Dec. 27, 2025

Dec 28th-Call a friend, Iowa Birthday, Denzel Washington, Stan Lee, Joe Diffie, Edgar Winter, Sienna Miller

Dec 28th-Call a friend, Iowa Birthday, Denzel Washington, Stan Lee, Joe Diffie, Edgar Winter, Sienna Miller
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National Phone a friend day.  Entertainment from 1968.1st Vice President to resign, Iowa became 29th state, dry cleaning invented.  Todays birthdays - Woodrow Wilson, Stan Lee, Nichelle Nichols, Edgar Winter, Mary Weiss, Denzel Washington, Joe Diffie, Sienna Miller.  John Madden died.

Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard    https://defleppard.com/
I just called to say I love you - Stevie Wonder
I heard it through the grape vine - Marvin Gaye
Whichita Lineman - Glen Campbell
Birthday - The Beatles
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent    https://www.50cent.com/
Free Ride - Edgar Winter
Leader of the pack - The Shangra Las
John Deere Green - Joe Diffie
Exit - In my dreams - Dokken   https://www.dokken.net/ 

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Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history. In fact,

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it's about today pasent A by Cool Media. Today's December

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the twenty eighth. I just go.

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To say.

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I love you.

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I just call say much shockcase.

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Today is National Call a Friend Day. It's pretty self explanatory.

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In twenty fourteen, texting passive phone calls for the most

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popular way to communicate. Yeah, not really personal. So with

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the holiday is almost over, don't let twenty twenty four

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in without calling a friend you haven't talked to you

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in a while. I know it's gonna feel a little

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awkward when you talk to someone you haven't spoken with

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a long time, But that awkwardness at least, I just

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remember it's always easier to call someone than it is

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to say I wish I called them. Yeah, let's see

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what happened in entertainment nine December of the twenty eighth.

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That's about. In nineteen sixty eight, number one album was

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The White Album from the Beatles. Marvin Gay had the

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number one song with I Heard It through the Grapevine.

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It's a big Boss number.

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Clint Gampbell had the number one country song with Whichita

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Lineman I Hear You singing in the why.

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I can't get through the one and which your tall line,

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It's still on the line.

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The number one book was The Salzburg by Helen mcmare.

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McKinnon's todd movie was Oliver a young orphan Oliver Twist.

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He has sold to a mortician, then he runs away

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and joins a group of boys who are trained his pickpockets.

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It's a musical based on Charles Dickens's book Oliver Twist.

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All right, what happened on December the twenty eighth, sixteen twelve.

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Galileo he was using a primitive telescope that he had made.

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He recorded his discovery of Neptune in his journal. Yeah,

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I wrote all about it, But see Galileo, he actually

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thought it was just a fixed star. Then two hundred

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years later, in eighteen twenty, an astronomer was reading his journal. Yeah,

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he realized Galileo made a mistake. And since Galileto didn't

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call DIBs, yeah, Frinch astronomer gets credit for discovering Neptune.

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Eighteen thirty two, Vice President John Calhoun. Now he cannot

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get along with the United States President Andrew Jackson to

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save his soul, So Calhoun He became the first vice

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president to resign from office. The only other vice president

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resigned from office Sparro Wagne in nineteen seventy three. Well,

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Happy Birthday, Iowa. It was today. In eighteen forty six,

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Iowa became our twenty ninth state Iowa. It comes from

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the Aihu Hu Bay Indian tribe. It means sleepy ones

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or drowsy ones. Now Des Moines is this capitol. Highest

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point is Hawkeye Point at one thousand, six hundred and

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seventy feet high. State tree is the burrow, The state

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flower is the wild rose, bird is the goldfish, and

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the finch channel catfish.

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Right.

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Some people born in Iowa John Wayne, Johnny Carson, Herbert Over,

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Donna Reid, Buffalo, Bill Cody, Andy Williams, Kurt Warner, Ashton Gootcher,

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Joe Burrow, Lolo jones A was born in the Iiowa

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state Hawkeye Street. In France in eighteen forty nine, John

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Baptiste Jolly He accidentally knocked over a lamp containing drip

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and dina oil. Is right while he was in the

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middle of doing his laundry. Well, that's how dry cleaning

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was discovered. Eighteen sixty seven, the United States claimed the

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Midway Islands. It was the first territory outside of North

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America ever claimed by the United States. Nineteen oh eight,

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a seven point one earthquake hit Messina, Italy. It's believed

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to be the largest earthquake to hit Europe in modern times.

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Almost two thousand people or two hundred thousand people were killed.

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It created a tsunami forty feet high. In twenty twelve,

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Russia's Vladimir Putin he signed a lot barring United States

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citizens from adopting Russian babies. Just the United States, all

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of the states, consider all of the countries they could

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adopt Russian kids, not the United States do joked.

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Joke dish Shiver birth day. He left this Shiver birthday.

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We want simple tage like this shibirth day, and you

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know we don't earthday.

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So it was born on December the twentieth Woodwell Rosse.

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He was born in Staunton, Virginia, in eighteen fifty six.

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He was an academic guy. He was a college professor.

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Then he became president of Princeton. Then he became governor

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of New Jersey. No real real world experience, but he

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became the twenty eighth president. He served from nineteen thirteen

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to nineteen twenty one. He had a stroke in nineteen

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nineteen and he was pretty much incapacitated the last two

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years of his term. He made absolutely no public appearances.

