Feb. 7, 2026

Feb 8th-Kites, Banjo Clocks, Football, Dynamite, James Dean, Motley Crue, Nick Nolte, Dan Seals

Feb 8th-Kites, Banjo Clocks, Football, Dynamite, James Dean, Motley Crue, Nick Nolte, Dan Seals

National kite flying day. Entertainment from 2002. Dynamite used for 1st time in mining, banjo clock invented, Dallas Texans become Kansas City Chiefs, 1st banana republic. Todays birhdays - Jules Verne, Lana Turner, Audrey Meadows, Jack Lemmon, Nick Nolte, Dan Seals, Mary Steenburgen, Vince Neil, Gary Coleman, Seth Green. Del Shannon died.

Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard http://defleppard.com/
Lets go fly a kite - Mary Poppins
U got it bad - Usher
Good morning beautiful - Steve Holy
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
Honeymooners TV theme
Bop - Dan Seals
Your invited, but your friend can't come - Vince Neil
Runaway - Del Shannon
Exit - Its not love - Dokken http://dokken.net/

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Hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Fact.

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It's about to date, presented by Cool Media. All right,

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let's see what's going on on February the eighth.

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Let's go lie up the highest, let's go liee.

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So it is National Kite Flying Day. Oh, if it's windy,

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you don't even have to run. Kites They were invented

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in Asia way back a long time ago. Marco Polo.

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He was the first to bring a kite from China

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back to Europe in the twelve hundreds. Today, it's a

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good day to put down the electronics, get outside, get

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some fresh air, a little bit of exercise, and fly

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a kite. You know, it takes a little bit of practice.

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Might be kind of a fun project to build your

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own kite. Now that sounds fun. I guess. Just watch

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were puppins. All right, this is going on in entertainment

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on February eighth. Let's back there. Two thousand and two,

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the number one album was Drive by Alan Jackson. Usher

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had the number one song with you Got It Bad

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Nobody Wants to Be.

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It's It's such by the words in the song, maybe you.

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Got it best, bet it you cut it best.

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Steve Ollie. He had the number one country song with

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good Morning Beautiful.

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Good morning beautiful, Your night mine was wonderful with you

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by my side. Open my eyes, Let's see your sweet face.

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It's a good more beautiful.

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The number one book was Journey through heart Strings by

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Matt J. T. Stepanik. The top movie was Collateral Damage.

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After a firefighters family is killed by terrorists, he goes

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looking for her payback. Stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, John Leguizano and

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Francisca and Neary. All right, let's see what happened in

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the world on February the eighth. Now, not only did

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the Chinese and vent Kites Chinese monks, they also invented

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gunpowder in the ninth century, But it wasn't until sixteen

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twenty seven. And what today is Slovakia. Now, I guess

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the guy's got tired of digging. It was the first

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time recorded history that gunpowder was ever used in mining.

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In sixteen ninety three, the College of William and Mary

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was founded out there in Virginia. It is the second

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oldest college in North America, Harvard's the oldest. It was

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formed in sixteen fifteen. It's named after England's King William

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the third and Queen Mary the Second. Well, this kind

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of sounds a lot like a final Jeopardy question. What

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was the first opera performed in North America? But what

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is Flora? It was performed in Arleston's, South Carolina in

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seventeen thirty five. In Roxboro, Massachusetts. In eighteen oh two,

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old Simon Willard he invented the banjo clock. Now it

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was literally a wall clock shaped like a banjo, and

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it was also America's first commercially successful wall clock. In

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nineteen eleven, President of Honduras Miguel de Villa, he was overthrown.

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But in the United States they really didn't have anything

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to do with it. Now. Actually, that's where the term

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banana Republic comes from. See three American companies. Can they

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controlled the whole banana trade? Well, Davilla he thought Hundura

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should have a little bit to say of it. Well

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he was wrong. Nineteen thirty three, in Seminole, Texas, they

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set the Texas state record at negative twenty three degrees.

