Dec. 29, 2024

Dec 29th-Texas Birthday, Mary Tyler Moore, Jon Voight, Ted Danson, The Offspring, Toad the Wet Sprocket

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National tick tock day. Entertainment from 1958. Wounded Knee Massacre, Texas became 28th state, longest swim ever completed. Todays birthdays - Andrew Johnson, Mary Tyler Moore, Jon Voight, Ed Bruce, Ted Danson, Dexter Holland, Glen Phillips, Jude Law, Jessica Andrews. Pierre Cardin died.

Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard http://defleppard.com/
Tick Tock - Clean Bandit & Mabel
The chipmunk song - Alvin and the Chipmunks
City Lights - Ray Price
Birthday - The Beatles
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
Mary Tyler Moore show TV theme
You're the best break this old heart ever had - Ed Bruce
Cheers TV theme
Self esteem - the Offspring
All I want - Toad the Wet Sprocket
Who I am - Jessica Andrews
Exit - In my dreams - Dokken https://www.dokken.net/

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Hey, hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History

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and Factor. It is about today presented by Cool Media.

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Today's December the twenty ninth. Today is National TikTok Day. No,

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we're not talking about the social media app. No, it's

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the TikTok sound that clocks make. Yeah, it's reminding you

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the year is almost over. Sah, you better get to it.

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If you have any projects that you wanted to complete

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this year. Now, some they may be unattainable, like losing

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fifteen pounds in the next two days or rebuilding that

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nineteen sixty seven gto engine. Just move those until next year.

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Then check off what you can and celebrate the rest

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of this year. Just don't make next year's list. So hard,

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all right? Lits? Who's going on? Entertainment? One December of

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the twenty ninth spect year nineteen fifty eight number one

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album was Singing Along with Mitch by Mitch Miller, The

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Chipmunks and David Savell had the number one song with

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the Chipmunk song Great Price side the number one country

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song with City Lights. God Like the caval Rais said

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hum their flashing signs and by hard to Lose Itself Timberical.

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Number one book was Doctor Chivago by Boris Pasternak. The

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top movie was Anti Mame An Orphan. He goes to

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live with this free spirited ant well. The ex secuter

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of his father is a state doesn't like the way

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that she's raising The boy stars Rose Lynn Russell, Forest Tucker,

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and Carol Brown. All Right, what happened on December of

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the twenty ninth? Happy Birthday, Texas? It was today? In

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eighteen forty five, Texas became the twenty eighth state. Texas

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has come from the Cato Indian word. It means friend.

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Capital is Austin. Highest point is Guadaloupe Peak at eight

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seven fifty one feet high. Texas state bird is the

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Northern mockingbird. Fish is the Guadaloupe bass, mammal is the longhorn, steer,

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tree is a peak on. Flower is a blue bonnet.

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Texas state food is chinny, and the Texas state sport

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is rodeo. People born in Texas Matthew McConaughey, Patrick Swayzee,

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Dwight Eisenhower, Jamie Fox, Claily Clarkson, Pharah Fawcet, Beyonce, Selina Gomez,

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Patrick Mahomes that's just some. There are so many. That's

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just some of the people born in the Lone Star

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State now Texas's when he got us independence from Mexico

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in eighteen thirty six. They're flagg only had one star

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in it. That's why they're called the Lone Star State.

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Eighteen fifty one, the first YMCA opened up the United States,

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opened up in Boston. If you don't know, YMCA stands

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for Young Men's Christian Association. Now. The next year in Boston,

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eighteen fifty two, Amma's Nodgrass. She was arrested for wearing pants. Yeah,

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women weren't allowed to do that. They had to wear dresses. Now,

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am she was a really pretty seventeen year old. She

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was the daughter of a New York City police officer.

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So she was mocked, arrested, and sent back home to

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her father. Today, in South Dakota, it's the Pine Ridge

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Indian Reservation, but back in eighteen ninety it was the

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site of the Wounded Knee massacre. United States Cavalry was

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disarming the Lakota tribesmen when a gun went off, so

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the calvary decided to just open up on the entire

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try killed over three hundred of them, two hundred were

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women and children. What made it even worse is twenty

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of those soldiers actually received medals for their actions during

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the massacre. Back on July sixth in nineteen thirty, fred Newton,

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he started swimming the Mississippi River. Jumped in at the

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foe damn in Minnesota. Today. Over five and a month

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and a half months later, Freddy crawled out of the

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Mississippi River in New Orleans. Yeah, swam the whole damn

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thing one eight hundred and twenty six miles. It has

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the record for world's longest swim. Nineteen forty, Germany launched

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his worst air raid on London, England. Germany dropped over

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ten thousand bombs on London and part of their blitz

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nineteen seventy YOSHA the Occupational Safety Healthy Actor, Yeah, I

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was signed into law by President Nixon. Nineteen ninety seven.

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Hong Kong, they started slaughtering all their chickens. Yeah. They

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wanted to prevent bird flu from spreading. It didn't work.

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Dokejke shug this Shubarday. We gonna he left this shubf day.

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We want simple tage. He was like s birthday and

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you know, we don't, oh God. Who was born on

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December of the twenty ninth. Andrew Johnson. He was born

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in Raleigh, North Carolina, in eighteen oh eight. He grew

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up really poor. He never even went to school. Then

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he started out as a tailor's apprentice, then became a

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career politician. During Abraham lincoln second term for president, they

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wanted to kind of balance the ticket a little bit,

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so they picked Andrew Johnson to be his vice president.

