July 31, 2024

July 31-Avacado, Lurch, Lobo, Gary Lewis & the Playboys, Siri, Wesley Snipes, JK Rowling, Zac Brown, Manny

July 31-Avacado, Lurch, Lobo, Gary Lewis & the Playboys, Siri, Wesley Snipes, JK Rowling, Zac Brown, Manny

National Avacado day.  Entertainment from 1977.  Black Tot day in England, K@ summitted for firtst time, Face on Mars taken by Viking 1.  Todays birthdays - Ted Cassidy, Lobo, Gary Lewis, Susan Bennett, Wesley Snipes, JK Rowling, Dean Cain, Zac Brown,...

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National Avacado day. Entertainment from 1977. Black Tot day in England, K@ summitted for firtst time, Face on Mars taken by Viking 1. Todays birthdays - Ted Cassidy, Lobo, Gary Lewis, Susan Bennett, Wesley Snipes, JK Rowling, Dean Cain, Zac Brown, Rico Rodriguez. Bill Russell Died.

Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard https://defleppard.com/
The avacado song - Alson Eugene
I just want to be your everything - Andy Gibb
Rollin with the flow - Charlei Rich
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent https://www.50cent.com/
Addams Familty TV theme
Me & You & a dog named boo - Lobo
This diamond ring - Gary Lewis & the Playboys
I am superman - REM
Chickin Fried - Zac Brown Band
Modern Family TV theme
Exit - Its not love - Dokken https://www.dokken.net/

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Hello, I am Jeff and welcome
to history. In fact, it's about

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today, presented by cool Media.
It's gone fast. It's already July thirty

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first, spreading on your salads anyway
along the way. You can have it.

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You can get it on the side
of sandwich, and you can fix

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it up anyway you want to have
it. And you know what's up.

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Yeah, it's National Avocado Day.
Avocados there native to Mexico and Latin America.

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People have been eating m since around
eight thousand BC. In sixteen ninety

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nine, this guy from England,
Henry Sloan, he was categorizing all the

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plants that were on the island of
Jamaica. He named the avocado and he

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called it the aligator pair. Also
now, avocados, they are are really

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really good for you. They're the
healthiest fruit you can eat. Yeah,

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they're a fruit. Most people will
probably celebrate today with guacamo. But mix

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things up, you know, put
avocado slices on a burger, sandwich,

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salads, that kind of stuff.
Just eat, have fun eating healthy today,

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all right? What happened on entertainment
No On July thirty first in the

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year in nineteen seventy seven, and
when album was Rumors by Fleetwood, mac

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Andy Gibb added the number one song
with I Just want to be here everything

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just her and the Things you want
to meet. Charlie Rich had the number

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one country song with rolling with the
flu Folks said that I would change my

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mind were just f I still.
The number one book was The Thornbirds by

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Colleen mcculloff. Top movie was Star
Wars. Luke Skywalker, a Princess,

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a cocky pilot, a Wookie and
two droids. They have to save the

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Galaxy Stars Chewbacca, R two,
D two and C three po All right,

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what happened on July the thirty first, seventeen oh three Over in Britain

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this writer named William Dafoe. He
wrote an anonymous pamphlet called The Shortest Way

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with Dissonance. Now it was a
satire of the British government, the monarchy

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and the Church of England. Well
that really pissed them all off. When

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they finally figured out who wrote it. To Foe, he was sentenced to

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Pillary. Now Pillary it was used
for kind of like smaller crimes. What

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they did is they tied a person
up and made him stand in the center

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of the town. Then a crowd
of townspeople would form and they could throw

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at them whatever they wanted. They
could throw rotten fruit, dead cats,

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rocks, pots, pants, whatever, everything was fair gad him. Now

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some of the people were actually killed, others remained for life. Dafoe when

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he was there, the crowd threw
flowers at him. Now that was going

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on. His buddies were actually going
through the crowd. So on the pamphlets

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that he was in trouble for.
Yes, that is the Dafoe that went

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on to write Robinson Crusoe seventeen ninety
of the United States Patent Office and granted

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his first patent went to Samuel Hopkins
for his improvements made to potash. As

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you all know, potash is a
fertilizer. Nineteen twelve. The United States

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government, they were so sophisticated that
they thought boxing was barbaric. Now,

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they had been trying to make it
illegal for years, but that kept failing.

