Aug. 7, 2024

Aug 7-Purple Heart, Charlize Theron, Iron Maiden, Rodney Crowell, BJ Thomas, Worst Female Serial Killer

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National Purple Heart day. Entertainment from 1978. Battle of Guadal Canal began, Operation Dester Shield began, China banned Winnie the Pooh. Todays birthdays - Elizabeth Bathory, Billie Burke, BJ Thomas, Rodney Crowell, Wayne Knight, Bruce Dickinson, David Duchovny, Charlize Theron. Red Adair died.

Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard https://defleppard.com/
American soldier - Toby Kieth
Miss you - The Rolling Stones
You don't love me anymore - Eddie Rabbitt
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent https://www.50cent.com/
Rain drops keep falling on my head - BJ Thomas
She's crazy for leavin - Rodney Crowell
2 minutes to midnight - Iron Maiden

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Hi, I am Jeff, and welcome to History and Factoids

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about Today, presented by Cool Media. It is August the

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seventh Lodes to my duty. No matter was the price.

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I'm counted up.

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The calls hello, the second profice boy, don't want the

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time for you? What are times asking me? Holdfare? The

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cross with others? The streetome don't come free. Today is

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National Purple Heart Day. In seventeen eighty two, General George Washington,

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he ordered the badge of Military merit be given out

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I personally, what are the first three to Revolutionary War soldiers.

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Then he ordered his officers to award it as appropriate. Now,

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after the Revolutionary War, it wasn't handed out again until

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nineteen thirty two. Then it was brought back back into

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service as the Order of the Purple Heart. Yeah, Washington's

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profiles on that badge. Now it's awarded in the name

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of the Act of the United States President to all

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military personnel killed or wounded in action against an enemy.

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Staff Sergeant Albert Ireland. He holds a record for the

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most Purple Arts from nineteen forty one to nineteen fifty three.

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It was wounded nine times in World War Two in Korea.

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Now We want to give our utmost gratitude and appreciation

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and thank you to all those Purple Heart recipients and

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their families. All right, this is going on entertainment on

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August seventh, Let's go back to your nineteen seventy eight

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number one album was the Grease movie soundtrack. The Rolling

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Stones had the number one song with Miss You Any

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Wedding had the number one country song with you Don't

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Love Me Anymore?

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You don't love me any more, You don't love me

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any Please, spooky plea, let the lines going to my.

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The number one book was Chesapeake by James Mitchener. The

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top movie was Grease. That's our musical about going to

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high school in the nineteen fifties by actors in their thirties,

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star the Living Noon, John John Travolta and Stockard Channing.

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All right, what happened on August the seventh, eighteen eighty

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eight americanstal Felix van Canal. He invented the revolving door

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and that circular door that kind of irritate you when

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people don't know how to get into it, but he

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didn't build one for eleven years. First person I Won't

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put In was an eighteen ninety nine at the Rector's

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Restaurant on Times Square. World War Two, in nineteen forty two,

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the first major land battle of the Pacific was fought.

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The United States launched a surprise attack on the Japanese

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on the island of Guadalcanal. Now, it took until February

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before the Japanese finally surrendered, but it did prove that

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the Japanese could be defeated. The United States then started

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as island hopping campaign nineteen sixty three. For the first

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time since Grover Cleveland's wife, Francis gave birth to a

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little girl. In eighteen ninety three, the United States President's

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wife gave birth John Kennedy's wife, Jacqueline Kidney, and gave

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birth to a baby boy. Sadly, the little boy named Patrick. Yeah,

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he was born six weeks premature. He died two days later. Now,

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it was only two point seven miles. But American Lynn Cox,

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she became the first person and swim from the United

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States to Russia. Yeah, she swam across the Bearing Strait.

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But get this, the water temperature was forty four degrees

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and she didn't even wear what suit, No, just her

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bathing suit. So that's worth noting. Nineteen ninety, in response

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to Iraq invading Kuwait, Operation Desert Storm began the United States.

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They started deploying it first troop to Saudi Arabia. Now

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it'll become Desert Storm once the fighting starts. In twenty eighteen,

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China band Winning the Pooh is still in effect. See

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the Chinese people, they think Pooh looks like their leader.

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She's jumping. He doesn't like that, so he banned everything

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to do with winning the pool, movies, videos, merchandise. Lord

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help you if your got wearing a winning poo T shirt.

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So I guess over a billion Chinese they're not allowed

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to buy poo cot coke, coke co coat shage. This

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shiverth day, we gonna pause.

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He left this shiverfday.

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We don't sit pletarge. He's like this shiver birthday, and

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you know we don't give up.

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That's the birthday.

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Okay, let's see it's born on August the seventh. Now

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you all know that we really don't talk about bad

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people there. But if someone is the best at being

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the absolute worst all time, I guess we should probably

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talk about him. She's known as the Blood Countess Elizabeth

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Bathory from Hungary born in fifteen sixty. She was the

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number one female all time serial killer between fifteen ninety

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and sixteen ten. With the help of some of her servants,

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she call over six hundred virgins. Yeah, she did it

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so she could bathe in their blood. Now she was

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married in eight child's but yeah, she was backcraped crazy.

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But her family actually owned all the land in Hungry,

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so people knew what was going on, but no one

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knew what they were supposed to do about it. Well,

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finally in sixteen ten, enough people had enough and they'd

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got together. Yeah, they actually put four of her servants

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on trial and they convicted them and then they just disappeared.