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He had no talks with the press, Hardly he hardly

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met with anyone, including his staff. His wife just controlled

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everything DejaVu. He had three children from his first wife.

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She died one year after they moved into the White House.

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Married his second wife one year later in nineteen fifteen.

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Now only John Tyler and Grover Cleveland also married while

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they were President. Wilson he died in nineteen twenty four

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at sixty seven years old, and that stroke he had

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back in nineteen nineteen. That King of All Nerds. Comic

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book writer Stan Lee was born in Manhattan, New York

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in nineteen twenty two. Started out in his little, family

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owned run business called Timely Publications. Stan helped turn that

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into Marvel Comics. Yeah that Marvel Comics Leader and comic

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books and movies Today. Some of the characters a Stan

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either created or co created Spider Man, X Men, Ironman, Hulk,

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Fantastic Four, Black Panther, Dared Devil, a whole lot more

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Standy married nineteen forty seven and they had two children.

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He died one month before his ninety sixth birthday in

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twenty eighteen. Actress Michelle Nichols. She was born in Robmin's, Illinois,

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in nineteen thirty two. Started out as a singer and dancer,

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but she's best known for playing Lieutenant or Hera on

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the TV show Star Trek and six Star Trek Movies.

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Nineteen sixty eight, her and William Shatner had the first

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interracial kiss on TV. She had two really quick short marriages.

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She did have a son from her first one, Michelle.

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She died in twenty twenty two from heart failure, eighty

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nine years old. That was Edgar Winter. He's seventy eight.

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He was born in Beaumont, Texas, in nineteen forty six.

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He's going out on tour this year, and his older

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brother was bluesman Johnny Winter. Edgar he released his first

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album in nineteen seventy. Some of us had HiT's over

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the ears were Frankenstein, Free Ride, River Rising, and Keep

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Playing in That Rock and Roll. Married nineteen seventy nine.

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Both Edgar and Johnny were born albino yeah, but didn't

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hold either one of them back. That was Mary Weiss,

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singing lead for the Shane Gerlass. She was born in Queens,

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New York, in nineteen forty eight. Shangri Las. They were

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two sets of sisters. They formed together when they were

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in high school. They were only together from nineteen sixty

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three to nineteen sixty eight. Their biggest hits were all tragedies.

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Remember walking in the sand, leader of the pack, give

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him a great, big kiss. I can't never go home

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no more. That they're actually in the Rock and Roll

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Hall of Fame. After they split up, Mary she ran

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a furniture store and was an interior designer. Then in

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two thousand and seven she retired, went back and after

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all those years did some singing and performing. She was

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married to her third husband when she died just last

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January at seventy five years old from pulmonary disease. Actor

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Denzel Washingtonise seventy born in Mount Vernon, New York in

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nineteen fifty four, started off doing off Broadway Shakespeare plays.

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First got known on the TV show Say Elsewhere. Now

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his movies have made over five billion dollars. He's one

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Oscar Is for a Glory and then Training Day. But

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nominated seven other times. Now, I think his best acting

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were in Remember the Titans and Man on Fire. He

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wasn't nominated for either one, but I think those were

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his best works, especially Man on Fire. DENZELI got married

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in nineteen eighty three and four children.

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Once You Line, Midnight Hour, He Clomb the Moone, Water Tower,

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Stood on the Ray, and Charm Aloha. Summer nine he

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wrote Mini Bomb, Charlie Letter, Stream Funk, Shooting Brand, Buddy Look,

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Couture Joy.

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Country singer Joe Diffy was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in

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nineteen fifty eight. Start out as a successful songwriter. They

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finally let him sing in nineteen ninety. Some of his

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number one songs were If the Devil Danced in Empty Pockets,

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Third Rock from the Sun, Pickup Man, Bigger Than the Beatles, Yeah.

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Two children from his first wife, two children from his

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second wife, a daughter from his third wife, married his

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fourth wife, and eighteen. Then Joe died from COVID in

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twenty twenty at sixty one years old. Actress Sienna Miller

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she's forty three. She was born in New York City

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in nineteen eighty one. Then she packed up and moved

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to London, England when she was eighteen months old. Grew

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up over there. Her mom was David Bowie's personal assistant, Cianna.

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She started out as a model in England, then she

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found success acting here in the United States. Gi Joe,

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Rise of the Cobra, American Sniper, The Lost City of

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the American Woman some of her movies. She has one

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daughter from an ex boyfriend, and she has one daughter

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with her current boyfriend. Let's go back to Iowa. In Iowa, Hoggs,

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they out numbered people seven to one. By the way,

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Iowa is the safest of all fifty states. Well, thank

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you for listening today. If you haven't, that makes sure

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you follow us. I know every listen to is on.

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We're on everybody. Come see this at cool Country Underground

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Radio dot com or just Country Radio, Underground Radio anywhere. Yeah,

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it's the number one. It's not number one yet, it's

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getting there. It's the best for independent country music. Though.

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Let's end with football legend John Madden. He died in

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twenty twenty one and eighty five years old. John said

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self praises for losers. Be a winner, stand for something,

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always have class and be humble. You guys have an

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awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow