Aug. 3, 2024

Aug 3-Watermelon, First Female Rabbi, Tony Bennett, Martin Sheen, Martha Stewart, Metallica, John C. McGinley

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National Watermelon day. Entetainment from 1967. First crop dusting flown, Columbus set sail on first voyage, President Rondald Reagan fired all the air traffic controllers. Todays birthdays - Ernie Pyle, Regina Jonas, Tony Bennett, Martin Sheen, Martha Stewart, John C. McGinley, James Herfield, Evangeline Lilly. Lenny Bruce died.

Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard https://defleppard.com/
Watermelon - the Kiboomers
Light my fire - The Doors
I'll never find another you - Sonny James
Watermelon crawl - Tracy Byrd
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent https://www.50cent.com/
The lady is a tramp - Tony Bennett and Lady GaGa
Enter sandman - Metallica
Exit - Its not love - dokken https://www.dokken.net/

Picture today is of Regina Jonas

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Hi everybody. I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factor.

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It's about today, presented by Cool Media Days August the.

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Third, watermel and watermelon on the vine, on the vine,

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Sweet and red and juicy, Sweet and red and juicy.

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Please be mine, Please be mine.

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It is National Watermelon Day. Watermelon is ninety water. They

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sure tastes good and it's actually healthy for you. They

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started farming watermelon around three thousand BC, and the now

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river over in Egypt, watermelon says everyon found in King

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Tut's tomb now seeless watermelons. They were created nineteen thirty nine.

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What they do is the flour that's on the vine

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that becomes a watermelon. They spray it with a mild

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type of acid and that's what makes it now see

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less watermelons. Eighty five percent of all watermelons sold in

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the United States. Now, why you're celebrating Watermelons Day? New

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I try and break Jason Chivitz's record. He was able

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to spit a watermelon seats seventy five feet. But if

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that seems like too much work, just enjoy your watermelon today.

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When the sun goes down, switch you over to some

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watermelon wine.

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He roped back, her eaves drop down to your knees,

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crawled across the floors, and she jumped back all the

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fiend gee wiggle and she diggle beat all you ever

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saw it? This, It's how you do fall and crawl?

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Okay? What happened to entertainment On August third? In the

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year nineteen sixty seven, number one album was Sergeant Pepper's

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Lonely Clark's Hearts Club Band by the Beatles. The Doors

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had the number one song with light My Fire.

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You know that it would be untrue. You know that

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I would be onlie befos to say to you good.

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We would much high lud. Sunny James had the number

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one country song with I'll Never find another U and.

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Ib be there something If you will hold my head, I.

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Still need you there beside me, no matter what.

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All ride never mine.

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The top book was The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder.

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Top movie was In the Heat of the Night. A

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black police detective from Philly. He's mistakenly arrested arrested for

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murder when he passes through a small Mississippi town. When

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he's cleared, the local sheriff ask him if he'll solve

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that murder stars Sidney Pointier and Rod Steiger. All right,

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what happened? On August the third, fourteen ninety two, Christopher

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Columbus sailed the Ocean Blue. Hey left Spain on his

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first voyage today to India. Now can you name his

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three ships? The Nina, Penta, Santa Maria. Now we all

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know he didn't make it to India, But would you

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really care if you were with him? I mean they

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got to hang out in the Bahamas. I mean I'd

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sign up for a second voice there. Especially. It was

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like in the spring or something. Nineteen fourteen, the first

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ship went through the Panama Canal. Now it wasn't supposed to.

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The Panama Canal wasn't scheduled open for twelve more days.

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But the SS Christophal they paid some bribe money and

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they led him through. Also in nineteen fourteen, the fighting

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in World War One actually began. Now, all the Europeic countries,

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they'd been posturing and saber rattling, talking a bunch of

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smack about who's gonna kickoos, but they were actually still

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picking sides. Germany said enough, we're going in, and they

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invaded Belgium and declared war on France nineteen twenty one

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outside of Troy, Ohio caterpillars. They were destroying their crops

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around there. No one could figure out what the world

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they were supposed to do, so they got this pilot,

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James McGredy, loaded up his plane and he performed the

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world's first crop dustin. Surprised out of everybody that it worked.