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So they made taking pictures or filming
boxing illegal. So if you did

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take pictures of a fight and then
you showed him, yeah, you were

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in big trouble. Actually, it
was called the Sims Act in the state

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on the books until nineteen forty.
Then somebody realized, hey, you know

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what, we're televising boxing matches.
Nineteen twenty two in Minnesota, eighteen year

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old Ralph Samuelson he invented water skis
the mountain K two. It is the

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second highest mountain in the world.
That twenty eight two hundred and fifty one

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feet might be the hardest to climb. Also, it's on the border of

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China and Pakistan. Now it's tougher
to climb than Everest though even though it's

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shorter today. In nineteen fifty four, an Italian team they summoned K two.

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First one is to do it.
No one was able to do it,

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and for another twenty three years after
that. Now to show you how

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hard it is. As of today, eight hundred people have summoned K two

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six six hund and sixty four I
somemmit did Everest nineteen seventy Yeah, that

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was possibly the saddest day in the
history of the British Navy. It's known

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as black Tat Day. See.
Starting in seventeen forty every sailor in the

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British Navy was given a daily rational
rum. They called it a tat After

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today, Yeah, no, more
tots. You know what, this might

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have been cooler than actually being the
first one on the Moon nineteen seventy one

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astronauts James Irvin and David Scott,
they were the seventh and eighth men to

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walk on the Moon, but they
were the first ones to get to drive

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that lunar rover on it. Yeah, they went seventeen point two five miles

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and three hours and two minutes.
But it was still cool though. Now

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have you all seen the photograph of
the face on Mars. It's the picture

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that we use today for the show
notes. It was taken today in nineteen

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seventy six by the Viking one spacecraft. Nineteen ninety one. In the United

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States, they allowed women to fight
combat. Yeah, they could fight jets

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and helicopters and that kind of stuff. Just last year, twenty twenty three,

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Phoenix, Arizona. Yeah they only
hid one hundred and eight degrees.

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Yep. They have a pretty sad
day. Yep. They had a record

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streak going thirty one straight days where
they got at least one hundred and ten

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go coat, coat, coat,
coat, goat sharge. This shivers day,

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We're gonna pause. He left.
This shiverday, we don't simple target.

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It's ship birthday and you know we
don't get up because that birthday.

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Let's check out. It was born
on July the thirty first, Creek Mysterious

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All Together actor Ted Cassidy. He
was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, nineteen

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thirty two. Stood six feet nine
inches tall. He's not quite a few

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TV shows, best known for playing
Lurch So on The Adams Family. He

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also played Injine Joe on The Huckleberry
Finn And he was the narrator for The

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Incredible Hulk yep, and plus he
did all the hoax grunts and growls and

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roars and stuff. Ted married nineteen
fifty six. They divorced in nineteen seventy

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five had two children. Ted died
in nineteen seventy nine at forty six years

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old from a tumor on his heart. Oh hell, wish we were back

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off the Rose Trevling. That was
Lobo, not a band, as a

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solo artist who goes by Lobo,
the Spanish word for wolf. Lobo.

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He was actually born Roland Lavoie in
Tallahassee, Florida, in nineteen forty three.

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He's eighty one years old now.
He had a lot of big success

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in the nineteen seventies, had they
It's Me and You and a dog named

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Boo. I love you to want
me, don't expect me to be your

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friend. But then by the late
eighties in America, Yeah, has his

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fame and kind of wayne. But
in the late eighties he hit huge over

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in Asia. He toured over in
Asia constantly until two thousand and eight.

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Now we know about the lone Wolf
is that he is married to his wife,

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Susie. This salmon ring doesn't shown
for me anymore. This salmon ring

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doesn't mean what you so it's true. Gary Lewis and the Playboys, they're

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still out there touring. Their lead
singer, Gary Lewis is seventy nine,

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born in Newark, New Jersey,
in nineteen forty five. Yes, Jerry

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Lewis was his dad. Gary Lewis
and the Playboys they formed nineteen sixty four.

