May 31, 2025

June 1-Kentucky & Tennessee Birthdays, Marilyn Monroe, Morgan Freeman, Brooks & Dunn, Heidi Klum, Alanis Morissette

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National Go Bare Foot day. Entertainment from 1968. Kentucky Became 15th state, Tennessee became 16th state, 1st pay phones installed, Coldest temp ever in South America. Today birthdays - Andy Griffith, Marilyn Monroe, Pat Boone, Morgan Freeman, Rene Auberjonois, Powers Booth, Ronnie Dunn, Teri Polo, Heidi Klum, Alanis Morissette, Tom Holland. Helen Keller died.

Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard http://defleppard.com/
Bare Feet - Caroline Jones
Mrs. Robinson - Simon & Garfunkle
Honey - Bobby Goldsboro
Birthday - The Beatles
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
Andy Griffith TV theme
Goodbye Norma Jean - Elton John
Aint' that a shame - Pat Boone
Crazy Train - Pat Boone
Boot scoot & boogie - Brooks & Dunn
You outta know - Alanis Morissette
Exit - Its not love - Dokken http://dokken.net/

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Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history. In fact,

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it is about today, presented by Cool Media. It is June.

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The first. June is named for the Roman god is Juno.

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She was married to Jupiter. She is the goddess of

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marriage and children. Now the June full moon it is

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called the strawberry moon. June's birth flowers are rose and honeysuckle.

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June birth stone is the pearl. Now this year, summer

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begins at four fifty one pm Eastern Time on Thursday,

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June the twentieth. Now we're already in summer mode, so

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we might as well kick off June. Just go on

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barefoot a bear.

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I'm in a fair feet because I want to fill

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the world heartfeeding, want of old childs strong like a

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tree chechestavamobu so ding knowing the Junia freedom.

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It's a Junia John.

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Underneath it is National go Barefoot Day Today is actually twofold.

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It just, you know, just kick off your shoes and

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enjoy walking around barefoot and the grass on the beach

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or over a beta calls whatever are you like?

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Now?

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Second, you're supposed to donate your shoes that you no

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longer wear anymore. Yeah, give it to the people who

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need it. Today. I'm thinking it might be a good

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day to drink though. Yeah, it won't hurt so bad

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when you step on something that really hurts, all right

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to see it happening In entertainment on you first, let's

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go back to the nineteen sixty eight. The number one

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album was Bookends by Simon and Garfunkle. Simon and Garfunkel

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had the number one song with Missus Robinson Jesus. Number

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one country song was Honey by Bobby Goldsborough.

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She was always young at heart, kind of dumb.

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It was kind of strunk, and.

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I loved her son and I surprised Duke with a

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puppy kept me up all Christmas.

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Seed Two years.

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Ago, the number one book was Airport by author Haley.

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The top movie was Bendaluro James Stewart. He pretends to

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be a hangman to help Dean Martin out from getting

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a hang so then they escaped to Mexico being chased

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by George Kennedy's posse. Do you remember that song by

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Eminem called Stan? On twenty seventeen, do the success of

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eminem song stan Stan was added to the Oxford American

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Dictionary with the meaning of over zealous or obsessive fan

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for one particular celebrity. All right, what happened in the

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world on June the first in twelve fifteen, Pete King China.

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It is now Beijing now even back then in twelve

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fifteen and had over a million people. Well Gengha's Khan

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and his Mongol army. They captured the city, then to

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the whole city for over a month. Finally they just

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got tired of it and they couldn't carry all the

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stuff they stole, so they just left. Happy Birthday, Kentucky.

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Seventeen ninety two, Kentucky became the fifteenth state Kentucky. It's

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Aroquois for land of tomorrow. Capital is Frankfurt. Highest point

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is Black Mountain at forty five feet. Kentucky state flower

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is the golden rod. Tree is a tulip. Popular fish

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Kentucky spotted baths and a bird is the cardinal animal

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is a gray squirrel. The dance is clogging. State food

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is BlackBerry. Some people born in Kentucky Johnny Depp, Muhammad, Ali,

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Abraham Lincoln, Loretta, Lynn, Billy Cyrus, Dwight yoakum Oh, the Juds,

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and Jennifer Lawrence born in the Bluegrass State. Happy Birthday, Tennessee.

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Seventeen ninety six, Tennessee became the sixteenth state named after

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the Cherokee tribe called the Tennessee. Now this capital is Nashville.