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Elizabeth she got sentenced to house arrest in her castle

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for the rest of her life. Then in sixteen fourteen

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she just died. Yeah, her bodyguard said they know she

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went to sleep and never woke up. No one really

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bought it, but no one really cared either. She was

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fifty four years old. In the movie The Wizard of

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Oz the Good Witch Glinda, she was played by Billy Burke. Billy.

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She was born in Washington, d c. In eighteen eighty four. Now,

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she was very popular actress back in their day. Then

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she married Florence Zigfield, the famous Zigfield Follies, and they

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had a daughter, Billy. She died from natural causes in

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nineteen seventy at eighty five years old. Back in nineteen

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thirty six, they did a movie called The Great zig Field,

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all about zig Field and the follies and all that

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kind of stuff. Now, Billy, she was mad as hell

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that they wouldn't let her play herself. She said she

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was one of the top actresses and she wanted players.

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They wouldn't let her do it. They had to make

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things matters worse. Yeah, the actress who played her, You

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had won an oscar for it.

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Ring on my head and just like the guy who

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streamed up to Big four, nothing.

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Seems to fit those ring ups fall in on my.

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Head and k.

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Had Billy Joe Thomas simply knowing it has bj Thomas.

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He was born in Hugo, Oklahoma, in nineteen forty two.

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Now he's a country singer, but he had a lot

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of success crossing over to the pop charts. So there

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were seventy million records. Some of those all time classics

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are hooked on a feeling. Rain drops keep falling on

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my Head playing another Somebody did Somebody Wrong song Don't

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Worry Beta. He got married in nineteen sixty eight and

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they had three dis e j performed up until nine

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weeks before he died and died from lung cancer in

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twenty twenty one at seventy eight years old.

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She's crazy, believe there, I told her so, and the

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ball has have the fust off, just say his mane.

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She's crazy beleeve there, I tell her so, but she

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stopped booming beaches out of some troue. Country singer Rodney

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Krall is seventy four. He was born in Houston, Texas,

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in nineteen fifty. He's his first time I'm back in

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nineteen seventy eight. Some of his number one songs are

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It's such a small world. I couldn't leave you if

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I tried. She's crazy for leaving after all this time.

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He's out on tour now if you only check Brodney

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out now. He had a daughter from his first wife.

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His second wife was Johnny Cash's daughter country singer Roseanne Cash.

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They're married for thirteen years and had three daughters. Rodney.

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He's been married to his third wife since nineteen ninety

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eight actor Way Knight. He was born in New York

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City in nineteen fifty five. He's sixty nine. First got

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known playing Newman on Seinfeld. Then he is Officer Dawn

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on Third Rock from the Sun. Some of his movies

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are Basic Instinct, Jurassic Park, Space Jam, JFK. He has

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done a lot of voice work Wayne and has been

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married to a second wife since two thousand and six

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and they have a son. That was Bruce Dickinson singing

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for the heavy metal band Iron Maiden. He still does.

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He is born in works Up, England in nineteen fifty

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eight sixty six.

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Now.

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He took over singing for Iron Maiden in nineteen eighty one.

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He's sang on every one of their songs that he

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said any kind of success. He did live in nineteen

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ninety three to go solo and that didn't work out

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at all, so he's been back since nineteen ninety nine.

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Now they started an American leg of There Too on

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October fourth, and then they'll do it until Thanksgiving. I

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already made and they sold over one hundred million records.

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Brosi is married to a second wife for thirty years.

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When they divorced. A couple of years ago and they

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have three children. Actor David d'covney. He's born in nineteen

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sixty in New York City. He's sixty four. Most known

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for playing Molder on the TV show The X Files.

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Then he was on TV's Californication. Some of his movies

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were California, That's What The k Evolution, Full Fronto, a

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couple X Files movies. He was a goat man on Goat.

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He was married to actress Talioni for seventeen years and

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they had a son and a daughter. Actress Charlie's thereon.

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She's forty nine. She was born in Benoni in South

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Africa in nineteen seventy five. She wanted to be a dancer,

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so she worked as a model to pay for her

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dance classes. Then she got rid of both those and

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just went into acting. She didn't even get a sale

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line in her first movie, it was Children in the

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Corn Three. You didn't get known for The Devil's Advocate,

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and then you went an Oscar for Monster, been nominated

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for Oscars for North Country and Bombshell. Charlie. She adopted

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two little girls. All right, hey, let's go back to

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Winnie the Pooh. Now if you want to see the

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real stuffed animals that inspired Winning the Pool. Yeah, Winny,

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Igor Piglet, all those characters in it. Yeah, they're actually

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stuffed animals from Robert Robin Master's bed or whatever. They're

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actually on display in New York Public Library. You can

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go see him for free. Well, thank you for being

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here today. We appreciate you. Follow us on who have

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cool media dot com. Now let's end with legendary firefighter

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Reddit Dare. He died to day in two thousand and

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four at eighty nine years old. Rad said that if

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you think it's expensive to have a professional to do it,

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wait till you hire yourself an amateur. Well, you guys

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have yourselves all an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow.

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Ring and God streamed up to beg for his word.

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Nothing seems to fit those ring drops A fall in

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on my head thinking for all the

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