Aug. 7, 2026

Aug 8-Pickleball, Shawn Mendes, NSYNC, Creed, Dustin Hoffman, Mel Tillis, Olivia Newton-John

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National Pickleball day. Entertainment from 1962. Nixon announced his resignation, The Great Train Robbery in England, Mt. Blanc summited for first time. Todays birthdays - Webb Pierce, Mel Tillis, Dustin Hoffman, Connie Stevens, Don Most, Scott Stapp, JC Chasez. Shawn Mendes. Olivia Newton-John died.
Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
Picleball anthem - Eddie & Webby Pickleball
Roses are Red - Bobby Vinton
Wolverton Mountain - Claude King
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent https://www.50cent.com/
In the jailhouse now - Webb Pierce
I aint never - Mel Tillis
Sixteen reasons - Connie Stevens
Happy Days TV theme
Higher - Creed
Blowin me up with her love - JC Chasez
Stitches - Shawn Mendes
Please Mr. Please - Olivia Newton- John
Exit - A memory I can't drown - Anthony Price https://anthonypricemusic.com/

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Hello, I am Jeff, and welcome to history. In fact,

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it's about today Today's August the eighth.

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Pickleball, bickleball and drifting in fun.

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There's no joke pickleball, and it's not just for old fun.

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So what exactly use this game?

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I claim this is so fun?

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Will pay attention because I'm gonna educate your son. It's

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like tennis, badmitting and ping pong rolled into one. You

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can play two versus two or even one on one.

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The pedal can be made of woo composite material goals.

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The ball is like a whiffled all the main differences

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the holes.

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Today is National Pickleball Day.

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Yeah.

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I love promoting exercise on the show Pickleball. Though it

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seems like Americas have just gotten really lazy. So tennis

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is too much work, so let's play pickleball and you

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have to run half as much. But it is exercise,

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and I reluctantly have to admit that it is kind

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of fun. So it was actually created in Washington State

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in nineteen sixty five. I'm pretty sure it's a result

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of alcohol. Three buddies came back from playing golf and

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their families had been waiting for him and they were

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really bored. So the three guys they tried to cover

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up for it, so they said, hey, we're gonna have

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a bad minton tournament. The only problem was they had

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a net, but they didn't have any rackets or shuttlecocks.

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So they improvised and they used whiffleballs and ping pong battles. Well,

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pickleball was born. Yeah, I haven't played yet. It's pretty

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easy to learn. So whether you're a beginner, a casual player,

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a pickle nerd y, I just enjoyed some pickleball today.

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Let's see what happened on August eighth back in nineteen

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sixty two and then one album was Modern Sounds of

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Country and Western Music by Ray Charles. Bobby Vinton had

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the number one song with Roses Are Red.

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You handed Me Your Bull.

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I signed the sway Roses.

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Sugar is Sweet.

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My Lovelock has Sweet as You.

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Claude King had the number one country song with Wolvererton Mountain,

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All Wolverton Mountain.

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If you're looking.

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For a wife.

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Hors Cliff dun Clowers has a pretty young daughter.

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He's mighty handy with the gun.

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And nine that number one selling book A Ship of

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Fools by Katherine an Porter. The top move was Kid Galahad.

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Now after he got out of the army, and this

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one Elvis becomes a boxer Charles Bronson's and it also

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all right, what happened on August the eighth Now Mountain Blanc.

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It is fifteen seven and seventy feet high, talas mountain

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over in the Alps. It straddles France, Italy and Switzerland.

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In seventeen eighty six, in order to win a bet

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Jocks Belmont and Michael Picard, they became the first as

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summit Mountain Block. By doing so, they actually started mountaineering

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as we know it today. Yeah, before then, people they

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really didn't care about climbing mountains. But when Balmont and

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Picard came back and started bragging about it, yeah, people

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were finally interested in it. It's okay. The bet In

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seventeen sixty Horace Benedicte de sur de Sesur. Well say

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he was a geologist, a meteorologist, all kinds of ologists. Well,

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he had been surveying the mountains out there. Now he's

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the one who actually confirmed that Mountain Block was the

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highest mountain in the Alps. Now he made a bet

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that no one would be able to climb that mountain. Well,

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twenty six years later, of course those two guys summoned

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the mountain. Well, they did collect their prize for winning

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the bet. Yeah, but nobody they weren't able to tell

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what the prize was. Yeah, that was part of the conditions.

