June 25-Catfish, Virginia Birthday, George Michael, Carly Simon, Ricky Gervais, Split Enz, Custer's last stand

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

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today visited by cool Media. This
is June the twenty fifth. You like

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cat cat, cat cat cat cat, catfish beever, Come home, Come,

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I got that cat cat cat cat
cat cat calfish bever. It is

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National Catfish Day. Catfish. They
are named after their long barbles that look

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like cat whiskers. Catfish are one
of the most eaten fish in America.

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Now you can have breaded, fried, grilled, smoked catfish. Farming has

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exploded over the last thirty years.
Now they are really really healthy for you.

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But if you don't want to buy, you can go catfishing. Yeah,

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catfish, they're really fun to catch. Biggest catfish ever caught in the

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United States with a blue catfish Cotton, Virginia in twenty eleven, one hundred

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and forty three pounds. So the
catch buyer go out in order and just

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enjoy some catfish today. All right, Well, this is going on in

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entertainment on June twenty fifth, go
back there. In nineteen eighty two,

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number one album was Asia by Asia. Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder had the

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number one song with Ebony and Ivory
never Mony sign My Side My Gun Gee.

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Conway Twitty had the number one country
song with slow Hand. You own

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a man with the soul you want
alone with the knees you want somebody who

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was sometimes not bumming. Number one
buck was The Man from Saint Petersburg by

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Ken Fullett. Top movie was Et
Extraterrestrial. A nerdy kid helps a friendly

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alien escape Earth and return to his
home planet stars Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore

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and d Wallas. All Right,
let's see it happened in the world.

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On June the twenty fifth, Happy
Birthday Virginia seventeen eighty eight, Virginia became

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the tenth state named after England's Queen
Elizabeth. She was known as the virgin

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Queen. Capital is Richmond. Highest
point as Matt Rogers a five seven and

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twenty nine feet. Virginia state bird
is the Cardinal fish is the brook trout,

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flower and tree are the dagwood mammal
Virginia bigger, and the Virginia state

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drink is rye whiskey. Some people
born in Virginia. Eight presidents have been

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born in Virginia. That's the most
of any state. Sandra Bullock Patsy Kleine,

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Chris Pratt, lit See, Elliott, Gabby Douglas, Rob Loue,

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Warren Batty, Wayne Newton had just
some of the people born in the Old

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Dominion state. It was Custer's last
stand today. In eighteen seventy six,

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at the Battle of Little Big Horn
in Montana, sue Indians led by Chase

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Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. They
were able to kill Custer and all two

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hundred and sixty eight of his men. That included two of Custer's brothers,

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his nephew and brother in law.
Nineteen thirty eight, the United States Federal

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minimum wage Law went in effect,
guaranteed workers twenty five cents an hour,

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and they proved they couldn't work more
than fifty four hours in a week.

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Nineteen fifty the Korean War began North
Korea. They wanted the whole country to

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be communists, so they attacked South
Korea with over sixty thousand troops. Then

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the Soviet Union and China jumped in
on North Korea side, so the United

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States and the United Nations actually went
in on South Korea side. A truce

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was signed three years later in nineteen
fifty three. Technically, the wars still

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on. Yeah, no peace Street. He's ever been signed, just that

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truce. Nineteen sixty one, Iraq
they declared that Kuwait is part of Iraq.

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Kuwait they declared, no, we
aren't. That is the rationale that

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has Saddam Hussein used when he rated
Kuwait back in nineteen ninety. Now,

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how would you like to hold this
record? Nineteen seventy seven, Virginia park

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ranger Roy Sullivan. He was struck
by lightning for the seventh time. That's

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right, he lived again. Now. The first time Oh Roy was struck

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by lighting was back in nineteen forty
two. Cope Cope Coop Coop Coat shot

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this shiver Day. We're gonna pause. He left this shiver Day. We

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won't simple target. It's shibs day. And you know we don't do because

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let's check out it. Born on
you in the twenty fifth starring June Lockhart,

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You Riley John Provo, says Timmy
and of course Lassie actress June Luckard.

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She started acting in nineteen thirty three
when she was eight years old.

