Feb. 18, 2026

Feb 19 – National Chocolate Mint Day, Cracker Jack Prizes, 1994 Entertainment + Today’s Celebrity Birthdays

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National Chocolate Mint Day, wild history, and a throwback to entertainment from 1994.
Today we dig into the origins of Cracker Jack prizes, the unbelievable story of 980 Japanese soldiers killed by crocodiles, and the plagiarism ruling against George Harrison. We also mark the death of country legend Johnny Paycheck.
Celebrity birthdays for February 19: Lee Marvin, Smokey Robinson, Lou Christie, Jeff Daniels, Falco, Seal, Justine Bateman, and Benicio Del Toro.
Music & Moments Featured in This Episode:
• Intro: God Did Good – Dianna Corcoran https://diannacorcoran.com/
• Mint Chocolate Chip – Jonathan Mann
• Low – Flo Rida ft. T‑Pain
• Letter to Me – Brad Paisley
• Birthday theme: In Da Club – 50 Cent https://www.50cent.com/
• Tears of a Clown – Smokey Robinson
• Lightning Strikes – Lou Christie
• Rock Me Amadeus – Falco
• Kiss From a Rose – Seal
• Take This Job and Shove It – Johnny Paycheck
Atlas in a sundress - Larry Chamberlain Larry on Facebook
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History & Factoids about today webpage
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Welcome to history and factor. It's about today. I am

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Jeff in today's February the nineteenth.

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I just want you to call the min chocolate chips

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min and chocolate and chim. That's what I want, min

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chop lit chims.

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That's all I want today is National Chocolate Mint Day.

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Chocolate and mint together, well, it relaxes you. It also

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makes you poop. I guess that's a good enough reason

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to celebrate Pepper and Patty is they're invented in nineteen forty.

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Nineteen fifty three, the Girls Couts started selling thin mint cookies.

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Nineteen seventy three of the first mint chocolate ice cream

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went on sale. You know I'm gonna sit this night.

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You guys just having fun joining your chocolate mint today.

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All right, this is going on entertainment on February nineteenth.

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Let's back to two thousand and eight. Number one album

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was As I Am by Alicia Keys. So read in

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Deep Pain had the number one song with.

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Lou No No no no Get everybody know no no no, no,

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no no no.

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Brad Paisley had the number one country song with a

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Letter to Me.

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She Wasn't a.

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Ride for you? Still you feel like girls. Enough sticking

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out your back one reref your svibe. You'll make it through. Listen,

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you see you're still around a ride this letter me.

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The number one book was The Appeal by John Grisham.

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The top movie was Vantage Point, An attempting assassination on

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the United States president is told by different perspectives stars

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Dennis Quaid, Forrest Whittaker, Sigourney Weaver, and William Hurt. All Right,

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what happened on February the nineteenth in the year three

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fifty six. Roman Emperor Constantanius the Second He closed all

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pagan temples, yet his confirming room's commitment to Christianity. Eighteen

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eighty one, Kansas became the first state to ban alcoholic beverages.

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You know, there's always that one. Nineteen oh six in

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Battle Creek, Michigan, after fighting with his brother, well Killogg,

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he got with Charles Bowen. Yep, they founded the Battle

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Creek Toasted Cornflake Company. Today you had just killed. Nineteen thirteen,

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Crackerjacks started putting prizes in their boxes of Crackerjacks. Did

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it all the way until twenty sixteen, Yeah, they stopped.

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Now there's a QR code that you scan in it Yeah,

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it gives you access to a digital baseball thing game.

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I'd rather have the early Crappy Prize nineteen fourteen. If

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you mailed the package that was under fifty pounds. It

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was actually pretty cheap. So in Idaho, four year old

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Charlotte Pierstorff, her parents mailed her from their home in Grangeville,

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her grandparents' house seventy three miles and away. Yes, post office.

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They delivered Charlotte by train. Yeah, put a couple of

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twenty five cent stamps on her coke. It was cheaper

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than a train ticket. Now, our parents did spring for

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the postal insurance. It was about twenty five cents.

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Now.

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Remember there were no cars back then, so it was

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either a train or horse.

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Now.