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Then the very next year, Horace he comes back in

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and say he is the route they did, and he

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climbed mountain block himself. Eighteen seventy six, Thomas had ascend.

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Now he received a pat today for an electric pin. Yeah,

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he had invented it. Now, no one ever bought or

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used the electric pin. So he was invented to make

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multiple copies of paper. Seeing though they didn't have video,

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you know, copy machines or anything. So he thought, well,

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if you have an electric pen and you can shoot

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the ink down into like three or four copies, you

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don't have to keep rewriting it. Well, no one used

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it anything but a Polish immigrant. He was a tattoo artist.

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He saw one in a window, so he went and

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bought it. He modified it. He revolutionized the tattoo industry. Yeah,

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the tattoo guns or pins that are used today, yeah,

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they're all based on that first one. England, in nineteen

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sixty three, the Great Train Robbery took place a grip

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of mask Man. They robbed a British mail train in Beckinghamshire. Well,

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they were able to steal twent point six million pounds

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that it was like seven point three million dollars today,

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it'd be seventy five million dollars now. At the time,

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it was the largest robbery in England's history to put up. Okay,

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so to pull it off, they had house some inside help.

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Once authority's figured out who the inside help was. Yeah,

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all the guys got caught. But all that money, yeah,

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it hadn't been found and all those guys are dead,

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so no one knows where that money is. Nineteen seventy five,

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the United States President Richard Nixon. He announced on live

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National TV that tomorrow at noon he would resign as

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President of the United States. I guess we'll have to

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see if he keeps his word. Nineteen ninety nineteen eighty eight, Yeah,

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eighty eight. It was a cute little date eight eight

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eighty eight. A bunch of people bout lottery tickets. But

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now knowing one we get this though a lot of

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cities across the country, including New York City, Boston, Philadelphia,

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all had high temperatures of eighty eight degrees. Jokejke joked,

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Coke joked joke, huge dish shibirth Day.

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We're gonna pause.

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He left this shiverbthday.

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We won't sit potage like this shibirth Day.

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And you know you don't get up because that's birthday.

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Well, let's check out us. Born on August the eighth.

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You know he was the smartest guy.

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Last Monday.

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Sunday.

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He got him in the jail house.

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Wat time he's in the jail house.

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House.

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In nineteen fifty five, that song in the jail House

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Now it was number one on the country chart for

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twenty one weeks. It was sung by Web Pears. He

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was born in West Monroe, Louisiana, in nineteen twenty one.

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Web about fourteen number one songs in the nineteen fifties.

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That was the most of any country artist during that decade.

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Web he performed though up until the nineteen eighties. He

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had a daughter from a fling. He married his second

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wife in nineteen fifty two. They were together until he

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died from pancreatic cancer nineteen ninety one, nineteen ninety one,

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sixty nine years old.

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Undy saving Sesshi.

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Country singer Mel Tillis. He was born in Tampa, Florida,

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in nineteen thirty two. He started performing in the nineteen fifties,

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but he didn't have any success or anything in the

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nineteen seventies. Then he hit really Big, I Ain't Never

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Good Woman, Blues, Coca Cola, Cowboy, I Believe In You, Yeah,

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some of the big hits in the seventies. He did

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some acting. Some of the movies were Smoking the Bandit Too,

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did all the cannonball run movies, Beer for My Horses.

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He divorced his first wife after twenty years. They had

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five children, one of those Yeah singer Pam tillots Nell.

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He had another child from his second wife. Then he

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died from respiratory failure in twenty seventeen. Eighty five years old.

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Actor Dustin Hoffman's eighty nine. He was born in Los

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Angeles in nineteen thirty seven. Started out on Broadway, then

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he went to the movies. The first movie was The

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Tiger Makes Out. After that he was nominated for Oscars

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for the graduate Midnight Cowboy, Lenny Tootsie Wagged the Dog.

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He won Oscars for a Cramer versus Creamer and Rainman.

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He had two daughters from his first marriage. Married his

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second wife in nineteen eighty and they had two sons

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and two daughters.

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Way Hold.

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Scene, Way.

