July 28, 2025

July 29-Chicken Wings, Lasagna, Rush, Ken Burns, Martina McBride, Boys II Men, Wil Wheaton

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National Chicken Wing day. National Lasagne day. Entertainment from 1989. NASA created, Kublai Khan's men beheaded by Japan's Emporer for talking smack, David Bowie starred as the Elephant Man in Denver. Todays birthdays - Walter Hunt, Theda Bara, Tony Sirico, Geedy Lee, Ken Burns, Martina McBride, Wil Wheaton, Wanya Morris, James Otto, Josh Radnor, Vincent Van Gogh died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
The Chicken wing song - Lanky Box
Toy Soldiers - Martika
Cathy's clown - Reba McEntire
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent https://www.50cent.com/
Tom Sawyer - Rush
My baby loves me - Martina McBride
End of the road - Boys II Ment
Just started loving you - James Otto
Exit - Waffle house - Bobby Cool

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Hey, Hello, I am Jeff, and welcome to history and facto.

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It's about today. Today is July the twenty ninth.

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Oh chak wing shaquie wings.

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Let's tell again, zamone, a chickin a Macroney.

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Chilling lo cheaque wing chaque wings.

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Let's tell again, zamone, a chickin a Macroney chilling with me, chicening,

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chicken wing, chickenwegone?

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Today is National Chicken Wing Day. Now, I personally think

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chickens have already had wings, but the Anchor Bar in Buffalo,

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New York, they get credit for inventing chicken wings back

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in nineteen sixty four. Now you can have your chicken

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wings bony and or bonus. You can have them super

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hot or spicy, barbecued Asian. Yeah, however you like them. Now,

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almost everyone that sells chicken wings are having deals today.

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So some of the big ones are Buffalo Wild Wings,

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pop byes, Wingstop, Applebee's, Hooters, Dave and Busters. I didn't

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know seven to eleven. Yeah, they're even getting into it today.

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They're gone to buy one, get one free, or actually

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get free chicken wings if buy red Bull. So enjoy

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your chicken wings today, Okay, if you're not into chicken wings. Yeah,

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today's actually national Zigna Day. Also, lasagna is actually a

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Greek word. Yeah, but lasagna that we love today. That's

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all Italian goes back to thirteen thirty. There are some

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deals today, but they're mostly local, no real big national deals.

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So I maybe have a date night. Actually cooks on

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lasagna today. So whether you go with chicken wings lasagna

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heat good today? All right? Less He's going on entertainment.

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On July twenty ninth, it was back to nineteen eighty nine.

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Number one album was a Batman movie soundtrack. Artica actually

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had the number one song with Toy Soldiers raam a

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McIntyre at the number one cuntry song with Kathy's clown,

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why do.

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You damn.

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You Kelly Clown. The number one book was The Russia

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House by John Lecar. Top movie was Turner and Hooge,

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a detective. He teams up with a really big dob

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that slowers yep and there after to catch a killer.

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Stars Tom Hanks, Mayor Winningham and Craig T. Neilson. Let's

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See It Happened. On July the twenty ninth, twelve seventy nine,

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Mongrel leader Kopla Khan. He sent five ambassadors over to

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Japan to deliver a letter to the empire. Wow, Japan's

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emperor he read the letter. Oh, he didn't respond to it.

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He just had those five ambassadors beheaded because that was

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his response. Now, the rhetor it led that if he surrendered, yeah,

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he would be lived, he could live and all that

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kind of stuff, and the Mongols they would not invade Japan.

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So Mongo leader Kublik Khan, he actually waited like over

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a year and he finally realized, you know what, those

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guys aren't coming back, So he went to Loshton attack.

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We'll talk about it though later on, but yeah, basically

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got his old navy wiped out trying to invade Japan.