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It's on the Panhandle near the Mexican New Mexico border. Hey,

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super Bowl's coming up, Let's talk some football. Nineteen sixty

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three of the Dallas Texans. They moved and changed their

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name to be the Kansas City Chiefs. Yeah. Last time

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the Dallas Cowboys are in the super Bowl was nineteen

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ninety six. In nineteen ninety four, in a road rage incident,

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actor Jack Nicholson he used a golf club on another

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guy's are that costs youack five hundred thousand dollars for

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the guy not to press charges. In two thousand and eight, Nebraska,

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they banned the electric chair as the only execution method.

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They said they wanted more options. Coach cot Co cot

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Coat Sharge this shiverbirth day, We're gonna tau he left

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this shibthday.

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Were gonna sit pleutage. He's like this shibirth day, and

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you know we don't give up.

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That's your birthday, oh right. Who was born on February

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the eighth writer Jules Verne. He was born in Nantes, France,

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in eighteen twenty eight. It's one of the most famous

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riders of all time. He is the second most translated

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writer of all time. He is behind Agatha Christie and

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in front of William Shakespeare. Some of his most famous

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books are around the world. In eighty days journeying to

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the center of the Earth, twenty thousand leagues under the sea,

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Mysterious Island. Got married in eighteen fifty seven and they

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had one son and two daughters. He died at seventy

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seven years old in nineteen oh five from complications from diabetes.

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Actress Lanta Turner. She was born in Wallasidah in nineteen

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twenty one. Started out as a really popular pin up model,

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then she turned that into a fifty year acting career.

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She was discovered when she's buying a soda at a

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malt shop. Some of her biggest movies were Doctor Jack

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l Mister Hyde, The Postman, Ards, The Rings Twice, Peyton

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Place Made Mix Now. She divorced seven times. She did

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have one daughter from her third husband. Then Lana had

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herself a boyfriend in nineteen fifty eight. He was a

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well known mafia gangster dude. His name was Johnny Steppinato. Well,

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one night they were drunk, Johnny just started beating the

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crap battle Ana, so her fourteen year old daughter stabbed

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Johnny in the in the stomach. Yeah, killed him. Well,

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the place they rolled that self defense, but the mob,

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they were not happy about it. At all, but say

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it was way too public a case for them to

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do anything about it. Atlanta. She died at seventy four

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years old from throat cancer in nineteen ninety five. Jackie Gleeson.

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The Honeymooners.

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With the Stars art Jarney Ludrie Meadow actress Audrey Meadows.

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She was born in New York City in nineteen twenty two.

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on the TV show The Honeymooners. Now she really got

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tite cast from it, you know. She did quite a

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few guest appearances on it. She couldn't get any work

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so with acting roles hard to come by. For eleven years,

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she ran the first National Bank here in Denver. Then

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she sat on the board of Continental Airlines for twenty years.

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She has married her a second husband from nineteen sixty

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one in nineteen eighty six when he died. Audrey she

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died from lung cancer five days before seventy fourth birthday

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in nineteen ninety six. Actor Jack lemon It was born

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in Newton, Massachusetts. In nineteen twenty five, she started over

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sixty movies and went oscars for mister Roberts and saved

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The Tigers, nominated eight times for Academy Awards, some of

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them as movies you'll know, The Odd Couple, the China Syndrome,

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Grumpy Old Men movies. My fellow Americans now now guess

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he didn't. Yeah, he numbered her, narrated that legend of agrabams,

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didn't he?

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He had one son from his first wife, married a

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second wife in nineteen sixty too, and they had a daughter. Jackie.

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Died in two thousand and one at seventy six years

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old from bladder cancer. Actor James Dean. He was born

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in Marion, Indiana, in nineteen thirty one. Now that's a

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true Hollywood legend, and he got it without even doing

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much work. He only made three movies East of Eden,

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Rebel without a Causing Giant. Now he died before Rebel

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without a Cause of Giant were even released, and he

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was nominated for Oscars for both those movies though, so

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he's the only actor ever nominated posthumously two times. He

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died in a car crash in nineteen fifty five at

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twenty four years old. Actor Nick Nottee. He's eighty three.

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He's born in Omaha, Nebraska in nineteen forty one. He

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was nominated for Oscars for other Prince of Tides, Affliction

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and Warrior. Some of his other movies with The Deep

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North Thouast forty forty eight hours movies. Now get this Nick.

