June 16, 2026

June 17-Taj Mahal, Barry Manilow, Joe Piscopo, Thomas Haden Church, Greg Kinnear, Kendrick Lamar, Bunker Hill

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National Eat your vegitables day. Entertainment from 1975. Battle of Bunker Hill Faught, France held last public guillotining, OJ Simpson police chase. Todays birthdays - Ralph Bellamy, Red Foley, Barry Manilow, Joe Piscopo, John Gries, Thomas Haden Church, Greg Kinnear, Jason Patric, Kendrick Lamar. Gloria Vanderbilt died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
Eat your vegitable song - Little Baby Bum
Sister golden hair - America
Your my best friend - Don Williams
Going to the chapel - The Dixie Cups
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
Old Shep - Red Foley
I write the songs - Barry Manilow
Humble - Kendrick Lamar
Exit - Let's go for a ride - Angela Harris https://www.angelaharris.net/

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Hello, I am Jeff, and welcome to history and factoids

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about today. Today's June the seventeenth cabin Late.

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It's a piece sent Okaen and rockerly Jake, good Light

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to it around, Lovely taste to crunch you soundstaf them

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so much fun, too much.

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Today is National Eat your Vegetables day. Boy. They are

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really pushing the vegetables. That's two days in a row.

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Well that's pretty self explanatory. Let's just go ahead and

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see what's going on in entertainment on June seventeenth. Back

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in nineteen seventy five, now, my album was Captain Fantastic

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and the Brown Dirt Cowboy by Elton John. America had

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the number one song with Sister Golden There Well you.

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Show charity thinking I don't mind singing.

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I just can't make it. Don Williams had the number

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one country song with You're My Best Friend.

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You're my show from trouble and you're myker in life,

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sohould show but most of all, you're my best friend.

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The top selling buck was The Money Changers by Arthur Todd.

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Movie was Jaws. A huge shark goes out a killing

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spree off of Long Island. A local police chief, a

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marine biologist and an old sea captain have to stop him.

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Stars Roy Scheider, Robert Shah, Richard Dreyfus, and Rus Yeah, Bruce,

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that's the robotic shark. Yeah, that's what they called it. Ah,

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what happened on June the seventeenth. Now a lot of

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people out there, they did not realize that. The taj

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Mahal in India. Yeah, it's a mausoleum. No, it was

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not built as a terrorist attraction. It was today. In

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sixteen thirty one, Mumtaz Mahal, she died giving birth to

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her fourteenth child. Now, her husband was sha Johan. He

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was the Mughal Emperor. He ordered the Muslim to be

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built in her honor. Took him almost twenty thousand workers

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twenty years to build it. Mumdaal and sha Johan. Yep,

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they're still in tomb there today. Don't fire in TC

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the whites of their eyes.

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Ah.

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That fame, that famous phrase. It came out in seventeen

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seventy five. It was in the Battle of Bunker Hill.

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It was during the Revolutionary War. Bunker Hell, it's just

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outside of Boston.

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Now.

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The colonial soldiers now they put up that's a really

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good fight. They actually did, but they were way, way,

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way out numbered by the British. The British suffered a

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lot more casualties though, one thousand and fifty four for Britain,

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Colonial four and in fifty that's pretty much all of them. Now,

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like they say, the British, they might have won the battle,

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but they lost the war. Now, on that two hund

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and fiftieth anniversary of Bunkerer, historians are trying to get

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it corrected. See, the battle was actually fought on Breedzill. Yeah,

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it's right next to Bunker Hill. So a lot of

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the well, not a lot, but the colonial soldiers who

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were running from the British, they had to run over

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the top of Bunker helped to get away. Eighteen thirty

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seven Charles Goodyear, he got his first patent for rubber.

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Eighteen fifty six Republican Party held their first national convention.

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Was in Philadelphia.

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Oh and so the.

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Chapel and gone again.

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Until the chapel.

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Again.

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In eighteen seventy one. Anna Swan looked radiant as she

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married Martin Bates. Now Anna, she stood seven feet eleven

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inches tall. Martin he stood seven feet nine inches tall.

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They are still the tallest married couple of all time.

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Nineteen oh one, colleges in university started using a standardized

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test to get admission into their schools. That test became

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known as the sat In France. In nineteen thirty nine,

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they held their last public guillatining. Convicted murderer Eugene Widman

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got the owner. Now did you catch that, I said

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last public guillatiny.