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That whole thing, though, he got popular all across the country.

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Word got out about it. Yeah, a lot of kids

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got mailed until about nineteen twenty. Then they outlawed it.

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Nineteen forty two, President Franklin Roosevelt he ordered the detention

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and internment of Japanese Americans on the West Coast. Almost

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one hundred and twenty thousand Japanese Americans ended up being

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held in the tournament camps. Now most were US citizens.

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Another bad day for the Japanese. Japan they had controlled

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Ramerie Island in Burma since nineteen forty two, and they

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captured it. Well, not today. In nineteen forty five, a

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division of the India Army that was led by the

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British they attacked it. Yeah, they wanted to liberate the island.

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The Japanese soldiers are being pushed back. Yeah, they ended

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up going into a mangrove swamp. Over two days, nine

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to eighty Japanese soldiers were killed by crocodiles. Now, while

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that was going on, the United States attacked the Japanese

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when they invaded the island of Ewo Jima. Over thirty

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thousand in the US Marines stormed the beach. Nineteen sixty eight,

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Mister Rogers Neighborhood debut. It reds on the air until

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two thousand and one. Nineteen eighty one, former Beatle George

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Harrison he was found guilty of plagiarizing his song My

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Sweet Lord said he stole it from Ronnie Mack and

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his song He's So Fine that was sung by the Franz. Well,

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let's say, okay, here's Harrison's version. Okay, now here's Ronnie Mack's.

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Version, He's so fine.

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She b mine.

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Okay, so I said the court did find him guilty,

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but the cork said Harrison didn't mean to do it

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on purpose. Now they actually found that guilty of subconscious

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plagiarism whatever that was. Still had to pay five hundred

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and eighty thousand dollars.

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Though joke, dope, joked, joke, show dish shibth day.

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He's gonna tau. He left this shibfday.

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We won't simple tage.

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He left this shibirth day, and you don't give up worthy.

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Okay, let's see us. Born on February the nineteenth, actor

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Lee Marvin Bort in New York City in nineteen twenty four.

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He had that deep voice and always played that tough guy.

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He joined them Reads when he was eighteen years old.

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He fed in the Pacific. During World War Two, he

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fed in twenty one island landings. He ended up being

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injured by machine gun on the Battle of Sidepan. It

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took him a year to recover it. Came home and

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became an actor. One an Oscar for kat Ballou. Some

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of his big classic movies A Man in Shot, Liberty, Valins,

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The Dirty Dozen, Painter Wagon dealt the Force. He had

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Fort Childen from his first wife, married his second wife

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in nineteen seventy and there together until he died from

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a heart attack in nineteen eighty seven at sixty three

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years old. To be honest, I thought Lee Marvin always

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looked like he was sixty three years old. Smokey, he's

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eighty six today. William Smokey Robinson was born in Detroit

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nineteen forty. I started out with the Miracles, then they

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became Smokey Robinson and the Miracles That Night's Run nineteen

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fifty five in nineteen seventy two, then Smokey retired became

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a vice president of Motown Records. That actually got him

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out of his contract with the Miracles. After that he

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just decided to perform a Smokey Robinson but he was

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vice president Motown is on nineteen ninety Some hits that

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Smokey saying over the ears or shop around tacks of

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my tears. I second that in motion Tears of the Clown.

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He had two children from his first wife. Then he

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had a child on the side. That's why she was

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his first wife. Ten years after that end o the

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child from shopping around married his second wife in two

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thousand and two. Now Smoky, he is going out on

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tour this Saturday. Yeah, the twenty first. It's lou Christie.

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He was born in glenn will Or, Pennsylvania. In nineteen

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forty three. Got his first record, dealing is nineteen. Some

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of his big hits are that one Lightning Strikes, Two

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Faces Out by I'm Gonna Make You Mine Now. He

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married nineteen seventy one and they had a son and

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a daughter. Louis died from cancer last year at eighty

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two years old. He performed right up until he was

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eighty one. Actor Jeff Daniels He's seventy one. He's born

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in Athens, Georgia, in nineteen fifty five. Started on Broadway,

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and then he got known actually in the movie Terms

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of Endearment, then a rack Nephobia, Dumb and Dumber Speed.