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They've had eight gold singles, seventeen
top forty hits, four gold albums,

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sold over four five million records.
Some of their hits that you might

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remember were this Diamond Ring, Count
Me In, Save your Heart from Me,

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She's just my style. Gary I
had one child from his second wife,

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been married to his third wife since
two thousand and three. One of

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the most famous voices in the world
Susan Bennett. She was born in Burlington,

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Vermont, in nineteen forty nine.
She's seventy five. She's same backup

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for Roy Orbison and Bert backerrek Well. Also, she was the original voice

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of Surrey. Yeah, Apple's personal
assistant Surrey. She's She was working for

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a company called Suncraft and she was
doing voice work for them for a database

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system. She had no idea that
Suncraft sold all those recordings to Apple.

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She didn't even find out she was
Surrey until twenty eleven. Now she's married

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and she's married to her second husband, actor Wesley Snipe. She was born

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in nineteen sixty two in Orlando,
Florida, sixty two years old to day.

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First really hit in the movie Major
League Than New Jack City, White

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Man, Can't Jump, Demolition Man, played Blade in a couple movies.

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His career took a big hit though, when he fought the Irs and lost

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Bud. He's rebounded some. He's
really big into martial arts guy. Yeah,

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he trains in all the disciplines.
He's like a fifth degree black bout

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in karate and a secondary bathbout and
what kind of note or something like that,

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snipes. He had a son from
a good time, and he had

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a son from his first wife.
Married a second wife in two thousand and

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three and they have four children.
Now it's too bad he didn't have all

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those dependents on the irs was after
him writer J. K. Rowling.

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The Jay stands for Joe Anne.
He's born in Yate, England in nineteen

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sixty five, sixty fifty nine year
old. She's sold over five hundred million

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Harry Potter books. Twelve publishers rejected
the first Harry Potter Books said it was

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too long for a kid's book.
Now she's a billionaire. She was married

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to her first husband for three years
and they had a daughter. She married

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her second husband in two thousand and
one and they have a son and a

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daughter. No not rim actor Dean
Kane. He was born in Mount Clemens,

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Michigan in nineteen sixty eight is fifty
eight, but football Princeton University.

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While he was there, he dated
Brookshields for two years. Then when they

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both graduated, they went their separate
ways. Then Dean he went and signed

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a free age of contract to play
with the Buffalo Bills, but he blew

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his knee out in training camp decided
to go be an actor on TV.

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He played Superman on Lois and Clark
The New Adventures of Superman. Do you

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remember who played Lewis Terry Atcher Dean. He hosted Ripley's Believe It or Not,

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and he's been hosting Masters of Masters
of Illusions since twenty fourteen. He

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also has one son and a little
bit of chick Don't We're on Friday Night,

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A Guarantee's Fit Just Right and the
Radio Malassie song See Love, Mamama's

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Precious Child and Ulmasna. Zach Brown. He sings late for the Zach Brown

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Band. He just so. He's
opening up for Kenny Chesney on his stadium

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tour that's going across this summer.
Yeah, they were just hearing Denver a

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couple of days ago. Zach is
forty six. He's born Atlanta in nineteen

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seventy eight. Formed the Zach Brown
Band in two thousand and two. They

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have had fifteen number one songs.
Some of them are Chicken Fried Toes,

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Highway twenty Ride, Colder Weather.
He divorced in twenty eighteen after twelve years.

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They had four daughters and one son. Last year, twenty twenty three,

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he was able to marry a divorce
a model in four months. You

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know, I like that show,
but that theme song, I find it

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annoying as hell. It's kind of
like fingers in a chalkboard. Rico Rodriguez

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He's twenty six. He's born in
Brian, Texas in nineteen ninety eight,

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best known for Manny on The SICKGM
Modern Family. Started on the show when

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he's eleven years old. Since it
ended in twenty twenty, he's done a

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number of guest appearances on other TV
shows. Now, if you want to

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celebrate today, if you want to
keep your avocados or guacamole from going brown,

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ye some lemon on it. All
right, thanks for being here today.

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We appreciate you being here. Don't
forget to follow us on whoever you're

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listening to us on, and come
see us on coolmedia dot Com. That's

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call three us. Let's end with
Basketball Hall of Fame legend Bill Russell.

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He died today in twenty twenty two
at eighty eight years old. Bill said,

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concentration and mental toughness are the margins
of victory. You have an awesome

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day, and we'll talk tomorrow,
no matter