Aug. 6, 2024

Aug 6th-Rootbeer Float, Lucille Ball, Andy Warhol, Ginger Spice, Punky Brewster, 1st Atomic Bomb dropped

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National Rootbeer float day. Entertainment from 1988. First atomic bomb dropped on Japan, First execution by electric chair, First woman to swim the English Channel. Todays birthdays - Alexander Fleming, Hoot Gibson, Lucille Ball, Robert Michum, Andy Warhol, Pat McDonald, Michelle Yeoh, Geri Halliwell, Soliel Moon Frye. Rick James died.

Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard https://defleppard.com/
Rootbeer float song - Krevil Havik
Roll with it - Steve Winwood
Baby blue - George Strait
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent https://www.50cent.com/
I love lucy TV theme
The futures so bright - Timbuk 3
It's raining men - Geri Halliwell
Punky Brewster TV theme
Super Freak - Rick James
Exit - Its not love - Dokken https://www.dokken.net/

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Hello everybody.

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I am Jeff, and welcome to history and factoids about today,

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presented by Cool Media.

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Today is August the sixth.

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I won my root been floating, My root been floating.

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My room being floating, My room be floating. I got

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my one scoot scoot three stoop float.

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I got my fox scoop six scoop.

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I'm headed off the door. I want my being float,

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my root beer float, My roop be a float.

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It is National root Beer Float Day eighteen ninety three

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and Cripple Greek, Colorado Frank Weisner created the root beer float.

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Pretty simple. Actually, there's just a couple of scoots of

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Vanella ice cream and a gloss of root bear. Now,

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it couldn't have done it if Charles Hyden's had an

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invented root bear. In eighteen seventy six, nineteen nineteen, the

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first A and W root Bear restaurant opened up. It

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was in Low d, California. Now A and W they

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are going all out to their free root beer floats

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all day long and all their restaurants. So go there

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and grab one or make it yourself. Just enjoy a

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root beer float. All right, We's see what happened in

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entertainment on August sixth, in the year nineteen eighty eight,

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number one album was Appetite for Destruction by Guns n' Roses.

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Steve wood Would had the number one song with roll

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with It You Got a.

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Babe, Babe.

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George Strait had the number one country song with Baby

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Blue Baby.

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Like the colro Scos Lack of Bread. The spring Sheet

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came in Len Nasty and who ever hauld.

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The number one book was Cardinal of the Kremlin by

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Tom Clancy. Tom Milly was cocktail Tom Cruise. He's a

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bartender in New York City now, him and Brian Brown.

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They put it on a big show when they mixed drinks.

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Then Tom goes down to Jamaica at Bartend and he

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falls in love with Elizabeth Schue.

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All right.

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What happened on August the.

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Sixth, sixteen sixty one is called the Treaty of the

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Hague the Dutch Republic. They sold Brazil to Portugal for

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sixty three tons of gold about four point four billion dollars.

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Eighteen oh six, the Holy Roman Empire officially ended. Yep,

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no more Holy Roman Empire. Now it's just Austria now.

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When they decided that they could use electricity for executions.

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They honestly believed that it would be more humane, so

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they I don't know what he did, but they ended

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up testing it on a horse and it killed the

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horse with no problems. Then it definitely worked for humans.

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Right eighteen ninety in New York, William Kemmler. He was

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scheduled for execution for killing his wife with a hatchet. Oh, Willie,

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he got the honor being the first person to be

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using in an electric chair. They strapped him in the

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chair and zapped him with one thousand volts of electricity

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for seventeen seconds. Well, then they noticed he was still breathing,

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so they cranked her up to two thousand vaults and

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they let her rip. Then he started bleeding out of

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very oriphosis in his body. He has nose mouth ears

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who named it?

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He was bleeding.

