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Happy Friday, everybody. I am Jeff, and welcome to History
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and Factoids about Today, presented by Cool Media. It is
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January seventeenth.
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Oh, I'm delighted to say, or many I'm delighted to say.
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I'm strong, I'm.
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Plite to say today is National Popeye Day. It was today.
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In nineteen twenty nine, Popeye made his comic strip debut.
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It was in the Fimal Theater, which is actually a
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comic strip that featured olive oil. By nineteen thirty three,
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pop Eye, he it was really big. He had his
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own comic strip, he was had his own radio show,
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he had his own cartoons. E. C. Seger, He actually
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created a Popeye. He modeled Popeye and olive Oil after
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the couple that live next door to him. The words wimp,
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jeep and doofest they all come from Popeye comic strip.
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I guess celebrate today you can binge watch pop By
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movies and cartoons, or you could just annoy the hell
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out of everybody by trying to talk like Papa. All right,
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this he's going on in entertainment. On January the seventeenth,
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It's about year twenty eleven number one album was speak
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Now by Taylor Swift. Katy Perry had the number one
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song with Firework.
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When It's Time you Know, when you just got it Nice,
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Live and Live and Shine.
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Tim McGraw I had the number one country song with
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feel Good on My Lips. All go Crazy, I'm go
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crazy with you. Everybody say wow Wow. The number one
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book was What the Knight Knows by Dean Konks. The
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top movie was No Strings Attached. A guy and a girl.
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They try to keep their relationship strictly physical. We know
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that won't work, stars Ashton Kutcher, Natalie Portman, and Kevin Kline.
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All Right, what happened on January the seventeenth, seventeen seventy three,
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Britain's Captain James Cook and his ships, they began the
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first across the Antarctic Circle. That's the one down south.
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Eighteen ninety three, Millsborough, Delaware hit negative twenty seven degrees.
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That's still their state record. Also in eighteen ninety three,
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the Kingdom of Hawaii was no more. The United States
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launched an the legal coup up and they overthrew Hawaiian
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Queen Lily Lukolhani.
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Yeah.
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Then they set up a puppet government made Hawaii Republic.
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Then a couple of years later, yeah, I made it
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a US territory. Now this would suck. In nineteen twelve,
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a British expedition led by Robert Scott. He reached the
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South Pole after and during all that hardship thing. When
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they got there, they discovered that Norwegian rolfed Onmmnsen he
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had actually gotten there one moorth earlier. Sometimes second really bites.
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Nineteen twenty of the Eighteenth Amendment went into effect. That's
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today the first day that the US honored the prohibition
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of alcohol. Now you could drink alcohol, yeah, it wasn't
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legal to drink it. So if you didn't alcoholic your house, yeah,
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you could drink all you want. But you couldn't make alcohol,
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you couldn't sell alcohol, and you couldn't transport alcohol. This
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was known as the Beta Max decision. In nineteen eighty
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four the United States Supreme Court, they ruled that you
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could tape TV programs at your house with your video
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recording devices and watch them later. See Disney and some others.
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They actually sued, saying that tape in their shows violated
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copyright rights. So during the trial in front of the
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Supreme Court, mister Rogers was called to testify. Yeah, when
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he got up there, he said that, Yeah, he hoped
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people would actually video tape his shows. The Supreme Court, Yeah,
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they ruled with mister Rogers. Nineteen ninety one, Desert Shield
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turned into Desert Storm as a Gulf warbigam the United
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States led coalition. It started off bombing the hell out
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of Iraq. That was the first war actually seen lenon
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on TV. United States Coaltion though they didn't have the
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authority to overthrow the Iraqi government. All they were allowed
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to do was whatever they needed to do to kick
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Iraq out of Kuwait, so they did. In twenty seventeen,
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President Barack Obama he commuted the sentence of Chelsea Manning
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from thirty five years from prison to seven years. Manning
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is convicted for espionage and a whole bunch of other
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christs leaked over seventy and fifty thousand classified documents. Now,
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Chelsea was actually born Bradley, So Obama also agreed that
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with tax pair of money he would pay to have
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him have a sex change operation while he was in prison.
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I mean sex reassignment surgery.
