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

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Hello everyone, I am Jeff and
welcome to History and Factoids about to Day

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present by Cool Media. Happy Thursday. You know, there's really nothing special

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about Thursday. I guess before the
drinking aids got changed to twenty one,

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Thursdays were big drinking nights in college
in eighteen hundreds, game in they were

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green on Thursdays to secretly identify themselves
as gay to other gay men. Now

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they're using more like green ties or
something like that. They didn't dress up

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like leprechans. That wouldn't be real
secretive. Now with it all right,

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let's see this going on on February
the eighth. Let's go lie up high,

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Let's go lie 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 in Asia

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way back a long time ago.
Marco Polo. He was the first to

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bring a kite from China back to
Europe in the twelve hundreds. Today it's

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a good day to put down the
electronics, get outside, get some fresh

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air, a little bit of exercise
and flag kite. You know, it

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takes a little bit of practice.
Might be kind of a fun project to

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build your own kite. Now that
sounds fun. I guess just watch Mary

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Poppins. All right, let's who's
going on in entertainment On February eighth.

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Let's back there two thousand and two. The number one album was Drive by

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Alan Jackson. Usher had the number
one song with You Got It Bad Nobody

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Wants to Be It's It's such fa
the words in the song baby it best

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it Steve Olli. He had the
number one country song with good Morning Beautiful,

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Good Morning Beautiful. Your Mine was
Wonderful with Hugh Bayma's side Open See

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Your Sweet Fish. It's a good
mold beautiful. The number one book was

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Journey Through Heart Streamings by Maddie J. T. Stepanik. The top movie

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was Collateral Damage. After a firefighters
family is killed by terrorists, he goes

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

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All right, let's see what happened
in the world on February the eighth.

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Now, not only did the Chinese
invent kites Chinese monks, they also

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invented gunpowder in the ninth century,
but it wasn't until sixteen twenty seven and

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what today is Slovakia. I guess
the guy's got tired of digging. It

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was the first time recorded history that
gunpowder was ever used in mining. In

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sixteen ninety three, the College of
William and Mary was founded out there in

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Virginia. It is the second oldest
college in North America. Rarvard's the oldest.

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It was formed in sixteen fifty.
It's named after England's King William the

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Third and Queen Mary the Second.
Well, this kind of sounds a lot

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like a final Jeopardy question. Well, was the first opera performed in North

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America? Well, what is Flora? It was performed in Arleston's, South

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

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old Simon Willard he invented the banjo
clock. Now it was literally a wall

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clock shaped like a banjo, and
it was also America's first commercially successful wall

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

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overthrown. But in the United States
they really didn't have anything to do with

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it. Now. Actually, that's
where the term banana Republic comes from.

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See three American companies. Can they
controlled the whole banana trade. Well,

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Davilla, he thought Hondura should have
a little bit to say of it.

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

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the Texas state record and negative twenty
three degrees. It's on the Panhandle near

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the Mexican New Mexico border. Hey, super Bowl's coming up. Let's talk

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some football. Nineteen sixty three of
the Dallas Texans, they moved and changed

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

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Cowboys are in the super Bowl was
nineteen ninety six. In nineteen ninety four,

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in a road rage incident, actor
Jack Nicholson he used a golf club

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on another guy's car. That costs
Jack five hundred thousand dollars for the guy

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not to press charges. In two
thousand and eight, Nebraska, they banned

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the electric chair as the only execution
method. They said they wanted more options.

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Coach co cot coke coch coat sharge
this shibthday, We're gonna pause he

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left this shiverbthday. Were gonna siple
carge he left this shibirthday. And you

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know we don't get that's your birthday. Oh Right, who was born on

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

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

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time. He is the second most
translated rider of all time. He is

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behind act Ata Christie and in front
of William Shakespeare. Some of his most

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famous books are Around the World in
Eighty Days, Journeying to the Center of

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the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under
the Sea, Mysterious Island. Got married

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in eighteen fifty seven and they had
one son and two daughters. He died

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at seventy seven years old in nineteen
oh five from complications from diabetes. Actress

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Lanta Turner. She was born in
Wallas, Idaho in nineteen twenty one.

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Started out as a really popular pin
up model, then she turned that into

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a fifty year acting career. She
was discovered when she's buying a soda at

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a Mault shop. Some of her
biggest movies were Doctor Jack, Lemister Hyde,

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The Postman, Ards, The Rings, Twice, Peyton Place, Mada

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Mix Now. She divorced seven times. She did have one daughter from her

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third husband. The Lana had herself
a boyfriend in nineteen fifty eight. He

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

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one night they were drunk, Johnny
just started beating the crap Battlelana.

