Feb. 14, 2026

Feb 15th-Gum Drops, Galileo, The Simpsons, UB40, Chris Farley, Melissa Manchester, USS Maine Exploded

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National gum drop day. Entertainment from 1957. USS Maine exploded in Cuba, Flag Day in Canada, You Tube launched, Teddy Bears went on sale. Todays birthdays - Galileo, Harvey Korman, Jane Seymour, Melissa Manchester, Matt Groening, Ali Campbell, Chris Farley, Jane Child, Renee O'Connor. Nat King Cole died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran https://diannacorcoran.com/
Gum Drop - The Crew Cuts
Too Much - Elvis Presley
Young Love - Sonny James
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
You should hear how she talks about you - Melissa Manchester
Red Red Wine - UB40
I don't wanna fall in love - Jane Child
Unforgettable - Nat King Cole
Exit - Bottom of the Bottle - Gin Palace Jesters https://gin-palace-jesters.com/

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Welcome to history and factor. It's about today. I am Jeff.

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Today's February the fifteenth.

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Drop gum up, dum up cum drop in the candy

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shop around the coneer, a little table, cheese and coner.

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I looked at her, and she looked at me.

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I stole a kiss and my hot sized basing gum gum.

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Today is National gum drop Day. Gum drops there at

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jelly candy coating and sugar color ful chewi tastes really good.

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Have you baked? You can put them on cookies and

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cupcakes and that kind of stuff. I just email the bag,

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you know. I take a break from other chocolate yes day.

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Just enjoy some gum drops today. Now, I hope you

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all had a great Valentine's Day. Now, something I didn't mention.

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I didn't want to put any pressure on the guys.

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But men they say I love you first before the

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girls do twice as often. All right, let's he's going

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on in February the fifteenth. Let's back to nineteen fifty seven.

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Then one album was Calypso by Harry Belvifronte. Elvis Presley

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had the number one song with too Much.

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Honey, Too Much I need you.

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Much much. Sonny James had the number one country song

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with Young Love Amp.

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Your reverse tells me no one can take keep a place.

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Young.

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The number one book was Peyton Place by Grace Mattelius.

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The top movie was Funny Face. When they do have

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fashion shoot in a bookstore, they discover how hot the

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clerk was. Stars Hotdreyette Burne, Fred Astaire and Kate Thompson.

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So what happened on February the fifteenth, three ninety nine BC.

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Philosopher Socrates. He was tried in front of five hundred

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judges in Athens, Greece. He was on trial for corrupting

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the minds of the youth and impiety. The impiety it

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was for his lack of respect for traditional gods of Athens. Yeah,

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he wouldn't acknowledge Greek gods, and he is repped in

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the youth. Yeah, because of his attitude against any kind

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of authority. Two hundred and eighty judges found him guilty,

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two undred and twenty found him innocent. So he was guilty.

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So he had to commit suicide by drinking him luck.

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He was about seventy one years old. The thing seventeen

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sixty four Pier Leclade. He founded the French trading post

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today that we call now Saint Louis, Missouri. Eighteen sixty nine,

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the charges of treason against former Confederate President Jeffy and

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Davis were dropped. They were dropped really quietly. See the

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United States, they did not want Davis to go to trial.

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They went to trial, it would come out that the

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Southern States really didn't do anything wrong by succeeding from

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the Union. Yeah, there was nothing in the US Constitution

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forbidden states from leaving. Well there is now. Eighteen ninety eight,

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tensions were really high between the United States and Spain.

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That United States battleship the main it was harbored in

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Havana Cube and it exploded. Yeah, it just blew up.

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Two hundred and fifty eight years soldiers or sailors and

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soldiers on the board were killed. To this day, they

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do not know how it were White exploded. Now Spain,

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that could have caused it. That it could have happened,

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or it could have been one of the coal furnaces

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on the ship, or it could have been an outdated

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boiler system. No one knows what happened. But the newspapers

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in New York Journal in New York World. They were

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having a heated competition for readers, so they started publishing

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really exaggerated and outland stories about what had happened. They

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said that Spain had mined the harbor and the main

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exploded because of it. It said Spain torpeded the main.

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All kinds of stuff. Now that spread to other newspapers

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are the country. So that fired up the American people.