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He actually started out as a male model. Now, if

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you've seen any pictures of recently of Nick, you would

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share my surprise. He had a son from his third wife.

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He married his fourth wife in twenty sixteen and they

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have a daughter.

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School was all.

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All nice.

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Dan Seals. He was born in McCarney, Texas, in nineteen

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forty eight. His older brother was Jim Seals of Seals

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and Crofts Dan. He first hit as English Dan, England Dan,

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I guess it'd be isn't that soft? Duo England Dan

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and john Ford Cohley. They had that big hit song

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I'd Really Love to see You Tonight. Then he went

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solo and he went country. When he did that, he

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had eleven number one country songs. Some of them were

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Everything that Glitters Is Not Gold, Addicted Love on Arrival,

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Meet Me in Montana Now, that was a duet with

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Marie Osma. Dan had two children from his first wife.

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I'm married his second wife in seventy five and they

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had two children. He died in two thousand and nine

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from lymphoma at sixty one years old. Actress Mary Steinberg

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in seventy one. He's born in Newport, Arkansas, in nineteen

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fifty three. Her first acting job was in the movie

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Going South in nineteen seventy eight, her first acting job,

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and she was co starring with Jack Nicholson and John Belushi.

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Been an over eighty movie since. She won an oscar

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for Melvin and Howard l. Noor for Back to the

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Future three Step Brothers. And she was married to actor

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Malcolm McDowell for ten years and they had two children.

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Then she married Ted Danson in nineteen ninety five. Now

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that is Vince Neil solo. Of course, he's most known

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as a lead singer for Motley Crue, but that was

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his solo song, Dancy's sixty three. He's born in nineteen

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sixty one in Hollywood, California. Vince joined Motley Crue in

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nineteen eighty one. They had all their success and then

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they fired him in nineteen ninety one. Yeah, after ten years. Now,

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you know you were drinking too hard. If Motley Crue

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fires you from drinking too much. He had a little

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success as a solo artist. During that break he had

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that song we played you You're invited, but your friend

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can't come. Sister a pan can't have the cake. Then

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Motley Kurr they brought him back in nineteen ninety seven.

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Now it will not be a stadium tour like it

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was with def Leopard, but Motley and they are heading

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out to do some show starting May third. Neil, he

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has a son from a fling. Then he had a

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daughter from his first wife. Then he married his second

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wife and they had a daughter. Then he married his

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fourth wife in two thousand and five. Mc hammer performed

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the ceremony. Yeah Hammer, he's an ordained minister. That's Gary Coleman.

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He was born in Zion, Illinois, in nineteen sixty eight.

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He was born with a kidney disease and that's why

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he never grew over four feet eight inches tall and

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had those pudgy cheeks. He was the highest paid child

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television actor in the late seventies throughout the eighties, most

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famous for playing Arnold on Different Strokes. He made a

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lot of TV appearances. Also of his movies where the

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It was really unclear whether him and his wife were

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still together when he died in twenty ten. They don't

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know if he had a seizure, if he just fell,

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but he hit his head falling down a fight a stairs.

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He's only forty two. Actor Seth Green is fifty. He's

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born in Philadelphia in nineteen seventy four. First really got

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known playing Scott Evil in Austin Powers movies, and he's

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in the America's Sweethearts, The Best Man Sex Drive on TV.

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He's what Chris Giffren on The Family Guy since nineteen

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ninety nine had done Robot Chickens in two thousand and five.

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He married actress Claire Grant. In twenty ten. Al Right,

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here today's fac tood that will win you a beer over.

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In England, it is illegal to fly a kite in

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a public place. We have a lot of dates back

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to eighteen thirty nine. Well, thank you for being here.

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We sure appreciate you. Now to answer some of your questions, Yes,

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you can listen to our country station Country Underground Radio

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on there and get there. All right, let's end with

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Del Shannon.

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Why she ran away? Where she will stay? Run Away?

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Dal?

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He died today in nineteen ninety at fifty five years old.

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He said, when I was twenty, I was drinking. When

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I was thirty, I was drinking more. At forty, I

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was drinking way too much. You guys, I'll have an

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awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow.

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No, no,