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Today she's ninety nine years old.
She's born in New York City in nineteen

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twenty five. She is one of
the last surviving actors from Hollywood's Golden Age.

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Now she wanted Tony on Broadway,
but she's best known for TV.

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She played Timmy's mom on Lastie in
two hundred episodes. Then she was a

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mom in Lost in Spay. She
was the doctor on Petticoat Junction. She

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retired from acting just three years ago, in twenty twenty one. She has

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twice divorced, and they had two
daughters from her first husband, David.

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So you probably think this song is
about your So she thinks this song is

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about Jim Dogee Dogee. She says
that all three verses of that song are

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about three different guys. The first
verse is about Warren Baty. Carly Simon's

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eighty one. She's born in New
York City in nineteen forty three. Her

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dad, he was a co founder
as Simon and Schuster. Carly she started

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out singing with her sister. They
were Simon's sisters. Then her sister left

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in nineteen seventy one. That,
of course, Carly had huge me and

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solo. Some of her hats are
Mockingbird, that was with James Taylor,

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You're so vain, nobody does it
better, and Jesse. She still released

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his music. If you want to
hit up her website. She was married

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to James Taylor for eleven years and
they had two daughters. She was married

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to her second husband for twenty years
when they divorced. Carly. She's a

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breast cancer viver since nineteen ninety eight, so that's awesome. Comedian Jimmy Walker.

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He was born in Brooklyn, New
York, in nineteen forty seven.

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He's seventy seven. He actually still
tours the country during the stand up comedy

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routine. Best known though, for
playing JJ on the sitcom Good Times.

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He got really famous for the catchphrase
I don't kind of got him typecast Loane

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found where Hard Troupe, We're getting
work? After that, he wasn't the

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movie His Rabbit Test Concord Airport seventy
nine and going Bananas times we shout out

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that's no problem. Sometimes the same
town shit up. That was Tim fans

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Late for the band Split Ends.
He was born in Tay I want not

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to New Zealand in nineteen fifty two. He's seventy two. Co found his

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Split Ends in nineteen seventy two.
They had the hits I Got You one

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step Byhead six months in Leaky Boot. When they broke up, he joined

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his brother in the band Crowded House
for a little while, and then he

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got out of that and released eleven
solo albums. He's written for movies and

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musicals and that kind of stuff.
He has married and they have a son

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and a daughter. Comedian Ricky Gervais. He was born in nineteen sixty one

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and reading England in sixty three year
old. Now. In the nineteen eighties

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he was in a new wave band. Yeah, they were called Sonora Dancing.

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Oh that didn't pay the bill,
so what do you do? The

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nineteen nineties became a stand up comedian. Now he co created the show The

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Office over in Britain. That's such
a big hit in Britain they brought it

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over the United States. In movies, he's played Doctor McPhee and some of

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That Night at the Museum movies.
Most of his movies, though, are

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all voice rolls. On TV.
He was on the Office over here for

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eight seasons, done a bunch of
stand up specials. Been with his girlfriends

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is nineteen eighty two. Now they
had no desire for marriage or kids waste.

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Yes. George Michael was born in
East Finchley, England in nineteen sixty

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three solo one hundred and twenty five
million records. He and Andrew Ridgley formed

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Wham in nineteen eighty one sol there
were thirty million records. Nineteen eighty six.

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They went their own way and of
course George had huge solo. First

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solo song your released is actually duet
with Aretha Franklin. I knew you were

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waiting for me now. He was
with this partner for four years when he

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died in twenty sixteen. See George. He had a lot of trouble with

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drugs for a long time. Findly
got him at fifty three years old.

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Let's go back to Catfish Humans hat
between two thousand and four thousand, Taste

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Buds Catfish one hundred and seventy five
thousand. Wow. Thanks for being here

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today. You get a chance follow
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Come says at coomedia dot com.
This go three us. Let's end

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with Michael Jackson Shop Sam Michael today. In two thousand and nine, at

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fifty years old, Michael said,
I will never stop helping and loving people

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the way Jesus said to you.
Guys are have an awesome day. We'll

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all talk tomorrow. No no,
no, no, no, no matter