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

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National Purple Heart day. Entertainment from 2012. 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 - God did good - Dianna Corcoran https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
American soldier - Toby Kieth
Call me maybe - Carly Rae Jepsen
Come over - Kenny Chesney
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
Flight of Icarus - Iron Maiden
Exit - Give me two steps - Cody Joe Hodges https://codyjoehodges.com/home

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Hi, I'm Jeff and welcome to History and fact Dud's

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about today. Today is August the seventh.

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No lodes to my duty, no matter what the price.

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I'm counted of the calls hello, the second fires boy,

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no mona for you?

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What it? Time's asking me? How fair?

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The cross with oar the spree noo, no't come free.

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Today is National Purple Heart Day. Back in seventeen eighty two,

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General George Washington, he ordered the badge of Military Merit

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be given out. Now, I personally awarded the first three

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to the Revolutionary Wars. Then he ordered his officers toward

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them as appropriate. Now, after the Revolutionary War was over,

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they weren't awarded again until nineteen thirty two. Yeah, they

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were brought back under the order of the Purple Heart.

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Now Washington his profile is on the badge. Now it

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is awarded in the name of the acting President of

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the United States, and it goes to all millinery personnel

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killed or wounded in action against an inemy staff. Sergeant

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Alvin Ireland he holds the record for receiving the most

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Purple Arts from nineteen forty one to nineteen fifty three. Yeah,

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he's wounded nine times. In World War two in Korea. Now,

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I personally want to get my utmost gratitude and appreciation

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and deep thanks to all the Purple Heart recipients and

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your families. Okay, what happened on August seventh? Back in

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twenty twelve, number one album was Uncaged by the Zach

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Brown Band. Carlie ray Jepson had the number one song

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with call Me Maybe Your.

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Stay was holding frid Sheene's skin was showing Hotton nine.

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Woman was blowing where I think.

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He's going Veray, I just don't call me leaving hot

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to look back.

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Kenny Chaz and he had the number one country song

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with Come Over.

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Tony album Don't Care The Baby climbing the walls.

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Gets mell Keny, This bab getting in any code.

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Come Over, Come Over.

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Come Over, Come Over.

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Come Over. The top selling book was The Fallen Angel

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by Danielle Silva. The top movie was a Born Legacy.

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Now this time Jeremy Renner plays Jason Bourde, not Mad Damon.

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But it's still like the other three movies, all right.

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What happened on August the seventh, eighteen eighty eight Philadelphias

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Theophilas van Canel in that of the river, the rever revolving. Yeah,

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that circular door. That's really irritating when people don't know

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how to get into it. Yeah. Now, it took him

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eleven years in order to sell one. See, the first

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one he actually put in was in eighteen ninety nine

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at Rector's Restaurant that was in Times Square in New

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York City. World War Two, in nineteen forty two, the

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first major land battle of the Pacific was fought. Yeah,

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the United States. They launched a surprise attack on the

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Japanese held island of Guadalcanal. Now it's gonna take till

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February before the Japanese finally surrender. But the most important

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thing was that it proved that the Japanese could be defeated.

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Now the United States, they're going to start that island

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hopping campaign. Nineteen sixty three. For the first time since

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Grover Cleveland's wife Francis gave birth to a baby girl

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back in eighteen ninety three, the first lady the United

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States gave birth Jacqueline Kennedy, John's wife. She gave birth

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to a baby boy and then Adian Patrick. Sadly Patrick,

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he was born six weeks early though, Yeah, he was premature. Yeah,

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he died two days later. Nineteen eighty seven. Now it

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

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she began the first person to swim from the United

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States to Russia. Yeah, I was across the Bering Strait. Now,

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but get this though, the water temperature is forty four

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degrees and she didn't wear wetsuit, No, just her swimsuit.

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Nineteen ninety, in response to Iraq invading Kuwait, Operation Desert

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Shield began. The United States started deploying it. His first

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troops over to Saudia. Radio that becomes Desert Storm when

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the fighting starts. Twenty eighteen, China, they banned Winnie the Poo.

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It's still banned everything to do with Winny the Poo.

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See the Chinese people, they think that Winning the Poo

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looks like Chi Shi Bing. Yeah, they're their leader. Well

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he didn't like that. He thinks they're mocking him, so

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he just banned everything boo related movies, videos, merchandise. Lord

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help you if you're caught wearing a Winning the Poot

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T shirt. So, I guess over a billion Chinese they

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can't have any.

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Poo joke, dop, doke, dope, shod this shivers day.

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Please, Donna tu he left this shiver day. We w

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simple tage like this Shivers day.

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And you know we don't give up.

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Well, that's just She is born on August the seventh. Now,

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you know, we really don't talk about bad people on

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here if we can now, but if somebody is the

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best at being at the absolute worst all time, yeah,

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I guess we should talk about him. The Blood Countess

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Elizabeth Bathrie. She's from Hungary. She's born in fifteen sixty.

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She is the number one all time female serial killer.

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Between fifteen ninety and sixteen ten, with the help of

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some of her servants, she killed over six hundred people.

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Supposedly they're all virgins. Now she did it so that

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she bathed in their blood. Now, she was married and

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she had eight kids, and she was batcraped crazy. But

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see this, that thing is her family actually owned all

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the land and hungry. So people kind of knew what

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was going on, but they didn't know what to do

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about it. Finally, enough of them got together in sixteen

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ten and said, you know, we got to stop this.

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So they put four of her servants on trial. They

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convicted them all for all those murders, but then the

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servants just disappeared Elizabeth. She was sentenced to house arrest

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in her castle for the rest of her life. Four

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years later, in sixteen fourteen, she just died. They found

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her body. Her bodyguard basically said, you went to sleep

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and never woke up. No one really bought it, but

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no one really cared either. She has fifty four now.

