Jan. 1, 2026

Jan 2nd-Happy Birthday Georgia, Speed Limit drops to 55MPH, Tia Carrere, Cuba Gooding jr, Hoobastank, Kate Bosworth

Jan 2nd-Happy Birthday Georgia, Speed Limit drops to 55MPH, Tia Carrere, Cuba Gooding jr, Hoobastank, Kate Bosworth
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National buffet day. Entertainment from 2009. Speed limit lowered to 55MPH, Georgia became 4th state, Air conditioner invented. Todays birthdays - Isaac Asimov, Dabney Coleman, Roger Miller, Tia Carrere, Cuba Gooding jr, Taye Diggs, Doug Robb, Kate Bosworth. (2025)

Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard http://defleppard.com/
The Chinese buffet song - Bigedude
Single Ladies - Beyonce
Here - Rascal Flatts
Birthday - the Beatles
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
King of the road - Roger Miller
Pupu Hinuhinu - Tia Carrere
The reason - Hoobastank
Exit - In my dreams - Dokken http://dokken.net/

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Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factor.

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It is about today presented my Cool Media. It is

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January the second Me my.

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Friends Chinese buffet.

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And it was really.

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Hitting my ummy.

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And Hi Jeterfield, Bummies, worse commy. Everybody kind of looks

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casual and Chinese, moufy Chinese. It doesn't have to be Chinese.

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Any buffet will do. Today's National Buffet Day. The Sweetish

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they created a buffet and the fifteen hundreds started out

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as a table to drink schnaps before dinner. Then they

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turned it into the smortgage board in the eighteen hundreds.

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But by the nineteen hundreds everybody figured out the Swedes

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were onto something. Now the buffet. It was a good

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way to feed a lot of people. He's I think

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everybody likes buffets. You can always find something you like.

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So if you're not that hungry today, make some plans

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and go to a buffet this weekend. Just enjoy and

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grub down. All right, this is going on in entertainment

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on January second. Let's go back to your two thousand and

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nine number one album was Fear. Let's buy Taylor Swift Beyonce.

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I had the number one song with single Ladies Man

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all my hips and we put it in my berry hundred.

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Breaking a cup can care.

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That's us a play Rascal Fats. They're the number one

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country song with here let me say the number one

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book was Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell. The top movie was

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Marley and Me Newlywed's own Wilson and Jennifer Anderson. They

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adopt the dog. That's pretty much it, all right, let's

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see it happened on January the second, Happy Birthday Georgia

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seventeen eighty eight. Georgia became the fourth state. It's named

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after Britain's King George, the second. Now the capital is Atlanta.

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Highest point is Basstown ball the four thousand and seven

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and eighty four feet Georgia state bird is the brown

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thrasher fish, large mount bass flowers, the Cherokee rose tree,

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Southern live oak. Food is grits and fruit is peaches.

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Georgia State song is Georgia on My Mind by Ray Charles.

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Some people born in Georgia Martin Luther King Jr. Julia Roberts,

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Jackie Robinson, Hulk Cogan, Kanye West, Gladys Knight, Alan Jackson,

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Ryan Seacrest, Luke Bryant, Doc Holliday. There's some of the

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people born in a peach state. Eighteen thirty nine. French

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photographer Louis Deguri. He took the first photo of the moon.

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All right, let's talk boxing, but knock boxing. We're talking

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bare knuckles boxing. Eighteen sixty five in Silver City, Montana.

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A walter wait guy named con Orman. He fought a

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heavyweight guy named Hugh O'Neal. They fought for one hundred

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and eighty five found or one hundred and eighty five rounds. Yeah,

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they fight until they had to call it because of darkness.

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Eighteen ninety Edmund McIlhenny, he was on a hunting trip

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down there in Louisiana, shot him a nineteen foot two

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inch alligator. Now that is still the largest alligator ever found,

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whether it was kept in captivity or shot yep. Never

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seen an alligator bigger than nineteen feet two inches. Nineteen

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oh three, Mini Cox she was appointed the postmaster for Indianola, Mississippi.

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Now she was the first black woman to be a

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postmaster in Mississippi. The locals in Indianola, they didn't like

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that at all. It was bad enough they had to

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have a black postmaster, let alone a female black postman.

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They were so mean to many that she was forced

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to resign. Well, President Teddy Roosevelt, he heard what was

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going on down there. He refused your resignation. Yeah, you

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just shut down the post office. Yeah, the mail for

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Indianola I was sent to a town thirty miles away.

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How they got their mail, that was up to them.

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And since Teddy he refused the resignation Many, she still

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got paid until the end of her term two years later.

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Now after that they did actually appoint a different postmaster

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and they opened their one backup. But now fast forward

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to two thousand and eight, Indianola, they got themselves a

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brand new post office building. They named it yep, the

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Mini Cox US Federal Post Office Building. On January tewod

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when you think of air conditioning, is the first thing

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that comes to your mind? Buffalo, New York. Yeah, probably not,

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but it was today in nineteen oh six in Buffalo,

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New York, though, Willis Carrier receive the patent for their

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inventing the world's first air conditioning unit. Yeah, so air

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conditioning was invented in Buffalo in January nineteen thirty four, Pennsylvania. Yeah,

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their first state run liquor store opened up. Is still

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that way today. All liquor stores in Pennsylvania and state run.