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Joke shage dish shibirth day we're gonna he left this shiverbirthday.
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We got simple tage.
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He like this shibirth day.
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And you know we don't give birthday. Okay. Who was
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born on January the seventeenth founding father inventnor Benjamin Franklin.
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He was born in Boston in seventeen oh six. Now
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for a fat, frumpy, bald guy, he might have accomplished
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more than anybody else in history. Now, he didn't discover electricity,
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but he proved it. He also invented the lightning rod, bifocals.
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Franklin stove a whole lot more. He charted and named
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the Gulf Stream. He started at his first printing, his
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first newspaper twenty three years old. Then he did the
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Poor Richard's Almanac. They still print that today. Now he
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signed both the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution.
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He was the United States first Postmaster General. Now he
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did all that while being one of the biggest players
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in colonial America. Yeah, that guy was a hound. He
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had one illegitimate daughter that he actually claimed, but everybody
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said there were a lot more. He did marry from
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n seventeen thirty to seventeen seventy four. That's when his
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wife died, and they did have one son and daughter,
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but that didn't slow Ben down at all. See, his
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wife was afraid of water, so she wouldn't get on
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a ship. So Ben he made a lot of trips
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over to Europe. You know, he had to support the
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cause and all that kind of stuff. Now, he died
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from pleurisy in nineteen seventeen ninety at eighty four years old.
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Twenty thousand people attended his funeral. Pluris sie, it missed
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with your lungs and.
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You more traveling down than is true.
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Joe the Pal.
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Actress Betty White. She was born in Oak Park, Illinois,
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in nineteen twenty two. She acted from nineteen thirty nine
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to twenty twenty one. She actually started out on radio.
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Best known for TV Ry Taller Marshall, Golden Girls, Hot
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in Cleveland. She was in so many TV shows we
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don't know if they's ever counted, and we weren't going
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to do it. Some of her movies were Dennis La Menes, Lake, Placia,
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The Proposal. She did a lot more voice work than
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he probably ever thought of. Now, when she was ninety six,
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she was asked, you know what was her secret to
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staying young. She said vodka and hot dogs in that order. Oh,
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and some exercise. That is her first husband. He was
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an Air Force pilot who owned a chicken farm. Her
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third husband was TV game show host Alan Lund. Now
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that was her true love. They got married nineteen sixty three.
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They were together until Alan died in nineteen eighty one. Betty,
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she died in her sleep two weeks before one hundred
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birthday in twenty twenty one.
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Per Santa Baby, just slip a sable under the tree
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before me, holding an awful good girl, Santa Baby, so
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hurry down the chimney to night.
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That was Earth a Kit. She was born in North
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South Carolina in nineteen twenty seven. Now that's the name
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of it. Down is North South Carolina. There's about six
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hundred and niney people who live there. Earth. She started
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out on Broadway. She was a successful singer in the
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early nineteen fifties on TVA. She played Catwoman on Batman.
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Some of her movies were Boomerang, Fatal Instinct, Preaching to
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the Choir. Now, when I said that she started out
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on Broadway, she did Broadway from nineteen forty five until
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two thousand and seven. She married once in the sixties
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for five years, and they had a daughter, Earth That
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She died from colon cancer in two thousand and eight,
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three weeks before eighty second birthday. Never told you what
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happened to fall. He told me enough. I did knew
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your father. One of the greatest voices of all time
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actor James Earl Jones. He was born in Arka, Butla, Mississippi,
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in nineteen thirty one. Now, when Earl was a little boy,
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he had a really bad stuttering problem. He started so
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bad that he wouldn't even speak in public. But he
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also liked to really write poetry, so in high school
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one of his teachers made him stand up and read
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some of his poetry in front of the whole class. Well,
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it turns out the public speaking is how he overcame stuttering.
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His first movie was Doctor Strange Love. He was in
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over eighty movies after that. He's nominated for an Oscar
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for The Great White Hope. He won a couple Tonies
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over the years. His last movie was Coming to America Too.
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That was back in twenty twenty one.
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He married his second wife in nineteen eighty two and
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they had one son. His wife died in twenty sixteen earl.
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He just died in September at ninety three years old.
