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Welcome to history and factoids about today. I am Jeff.
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Today's February of the fourth. I'm no bail man. Grab
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your knucker, ring your bells. Oh, she thinks that's kind
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of swallow those you fail man, I kept calling any
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got away as we call my second is made of
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lesson here those locks.
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I'll stick my bag him, boss.
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I'm no mail. Today is National thank a Merril Carrier Day. Okay.
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So if I gave you a letter in seventy eight
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cents and told you to deliver it whatever I wanted
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to do, would you do it?
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Well?
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Okay? Then now if you still have a mail care
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who actually delivers to your house, yeah, you got to
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thank them today. Yeah, let them know what you appreciate. Now,
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before eighteen forty seven, the person who received the meal,
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they had to pay the postage. I know that would
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suck with junk ban, wouldn't it all right? Thank you
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men and women who deliver our mail stuff. We I
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sure appreciate. It's going on entertainment On February fourth, it
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was back to nineteen seventy six. Number one album was
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Gratitude by Earth Wind and Fire. The Ohio Players had
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the number one song with Love roller Coaster. Bill Anderson
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and Mary Lou Turner had the number one country song
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with sometimes tell Me Are You happy? Yes?
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Sometimes? But sometimes I feel like I've just got to
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get away from the same old existence day after day.
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The number one book was curtained by Agatha Christy. The
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top movie was next up, Greenwich Village. It's about a
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group of aspiring artists in New York City in the
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nineteen fifties. Stars Lenny Baker, Shelley Winners, and Ellen Green.
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All Right, what happened On February of the fourth, seventeen
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eighty nine, It was official George Washington was the first
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president of the United States. Yeah, the votes from the
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Electoral College had been counted. George, you received every one
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of them. He also reads one hundred percent of the
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popular vote. Now he is the only president he ever
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do either one of those, and he did it twice. Well,
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that kind of helped that he ran unopposed though George,
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he was independent, no political party. Now, the voter turned
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out for that first election was eleven point six percent
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of the people voted. Twenty eight thousand and nine people voted,
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so twenty eight thousand and nine white guys voted. Yeah,
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they had to be twenty one years old. They had
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to own a property. Their religion had to be approved of. Yeah,
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they couldn't come from some weird sect. They couldn't be retarded,
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they couldn't be a felon. They had to live here
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in the United States before the Revolution. They had to
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be able to read and write English, and they had
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to pay all pole taxes. Now he went on to
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make tires, But in eighteen twenty four J. W. Goodrich,
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you started selling rubber goloshes United States. They won the
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Philippines from Spain in the Spanish American War.
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Yeah.
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Well, the Philippines they didn't want anybody controlling them back then.
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So today, in eighteen ninety nine, yeah, they just went
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ahead and declared war on the United States. So the
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Philippino American War began, and it did not work out
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for the Filipinos. Over the next three years and five months,
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forty two hundred American soldiers were killed, twenty thousand Filipino
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soldiers were killed, but a lot worse for two hundred
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and fifty thousand Filipino people died from famine disease during
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the fighting. The Philippines actually remained under americanntrolto right after
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World War Two. Nineteen forty now with Danny Thomas was
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a struggling actor. He vowed that if he ever got successful,
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he would build a shrine to the patron Saint Jude.
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Saint Jude, he's the patron saintan for lost causes. Well,
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Danny Thomas, he ended up being very, very successful. So
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in nineteen sixty two he kept his word. With the
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help of doctors Manuel Diggs and Anthony Abram, He's opening
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the Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital out there in Memphis
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that focuses on children's with cancer and other diseases. That's
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still going today. Now there's no cost to the kids
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who go there or their families, well the whole time
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they're being treated for it. I'm sure you've seen. There
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are tons of commercials about it. Nineteen seventy one, in
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New York City, the Nasdaq Stock Exchange was founded. Today
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it's the second largest stock exchange in the world, behind
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the New York Stock Exchange. Nineteen seventy three comic strip
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Hagar The Horrible Debut. It was written by Dick Brown. Now,
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if you remember the comic Strict Hyan Lois. That's where
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Dick start out writing on In two thousand and four,
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Facebook launched Yeah you can only get it if you
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were going if you were a student at Harvard.
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Joke joke, joked, joked, joke, show dish Shivers days, gonna pause.
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He left this shiver day we got simple Carge.
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He like Thish shibirth day. You you don't giday?
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Okay? Who was poor in February of the fourth astronomer,
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Clyde Tombaugh. He was born in Streeter, Illinois in nineteen
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oh six, but he grew up on a farm in Kansas.
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Now.
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When he was finishing a high school, a hailstorm took
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out the entire family farms crops. Yeah, so Clyde wasn't
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able to go to college, so he built his own
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telescopes and using him he made very detailed drawings of
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Mars and Jupiter. He sent him off to the Low
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Observatory in Arizona. They were so impressed on him, Yeah,
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they offered him in jobs. After Arizona Clyde went. While
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he was there twenty four years old, he discovered the
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planet Pluto. After that, he discovered over eight hundred different asteroids.
