Dec. 18, 2024

Dec 18th-Buddy the Elf, New Jersey BDAY Keith Richards, Steven Spielberg, Brad Pitt, Christina Aguilera, Billie Eilish

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National answer the phone like Buddy the Elf day. Entertainment from 1977. New Jersey became 3rd state, 1st Giant Panda in US, 1st automobile speed record. Todays birthdays - Betty Grable, Keith Richards, Steven Spielberg, Ray Liotta, Brad Pitt, Randy Houser, Katie Holmes, Christina Aguilera, Billie Eilish. Chris Farley died.

Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard http://defleppard.com/
Buddy the Elf - Movie Elf
You light up my life - Debby Boone
Here you come again - Dolly Parton
Birthday - The Beatles
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
Start me up - The Rolling Stones
Brad Pitt sing in movie Johnny Suede
Boots on - Randy Houser
What a girl wants - Christina Aguilera
Bad guy - Billie Eilish
Chris Farley on SNL - In a van down by the river
Exit - It's not love - Dokken http://dokken.net/

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Well, hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history

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and Factoids. About today isn't about cool media. Today's December

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the eighteenth. Hoday Elf? What's your favorite colors for this?

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Hoay Elf? What's your favorite colors for this? Hoday the helf?

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What's your favorite colors for this? Today is national answer

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the phone like Buddy the Elf. Day Oh, come on,

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have some fun Buddy the Elf. He is played by

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Will Ferrell in the movie Elf Today. We are all

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supposed to add a little Elf behavior to our day now.

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With the hustle and bustle during the holiday season, everyone

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can use a little smile or a giggle. So be

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silly today. Enjoy the season, you know, wear an ugly sweater,

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holiday socks, Santa hat, elf shoes, and when you answer

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the phone, you're supposed to state your name, call yourself

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an elf and ask the person what their favorite color is.

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Just have fun silly day to day, all right, this

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is going on entertainment nine December the eighteenth. Let's Back

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to nineteen seventy seven number one album was a Simple

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Drains by Linda Ronstan. Debbie Boone add the number one

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song with you Light Up My Life and you, Dolly

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Parton add the number one country song with here You

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Come Again Here nobody has a higging me so again.

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The number one book was A Silimer sil Marillion by J. R. Tolkien.

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The top movie was A Saturday Night Fever. A nineteen

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year old escapes the fact that he has no future

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by dominating the dance for at the local disco. Starrs,

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John Travolta, Karen Lyne Gurney, and Barry Miller nineteen sixty

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six have a Great Store. Christmas made his date TV debut,

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been on every year since, and they even made two

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full length movies off of it. Two thousand and nine,

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the movie Avatar was released in the theater. It's highest

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grossing movie of all times, made almost three billion dollars.

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All right, let's say it happened on December the eighteenth,

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Happy Birthday, New Jersey. It was today. In seventeen eighty seven,

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New Jersey became the third state. It is named after

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the Isle of Jersey in the English Channel. New Jersey

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is the most densely populated of all the fifty states.

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Capital is Trenton. Highest point is high Point at eight

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one eight hundred and three feet New Jersey state bird

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is the eastern golf finch. Fish is the brook trout mammals.

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The horse tree is the northern red oak. State food

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and state fruit are the same. It's the Northern high

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Bush blueberry. Some people born in New Jersey Frank Sinatra,

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Whitney Houston, Meryl stra Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Shaquille O'Neal,

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Joe Peshy, Ice t, John Bon Julie. Yeah, just some

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of the people born in the Garden State. Eighteen eighty eight.

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Rancher Richard Witherell and his brother in law. They're out

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looking for some cattle when they discovered the Anasazi ruins. Yeah,

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they have the Masa Verdi in Colorado. Eighteen ninety eight.

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In Paris, France, Count Gaston die Schizzeloup Labat. He set

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the first automobile speed record. He got his car up

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to a wopping thirty nine miles an hour. San Francisco.

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In nineteen thirty six, they held a party of all parties. Man.

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They welcomed Sulin from China. Sulin she was the first

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giant panda to ever go outside of China. Sulan it

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means very cute now. Sadly though, Sulennz. She only died

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two years later. Yeah, they performed an our dopsy on

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her and they found out that she was actually a

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male panda. And they never did figure out why Sue

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Lynn died. In twenty twelve, the Great Maple Syrup Pie

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went down in Quebec, Canada place they were able to

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rest seventeen people for stealing three thousand tons of maple

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syrup from a storage facility. Joke, joke, joke, joke. Shog

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thish shibf days. He left this shubf day. We want

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simple cage. He let thish shiburt day. And you you

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don't do. Let's just see who was born on December

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the eighteenth. Actress singer pit up Girl Betty Grable was

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born in Saint Louis, Missouri, in nineteen sixteen. During the

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nineteen thirties and forties, she made over forty movies. Those

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movies made over one hundred million dollars, which is huge.

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Back then, it'd be like all all to an a billionaire. Now.

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During World War Two, there's a pinapp poster of Betty.

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It was her and her bathing suit. It was the

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number one selling post of the entire World War two

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now she was so such a big section and her

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legs even is shirt for a million bucks. She has

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married to her second husband for twenty two years and

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they had two daughters before divorcing Betty. She died from

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lung cancer in nineteen seventy three at fifty six years old.

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Sasta sets now. No one is quite sure how, but

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the Rolling Stone guitarist Keith Richards is eighty one today.