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Word really spread fast about that crop dustin nineteen fifty eight.

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Now her record still stands. Her name is Miriam Hargrove.

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She's from Yorkshire, England. She finally passed her driver's tests

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down the fortieth try not only who would ride with her,

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but who would actually ensure. Nineteen seventy five, the New

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Orleans super Dome opened up. It cost him one hundred

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and sixty three million dollars to build it. Now, for perspective,

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the last two dome stadiums belt were in Las Vegas

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and Los Angeles. They cost almost four billion dollars each.

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Nineteen eighty one, thirteen thousand aircraftic controllers went on strike. Now,

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it's actually illegal for them to go on strike, but

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they did it anyway until President Ronald Reagan told them

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if they didn't get back to work, in forty eight hours,

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he's going to fire him. Well, he kept his promise.

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He fired eleven three hundred and forty five of them.

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Not only did he fire him, but he banned him

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from ever being able to work for the United States

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federal government for the rest of their lives. Twenty seventeen,

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in Massachusetts, Michelle Carter. She was sentenced to two and

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a half years in prison. She was convicted of urging

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her boyfriend to commit suicide, which he did.

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Coat coat, goat shog this shibf day, We're gonna pause.

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He left, this shiverf day.

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We don't sit potage. He like this shibf day.

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And you know we don't give day.

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Okay. It was born on August the third journalist Ernie Pyle.

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He was born in Dana, Indiana, in nineteen hundred. He

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was a very popular roving human interest reporter, did folksy

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human interest stories about regular people all over the United States.

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Then when World War Two began, he literally covered it

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from the trenches. He went over there and was side

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by side with the US soldiers fighting over there. He

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was able to tell their side of the stories right

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from the front lines. Start off in North Africa, campaign,

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then Italy, then the Normandy invasion. Then in January nineteen

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forty five he went over to cover the fighting that

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was going on in the Pacific. Now his stories were

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published in over four hundred daily newspapers and three hundred

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weekly newspapers. His first person's perspective of the warrior really

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made him kind of a living legend. Then, on April

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seven teenth, in nineteen forty five, he was covering the

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Battle of Okinawa. He went on shore with a bunch

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of marines on this little island north of Okinawa. A

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Japanese machine gun got him forty four years old. He

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left a widow, Regina Jonas. She was born in Berlin, Germany,

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in nineteen oh two. She was a Jew, and in

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nineteen thirty five Regina became the first woman ever ordained

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as a Jewish abbi ever. Now, even with all the

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Nazi persecution of the Jewish people taking place over there

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at that time, she stayed in Germany. She believed that

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she needed to keep performing her rabbi duties there during

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that crisis. Well, she was fondly arrested by the Gestapo

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in nineteen forty four. They sent her to Auschwitz concentration

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Camp Yep. She was immediately executed. She's forty two years old.

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But regina story it really doesn't stop there.

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You see.

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Yes, she was forgotten to history and nobody really knew

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anything about her. But then in nineteen seventy two, a

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woman named Sally priessint she was ordained as a rabbi.

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She was considered the first woman to be an a rabbi,

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but old timers kept saying that, no, there was a

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woman over in Germany during the war she was a rabbi.

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No one could have reprove it. Then, in nineteen ninety one,

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after the Soviet Union fell and people were allowed back

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in East Germany for the first time since the war,

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a researcher came across an envelope. On it was written

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Regina Jonas. Inside where two pictures of her her teaching certificate,

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her rabbi college diploma, her dissertation, some personal papers, and

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some of her speak at sermons. Yeah, the world finally

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get to know Regina Jonas, the first female rabbi.

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She doesn't like crapcas with Clarens and hers.

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Wondo Harlow's in Irelands and.

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Dephni Wali Art with the resident her. That's why the

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Lady is up shine.

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That was Lady Gaga singing with the legendary Tony Bennett.

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Tani was born in Queen's, New York in nineteen twenty six.