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Sixty to nine. French explorer Samuel de Chamblain, he shot

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and killed two Iroquois Indian cheese. Yeah, I was near

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Taykna Rogan, New York. After that, the French in the Iroquois,

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they fought for one hundred and fifty years up there. Yeah,

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they finally got together to fight the British in the

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French and Indian War. They lost seventeen fifteen off of

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Florida ten Spanish ships that were just filled with all

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kinds of treasures. Yeah sink. It was during a hurricane. Actually,

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some of those coins and stuff from that, Yeah, they

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still show up on some Florida beaches even today. Nineteen thirty,

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Holly Springs, Mississippi, set their state record and got tow

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one hundred and fifteen degrees. Nineteen thirty eight in Washington State,

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Olympic National Park was formed. Nineteen fifty eight, President White

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Eisenhower assigned the law that created the National Aeronautics and

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Space Agency NASA. Nineteen eighty David Bowie's starting to play

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the elephant man. Yeah, right here in Denver at the

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Auditori Matina nineteen eighty seven. Been in Jerry's ice cream.

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They got with the lead singer for the Grateful Jet,

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Jerry Garcia created the new ice cream flavor, Cherry Garcia.

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It is cherry ice cream, Cherry's and fudge. You know it.

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It's a really slow day, so let's just get the birthdays.

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Joke dope, cope cop joked joke shug this shivers day,

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we gonna pu he left this shiverday. We don't simple targe.

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He like this shiverbthday, and you know we don't give

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up birthday.

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So it was born on July the twenty ninth. Walter Hunt.

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He was born in Martinsburg, New York, in seventeen ninety six.

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Now he was quite the inventor. Yeah, never really got

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rich from it. Thos. See what he would do is

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he'd get go and invent something. He'd get the patent,

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then he'd sell the pad for whatever he could get. Yeah,

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then he'd go on and invent something else. So you know,

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never really hit big. But the people who bought those patents,

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they got really rich. Some of the inventions that he

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pretty much just gave away. The safety pin, the fountain pen,

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sewing machine, a machine for making nuts and bolts, the

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firing cop for repeating rifles. Even that paper collar you

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get when you buy a new shirt home. He invented

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them all. He was married and at Fort Chield and

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died in eighteen fifty nine and sixty two years old.

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Actress Theda Beta Theda Bearra. That's it thh da ba

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ra A Theda Bera. She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio,

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in eighteen eighty five. Now she was a silent film star. Yeah,

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one of the most popular silent film movie stars there was.

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She was considered the first sex symbol. See she played

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the fem fatalite. Yeah, they got the nickname the vamp,

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which means seductor. So yeah, she always played the bad girl.

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From nineteen fourteen to nineteen twenty six, she made over

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forty movies. Then talking movies came out. Yeah, even though

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she was a big star, she wanted nothing to do

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with talking. She retired right then and there, forty one

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years old. Makes you wonder did she have a really

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bad voice or because you do not remember lines. Anyway.

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She married nineteen twenty one. They're together until she died

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from stomach cancer in nineteen fifty five at sixty nine

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years old. Actor Tony Sirco. He was born in New

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York City in nineteen forty two. His biggest role was

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playing Polly in The Sopranos, but he did work a lot.

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You saw him in a lot of different movies and stuff.

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He always played a bad guy or a gangster. Some

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of his movie is where one Man Jerry good fellaws

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Bullets over Broadway, Copland. He had one son and one daughter.

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Now he had it was a couple weeks before his

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eightieth birthday. When he died back in twenty twenty two,

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he had been living with dementia. You know, there is

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not one time in that entire song where he sings

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for longer than nine seconds. Now he is Getty Lee,

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seventy two years old to day. He's born a Willowdale

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Cannon in nineteen fifty three. Helped start the band Rush

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in nineteen sixty eight. Now you started out as their

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bass player. Yeah, they must have been really hurting because

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they moved him up to the front that the whole time,

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singing lead up until they quit in nineteen or in

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twenty fifteen. Sold over forty million records. They're in the

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Some of the biggest

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HiT's are Tom Sawyer, The Spirit of Radio, New World Man,

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Vital Signs Gedy. He got married nineteen seventy six and

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they have one son and one daughter, also seventy two

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years old. This filmmaker Ken Burns. He was born in Brooklyn,

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New York. He's the guy who made documentary's cool. Now.

