

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that's back when TV theme songs are actually cool. Now

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we played the other half of the Jefferson's yesterday when

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we talked about Roxy Roker. Today we're talking about is

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All Else Sandford. She was born in Harlem, New York,

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in nineteen seventeen. She is best known for playing Weezy

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or Missus Jefferson first and All in the Family and

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then The Jeffersons. Nineteen eighty one, she won a Primetime

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Emmy for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. No

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Black Askers has done that since. Some of her movie

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is were Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Love at First Bite,

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Original Gangstas. She married in nineteen forty five. Yeah, the

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guy was just an ordinary house painter and they had

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three kids. He died in nineteen sixty Isabelle. She died

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in two thousand and four at eighty six years old

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from an unspecified natural cause. Actor Richard Attenborough. He was

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born in Cambridge, England, in nineteen twenty three. His younger

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brother David Attenborough, the guy who did all those nature movies.

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Richard's biggest acting was in the Jurassic Park movies, and

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he was the director to best in the own. He

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got a Best Director of Oscar nomination for Gandhi Now.

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He married nineteen forty five and they had one son

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and two daughters. He died in twenty fourteen and ninety

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years old, from heartfailure. Actor Elliott Gould. He's eighty six.

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He's born in Brooklyn, New York, in nineteen thirty eight.

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First hit in the movie Bob carrol Ted Nalys. Then

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he played Trapper John in the movie mash did a

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really good job in an American ex If you haven't

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seen that one, that's a good one. It was in

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all those Ocean movies. Yeah, eleven, twelve, thirteen, he isn't

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even an Ocean's eight. On TV he played Ross and

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Monica's dad on Friends. Married Barbara streisand for eight years

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they had a son. He's actor Eliott Gould. Then from

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nineteen seventy three and nineteen eighty nine he married divorce

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his second wife twice. They had one daughter and one son.

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Michael Jackson was born in Gary, Indiana in nineteen fifty eight.

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Michael was the eighth out of the ten Jackson kids.

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Michael made his debut with the Jackson five at six

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years old, The Jackson five.

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They did pretty good. They sold over a hundred million records. Solo,

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Michael sold over five hundred million. That's second only to Elvis.

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On a side note, Drake, his record sales are on

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pace to out sell both Michael and Elvis if he

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keeps the same pace up. As an actor in Michael's

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biggest movie was The Whiz. His first wife was Lisa

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Marie Presley for a couple of years. Then he married

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Debbie Row for a couple of years and they had

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a son and a daughter. After they went their separate ways,

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Michael he had a third child from a surrogate. Michael

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was fifty years old when he died in two thousand

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and nine. The doctor went to prison for US. I

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guess you can say that Michael was killed by a

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prescription drug. Actress Rebecca D. Mornay. She was she's sixty five.

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She was born in Santa Rosa, California, in nineteen fifty nine.

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First got famous in the movie Risky Business, then The

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Slugger's Wife, Runaway Train, Backdraft, Waiting Crashers. She played Sarah

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in the band Star. She has music video Sir. She

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married once for four years, and then she had two

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children from a boyfriend. She didn't even like it anymore.

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All right, this will definitely win you a beer if

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you want to bet it. Bet it does. Do you

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know horses cannot breathe through their numb mouths? Nope, only

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their nostrils. Well, thank you for listening today, and don't

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forget to follow us on whoever you listen to us on,

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come and see us at coolmedia dot com. And uh,

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that's end today with actor Ed Asner Ed. He died

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today in two twenty twenty one, at ninety one years old.

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Ed said, raising kids is just it's part joy and

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it's part gorilla warfare. You guys, have an awesome day

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and we'll talk tomorrow.

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