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Glydy was married and they had two children. He died
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in nineteen ninety seven at ninety years old. Rosa Parks.
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She was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, in nineteen thirteen. Of course, Rosa.
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She first got known when she refused to move back
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farther on a bus of Montgomery, Alabama. In nineteen fifty five, Rosa.
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She was arrested and that led to the year long
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Montgomery bus boycott. Rosa. She'd married nineteen thirty two. Her
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husband died in nineteen seventy seven. Rosa died in two
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thousand and five and ninety two years old, from natural causes.
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Some of you might be wondering writing and going to
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more detail. I talked all about Rose on December first. Yeah,
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that's the day it all went down. After Conrad Baine.
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He is best known for playing the rich white guy
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who adopted Willison Arnold on the TV show Different Strokes. Conrad.
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He was born in rest Ridge, Canada in nineteen twenty three.
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First guy known on the TV sitc on Maud. It's
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from there they spun him off any Different Strokes off
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of Mud. Some of his movies are Cougan's Bluff, The Sandbox,
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Postcards from the Edge. Married nineteen forty five and they
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had two daughters in one son, Conrad, He died from
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a stroke twenty thirteen, eighty nine years old. Alice Cooper,
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he's seventy eight. They're gonna be doing a residency out
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there in Las Vegas in March and April. Then he
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toured Europe over the summer. He was born in Detroit
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nineteen forty eight. Back in Nashgolle helped form the band
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Spiders and NAS. Well, after they graduated, they just became NAS.
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A couple of years later they found out Todd Gunnant
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Rendgren he already had a band called NAS, so they
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had to change their name. They went to Alice Cooper.
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Why why they choose Alice Cooper. Well, it sounded really
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wholesome and pure, and that was the complete opposite of
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the shock rock that they were playing. They got discovered
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by Frank Zappa. Now, once they got successful, he was
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born Vincent Furnier. That's when he legally became Alice Cooper. Now,
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some of their songs I'm eighteen No More, Mister Knight's Guy,
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School's Out Poisoned, some hits. Now he got married nineteen
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seventy six and they have three children.
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Chillens Kills.
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Up see country singer Clint Black. You'll be going on
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tour on February twelfth and check Clint out all the
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way to the end of the summer. Clint sixty four.
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He is born in Long Beach, New Jersey, grew up
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in Katie, Texas, moved his family there. When he has
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one Clint, he has twenty two songs that went up
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to number one, Better Man, Nobody's Home, Put Yourself and
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my Sha, Summer's Coming that summer. You married Lisa Hartman
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in nineteen ninety one and they have a daughter now,
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and Clint's on stage during Yeah. Lisa and the daughter
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are both on stage with him.
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I'm corns Changed Naked on the Store, US Change Single,
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Wild Weekend You singing the classics.
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Guys, You're Natalie and Bergerlie. She's fifty one. She was
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born to Sydney, Australia in nineteen seventy five. Start act out.
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She started out acting on Australian soap operas and she
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moved to London to concentrate on singing. Some of her
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heads are a big mistake, wish and I was there wrong,
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Impression Torn Now She was married for five years in
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the early two thousands. She had had son in twenty nineteen.
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But I go out man, sitting down at a table
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set too fast.
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No matter what I say, I'm not over you. Forty
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nine year old Gavin de Grau was born in South
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falls Brook, New York, in nineteen seventy seven. His first
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hit song was the theme song for the TV show
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One Tree Hill. I Don't Want to Be He was
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nominated for an Oscar. No, he's nominated for a that's
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right now, he doesn't not any for a Grammy with
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Kobe Kalay for their song We both know you want
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to see Gavin. He's gonna go out and do a
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little bit of tour and conute all right. Quote of
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the day It comes from Karen Carpenter jam to.
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Us to watch.
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Karen died today in nineteen eighty three at thirty two
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years old. That's the first time most people had ever
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heard of anorexia. Now Karen wants that I am determined
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to be content and making lots of money by working
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makes it easier for me to be content. Well, thank
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you all for listening. FORGID to follow us, check out
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goes are Brad out there in Phoenix. He goes their
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blacktop radio song. One last look around. You guys have
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an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow.
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Note on the door, leavy keys on the counter. There's
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a beer in the fridge, empty box in the hall.
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I left some pitch tang and n empty.
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Wamm see if you can patch those holes up.
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In the wall.
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I still remember when we hung them, never thought on.
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Wait take them down that walk. Renald sang the big
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right now we came down to me and came in
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same day. Last by the Lord knows we go try
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to find.
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Keep it all from coming down. One last round. If
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we's in long A couple of cracks in.
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The driveways.
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And you'll go four stairs. Could youse a little hill?
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I guess we let go a lot long thing when
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we should that pick e fence. If somebody gives well
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a bay sad go here roup contain go speakers down.
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To one last round, trying the fair around. Now we
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came down to be angw came be in the same.
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Embrew f Last by Lords.
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A week of trying devide camber Doll from coming down
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One last round