Dec. 16, 2025

Dec 17th-Maple Syrup, The Temptations, Bad Company, Eugene Levy, Tracy Byrd, Milla Jovovich, 1st Airplane Flight

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National maple syrup day. (2024) Entertainment from 1987. Poacher sentenced to 1 year prison watching the movie Bambi, Oldest golfer to make a hole-in-one, The Wright brothers make the 1st airplane flight, France issues a reward for talking to ET's. Todays birthdays - Eddie Kendricks, Ernie Hudson, Eugene Levy, Paul Rogers, Bill Pullman, Tracy Byrd, Giovanni Ribisi, Marissa Ribisi, Milla Jovovich. Penny Marshall died.

Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard http://defleppard.com/
The Maple Syrup Song
Faith - George Michael
Do Ya - K.T. Oslin
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
My girl - The Temptations
A mighty wind is a blowing - The Main Street singers
Shooting star - Bad Company
Watermelon crawl - Tracy Byrd
Lavern & Shirley TV theme
Exit - In my dreams - Dokken https://www.dokken.net/

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Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history and

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Factoids about today present and buy cool Media. Today's December

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the seventeenth.

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In the hoods finding maple hang up a bucket on

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the tent, drifting out looks like water slightly sweet. We

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call it sound paple sir rub, maple sir rub, maple

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sirup is a tree.

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Today is National Maple Syrup Day. Native North Americans they

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were eating the sap out of maple trees for as

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long as they've been here pretty much. Then when the

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Europeans arrived, they saw what they were doing, they kind

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of perfected or improved a little bit. Yeah, they started

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boiling off the excess water to make the maple syrup

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that we live today. Now, if you want to make

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maple syrup, you need to have maple trees and they

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grow only in the colder climates. So that is why

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Canada is the number one producer of maple syrup in

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the world. Vermont, they're the biggest maple syrup producer in

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the United States. So I to celebrate maple syrup today,

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we need to put it on something. So break out

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the French toast waffle pancakes, whatever you prefer and enjoy

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that maple syrup now tapping a maple tree for its up. Yeah,

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it doesn't do any damage to it does leave it

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a little scar though. All right, this is going on

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in entertainment nine December seventeenth, It's Back. Nineteen eighty seven.

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Number one album was the Dirty Dancing Movie soundtrack. George

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Michael had the number one song with faith.

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Because I Gotta Half Thing.

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I Got a kat Asla, And she had the number

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one country song with do you.

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Do You Still?

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I'm text, well, I guess what I'm masking?

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Do you steal?

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The number one book was The Tommy Knockers by Stephen King.

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The top movie was Eddie Murphy Raw. A lot of

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you younger listeners you probably don't realize just how big

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Eddie Murphy was in the nineteen eighties. Now Raw, it

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was just Eddie Murphy doing his stand up live and

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they filmed it and then released it in theaters. It

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is still the highest grossing stand up comedy concert movie

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of all time. In nineteen eighty nine, it was no

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longer just a skit on The Tracy Ullman Show. The

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very first episode of The Simpsons debut. Now, as you know,

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it's the longest running TV show and of all time.

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All right, that's it. Happened on December the seventeenth in

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thirteen ninety eight in what today is India, a Turk

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named Tammer Lane. He captured and sacked the city of Delhi.

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Now they thought it was going to be this big,

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bloody bealley. But him and his men they loaded up

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their camels with hey, then they lit them on fire

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and they charged those camels at the city. Sultan's armored elephants,

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all those armored elephants. They didn't like it. So when

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the elephants took off, yeah, so did all the soldiers.

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So it really wasn't that bloody of a battle back.

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In fourteen seventy nine, around the Mexico City area, the

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Aztecs they carved a twenty five ton stone calendar had

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a fifty two year cycle. Then around fifteen twenty they

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had to keep the calendar from falling into the Spanish hands.

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They buried it. Then everybody forgot about it. So in

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seventeen nineties some workers were repairing a cathedral and they

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found it again. Yeah, you can go see it. It's

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simply called the Aztec calendar. Stone, Yeah, kind of anti dramatic.

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Seventeen ninety one, in New York City, they were trying

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to figure out what to do with their massive traffic problems.

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They had horses, horses and carriages, pedestrians, pedestrians pulling carts,

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everyone going in every wist way direction, total chaos. So

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they created the world's first one way streets. I mean,

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intersections were still a bitch, but hey, it was better.