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Highest point is Klingman's Dome at six six and forty

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three feet. Tennessee state tree as the tulip. Popular insect

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is a firefly, bird, bob white, quail fish, channel catfish,

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flour is, the iris mammal is, the raccoon. State food

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is a tomato, and the Tennessee state firearm is a

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Barrett m eighty two. Some b born in Tennessee. Dolly Parton,

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Justin Timberlake, Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner, Miley Cyrus, Kane Brown, Kiney,

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Jesney Morgan, Freeman, Quentin Tarantino, some of the people born

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in the volunteer state. Now in his lifetime, Thomas Edison,

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he received one thousand and ninety three patents. Eighteen sixty

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nine he received his first one. Yeah, it's from an

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electronic vote recorder. Now it didn't work and they never

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used it, at least so they say. Eighteen eighty the

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first pay telephones were installed, and he guesses where New Haven, Connecticut.

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Nineteen oh seven, Serimento, Argentina, they recorded a negative twenty

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seven degree temperature. It is still the coldest temperature ever

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recorded in South America. Nineteen seventy four, The Heimlich Maneuver

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was first published on how to do the thing to

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stop choking. In nineteen eighty CNN they went on the

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air for the first time.

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Cot Coke Coke co Coach show. This Shimer Day, were

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gonna pause, he left this shubfday. We gonna sit ple

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t dis s birthday and you know you don't do

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because that's a birthday.

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Let's check out who was born on you in the

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first actor comedian Andy Griffith. He was born in Mount Airy,

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North Carolina, in nineteen twenty six. Start Out is just

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a stand up comedian. At leased over twenty comedy albums,

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but of course he's most known for TV, starring as

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Andy Griffith on The Andy Griffith Show and then Matt

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Luck on Met Luck. He actually sang. He did country, gospel,

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and bluegrass. He won a Grammy Award for one of

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his bluegrass albums. He had a son and a daughter

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from his first wife, married his third wife in nineteen

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eighty three, Andy. He died in twenty twelve at eighty

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six years old from a heart attack.

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You all had.

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Those too. You've played the truth now and then major change.

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Okay. Later on Elton John rewrote that song for Princess Diana,

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but originally he wrote it for Norma Jean Mortensen. She

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was born in Los Angeles in nineteen twenty six. She

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was working in a munitions factory during World War Two.

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When a photographer he was sent to the plant to

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take pictures of the women working there supporting the war effort.

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He noticed Norma Jean got her to quit the factory,

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changing the name to Marilynd and wrote and she became

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one of the biggest sex symbols in history. Some of

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Maryland's movies Gentlemen of Her Blonde, How to Marry a Millionaire,

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Some like It Hot The Misfits Maryland. She was married

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to a sailor during World War Two. When he came home,

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they divorced. Then she married Baseball Hall of Famer Jodamajio

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for one year. Then she married a third husband for

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five years, Marles. She was thirty six years old. Since

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you died in nineteen sixty two from a possible drug overdose.

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You made me cry when you said good Mine. She

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dear spell like Gray.

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Rocker Pat Boone is ninety years old. He's born in Jacksonville, Florida,

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in nineteen thirty four. Now he was the second biggest

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singer of the nineteen fifties YEP behind Delvis. Sold over

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forty five million records, released seventy two albums. Now, if

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you're a little young to remember his older stuff, you

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might remember Pat Boone from the nineteen nineties when we

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released a heavy metal album.

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To Learn How to Know and Forget How to Hate.

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Then boos I'm going oster Rais on a Crazy Train.

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Yeah, that was Pat Cover and Ozzie Osbourne. Now some

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of Pat's number one songs are Ain't That a Shame?

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Love Letters in the Sand, Moody River. He was in

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over a dozen movie He actually has a show on

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Sirius XM radio. It's on their fifties channel. If you

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want to check it out. I know my parents listened

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to it. Batmaned nineteen fifty three. His wife died in

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twenty nineteen. They have four daughters, one of them a singer,

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Debbie Boone. Actor Morgan Freeman. He's eighty seven. He's born

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in Memphis, Tennessee, in nineteen thirty seven. Grew up in

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Mississippi Now. After serving four years in the Air Force,

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Morgan he headed to Hollywood in nineteen fifty nine. Took

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him until nineteen seventy one until he ever made any

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money acting. Yeah, he was on the kids show The

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Electric Company. After that his career took off. Been nominated

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for Oscars for Our Street Smart Driving Miss Daisy, the

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Shawshank Redemption in Victis, he won his oscar for a

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million dollar Baby. Currently starring on the Paramount Network show

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Special Ops Lionus I haven't seen that now. He has

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two times divorced. He had two kids from his first

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wife and then he had two kids from Just fooling around.