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He's actually filming a movie right now where he plays

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Ronald Reagan. Jeffy married his college sweetheart in nineteen seventy nine.

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They met at Eastern Michigan University. They have three kids.

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To you because I'm too dude.

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That was Johannes Hazel. He's known simply as Falco. He

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was born in Vienna, Austria in nineteen fifty seven, now Falco.

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He came from the beginning and the Enna underground music scene.

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He was a lot lot bigger all across the Europe

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than here in the United States. Over here has only

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hit songs were Rock Miamidas, Vienna Calling and Dr Kamasar.

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Now he was really messed up on drugs and alcohol.

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Now throughout the music business he was thought to have

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super talent, but nobody wanted to work with him because

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he was so unreliable. So in nineteen ninety eight he

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said he was going to fix that. He went to

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the Dominican public to get sober. I don't know if

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he has burnin, but while he was there, the car

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he was driving hit a bus. He was forty years old.

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Us become a love the light to shunk, can see.

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I come to kill a new stage.

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Another one name singer Seal. He's sixty three, born in Paddington, England,

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in nineteen sixty three. Now Seal is actually his first name,

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but I can't pronounce the five names that come after though.

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He was born to a my Nigerian mom and a

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Brazilian dad. Seal he got the scars on his face

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from a type of loopus. Some of Seal's hits are crazy,

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Fly Like an Eagle, Don't Cry, Kiss from a Rose.

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He's married to supermodel heid Hee Cloone for nine years

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and they have four kids. Actress Justine Bateman. She is

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sixty years old today. She's born to Ride, New York

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in nineteen sixty six. She is three years older than

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her her brother, actor Jason Bateman. Justina was fifteen when

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she started playing Mallory on the TV show Family Ties.

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She's been in a lot of TV movies. She writes

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and directs and produces Now after Family Times, though, she

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went and went to UCLA. Yeah, I got a degree

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in computer science. A smart girl now. She got married

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in two thousand and one and they have two children.

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Actor Benicio del Toro. He's fifty nine. He was born

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in San Ramin, Puerto Rico. In nineteen sixty seven, he

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won an oscar for the movie Traffic. He was nominated

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for twenty one grams. His first movie was in nineteen

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eighty eight. He played Duke, the dog faced boy in

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Big Top Peewee that he was in the Usual Suspects,

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Licensed to Kill. He played the collector in some of

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the Guardians of the Galaxy movies. Benizio he hasn't married yet,

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but he did get Rod Stewart's daughter, Kimberly pregnant. Yeah,

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she had a daughter, all right. Quote of the day

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It comes from Johnny Paycheck, take this job and chovey work.

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I want wall try hand my waist.

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Out of the door.

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Johnny died today in two thousand and three at sixty

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four years old. Johnny said, if you're going to be

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ashamed about something, then don't do it. Well, thank you

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all for listening today. Don't we get to follow us

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that you listen to signs so we're easy for you

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to find. And then check out the whole description today

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and set the bottom. You can see that links to

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all the different stuff like country Underground Radio, our Country

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Underground Radio artists to day. It comes from Amy in Manitoba. Yeah,

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we're universal. She wants to hear Larry Chamberlain's song I

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listen to Sundress. You guys have an awesome day and

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we'll talk tomorrow.

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She checks the rear view. Mare swapes the lipstick cone,

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want shake a cheer? Red the had where the colors gone?

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There's a new song.

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A dashboard.

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Can I ever loved? She shoves it in the glovebout.

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Since she clips her head.

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She walks into the diner, calls and waitress by her name,

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orders coffee with the sugar as a bow.

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The football game, And if you looked into her eyes,

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you'd see the summer sky.

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You wouldn't see the storm clouds at a rolling by.

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She's a fortress, lad of feathers. She's a damn about

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to raise. She's the old tree, stead and steady, the

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mid love the shade. She wears.

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Her eyes like leglace, filling stuff and gold. The greatest

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story survival. It's never distinctively too.

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Yes, she just carrying in the world, but you'll never

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guess because she makes her a little like nothing. Stablus

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and her sundressed

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