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Started singing professionally in nineteen thirty six. Yep, he was

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ten years old, but he was singing great. Really didn't

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take off until he got back from fighting in Europe

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during World War Two. Then he sold over fifty million

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records early sixty one albums. Biggest it might be I

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left my heart in San Francisco. Oh, I guess it

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could have been because of you or Ragster Riches. I

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don't know. I wasn't born yet. Now. He performed his

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entire life, and he was even diagnosed with Alzheimer's in

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twenty sixteen. Still kept on performing until his ninety fifth

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birthday in twenty twenty one. He and Lady Gaga, Yeah

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they've sung that right around there around twenty twenty one.

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Well after that he did retire and Alzheimer's I finally

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got him in July twenty first, at ninety six years old.

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In twenty twenty two, he married his first wife for

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nineteen years, and they had two sons. Married his second

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wife for twelve years and they had two daughters. Married

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his third wife in two thousand and seven. Now she

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was a school teacher. He'd been dating her since the

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nineteen eighties. Actor Martin Sheen. He's eighty four. He was

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born Ramonestevez in Dayton, Ohio in nineteen forty. He was

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kind of known, but he really hit in the movie

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Apocalypse Now, then The Final Countdown, Wall Street, JFK. He's

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voiced over sixty documentaries. Biggest TV show is West Wing.

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He married nineteen sixty one and they have three sons

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and one daughter. Two of the sons are actors Emiliu

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Estevez and Charlie Sheen. Martha Stewart She's an eighty five

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eighty three year old, very rich white woman. She loves

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to hang out with the rapper snoop. She's got more

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to her than that. She was born Martha Coostra in

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Jersey City, New Jersey, in nineteen forty one. She grew

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up around money and then she really married into money.

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She married Andrew Stewart nineteen sixty one until nineteen ninety.

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They had one daughter. Then after the divorce, Martha said

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she was tired of living off other people's money, and

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she wanted to make her own money, so she started

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her own company, Martha Stewart Living.

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Yeah.

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I grew into a huge empire with all kinds of products,

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print and TV media. She became the first self made

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woman billionaire. She got into a little trouble though for

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insider training, but she's rebounded nicely and after serving a

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little time in federal prison. Yeah, now she has street

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cred with the Rappers. Actor John C. McGinley. He's born

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in New York City in nineteen fifty nine sixty five.

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Today he's acting in over sixty movies. He's usually supporting roles.

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Some of his movies were Platoon, Point, Break Off of Space,

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Any Given Sunday, Get Carter on TV. He was on

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Scrubs for ten years. He had a son and from

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his first wife. He married his second wife in two

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thousand and seven and they have two daughters.

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Everywhere.

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James Heck phil He is the lead singer from Metallica.

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He's born in Downey, California, nineteen sixty three, sixty one

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year old. He started Metallica well Lars Ulrek in nineteen

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eighty one. They sold one hundred and twenty five million albums. Now,

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this kind of surprised me. I don't know if a

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surprise you. They won nine Grammy Yah, they won the

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ninth one earlier this year, but nominated twenty six times.

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They're out doing stadium shows right now through the rest

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of the year. James, he was married for twenty five

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years when they're divorced, being final in twenty twenty two,

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and they had three children together. Actress Evangeline Lily. She's

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forty five. She's won of Fort Saskaskwan, Canada in nineteen

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seventy nine, first guy known on the TV show lost

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starting that and then she went to movies. Some of

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those are The hurt Locker. She played Turiel in the

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Hobbit movies, and then she played Wasp in some ant

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Man and Avengers movies. No less than two months ago,

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just in June, she announced that she was stepping away

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from acting and she didn't think she'll ever come back

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to it. She had one quick marriage and she's been

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with her boyfriend since twenty ten and they have two sons.

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All right, When you're trying to pick out your watermelon

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to day to celebrate, remember the largest watermelon ever grown

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three hundred and fifty pounds was by Chris Kent in Tennessee. Oh.

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Thanks for be listening today. We sure appreciate you. If

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you like your country music, don't forget about country Underground

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radio then number one independent country radio internet radio station

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there is. That's a wrath. Comedian Lenny Bruce. He died

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today in nineteen sixty six at forty six years old.

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Lenny said, there is no what should be. There is

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only what is. You guys have an awesome day and

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we'll talk tomorrow. No no no no no

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No no no no no no no no no no

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no

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