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Then he caught fire. Well, all the witnesses they started

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throwing up. Well, look gross, but I guess the smell

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was horrible. Took him eight minutes to die. American and

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Gertrude Utterly she was a three time Olympic gold medal

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winningless in swimming. Nineteen twenty six, she became the first

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woman to swim the English channel. She did in fourteen

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hours and thirty four minutes. That was two hours faster

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than any man had ever done it. Her record stood

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for twenty four years until nineteen fifty when some man

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actually broke it. Nineteen forty five, at eight fifteen in

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the morning at the United States be twenty nine bomber,

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who was named n Novah Gay was named after his pilots.

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Paul Tibbets's mom, dropped the first atomic bond on the

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Japanese city of Hiroshima. The bomb was named Little Boy.

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Killed over one hundred and fifty thousand people. They don't

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really know how many died afterwards from all the poisoning

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and stuff, but Japan sadly they refused to surrender. Nineteen

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sixty five, President US President Lyndon B. Johnson, he signed

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the Voting Rights Act. It prohibited discrimination against any minorities

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and elections. In twenty fifteen Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, they had the

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world's largest pinball tournament of all time took place and

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they had over seven hundred machines that were.

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Used coke, coke, coked goat shage.

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This shibf Day were gonna page.

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He left this shib day. We don't simple tage.

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He left this shibirth day.

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And you know we don't get birthday.

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So who was born on August the sixth Alexander Fleming.

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He was born in Darvill, Scotland, in eighteen eighty one.

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He was a microbiologist. But he was also the guy

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who discovered in a cylon. Now that is considered one

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of the greatest discoveries in human history. Now both his

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wife died, but not anything that penicillin could have fixed.

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He had a son from his first wife, Fleming. He

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died from a heart attack in nineteen fifty five and

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seventy three years old.

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Hoot Gibson. He was born in.

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Tekama, Nebraska in eighteen ninety two. He was an all

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around rodeo championship cowboys. Then they needed cowboys to make

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silent films on California, so they got Hoot.

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He was perfect.

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He was good with the horse, so we started acting

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in nineteen twelve. Then until nineteen fifty nine was in

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over two hundred silent and seventy five talking movies.

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Between World War One and World War.

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Two, he was the second biggest box office draw behind

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Cowboy Tom Mix. He's married three actresses, and all of

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them ended up in divorce. He did have a son

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from actress number two, nineteen fifty two, fifty year old Hoot.

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He married himself, a twenty two year old yodler. They

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were married for twenty years until who died of cancer

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in nineteen sixty two at seventy years old. Lucille Ball

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She was born in Jamestown, New York, in nineteen eleven.

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She started out as a model. Then she was on Broadway.

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Nineteen forty she married Desi Arnez. They created Desilu Production.

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Of course, they're the ones who created I Love Lucy

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and all the spinoffs and all that kind of stuff.

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They divorced in nineteen sixty. Now Daisi, he had very

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successfully been running Desilu the production company. He decided, you

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know what, he was done, He wanted to move on.

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Since they divorced, Lucy took over. She became the first

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woman to run a major Hollywood production company.

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So how you do well?

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Some of the shows she put on TV where Mission Impossible,

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The Untouchable, Star Trek Now Lucy and Deassi. They did

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have a son and a daughter. Lucy married her second

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husband in nineteen sixty one. They were together until Lucy

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died at seventy seven years old nineteen eighty nine from

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an abdominal aortic aneurysm. Actor Robert He was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut,

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in nineteen seventeen. When he was seventeen, he'd run away

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and gotten down to Georgia. He got sentenced to be

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on a chain gag for vacancy. Well, he was able

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to escape the chain gang and he went back to

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New England. He is considered one of the best movie

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stars of all times. No no not actor, one of

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the best movie stars of all time. He was in

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over one hundred movies. Some of them were Thirty Seconds

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Over Tokyo, River of No Return, Cape Fear, The Longest Day.

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Midway met his wife when he was sixteen and she

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was seventeen. They got married nineteen forty and had two

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sons and one daughter. Mitcham died in nineteen ninety seven

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and seventy nine years old from lung cancer. Artist Andy

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Warhol He was born in Pittsburgh in nineteen twenty eight.

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I guess you call him well out a pop artist.

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Got famous for painting things like campbell, soup cans, and

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that kind of stuff.