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Eighteen sixty two, Union General your list, He's as Grant,

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she'd Order number eleven. It expelled all Jews from his

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military district that was Tennessee and Mississippi and Kentucky. He

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said the Jews they were involved in black market trading

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of the southern cotton well in Washington, d c. When

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word got back there, the Jews, the press, Congress, and

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most importantly President Abe Lincoln, they all went back crab crazy.

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So Grant he revoked the order number eleven. He said

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that it was written by a subordinate officer and he

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hadn't read it before he signed it. Yeah, I'm sure

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everybody believed him. In France, in nineteen hundred, they offered

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one hundred thousand franc reward for anybody who could communicate

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with extraterrestrials. That reward is still out there, so you

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can if you can communicate with et yeah, you can

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get one hundred thousand francs. But there is an exception.

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Martians are excluded. Yeah, they thought Martians would be too

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easy to communicate with. Nineteen oh three, in Kittioch, North Carolina,

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Oorver and rober Wright, they set out to become the

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first to fly a motorized aircraft. So I had ten

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thirty five in the morning. Or of all, he flew

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for twelve seconds, achieving the first controlled heavier than air

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flight in his Now, before they started, they flipped a

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coin to see you go first. Wilbur actually won, but

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he stalled the plane three times, so Orfel was up

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and he ain't made history. Now, they just didn't make

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that one fight and then go home. They took turns

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flying it all throughout the day. On the last flight

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of the day, Wilbur he actually flew for fifty nine seconds. Now,

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this sounds more lack of battle in that took place

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in the Old Testament than it did in nineteen twenty

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five today. In nineteen twenty five, Sultan Abdulaziz Bin sad

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he conquered Jetta. Yeah, that was the last stronghold of

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the hash Mites, and that's how the Saudi Arabia became

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one country. Nineteen sixty five, in Houston, Texas, they wanted

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to celebrate building the world's first dome stadium, the Houston

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Astronom So they wanted to sell bear by throwing just

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a huge concert. So it's today. The Supremes opened up

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for Judy Garland in twenty fourteen and Sarasota Floida at

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Gus Andreoni. He had a hole in one on the

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night fourteenth all at Lake's golf Course. Now, Gus, he

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was one hundred three years old. He's little as golf.

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Forever it hit hol in ones, he was more impressive.

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That was his eighth hol on and then he hit

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throughout his lifetime. Twenty eighteen, in Missouri, a poacher. He

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was convicted for illegally killing hundreds of deer. Now he

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was sentenced to one year in prison with conditions. See

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during that entire year in his cell, he had to

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repeatedly watch the movie Bambi. Yeah, twenty they would just

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keep burning. Yeah, they put it on a twenty four

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hour loop Jopp Jopp joke dope shog dish shivers Day.

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Please gonna pause.

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He left this shiverday. We got simple target dis shivers day.

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And you know we don't get up.

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Work to you, okay. I was born on December of

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the seventeenth. Bob Francis. Yeah, he's eighty eight today. He

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was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in nineteen thirty six.

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Again feel this week.

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Talking.

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That was Eddie Kendrix singing lead for the Temptation. He's

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born in Union Springs, Alabama, in nineteen thirty nine. Co

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found of The Temptations in nineteen sixty, he was the

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main songwriter and co lead singer. Some of the hit

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songs that he sang were the Way You Do, the

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Things You Do, get Ready, just Me and My Imagination,

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My Girl. Eddie went solo in nineteen seventy one. He

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had some success Keep On Trucking and Boogie Dwan, Where

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Something Was It. He divorced once and had one child

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from it. Then he had another child from a girlfriend, Eddie.

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He died in nineteen ninety two from lung cancer, fifty

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two years old. Actor Ernie Hudson He's seventy nine. He

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was born in Benton Harbor, Michigan, in nineteen forty five.

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First got known in the movie Ghostbusters, then Airheads, the

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Basketball Diaries, the miscongeniality movies. On TV, he was on

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OZ and then Grayson Frank. Ernie had two sons from

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his first wife, married his second wife in nineteen eighty

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five and they have two sons. Actor comedian Eugene Levy's

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seventy eight is born in Hamilton, Canada in nineteen forty six.