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In the movie The Wizard of Oz the Good Witch Glinda,

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she was played by Billy Burke now Billy. She was

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born in Washington, DC in eighteen eighty four. She was

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a very popular actress. Then she married the Princio zig Field, Yeah,

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by the famous zig Field Folly fame. Yeah, they had

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a daughter, now 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, though, they did a movie called The Great

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zig Field, But they talked all about the zig Fields

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and their shows, the follies and all that kind of stuff.

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Now Billy, she was mad as hell. They would not

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let her play herself. She was said, there, I'm one

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of the top actresses in the world. They still would't

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let her play herself. You know what made matter is

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even a lot worse though. The actress who did play

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in the movie, Yeah, I went an oscar for it,

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Ring Fall.

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On my Head and just the god who steamed up

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to the big fall. Nothing sused to fill Ring, I'm

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so fall man on my head and think all then.

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That was Billy Joe Thomas or just BJ Thomas. He's

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

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a country singer who had a lot of success crossing

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over to the pop charts. Sold there was seventy million records.

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Some of his classic hits are hooked on a feeling,

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rain drops keep falling on my Head, play another Somebody

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did Somebody Wrong song, Don't Worry Baby BJ. He married

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nineteen sixty eight and they had three daughters. He performed

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up until nine weeks before he died. See he had

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lung cancer. Yeah, lung cancer got him in twenty twenty one,

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at seventy eight years old. She's crazy, Believe there.

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I told her so, and the ball had the first out,

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just saying man this, She's crazy, Believe there, I told

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her so, But she stopping homaches out of control.

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Country singer Rodney Krall has seventy six. He's worn in Houston,

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Texas in nineteen fifty so number one Rodney call songs.

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

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

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he's out on tour right now. Mabe's gonna be out

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right total Thanksgiving right before then he's gonna stop. He

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had a daughter from his first wife. His second wife

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was country singer Roseanne Cash and Johnny Cash's daughter. They're

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married thirteen years and they had three daughters. He married

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his third wife in nineteen ninety eight. Actor Away Knight

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is seventy one. He's born in New York City in

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nineteen fifty five. Now, since he first got known on

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Seinfeld playing Newman and then on Third Rock on the Sun. Yeah,

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his officer done. Wayne's lost one hundred and ten pounds.

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He looks really good.

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Yeah.

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He said he lost it over years, not all at once,

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like you know, for like some of those shots or anything. Nope,

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he just gradually gradually lost it. Some of his movies

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were Basic Instinct, Jurassic Parkspace, Jim JFK. He's done a

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lot a lot of voice work. He married his second

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wife in two thousand and six and they have a son.

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I'm out crowd on All Man Stands, All Cloud, the Busts,

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Suck Shouts to Steal. That was Bruce Dickinson singing for

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the band Iron Maiden. Well he still does. Bruce was

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born in Worksop, England in nineteen fifty eight, so that

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makes him sixty eight. He started singing for Iron Maiden

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in nineteen eighty one. He's one of the sang all

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our biggest songs. He left for a couple of years

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in the nineties, but he's been back since Iron Maiden.

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They're actually out on tour over in Europe. They've actually

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sold over one hundred million records. Bruce is married to

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a second wife for thirty years. When they divorced in

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twenty twenty. They had three children together. Bruce he's just

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married his third wife in twenty twenty three. Actor David

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Dicovney's sixty six. He's born in New York City in

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nineteen sixty most known for playing Molder on the TV

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show The X Files. Then he was on Californiacs after that.

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Some of his movie is are California with a K

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Evolution Full frontal. He did couple X file movies too.

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Now he has married actress Taialoni for seventeen years and

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they had a son and a daughter. He married his

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second wife just a couple months ago in May after.

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Charlie's stern is fifty one. She's born in Bioni, 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 in order to pay

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for her dance classes. So you know what happened, right, Yeah,

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she dished and both went into acting. Now, she didn't

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even get a sale line in her first movie, Yeah,

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I was Children in the Corn. Three, she didn't get

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known for Devil's Advocate, and then she went an Oscar

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for Monster. She was nominated for Oscars for a North

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Country and Bombshell. Charlie. She hasn't married. She has adopted

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two little girls. All right here. Quote of the day,

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it's going to come from legendary firefighter Redd A Dare.

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He died it in two thousand and four at eighty

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nine years old. Rahet said, if you think it's expensive

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to hire a professional to do it, wait until you

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hire an amateur. Well, thank you all for listening and

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don't forget to follow us on you listen to us

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on as we come rank to you our country underground

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radio artists Today. It comes from Jim up there in Arvada, Colorado.

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He wants to hear a coach. Did you hid you son?

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Give me two steps? You guys have an awesome day.

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We'll talk tomorrow.

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Give me two steps. Give me two steps. Baby, we'll

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be burning on the floor all night. Give me two steps.

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Give me two steps, baby, arms wrapped around hope the time,

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Jimmy to stamps. Give me two steps, baby, sweet things

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and you're here, kim it to you steps. Give me

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two steps, baby. Something you need to here. Don't hit

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me out day with somebody. Ship can music unless you

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won't see some moves like Katy over the snake. Let's

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say what we have going here. You know that I'll

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be groove.

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Maybe we should just say it for our step thing, give.

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It you step skimming to steps. Baby, let me swing

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you for our sea. Give it you step skimming two steps. Baby.

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I love the way you dancewer me, give it you steps,

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Give it you steps, baby. I will leave if you

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will stare. Give it you stepskim it you steps, baby,

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stay I need a beer.

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