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Yeah.

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The last time the guillotinees somebody was nineteen seventy seven.

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First time was back in seventeen ninety two. You're curious

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that blade on the guillotine who weighed eighty eight pounds.

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Nineteen sixty three, at the United States Supreme Court ruled

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against reading the Bible and prayer and school an honest

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side note. Ever since then, test course have gone down

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all across the country. Nineteen sixty five in Holly, Colorado

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got eleven inches of rain in twenty four hours. Now

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that is the state record by a long way out there. Say,

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Colorado is actually pretty dry now, Holly. It sits pretty

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close to the border. So actually Kansas they had to

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deal with all that water. Nineteen ninety three, on National

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Live TV, the Los Angeles police. They pursued a white

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Ford Bronc with oj Simpson and now he had failed

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to turn himself in for murder charges of killing his

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ex wife and her friend. Now, see it wasn't an

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Heide speed jase though. It actually lasted like an hour

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and a half as they kind of drive really slow

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through town. Og just went to his house. When he

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got out, the police just arrested him there. He had

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some youngers. It was nineteen ninety three, so there wasn't

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a lot going on on TV back then because we

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didn't have that many channels. So yeah, it gave Ebby

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something to watch her in summer rerun season. Now, if

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you look at your ten dollar bill, you'll see the

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image of Alexander Hamilton on it. He was the first

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US Secretary of the Treasury, been honest since nineteen twenty nine.

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President Obama in twenty fifteen he wanted Hamilton taking off it. Yeah,

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he wanted to put a woman on it. He didn't

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care what woman. He just wanted a woman to replay

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this Hamilton. The United States actually got together both sides

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and said, no, that's stupid.

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Joked Jake Shog Dish Shivers Day, please don't he left

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this shiverfday.

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We want simple targe.

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He like thish shibirth day, and we don't give.

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Up the birthday.

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Well, let's see. Born on Gin the seventeenth. Actor Ralph Bellamy.

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He was born in Chicago in nineteen oh four. You

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probably know Ralph for the movie Trading Places. Yeah, he

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was one of those brothers that made the best. Made

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his first movie in nineteen thirty one, made over one

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hundred of him, Rosemary's Baby. Oh God, pretty well, that's

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something you might have seen now. He had won child

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from his first wife, he had won from his second wife,

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married his fourth wife in nineteen forty nine. They were

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together until he died in nineteen ninety one at eighty

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seven years old from lung failure.

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When I was a lad, an old shep was was

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above boys and meadows waits trained.

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Just a boy and his dog.

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We were both full of fun.

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We grew up together that way.

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That was country singer Red Foley. He was born in

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Blue Lick, Kentucky, in nineteen ten. In the nineteen and

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forties and the nineteen fifties, he sold over twenty five

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million records. Now, that was absolutely huge back then and

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not for country artists, just for any artist's period. Now

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he hosted the first cowboy or country music TV show. Yeah,

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it was called the Ozark Jambrie. They just call it

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cowboy music. Back then, Rad's first wife she died during childbirth.

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Now the baby girls she did live. Then he had

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three daughters from a second wife. That waife committed suicide.

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Now one of those three daughters she married Pat Boone.

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Now Reddy got married to his third wife in nineteen

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fifty two. Nineteen sixty eight, read he was performing the

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Grand Ole Opry. After his show was over, he just

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went back to his hotel and went to sleep. Never

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woke up, died from respiratorial failure. Fifty eight years old.

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Write songs, I write the song, Rite the song. Bailey

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youngs cry.

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Very Manilow. He is a very successful songwriter, reading over

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four hundred of him. Even won a couple of Grammys

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for song. But he didn't write that one. Barry is

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eighty three. He was born in Brooklyn, New York in

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nineteen forty three. Started out writing jingles for commercials. Now,

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he sold over eighty five million records. Some of his

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number one songs are Mandy looks Like we made it.

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I write the songs Copa Cabana did not get in

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number one, Nope, but it only made it up to

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number eight. He married his high school sweetheart for two years,

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then he dumped her and left her to go try

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and make it as a singer. And plus he was gay.

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I started dating as his future husband in nineteen seventy eight.