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Your Secret, Sid.

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Sixty Reason.

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She is Connie Stevens and she's eighty eight today. She's

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born in Brooklyn, New York. That as a singer, she

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released nine albums. Some of her hitstar sixteen reasons, Hey

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good Looking, Kookie, Kookie, lend me your come That stupid

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song with Ed Burns that was her biggest hit. That

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was an actress, she had really big on TV. She

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started on Hawaiian I and then seventy seven So Strip.

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Some of her movies were Young and Dangerous, eighteen and Anxious,

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The Party Crashers. Her second husband was Eddie Fisher. They

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were married for three years and I had two hudgers. Yeah,

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they're both actresses, Jolie Fisher and Trisha Lee Fisher.

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Suday Saturdayesday actor.

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Don Most was born in Brooklyn, New York in nineteen

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fifty three. He's seventy three today. Most known for playing

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Ralph Mouf on the TV show Happy Days. Now, he's

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played a lot of TV appearances after that. He's uh

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over the last ten years though, he does a lot

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of swing singing. Yeah, he has released some songs. He

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actually just released an album and him and the band

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are going out and performing swing music. He got married

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in nineteen eighty two and they have two daughters.

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Seen steedmon School.

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That is Scott Stapp, the lead singer for the band Creed. Yeah, Creed.

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They got back together in twenty twenty three. Scott is

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fifty three. He is born in Orlando in nineteen seventy three.

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Creed they formed in nineteen ninety four. They've taken a

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couple of breaks obviously. I mean they said they were

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done for good in twenty twelve. Yeah, they've been back since.

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Like I said, twenty twenty three sold over fifty million records.

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My Own Prison, Higher with Arms Wide Open, My Sacrifice, Yeah,

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some of their biggest hits. Scott he had a son

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from his first wife, married a second wife in two

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thousand and six and they have three children.

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Friday Night.

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Night, blow Me Up with Her Love. That is the

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biggest solo hit for J. C. Chisse. Yeah, he got

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it up to number thirty five on the Dance chart.

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Now he had a lot bigger success when he was

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with the band in Sync. Jac is fifty. He was

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born in Washington, d C. In nineteen seventy six. Now,

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I was a kid. He started out on the Mickey

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Mouse Club. Then he was in Sync, him and Justin

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Timberlank sing lead. That started in nineteen ninety five. But

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when Justin Caller quits in two thousand and two, yeah,

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that Mints and Sync was over. So there were seventy

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million records. Now j C. He's done a lot of

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producing and writing for the artists. Now JC it stands

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for Joshua Scott.

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Yeah, I know.

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You watch me dy like JAV Shaky monies in now

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we tell Shoes, Nobby Steagjeez tapedos Lasso.

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Begging you to come out.

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Twenty eight year old Sewn Mendez was born in Toronto, Canada,

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in nineteen ninety eight. Now when he was thirteen years old, Oh,

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he started posting music videos of him doing cover songs

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on the website Vine. Remember that Vine. Yeah, I basically

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did a bunch of Justin Bieber song. He ended up

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being the number third most downloaded person on Vine. So

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he got a record deal one year later. At fourteen

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years old. Since then, he sold the twenty million albums,

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one hundred and twenty music songs, and he's got eight

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billion views of him on YouTube. Some of his biggest

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hits are stitches Treat You Batter If I can't have

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you seen Urita was with Camilla Cabel. Alright here quote

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of the day, it's gonna come from Olivia Newton John

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please miss dress song.

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Song.

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Olivia died today in she's seventy three years old. She said,

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I live every day to its fullest and I don't

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sweet the small stuff. Well, thank you all for listening

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today and follow us on who you listen to his

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of today. It comes from Andres in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.

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He wants to hear Anthony Price and his song a Memory.

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I can't drown you guys have an awesome day and

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we'll talk tomorrow.

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Here once again. I'm here, move stuff, drown and drown memory.

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Bessie's well baldschools.

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And I'm drinking whiskey and when the bar keep your

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last call. I'll over youre one more round.

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Calls.

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Last call means one more chance to get.

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You off my mother.

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So I your face, a lonely night with you, and

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I find my side.

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And when the God wakes me, I know what I

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will find.

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Just enough, the cold court, harding, and I can't even

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drive

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