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So yeah, it's easier just to get your booze running

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across the state line. Nineteen fifty nine, the Soviet Allunia Union,

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they losched l Luna one spacecraft. Now was supposed to

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be the first man made object to impact the moon. Wow,

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they missed the moon. So Luna wan it was the

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first man made object to fly past the sun. Nineteen

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seventy four, are President Richard Nixon signed into law a

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bill that made it maximum speed limit. You could drive

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your car fifty five miles an hour. Yeah, and it

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was everywhere too. It was on the interstate, state roads,

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county roads, city roads, at any road they have, the

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maximum speed limit could be fifty five miles an hour. Well,

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they did it because they were supposed to cut down

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on how much gas. Liane was just that it didn't

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It wasn't even closet.

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Cop coat show shimmer oday.

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Please don't he left this shibfday. We simple tage he

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left this shiberfday.

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And you know we don't give.

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Okay who was born on January this second. Science fiction

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writer Isaac Ozamoff. He was born in Petrovochi, Russia, in

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nineteen twenty moved his whole family over the United States

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when he was three. Grew up in Brooklyn, now Well.

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He was one of the top selling sci fi writers

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of all time. Wrote five hundred books, and he did

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it while he was teaching biochemistry at Boston University. He

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had two children from his first wife, married his second

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wife in nineteen seventy three. He died in nineteen ninety two,

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at seventy two years old, from aides He got it

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from a blood transfusion during heart surgery back in nineteen

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eighty three. Actor Dadney Coleman. He was born in Austin, Texas,

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in nineteen thirty two. Grew up in Corpus Christi. Now

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it sounds like he was a really nice guy, but

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he played an ass and a lot of movies. Some

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of them were Towering Inferno, nine to five, Tutsie War Games,

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You Got Mail. He had one son from his first wife,

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two daughters, and one son from his second wife, Dabney.

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He just died last May at ninety two years old

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from heart failure.

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I ain't got no single writ up for two hours

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of Pushian Broom baza A twelve four Business Room Mama.

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Man of means Fine, No means King.

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Country singer Roger Miller was born in Fort Worth, Texas

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in nineteen thirty six. Grew up in Oklahoma. Won eleven

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Grammy Awards and When Tony. Some of his biggest hits

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are Dang Me Chugger Lug, King of the Road, Little

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Green Apples. Started out in nineteen fifty seven and performed

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recorded right up until he died nineteen ninety two and

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fifty six years old. He had died from throat and

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lung cancer. He had four children from his first wife,

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two children from his second wife. Then he had two

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kids just playing around, and he married his third wife

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in nineteen seventy seven. Actress Tita Krere. She's fifty eight.

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She's born in Honolulu, Hawaiian nineteen sixty seven. First got

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known on the soap opera General Hospital. Then she had

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big playing Cassandra in Waynsworld. She's also in True Lies.

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She voiced Leelo and Stitch in the movies and the

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TV show. Now she's won a couple of Grammy Awards.

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Way Oh Kiki hakuy he knew, he knew Wayoo, he

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knew heww.

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Dis. She won her Grammys for her Best Hawaiian Albums Dis.

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She had a daughter from her second nusband. She's twice divorced.

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Actor Cuba Gooding Junior is fifty seven. He was born

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in The Bronx, New York, in nineteen sixty eight. His

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dad Cuba Gooding Senior.

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Yeah.

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He was the lead singer for the group The Main

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Ingredients Junior. His first movie was Coming to America. He

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played Boy Getting Heir Good that he hit and Boys

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of the Hood Outbreak As Good as It Gets won

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an Oscar for Jerry Maguire. He married his high school

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sweetheart in nineteen ninety four. They had three kids and

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then divorced in twenty seventeen. Actor Ty Diggs. He was

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born in Newark, New Jersey, in nineteen seventy one. He's

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fifty four. Start out on the stage, Yeah, he was

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starting on Broadway. Then he hit on TV on Private Practice.

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Some of his movies are How Stella Got Her Grew Back,

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The Best Man, Chicago Rent. He was married actress Idina

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Menzel for eleven years and they had a son togetherson

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Doug Rob. He sings lead for the band Hoopa Stink.

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He's fifty today. He was born in Agrea Hills, California,

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in nineteen seventy five. Co founded at Hoopa Stink in

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nineteen ninety four. Some of the guys hits are Crawling

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in the Dark, Running Away. The reason this sold over

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ten million albums. Now, no one in the band will

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tell what hoop of state means.

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Doug.

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He has been married since two thousand and eight and

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they have two kids. Forty two year old actress Kate

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Bosworth was born in Los Angeles in nineteen eighty three.

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She had small roles in The Horse Whisper and Remember

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the Titans, But then she yet Big and blou Crush,

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then win a date with Todd Hamilton Superman Returns twenty one.

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She married her second husband, actor Justin Long, in twenty

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twenty three. All right, let's talk a little bit more

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about Georgia. As we said Georgia, it's known as the

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peach State, but California produces the most peaches in the

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United States. California actually produces two thirds of all the

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beaches grown in the United States. Then South Carolina, then

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the Peach State Georgia. Their third in production. Wow, thank

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you for joining us today. We appreciate you listening. Neverget

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