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How dare Spain blew up one of our ships? The

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rallying cry again, remember the Spain the hell or remember

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the Main the hell was Spain. So yeah, it was

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pretty much media hysteria is one of the reasons for

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the Spanish American War, So thank you fake news. Nineteen

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oh three, Morrison Rose, Miss ten they started selling Teddy Bears,

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named after President Teddy Roosevelt. Nineteen thirty in Illinois. At

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their state high school basketball tournament, Wenona beat to Luca

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in ten over times final score twenty six to twenty two.

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Nineteen thirty sax coldest temperature ever recorded in North Dakota.

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I would have thought would have been colder partiall got

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down to negative sixty nineteen sixty one. Outside of Brussels,

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in Belgium, a plane crash killed the entire United States

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ice figure skating team. All thirty four skaters, coaches, and

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sports staff were on board. Yeah, they were on their

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way to Prague for the World Championships. Seventy three people

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died in total because of that, and that includes the

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crew and all the other passagers. One farmer on the

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ground was killed. Don't know why. Yeah, they still don't

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know why. Rushed.

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Well.

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Happy Flag Day, Canada nineteen sixty five. Their flag that

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we know, they're red and white with the maple leaf. Yeah,

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I was raised for the very first time. Before them,

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Canada's flag was the British Union Jack. Nineteen eighty nine,

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the last Soviet Union troops left Afghanistan, now the Soviets.

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They didn't leave behind billions of dollars in weapons and supplies.

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Joke, joked, joke, shog dish shimmers. Day's gonna he left

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this shiver day.

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We don't simple page, He left this shimbf day. And

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you you don't do.

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All right. It was born on February the fifteenth Galileo.

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He was born in Peasa in fifteen sixty four. Considered

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the father of astronomy, modern physics, modern science. He did

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so much I can't get dense it done now. He

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was an early rock star. Yeah, he only a lot

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of people to call him by one name, Galileo. He

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was born Galileo Galilee, so I can't blame him now.

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He had two daughters and one son Illegitimately he would

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not marry their mom. If that didn't piss off the

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Catholic church. En, he really got it when he got

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charged with heresy. Yeah, Galileo, he had the absolute gall

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to say that the Earth revolved around the Sun when

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everybody knew that the Sun revolved around or everything revolved

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around the Earth. Right. Well, he took it back really

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quick though, see the Catholics rule that. Yeah, due to

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his heresy conviction, he was eligible for torture. So all

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of a sudden Galla, hey, I'm just kidding, I'm kidding,

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I'm can Well, they didn't believe him, but they did

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let him take it back, so they made him live

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the last nine years of his life under house arrest.

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Died in sixteen forty two at seventy seven years old.

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Actor comedian Harvid Korman. He was born in Chicago in

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nineteen twenty seven, must know him for the TV show

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Carol Bennett won for Emmys for it. Some of his

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movies were Blazing Saddles. He did a couple of pink

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panther movies, Hucked Finn of Herbie Goes Bananas Now. He

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had two children from his first wife, married his second

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wife in nineteen eighty two and they had two daughters.

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Harvey died in two thousand and eight from an aortic aneurysm.

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Eighty one years old. Actress Jane Seymour. She's seventy five.

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She was born in US, England in nineteen fifty one.

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She first got known playing The Bond Girl, Solitaire and

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Live and Let Die. Then she's in Battlestar Galactica, Somewhere

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in Time Wedding Crashers on TV. She started as Doctor

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Quinn Medicine Woman. Now she's divorced four times and she

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has two children from her third husband and two children

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from her fourth husband. Twenty eighteen. Sixty seven year old

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Jane Seymour. Yeah, she plows for Playboy magazine for the

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third time, but this time I went sixty seven. That's

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the oldest anyone's done it, so hopefully we don't go

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on from there. Well, that's a Manchester. She's also seventy five.

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She was born in the Bronx, New York. Started out

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as a backup singer for Bet Midler. Then she went

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solo in nineteen seventy three. Some of her HiT's are

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Midnight Blue, Don't Cry Out Loud, walk on By. You

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should hear all she talks about you. Now she still performs.

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She does some shows where it's just like a concert

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where she goes sing, But a lot of her shows

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they're like in a club setting and she tells stories

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and sing songs and all. That's kind of an intimate

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night with Melissa. Kind of cool, it sounds like now.