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He's born in Dartford, England, in nineteen forty three. Him

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and Mick Jagger formed the Rolling Stones in nineteen sixty two.

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They pretty much co wrote all our songs. They slog

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over two and are forty million records now. Keith, they

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let him sing lead on one song every concert. He

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has his choice between three. He can either sing Happy

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Before They Make Me Run or Connection Kathi. These are

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released three solo albums on the side. Over the years,

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he had three daughters from a girlfriend. Then he married

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in nineteen eighty three and they have two daughters. Movie

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maker Steven spielbergers seventy eight. He's born in Cincinnati, Ohio

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in nineteen forty six. His movies has made over ten

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billion dollars. He's been nominated for twenty four Oscars. He's

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won three. He got Best Picture and Best Director for

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Shindler's List and Best Director for Saving Private Ryan. His

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first movie Sugarland Express. It starred goldiehn Now. His first

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wife was actors Amy Ermi or Amy Irving, and they

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had a son. Then he married actress Kate Kapshaw in

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nineteen ninety one. They have five kids. Spielberg, he was

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diagnosed with dick slexia when he was sixty years old,

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so I probably really hoped his career. Actor ray Leota.

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He was born in Newark, New Jersey, in nineteen fifty four.

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He first got known in the movie Something Wild. Then

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he played chieless Joe Jackson in Field the Dreams. Then

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he had really big and good fellows. He's at over seven.

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He married once for seven years and had a daughter

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from it. Ray He died in his sleep in twenty

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twenty two at sixty seven years old. N all right,

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and he guesses that was Brad Pitt in the movie

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Johnny Swede. Brady's sixty one. He's born in Shannie, Oklahoma,

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in nineteen sixty three. Grew up in Springfield, Missouri. He

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won a Best Picture Art Oscar for twelve Years of Slave.

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He was a producer of that. Then he won an

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acting Oscar for Once upon a Time in Hollywood, be

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nominated for Moneyball, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and

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then Twelve Monkeys. I think his best acting job goes

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back to nineteen ninety three in the movie California It

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Starts with a K. He played a serial killer Brad.

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He married actress Jennifer Anderston for almost five years, and

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then he married actress Angelina Jolie for six years. They

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had six children, three biological and three adopted Woman Little Bring,

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Brandy Bed and Dad Dandy's Challenge and where jeemes with

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open bring don't need to change in time. I'm doing

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it out in my boo. That's country singer Randy Hauser.

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He was born in Lake, Mississippi, in nineteen seventy five.

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He's forty nine. Rand. He started as a songwriter. He's

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the one who wrote Trace Akins song Honky Dunk but

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dunka Dunk. Then in two thousand and eight they let

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Randy sing. Some of his hits are Boots on, How

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Country Feels, Running out of Moonlight, good Night Kiss. He

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had a son from his first wife, He's been married

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to a second wife since twenty sixteen and they have

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two sons. Actress Katie Olms is forty six. She was

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born in Toledo, Ohio, in nineteen seventy eight. She first

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hit big Starr on the TV show Dawson Creek and

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some of her movie is Our Phone Booth Batman begins

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Jack and Jill first daughter. She married Tom Critis for

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six years and they had a daughter together. Excuse me,

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I'm tanging. Christina Aguilera she was born in nineteen eighty

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in New York City. She's forty four today. She has

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a four octave range voice, so apparently that's pretty uncommon,

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so that's why they call her the voice of a generation,

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your younger generation. My generation we had Pat Benintar. She

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has a four point five octave voice. Christina. She started

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out in the Mickey Mouse Club when she was thirteen.

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Now she sold the undred million records Jeanie in a Bottle,

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What a Girl Wants, Lady Marmalade Beautiful, That's some of them.

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She speaks and sings and in Spanish and English. Now

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she started in the movie Burlesque Cher. She was married

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once for six years and has a son from it.

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Then she has a daughter from her fiance. They've been

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in Gates since twenty fourteen. Sweet, it's fun like you

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really well, I just can't get enough science just always so.

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I'm not bad, makes you no sad? Size makes you

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girl friend? Last side I'm good duh. Twenty three year

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old Billie Eilish was born in Los Angeles in two

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thousand and one. She released her first single, Ocean Eyes,

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in twenty fifteen. In twenty nineteen, that song that I

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played bad guys, it was the number one selling song

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in the world. Billy, she won an Academy Award. Yeah,

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she won it for her song No Time to Die.

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It was in the James Bond movie No Time to Die.

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In twenty twenty five, Billy, she will be on a

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world tour. So if you want to see her concert,

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won't see her here in the States. Alrighty, I think

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we all know that it was a gift, But did

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you actually know that the Statue of Liberty is considered

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the largest Christmas gift ever given. Yeah, France gave it

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to the United States. Is a Christmas gift in eighteen

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eighty six. Well, thank you all for listening today. No,

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forget to follow us on whoever you listen to us on.

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Come see it's at cool media dot com. That's cool

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at three of us. Let's end. Let's end with Chris Farley. Well,

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I'm here to tell you that you're probably gonna find

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out as you go out there that you're not going

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to amount didn't Jack squat. You're gonna end up eating

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his steady dyeing of government cheese and living in a

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bay I'm known by the river. Chris died today. In

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nineteen ninety seven at thirty three years old. Chris said,

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I signed on as a clown, and by golly, I'm

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gonna keep my end of the bargain. You guys have

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an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow s.

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