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Now.

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He did a silk scream in nineteen sixty three called

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Silver Car Crash. It showed a mangled interior of a

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crashed silver car. Sold a few years ago for one

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hundred and five million dollars. Then just two years ago

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he had this print and it was called shot Sage

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Blue Maryland. He had done it back in nineteen sixty four,

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so for one hundred and ninety five million dollars. All

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it was was her goofy looking portrait of Marilyn Monroe

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nineteen sixty nine. This radical nut job lesbian feminists. She

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wanted to rid the world of men. Yeah, she dieded

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to start with gay Andy Warhol. She shot him in

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the stomach. He lived, but he had to live the

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rest of his life wearing a medical corset. He had

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to keep all his internal organs in place. She only

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got three years in jail for it, and he died

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in nineteen eighty seven at fifty eight years old, following

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gall bladder surgery.

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Science. I love my classes.

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He got a crazy teacher.

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Where's the classes? Things to go? And grazes only Jesus,

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I'm doing all right, Shade.

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That was Pat McDonald singing he and his wife Barbara.

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They were the duo Tim Buck three.

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Yeah, I know now Yeah.

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He's born in Green Babs Gonson in nineteen fifty two.

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He's seventy two today. Future so Brian. That's the only

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song that they had that were charted. I mean they

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divorced in nineteen ninety five. But Pat he has a big, big,

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big time songwriter. Just some of the people he's written

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songs for Cher Keith, Urban Aerosmith, Billy Ray, Cyrus. Night

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Ranger list goes on actress Michelle Yoo. She's sixty two.

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She was one of iPAH, Maryland or Malaysia in nineteen

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sixty two. She started off as an Asian martial arts

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movies star in the United States, hit Big in the

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James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies, then Crouching Tiger Head

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and Dragon Remains of a Gisha, Crazy rich Asian. She

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won an Oscar for Everything, Everywhere, all the time.

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Now.

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She married her second husband just a year ago July.

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She is the only actress Jackie Chan ever let do

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her own stunts in any of his movies.

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It's Rain.

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That was Jerry Hollowell singing solo.

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She's fifty two. She was born on Waltford, England in

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nineteen seventy two. Best known as Ginger Spies, not one

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of the most popular, but still one of the Spice Girls.

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They are the best selling all female group of all time.

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There's sold over one hundred million records.

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Spice Girls.

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They're still together minus Posh now as a solo artist Jerry.

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She sold fifteen million records all over in Britain. None

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of her stuff's been released on this side of the pond.

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She had a daughter from a boyfriend and she got

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married in twenty fifteen and they have a son.

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You man only day Silent turn Around.

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I had no idea, but Punky Brewster had a themed song.

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Huh. That girl who played Punky Brewster is now from

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forty eight years old, Celil Moonfry. She was born in Glendora, California,

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in nineteen seventy six. She was eight when she started

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playing Punky. Do you know what Punky Brewster's first name

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actually was Penelope Bevanella be Brewster, now after Punky Brewster, Celil.

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She was on Sabrina the Teenage Rich, which is kind

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of funny because the star of Sabrina the Teenage Witch,

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Melissa Joe Harten Celil beat her out to play Punky

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Brewster in the audition for that TV Small World. Now

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Sealilo's you're married from nineteen ninety eight and they divorced

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in twenty twenty two, and they had two sons and

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two daughters. Alright, ey, now, if you're gonna celebrate roupe

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beer today, you might want to be just be careful.

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Okay.

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See, if you drink at least twenty cans of root beer,

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there's a really good chance that you might get a

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little bit buzzed. Yeah, you could possibly get drunk. Even so,

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don't drink twenty five at least. Anyway, Thanks for listening,

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Let's end with Rick James.

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Read about Sorry, I really love she said, So she

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is all right, She is alrighty.

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Rick died today in two thousand and four, at fifty

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six years old. He said, I believe everything happens under

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God's plan. All Right, you guys have an awesome day,

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and we'll all talk tomorrow.

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No, no,

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