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First big movie is In with Splash, then Best in

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Show Do You Win? All those American pie movies on TV?

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Started on Ship's Creek. Now Eugene. He won a Grammy

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Award for Songwriting Serious He won a Best Song for

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a movie he co wrote A Mighty Win and is

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Blowing for the song A Mighty Win. Eugenie got married

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in nineteen seventy seven and they have a son and

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a daughter. Both his son and his daughter started with

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him in the TV show Ship's Creek.

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Mama Came to the Dome with a g daughter, Joonas

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and Don't Cry, Mama, Smile and Wait.

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The Bad.

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That was Paul Rogers singing lead for the Bad Band Company.

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He was born in middlesbro England in nineteen forty nine.

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Seventy five year old started out singing for the band Free.

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Then he helped form Bad Company in nineteen seventy three.

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There's a little over forty million albums. Some of their

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heads can't get enough. Bad Company feel like making love

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fan rock and roll fantasy and that song I played,

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the Shooting Star. It was never released as a single, Nope,

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it was just got popular by word of mouth and

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enough people started liking it, or they just started playing

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it on the radio. Now Bad Company they call it

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quits in twenty nineteen. Paul, he had one child from

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a fling, two children from his first wife, married his

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second wife in two thousand and seven. Actor Bill Pullman.

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He was born in Hornhell, New York, in nineteen fifty three,

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seventy one.

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Bill.

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He started out as a professor at Montana State University

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in their School for Film and Photography. His students persuaded

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him to go give Hollywood a shot. First movie was

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Ruthless People and Spaceballs, the Independence Day Movies, Lake Plasia,

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the equal iSER Movies. Got married in nineteen eighty seven

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and they have three children.

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Dude, we'll go see a small downland.

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Allen.

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He raised one seem so little Ways don't time dude?

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Watermelon Cross country singer Tracy Byrd is fifty eight. He

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is born in Vydor, Texas, in nineteen sixty six. First

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did in nineteen ninety three. Some of the biggest h's

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are Hold in Heaven, Keep Her of the Stars, don't

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take her. She's all. I got ten rounds with Jose

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Queerver Truth About Men. Now he still does a little

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touring if you want to check. Tracy Young got married

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nineteen ninety one and they have three children. Actor Giovanni Ribissi.

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He's fifty. He was born in Los Angeles in nineteen

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seventy four. Start acting when he was nine. I had

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done a bunch of acting. He first actually got known

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on TV when he played Feet. He's really weird younger

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brother on the show Friends. He's been in some big movies,

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Man Saving Prize, Ryan Gone in sixty Seconds, Lost in Translation,

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the Ted's movie, the Avatar movies. Now he had a

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daughter from his first wife, divorced the second wife after

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just a couple of years. Now him and his current

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girlfriend they have fraternal twins, which is really interesting because

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Giovanni is a fraternal twin.

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Yeah.

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His twin sister is actress Marissa 'busy. Yeah, she's fifteen

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minutes younger. She also started acting when she was nine.

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Her first big movie was Dazed and Confused, then the

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Brady Bunch movie Pleasantville. She was married to the singer

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Beck for sixteen years and they have one son and

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one daughter, Marissa. She's pretty much just retired from acting though.

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Actress Milla Jovivich is forty nine. She was born in Kiev,

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Ukraine in nineteen seventy five. Now, when she was five,

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her family fled the Ukraine. That's when the Soviet Union

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was in charge of the Ukraine at that time. She

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grew up in Los Angeles start out as a model.

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She was also in Dazed in Confus and then The

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Fifth Element, Resident Evil Movies, Zulander Movies. Mila. She married

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her third husband in two thousand and nine and they

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have three daughters. Okay, now, with Christmas almost air, have

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you been able to be romantic and get that someone

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special underneath the missiletoe for a kiss?

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Now?

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The name mistletoe, it's German. It literally means dung on

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a twig, So smooth away. Well, thank you for listening,

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and don't forget to follow us. I know you listen

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to us on and go forget Out Country Underground Radio

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the best independent country music you can find anywhere. Let's

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end today with actor director Penny Marshall.

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Fine Chance, taking.

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It Penny, she died it in twenty eighteen at seventy

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five years old. She says, Now, if you're not having

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a good time, find something else that gives you joy

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in your life. You guys, have an awesome day and

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we'll talk to you tomorrow.

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