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Actor in a auber JINOI. He was born in New

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York City in nineteen forty started out on Broadway, won

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himself with Tony Then he played father mulkay He in

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the movie Mash On TV. He was on Benson Deep

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Space nine Boston Legal. Married nineteen sixty three and they

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had two children. He died from long and brain cancer

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in twenty nineteen at seventy nine years old actor Powers Booth.

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He was born in Snyder, Texas, in nineteen forty eight.

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Started off in Shakespeare, first hit playing cult leader Jim

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Jones in a TV movie. Then he hit in the

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real movies Red Don, Tombstone, Man, Men of Honor. Married

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his college sweetheart in nineteen sixty nine and they had

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two children. Powers. He died from pink creatic cancer in

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twenty seventeen at sixty eight years old.

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Black Beyond, We Don't Turn Around Town.

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Movie The done in country music Brooks and Done is

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Ronnie Done. He's seventy one, born in Coleman, Texas in

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nineteen fifty three. Now, in nineteen ninety neither he nor

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Kicks Brooks was having any success as a solo artist,

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so the record company put them together. Yeah, they said

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that Ronnie's going to do the singing. Though. Now they

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are the number one country duo of all time, and

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they're the number three duo of all music on History. Yep,

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there behind Simon and Garfunkel and holl of Oates. They

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had twenty number one songs. They took a couple of

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years off, but they've been back together for a while.

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Though they actually just kicked off their tour for this

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summer last night here in Denver. Ronnie. He's released five

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solo albums over the years. One went to number one

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and one went to number three, so he's had decent

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success as a solo artist. He married nineteen ninety and

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they have three children. Actress Terry Pulo. She was born

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in Don'ver, Delaware in nineteen six sixty nine. Fifty five

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year old that's best known for playing Pam and all

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those fucker movies. Now, she started on a fund the

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daytime soap opera Loving. Some of her other movies that

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you might have seen though, were Born to Ride, Mystery Day,

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Outlaws and Angels. She married once for six years and

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they had a son. Then she had a daughter from

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a drummer. Supermodel Heidi Klomb She is fifty one born

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in nineteen seventy three in Burgage Gladbach, Germany. Now, while

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she was in high school, she won a German national

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world wide modeling contest. She beat out twenty five thousand

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other girls for it. So not only did she become

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one of the top models in the world, she's a

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really good business woman. She's hosted Germany's next Top model

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since two thousand and six, and she took a couple

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of years office. She's been hosting America's Got Talent since

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twenty thirteen. Her second husband was the singer Seal. They

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have four kids. They divorced after nine years, and she's

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been married to her third husband since twenty nineteen. Alanas

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Morris said she's fifty. She was born in Ottawa, Canada,

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in nineteen seventy four. She wrote her very first song

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when she was ten years old. No, she wasn't pissed

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off or anything.

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Now.

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Her third album, Jagged Little Pill, it sold over thirty

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three million. Yeah, that's one of the top albums of

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all time. She's at least ten albums total. She played

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God in the movie Dogma, and she has voiced on

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the TV animation series The Great Norse since twenty twenty one.

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Her upcoming tour that should be actually a pretty cool tour.

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She's torn with Joan Jet and the black Hawks and

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Morgan Wayne. They kick it off on June ninth. She

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married in twenty ten and they have two sons and

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one daughter. Actor Tom Holland. He was born in Kingston

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Up on Thames, England in nineteen ninety six. He's twenty

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eight now. He started acting in British theater at nine

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years old, but now he's best known for playing a

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Spider Man in six movies. He's been dating a Spider

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Man co stars and Data since twenty twenty one. All right,

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today's factod that will win you a beer. You let's

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go back to Kentucky. Middlesboro, Kentucky is only US city

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built entirely inside a meteor impact crater. Well, thank you

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for joining us today. I appreciate you. Don't forget to

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follow us on whatever you listen to us on. We're

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cool with three yeous. Let's end with Helen Keller. She

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died today in nineteen sixty eight, at eighty seven years old.

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Helen said, the best and most beautiful things in the

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world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be

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felt with the heart. You guys, have an awesome day

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and we'll talk tomorrow.

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No, no, no,

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