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So her fourteen year old daughter stabbed
Johnny in the in the stomach. Yeah,

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killed him. Well, the place
they rolled that self defense. But

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the mob they were not happy about
it at all, but say it was

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way too public a case to do
anything about it. Atlanta. She died

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

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The Honeymooner with the Stars art Jarney
Audrey Meadow actress Audrey Meadow. She was

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born in New York City in nineteen
twenty two. Of course, she is

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best known for playing Alice Cramden on
the TV show The Honeymooners. Now she

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really got type cast from it,
you know. She did quite a few

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guest appearances on it. She couldn't
get any work, so with acting roles

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hard to come by. For eleven
years, she ran the first National bank

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here in Denver. Then she sat
on the board of Continental Airlines for twenty

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years. She has married her a
second cousin from nineteen sixty one in nineteen

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eighty six when he died. Audrey
She died from lung cancer five days before

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seventy fourth birthday in nineteen ninety six. Actor jack lemon It was born in

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Newton, Massachusetts in nineteen twenty five. She's started over sixty min He's won

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Oscars for Mister Roberts and Saved the
Tiger. He was nominated eight times for

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Academy Awards. Some of his movies
you'll know, The Odd Couple, the

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China Syndrome, Grumpy Old Men,
movies, my fellow Americans. Now he

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now guess he didn't. Yeah,
he narrated that legend of agrabams, didn't

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he. Yeah. He had one
son from his first wife, married a

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second wife in nineteen sixty two and
they had a daughter. Jackie died in

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two thousand and one at seventy six
years old from bladder cancer. Actor James

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Dean. He was born in Marion, Indiana, in nineteen thirty one.

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Now that's a true Hollywood legend,
and he got it without even doing much

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work. He only made three movies
East of Eden, Rebel without a causin

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Giant. Now he died before Rebel
Without a Cause of Giant were even released,

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and he 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 died in a car

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crash in nineteen fifty five at twenty
four years old. Actor Nick Nottee He's

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

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he was nominated for Oscars for the
Prince of Tie It's Affliction and Warrior.

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Some of his other movies with the
Deep North Thoust forties forty eight hours movies.

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Now get this, Nick, he
actually started out as a male model.

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Now, if 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. He married

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his fourth wife in twenty sixteen and
they have a daughter, Legs Young School

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All Nash Dan Seals he was born
in McCarney, Texas, in nineteen forty

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eight. His older brother was Jim
Seals of Seals and Croft Dan. He

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first hit as English Dan England Dan. I guess it'd be isn't that soft?

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Duo? England Dan and John Fort
Cohley. They had that big hit

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song, I'd Really Love to See
You Tonight. Then he went solo and

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he went country. When he did
that, he had eleven number one songs.

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Some of them were Everything That Glitters
Is Not Gold Addicted Love on Arrival,

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Meet Me in Montana. Now that
was a duet with Marie Osma.

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Dan had two children from his first
wife. I'm married his second wife in

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seventy five and they had two children. He died in two thousand and nine

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from lymphoma at sixty one years old. Actors Mary steinberge in seventy one.

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She's won in Newport, Arkansas in
nineteen fifty three. Her first acting job

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was in the movie 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. Been an

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over eighty movies since. She won
an Oscar for Melbourne and Howard l.

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Noor for Back to the Future,
Three Step Brothers. And she was married

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to actor Malcolm McDowell for ten years
and they had two children. Then she

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married Ted Danson in nineteen ninety five. Now that is Vince Neil solo.

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Of course, He's most known as
the lead singer for Motley Crue, but

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that was his solo song, Fancy's
sixty three. He's born in nineteen sixty

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one in Hollywood, California. Vince
joined Motley Crue in nineteen eighty one.

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They had all their success and then
they fired him in nineteen ninety one.

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Yeah, after ten years. Now
you know you were drinking too hard.

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If Motley Crue fires you from drinking
too much. He had a little success

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as a solo artist during that break. He had that song we played,

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You're invited, but your friend can't
come, Sister of Pang can't have the

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cake. Then Motley Crur they brought
him back in nineteen ninety seven. Now

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it will not be a stadium tour
like it was with def Leppard, but

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Motley they are heading out to do
some show starting May third. Neil,

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he has a son from a fling. Then he had a daughter from his

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first wife. Then he married his
second wife and they had a daughter.

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Then he married his 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. He was

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born with a kidney disease, and
that's why he never grew over four feet

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eight inches tall and had those pudgy
cheeks. He was the highest paid child

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television actor in the late seventies throughout
the eighties, most famous for playing Arnold

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on Different Strokes. He made a
lot of TV appearances also. Some of

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his movies were The Kid from Left
Field, Jimmy the Kid, Kid with

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the two hunderdyke Q. He got
married in two thousand and seven, and

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I don't know if they've sorted it
out or not. It was really unclear

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whether him and his wife were still
together when he died in twenty ten.

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They don't know if he had a
seizure, if he just fell, but

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he hit his head falling down to
a fight of stairs. He's only forty

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two. Actor Seth Green is fifty. He's born in Philadelphia in nineteen seventy

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four. First really got known playing
Scott Evil in Austin Powers movies, and

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

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Chris Giffrin on The Family Guy since
nineteen ninety nine, had done Robot Chickens

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in two thousand and five, He
married actress Claire Grant in twenty ten.

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All right, here today's fact good
that will win you a beer over In

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England, it is illegal to fly
a kite in a public place. We

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have a lot of dates back to
eighteen thirty nine. Well, thank you

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for being here. We sure appreciate
you. Now to answer some of your

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questions, Yes, you can listen
to our country station, Country Underground Radio,

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Facebook page. It's just Country Underground

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Radio. And then we put a
link on my page too, so you

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can go to Jeff Stampka on there
and get there. All right, let's

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end with Del Shannon. Why she
went away? Where she will stay?

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Run away? Dal? He died
today in nineteen ninety have fifty five years

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

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

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way too much. Guys, I'll
have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow.

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