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Most of his document he's aren't movies, though they're actually

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a whole series of Now the one that really got

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him known and famous was his document on the Civil

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War and that whole series, then Baseball, the War about

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World War two, Vietnam War, Country music. Now his movies

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are so thoroughly researched and so well done that it

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takes them years to get him done. He's actually working

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on projects today that won't come out until twenty seven

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and twenty twenty eight. Blood. He does have an American

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Revolution when coming out with this November. Ginny had a

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son and a daughter from his first wife. Married his

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second wife in two thousand and three and they have

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two daughters.

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He love Nixander, He loves me Man, he loves Miss.

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Cilianni loves Miss Said. He thinks some bready, he.

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Says something sold locks some love. He loves my home.

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She's always saying smile Vegas, say my baby loves me inter.

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School that I am. Country singer Martina McBride. She's fifty nine.

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She was born in Sharon, Kansas in nineteen sixty six now,

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and Martina grew up in Jeron. Yeah, I had a

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population twohundred and seventy people that it really dropped down.

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It's one hundred and fifty now. Sharon's actually Hebrew, it

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means plain Martinez, she's not playing. She start out selling

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t shirts at garth Brook Keith Concerts. We had a

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first record deal in nineteen ninety two. He's out at

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My Baby Loves Me Independence Day, Safe in the Arms

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of Love. Wow thing. It's a whole bunch more. She

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got married nineteen eighty eight and they have three daughters.

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Actor Will Wheaton. He was born in Burbank, California, in

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nineteen seventy two, fifty three. We first met well when

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he was a little boy.

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Hey.

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He started the movie Stand By Me. He was the

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main character on TV. He hit really big with the

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nerds when he played Wesley Crusher on The Star Trek

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The Next Generation. He had a recurring role on the

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TV show The Big Bank There.

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Well.

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He got married nineteen ninety nine and they have two sons.

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Wayna Morris, he's fifty two. He's born in Philadelphia in

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nineteen seventy three. He joined Boy to Him in in

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nineteen eighty seven and seeing tenor that was right before

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they head. He's still there. Yep, they're all there actually,

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so yep. They're out on tour now. They tour a

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lot and they do a lot of Las Vegas residencies,

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So if you ever want to go see him, just

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jack out. Vegas are probably there if they're not touring.

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If you go see him, you'll hear end of the Road.

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I'll make love to you. I'm bend and knee. Four

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seasons of loneliness. Now wait an. He got fourth place

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on Dancing with the Stars back in twenty sixteen. He

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has two or. He has four sons and two daughters

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from his first wife. Married his second wife in twenty nineteen.

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Mounds around you, you all come back and let mule dalling, girl.

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I've discussed all living you.

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Ye, I never felt to sway your country. Singer James.

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He's also fifty two. He is born on the Fort

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Lewis Army Base in Washington State. Some James motto hits

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are just started loving you. These are the good old days,

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groovy little summer song. He's got a lot of success

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brighton songs for other artists too over there. Got married

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in two thousand and five and they have a daughter.

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Actor Josh Radner. He was born in Columbus, Ohio, in

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nineteen seventy four. Fifty one year old's best known for

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starring as ted on how I Met your Mother? He

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actually got first with paycheck as an actor. Yeah, he

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got noticed in the Not Another Teen movie. I guess

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he played a tour guide in it. Josh, he's just

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married last year. It's almost a newly went still all

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our quote of the day because from Vincent van Go,

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the artist died today in eighteen ninety at thirty seven

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years old. He says, great things are done by a

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bunch of small things brought together. Well, thank y'all for

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listening and follow us on whoever you're listening to us on.

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It comes He's a coolmedia dot com that's called three

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ye is our country underground radio artist today. It comes

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from Jim out there in Duringo, Colorado. He wants to

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hear Bobby cool this waffle house. You guys have an

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awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

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Ween spaying sometime. Well we even ain't no doubt now

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we it. It's time come up, baby, up and take her.

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You said I bib killing and now we not be live.

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But it's anything weaveler we don't need must get back.

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This is me long time coming down how in off

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time on our ways.

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Sixty five

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No downy now, so baby, come on, restore Supplain, things,

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out look, candle, and I'm not waffle ho

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