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He was at home. What they think it was mostly
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from diabetes. Comedian and actor Andy Coughlin. He was born
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in New York City in nineteen forty nine. Andy said
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he was not a comedian because he never told the joke.
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He just made people laugh. The biggest acting role was
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on TV when he played Lot Gun Taxi. Now this
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was way before social media. But what made Andy actually
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well known or famous well as he would play a
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bunch of big pranks and hoaxes and jokes on people
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and then it'd go viral for what was going on
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in the nineteen eighties. He had a daughter from his
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high school girlfriend, and and he He died nineteen eighty
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four at thirty five years old from lung cancer.
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This same.
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Paul Young. He's sixty nine. He was born in Latin,
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England in nineteen fifty six. Start out singing for a
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Cool He started singing for Cat Cool and the Cool Cats,
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and he went and sang laid for the Q Tips.
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Finally went solo in the early eighties. Some of his
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biggest hits are come Back and Stay every Time You
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go Away, Everything must change, What becomes of the brookenhearted?
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Nineteen ninety three. He's ever since then when he's not
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doing his sober stuff or solo stuff. Yeah, he's the
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lead singer for those Pacaminos. Now they are a British
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band that plays text Mex music, but the only two
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of the Nighty Kingdom in Europe, So how would those
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Europeans know what text Mex music is supposed to really
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sound like? Paul he married nineteen fifty seven and they
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have for each other. His wife died in twenty eighteen,
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then he remarried his second wife just last julye. Comedian
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actor TVO Steve Harvey. He's sixty eight. He's born in Wels,
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West Virginia, in nineteen fifty seven. Steve he also had
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a severe stutter when he was a kid. Started out
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doing standout comedy. Then he hosted the show Time at
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the Panel. Then he was in the original Kings of Comedy.
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He did the tours and the movies and the specials
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and stuff. He did his last stand up act in
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twenty twelve on TVA had the Steve Harvey Show. Then
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he's hosted He hosted Miss Universe. I don't know if
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you remember that. Yeah, it didn't turn out so good.
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He's been hosting Family Feuds since twenty ten, Celebrity Family
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Feuds since twenty fifteen, and he's been judged Steve Harvey
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on that show since twenty twenty two. He had two
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daughters and one son from his first wife. He had
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a son from his second wife. Married his third wife
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in two thousand and seven, and then he adopted all
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three of her children.
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That was Susannah Hoffs, singing lead for the Bengals. She's
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one of Los Angeles in nineteen fifty nine. Sixty six
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year old. She is a guitarist and singer. She wants
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everybody to make sure they don't think she just sings now.
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She help formed the Bengals in nineteen eighty one. They
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took most of the nineties off, but they've been back
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together since nineteen ninety eight. Bengal hits are Manic, Monday, Walk,
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Black In Egyptian, Hazy, Shade, a Winner, Eternal Fleeing Susanna.
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She's at least nine solo albums over the years. She
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got married in nineteen ninety three and they have two sons.
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Actor comedian Jim Carrey's sixty three. He is born in Newmarket,
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Cannon in nineteen sixty two. Jamie started doing stand up
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comedy when he's fifteen years old. He has dad would
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drive him to the shows. First got known in the
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movie One's Bitten. Then he hit big on the TV
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show in Living Color. Some of his other movies are
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The Ace Venture, a pet detective movie, is Dumb and Dumber, Liar, Liar,
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me myself and Irene. Now, when I talked earlier, we said,
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what is Andy Coffin's birthday? Well, Jim played Andy in
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the movie Man on the Moon. Carry actually won a
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whole bunch of awards for how he played Andy. Two.
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He had a daughter from his first wife. He married
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actress Lauren Holly for almost a year.
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Signs were smoking things, whiskey, not taking singing home all.
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Summer long, rappers, singer Kid Rock. He was born in Romeo,
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Michigan in nineteen seventy one. That makes him fifty four today.
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He started out breakdancing. It turns out he's a lot
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better rapper and DJ than he was a break dancer,
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So he took that rapping in the all. Now he
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does what country and rock also sold over thirty five
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million albums. Some of us hits are Cowboy Only God
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Knows Why, Picture That was with Shirow Crow, and All
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Summer Long. Now he goes on tour in April if