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Since Johnson was from the South, they never thought he'd

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ever be president. Welly his vice president for one month

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when Lincoln was assassinated. That made him the seventeenth President

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of the United States, Sir. From eighteen sixty five eighteen

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sixty nine. He married back in eighteen twenty seven. They

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had five kids. He died from a stroke in eighteen

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seventy five at sixty six years old. He's each Glass Juan.

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Actress Mary Tyler Moore was born in Brooklyn Heights, New

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York in nineteen thirty six. She was twenty four years

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old and she started playing Laura Petrie on The Dick

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Van Dyke Show. After that she got her own show,

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The Warry. Tyler Moore Show. She won one Emmy playing

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Laura and two Emmy's playing Mary. She was nominated for

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an oscar for the movie Ordinary People. She had a

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son from her first husband. She married her third husband

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in nineteen eighty three. They were together until she died

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in twenty seventeen at eighty years old from pneumonia. Actor

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John Voight, He's eighty six. He's born a Yonkers in

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New York in nineteen thirty eight. He first hit big

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playing Joe Buck in the movie Midnight Cowboy, who was

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even nominated for an oscar for it, and he is

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also nominated for Oscars for The One Ran Away Train

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and Allie. He didn't win an oscar for Coming Home.

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I think his best movie was Deliverance. Now. Johnny married

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a second wife for nine years. They had a son

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and a daughter. Daughter is actress Angelina and Joe Lee.

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You're the best grave, the shoul your role. He never

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spolen out of love again, do the best. Country singer

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and songwriter Ed Bruce. He was born in kaiser Arc, Arkansas,

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in nineteen thirty nine. He first got known really when

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he wrote the song Mamas, don't let your babies grow

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up to be cowboys? After that they let him sing.

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He had the hits, You're the best break this horrild

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heart ever had ever, never loving you after all, you

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turn me on like a radio. On TV, he co

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starred with James Garner on the show Maverick. Eddie was

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two times divorced. He had went cho from his first

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wife and three from his second wife. He died from

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natural causes in twenty twenty one at eighty one years old.

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Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name,

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always match a case you want to be you can

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seems you want to be with everybody proles your name.

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Actor Ted Dance in his seventy seven today. He was

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born in San Diego nineteen forty seven. Cheddy first had

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playing Sam Alone on the TV show Cheers. Then he's

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on Becker CSI in the Good Place. First movie was Onionfield,

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then Three Men and a Baby Dad Made in America.

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Daddy had two daughters from his second wife. Then he

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married his third wife, Mary Steinbergen in nineteen ninety five.

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Now we googled how many times how many consumer cellulair

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commercials Ted's been in? Came back just at Julian who no, wo, No,

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that's o. Jacob Dexter Holland. He sings late for the

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band That Spring. Dexter. He's fifty nine. He was born

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in Garden Grove, California, in nineteen sixty five. Now Dexter.

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He is a very very smart guy. He was valedictorian

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in his graduating high school class. Then he wanted to

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get a doctorate in molecular biology. Now while he was

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doing that, in nineteen eighty four, he founded the Band's

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Manic Subsidal changed their name to The Offspring in nineteen

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eighty six. Some of their hits are come Out and Play,

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self Esteem Gone Away, Why don't you get a job?

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Pretty fly for a white guy. Now they're doing a

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world tour this year, but no shows in the United States.

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Dexter he had a daughter from a girlfriend. Then he

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married his second wife in twenty thirteen and they have

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two kids. Seals Seal. That was Glenn Phillip singing lead

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for Toad the wet Sprocket. Glenn. He's fifty four. He's

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born in Santa Barbara, California. In nineteen seventy, him and

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some friends they formed Tone of the Wetsprocket when they

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were fifteen years old in high school. Took the name

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from a Monty Python skid. Some of their hits are

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all I Want, Walk on the Ocean, fall Down. Some

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things are always wrong Glenn. He was married for eleven

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years and they had three children. Now whenever he performs

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on stage, he always performs barefoot. Actor Jude Law He

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was born in nineteen seventy two and lewis Ham, England.

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He's fifty two now. He first had in the movie

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That Talented Mister Ripley. He was the name nominated for

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an Oscar for it. Then he got nominated for an

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Oscar for a Cold Mountain, but since two thousand and three,

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no no more Oscar nomination. He has starred in the

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movies The Aviator Sherlock Holmes. He played Albus Dumbledore in

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the Fantastic Beast movies. Jodey had two daughters and one

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son from his first wife. Then he had a daughter

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from a girlfriend. Then he had a daughter from a girlfriend.

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Then he married a second wife in twenty nineteen and

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they have two children and then forty one year old

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country singer Jessica Andrews was born at Huntingdonas, Tennessee, in

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nineteen eighty three. She released that song we just played

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who Who I Am? Yes, she is fifteen. Then she

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hit with you Go First, Unbreakable Heart, There's more to

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Me than you. She is married and they have a

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son and a daughter. All right, let's go back to Texas.

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The state of Texas is bigger than any country in Europe. Wow,

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thank you for listening today. Don't forget to follow us

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on whoever you listen to us on, and come see

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us at coolmedia dot com. That's cool with three of us.

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See what we're doing on the other podcast and the

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radio station and all that. Fashion designer Pierre Cardin, he

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died today in twenty twenty at ninety eight years old.

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He said, my name is more important than I am.

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You guys, have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow

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