Aug. 6, 2025

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 2000. 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
It's gonna be me - NSYNC
What about now - Lonestar
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.

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Today is August the seventh.

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Loes to my duty, no matter what the price, I'm

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counted up.

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The calls hello the secondfius boy, don't time for you?

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What it?

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Time's asking me? Hold fair and cross with ter the spree, No,

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don't countree. Today is National Purple Heart Day.

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Back in seventeen eighty two, General George Washington, he ordered

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the Badge of Military Merit be given out. Now, I

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personally awarded the first three to the Revolutionary Wars. Then

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he ordered his officers to award them as appropriate. Now,

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after the Revolutionary War was over, they weren't awarded again

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until nineteen thirty two. Yeah, they were brought back under

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the order of the Purple Art. Now Washington his profile

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is on the badge. Now it is awarded in the

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name of the acting President of the United States, and

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it goes to all millinary personnel killed or wounded in

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action against an inemy staff. Sergeant Alvin Ireland he holds

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a record for receiving the most Purple Arts from nineteen

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forty one to nineteen fifty three. Yeah, he's wounded nine

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times in World War two in Korea. Now I personally

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want to get my utmost gratitude and appreciation and deg

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thanks to all the Purple Heart recipients.

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And your families.

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All right, this is going on entertainment On August the

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seventh's back the year two thousand. Number one album was

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Now four by various artists in Saint Yad. The number

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one song with It's going.

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To be Me.

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Some Night cast its Tunning may lone Star. They had

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the number one country song with what about Now?

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What about now? How about baby wants?

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Men?

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Don't think.

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That's been there never man said we've been tall being

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about what about now?

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Why should we wait?

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The number one book was The House on Hope Street

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by Danielle Steele. The top movie was ho Man, a scientist.

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He's able to turn himself invisible, but then he becomes

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a Jane dangerous, really nut job. Stars Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth Shoe,

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and Josh Brolin. All Right, what happened on August the seventh,

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eighteen eighty eight. Philadelphias Theophilas van Canel in That of

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the River the rever revolving Door. Yeah, that circle, that's

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really irritating when people don't know how to get into it. Yeah, Now,

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it took him eleven years in order to sell one. See,

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the first one he actually put in was in eighteen

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ninety nine at Rector's Restaurant that was in Times Square

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

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the first major land battle of 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 going to take

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till February before the Japanese finally surrendered. But the most

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important thing was that it proved that the Japanese could

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be defeated. Now the United States are going to start

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that island hopping campaign.

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Nineteen sixty three.

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For the first time since Grover Cleveland's wife, Francis gave

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birth to a baby girl back in eighteen ninety three,

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the first lady the United States Gate birth Jacqueline Kennedy,

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John's wife. She gave birth to a baby boy, then

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Nadian Patrick. Sadly Patrick, he was born six weeks early though, Yeah,

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he was premature. Yeah, he died two days later nineteen

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eighty seven. Now it was only two point seven miles

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but American Lynn Cox. She began the first person to

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swim from the United States to Russia. Yeah, it was

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as the bearing straight now, but get this though, the

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water temperature is forty four degrees and she didn't wear wetsuit, No,

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just her swimsuit. Nineteen ninety, in response to Iraq invading Kuwait,

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Operation Desert Shield began. The United States started deploying his

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first troops over to Saudi a radio that becomes Desert

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Storm when the fighting starts. Twenty eighteen, China, they banned

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

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Winnie the Poo. See the Chinese people, they think that

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Winning the Poo looks like Chi shin bing. Yeah, they're

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their leader.

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Well he didn't like that.

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He thinks they're mocking him, so he just banned everything

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boo related movies, videos, merchandise. Lord help you if you're

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caught wearing it Winning the Poo T shirt. So I

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guess over a billion Chinese they can't have any.

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Poop dope, coo, doped dope shod this Shivers day. Please

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don't he left this shiver day. We don't simple cage

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like this Shivers day. And you know we don't do well.

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Let's just say born on August the seventh.

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

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on here if we can now, but if somebody is

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the 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 could bathe in their blood. Now, she was married

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

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But see this, that thing is her family actually owned

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all the land and hungry. So people kind of knew

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

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

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sixteen 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 a house

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arrest in her castle for the rest of her life.

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

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

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

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but 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 Princia Zigfield, 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 just said, there, I'm one

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

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let her play herself. You know what made matters even

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a lot worse though. The actress who did play in

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

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Ring fall on my head.

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And just like the god who's feed up to big fall,

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nothing seems to fit.

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Ring. I'm so fall in on my head and think all.

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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 the pop charts. Sold there was seventy million records.

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Some of his classic hits are hooked on the 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, I.

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Told her so? And the ballad the bust up just saying, man, she's.

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Crazy, believe there, I told her.

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So, But she stopping.

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Woman ches out to tro Country singer Rodney krall is seventy.

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He was born in Houston, Texas in nineteen fifty. So

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number one Rodney cal songs. It's such a small world.

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I can't leave you if I tried. She's crazy for

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leaving after all this time. Now, Rodney, he's out on

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tour right now that he's gonna be out right to

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Thanksgiving right before then he's gonna stop. He had a

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daughter from his first wife. His second wife was country

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singer Roseanne Cash and Johnny Cash's daughter. They're married thirteen

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years and they had three daughters.

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He married his third.

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Wife in nineteen ninety eight after Way Night. He's seventy.

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He's born in New York City in nineteen fifty five. Now,

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since he first got known on Seinfeld playing Newman and

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then on Third Rock on the Sun. Yeah, his officer done.

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Wayne's lost one hundred and ten pounds. 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. No,

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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 lot,

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a lot of voice work. He married his second wife

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in two thousand and six and they have a son, Roud.

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On All Mad Stud's all here, the busts socks shouts to.

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Steal that was Bruce Dickinson singing for the band Iron Maiden.

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Well he still does.

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Broucey was born on Worksop, England in nineteen fifty eight,

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makes him sixty seven years old today. He started singing

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for Iron Maiden in nineteen eighty one. He's one of

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that sang all our biggest songs. He left for a

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couple of years in the nineties, but he's been back

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since Iron Maiden. They're actually out on tour over in Europe.

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They've actually sold over one hundred million records. Broucey is

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married to a second wife for thirty years. When they

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divorced in twenty twenty. They had three children together. Bruce

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He's just married his third wife in twenty twenty three.

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Actor David Kneb David d. Coovni. He was born in

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nineteen sixty in New York City's sixty five. Most known

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for playing Moulder on the TV show The X Files.

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Then he was on Californiacs after that. Some of his

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movie is are California with a K full fronto. He

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did a couple X File movies too. Now he is

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married actress Tialoni for seventeen years and they had a

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son and a daughter. He married his second wife just

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a couple months ago and man actress Charlie's then. She

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was born in Benoni, South Africa in nineteen seventy five.

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She's fifty day. She wanted to be a dancer, so

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she worked as a model in order to pay for

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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.

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Charlie. She hasn't married. She has adopted two little girls.

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All right here.

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Quote of the day, it's going to come from legendary

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firefighter Redd A.

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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 two our country underground radio artists.

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Today it comes from Jim up there in Arvada, Colorado.

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You want to hear Cody Joe, hide your son. Give

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me two steps. You guys have an awesome day. We'll

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talk tomorrow.

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Give me two steps.

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Give me two steps, baby, we'll be burning on the

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floor all night. Gimme two steps. Give me two steps.

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Baby, arms wrapped around hope the time.

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Kimm it's you stamps.

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Gimme you steps, baby, sweet things and you're here, kimm

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it too, stapskim it two steps, baby, is something you.

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Need to here. Don't save me out. Stay with some dude.

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That ship can music unless you won't see some moves

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like a katy over the snake.

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Let's say what we have going here. You know that

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I'll be grub baby. Maybe we should just say it

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for our slap day.

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Give it you step, Skimmi you steps, baby, Let me

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swing you for hour to see. Give it you step skimming.

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Your steps baby.

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I love the way you.

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Dance for me. Give it you steps. Give it your steps, baby.

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I will leave if you will stare.

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Give it you steps. Kim It's your steps, baby, stay.

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I need a beer.

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