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They got married in twenty fourteen when it became equal.

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Comedian Joe Piscoppo is seventy five. He's born in Passaic,

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New Jersey, in nineteen fifty one. He's been and I'm

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pretty much a dedicated bodybuilder most of his life. But dude,

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seventy four years old, he's still pretty jacked up.

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Joe.

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He first got known on Saturday and I did that

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for four years. Then he's been a really successful stand

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up comedian, does some really good impressions. Some movies that

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Joe was in where Johnny Dangerously Wise guys did heat.

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He's yeah. He's been a conservative radio talk show host

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since twenty fourteen. He had one son from his first wife, Befreest.

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Turn married their nanny and then him and nanny had

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three kids together, but then they divorced in two thousand

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and six. Actor John Grease was born in Glendale, California,

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in nineteen fifty seven. He's sixty nine. His biggest role

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was playing Uncle Rico in Napoleon Dynamite. He's also been

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in Real Genia's Running, Scared Taken two. Been in almost

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ninety movies. Actually non TV, he was on Martin. He's

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been on The White Lotus since twenty twenty one. Actor

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Thomas Adan Church is sixty six, born in nineteen sixty

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in Woodlands, California. Grew up in Texas. First got known

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on that TV sitcom Wings. Then he did the sitcom

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Ned and Stacy. He was Ned. First movie he was

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Tombstone and then George of the Jungle. He played the

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Sandman in a couple of Spider Man movies. He's nominated

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for an Oscar for Sideways. He has two children from

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an ex girlfriend. Actor Greg Kinnear is sixty three. He's

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born in Logan's Port, Indiana. In nineteen sixty three. He

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first hit hosting the TV show Talk Soup Yeah. He

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was the first one to host that. First big movie

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is In with Sabrina. We were Soldiers Little Miss Sunshine.

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He's nominated for an Oscar for as good as It Gets.

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Greg got married nineteen ninety nine and they have three daughters.

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Actor Jason Patrick is sixty. He's born in Queens, New

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York in nineteen sixty six. Jackie Gleeson, Yeah, that was

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his grandpa on his mom's side. Now Jason. His big movie,

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he really big in the movie Lost Boys and then

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The Beast, Sleepers the Alamo. Speed to Jason. He has

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one son from an next girlfriend. I fight Quitnes season,

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I still be.

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The greatest puncal My left show just win by row

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rush out.

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But the baby in a spy row so Plano.

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See, we'd like to keep it on.

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I know this levels to it you and I know

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peasant p Humble, Sit down, Humble, Sit down, Humble. The

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only musician not from the classical or jazz music genre

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is to receive a Politic Serprize for music him. Rapper

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Kendrick Lamar. Kendrick is thirty nine. He's born in Compton, California,

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in nineteen eighty seven. Started forming as DJ k Dot

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and as a rapper. Kendrick Lamari hit big in twenty eleven.

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Some of his hits are Humble, swimming Pool, Pray for Me,

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bad blood. That was a Taylor Swift Kendall. He was

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a member of the supergroup Black Hippies Yees. They broke

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up in twenty twenty, though now he is engaged and

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they already have a son and a daughter, so they

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got to take care of A quote of the day

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comes to us from fashion designer Gloria Vanderbilt. She died

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today in twenty nineteen at ninety five years old. Gloria said,

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you must always have this stride Again, Gloria, you must

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always have a secret, great big hope for yourself, your

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love and your life. The bigger the better. Thank you

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for listening today, and no fred to follow us on

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whoever you listen to us on Country and the Ground

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radio artists today. It comes from Becky in Toronto, Sir

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Angela Harris a song Let's go for a ride. You

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guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

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Come on, let's go for a ride. Remember when the

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summer sun was warm on Narsky.

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Lay by the river, sat sooking it over.

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We kicked up dust and your pickup trump on the bathrooms.

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On the town.

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It Let's go for.

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Let Did you hear me?

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While everyy with the radio.

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Let's go for.

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The opening room.

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He's calling me, and all I want to do.

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Just get away from me every day, disappear with you.

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the windows down to the edge of town.

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Let's go far.

June 17-Taj Mahal, Barry Manilow, Joe Piscopo, Thomas Haden Church, Greg Kinnear, Kendrick Lamar, Bunker Hill

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