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She married twice. She had two children from her second husband,

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cartoonist Matt Gorny. He's seventy two. He's born in Portland, Oregon,

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in nineteen fifty four. His dad was named Homer, his

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mom was named Margaret. Her maiden name was Wigham. He

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had two younger sisters, and they were named Lisa and Maggie.

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I think you know where this is going now. He

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actually started out writing for the comic strip of Life

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in Hell. Yeah. He did that from nineteen seventy seven

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to twenty twelve. During that time, he kind of hit

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big with a thing called The Simpsons in nineteen eighty nine.

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Longest running TV show all time. Between the TV show,

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the movies, the merchandise, the franchise has made over twelve

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billion dollars.

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Now.

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He also did Future Ram if you remember that. Now.

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Maddie had two sons from his first wife, Homer and Abe.

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He married his second wife in twenty eleven. In twenty

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twenty four, they had their eighth kid together and includes

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two sets of twins. That was Ali Campbell singing for

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UB forty, Ali sixty seven for nineteen fifty nine in Birmingham, England,

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helped form You Be forty in nineteen seventy eight, sing

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lead in two thousand and eight, and they all got

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kind of tired of each other. Well, they got tired

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of Ali sold seventy million records during that time. Yeah,

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they HiT's Red Red Wine here. I am the way

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you do the things you do. I can't help falling

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in the loft. So yeah, pretty much all covers now.

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When Ali left, his brother took over his lead singer

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for You Be forty. After five years, Ali ordered himself back.

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He said he could not listen to his brother butcher

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his songs anymore. So now they're UB forty with or

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featuring Ali Campbell. They do a little releasing and they

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do some touring and stuff. Ali. He has eight kids. Yeah,

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two of them are with his wife. You Be forty

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it is the form in England that you fill out

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to collect unemployment. Yeah. The band members did it and

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they got their unemployment. So they named their band after

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the form that they got their money from. You Be Forty.

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Actor Chris Farley. He was born in Madison, Wisconsin in

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nineteen sixty four. Started on Saturday and Live for five years,

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then hit big in the movies The Tommy Bowoy, Black Sheep,

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Almost Heros, Beverly Hills, Ninja Sadly Cras had a bad

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drug addiction. Yeah, he ended up dying from an overdose

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nineteen ninety seven at thirty three years old. He had

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gone in to treatment seventeen times for drugs and alcohol.

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But yeah, too bad, none of them took Remember Jane Child, Well,

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she's fifty nine now. She was born in Ontario, Canada

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in nineteen sixty seven. Starting out, she played synthesizer, piano,

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organ and sang for the band called Deadheads. Yeah, they

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traveled all over Canada, did forty five shows over a year,

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got twenty five dollars a week for it. Released her

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first solo album nineteen eighty nine. Some of her hits

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are Welcome to the real World, Don't want to fall

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in love? All I do now? Around two thousand and seven, yeah,

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she just lost her desire for music and retired. She

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married musician Kat Gray in two thousand and four. Now Kat,

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he does. He's the head musician. He does all the

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music for the game. So let's make a deal. I've

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been doing it since two thousand and nine. Actress Renee

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o Connor. She was born in Houston in nineteen seventy one,

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fifty five year old name. She got famous playing Gabrielle

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on zena warrior princess, and then of course Hercules. She

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done something she has like a production company and stuff nowadays.

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She had a son from her first thousband and she

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has a daughter with her second husband. Alright here Code

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of the Day it comes from Nat King Cole again.

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That is sweating you are.

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Unforgettable, so near a fall.

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Nad died to Day in nineteen sixty five, at forty

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five years old. He said, people don't slip. Time catches

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up with them. Well, thank you all for listening today.

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I forget to follow us. He listened to his signs.

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It makes it easy for your fine us, our country

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and around radio artist to day comes from Luke out

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there in Los Angeles. He wants to a bottom of

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the bottle by the Gin Palace, gestures you guys, have

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an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow.

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Gave you your hand to another man and let me

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sity seeking consolation. The whiskey wining beerd the liquord noves

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my senses, but it just can't take your pleat and

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at the bottom of the bottle, past sea face. At

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the bottom of the bottom, I still see you in there,

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reminding me what he used to be and how you

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used to kip. I slip and fall through the alcohol

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and lose your memory. But when I hit the bottom

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of your still waiting that airphone

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