June 24, 2026

June 25th-Catfish, Carly Simon, Jimmy Walker, Split Enz, Ricky Gervais, George Michael, Michael Jackson

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National Catfish day. Entertainment from 2006. Virgininia becam 10th state, Battle of Little Big Horn, Korean War began, Park Ranger hit by lightning for 7th time. Todays birthdays - June Lockhart, Carly Simon, Jimmy Walker, Tim Finn, Ricky Gervais, George Michael. Michael Jackson died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
Catfish fever - Outlaw
Hips don't lie - Shakira Wyclef Jean
Summertime - Kenny Chesney
Birthday - The Beatles
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
Lassie TV theme
Your so vain - Carly SImon
Good Times TV theme
I got you - Split Enz
Carless whisper - George Michael
ABC - The Jacksons
Exit - Cigerettes and bad decisions - Timothy Craig https://www.timothycraig.com/

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Hey, Hello, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factor.

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It's about today. This is June twenty fifth.

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I do like cat cat cat cat cat cat catfish

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bever Trumbo. I got that cat cat cat cat cat

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cat calffish beanver.

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Today is National Catfish Day. Catfish. They're named after their

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long barbels that look like cat whiskers. Catfish. They're one

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of the most eaten fish in America. You can have

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them breaded, fried, grilled, smoked. Now Catfish Farm and it's

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exploded over the last thirty years. They're really healthy for you.

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But if you do want to go to a restaurant,

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you can go catfish. Yeah, they're really fun to catch.

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The biggest catfish ever caught in the United States was

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a blue catfish. It was got Virginia in twenty eleven,

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one hundred and forty three pounds. So I have joined

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some catfish today, just a siding up humans. We had

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between two thousand and four thousand taste buds catfish one

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hundred and seventy five thousand. Let's see what's going on

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in their team. Nine June the twenty fifth, Let's go

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back to two thousand and six number one album was

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December Underground by Afi Shakira and white Cliff Jean. They

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had the number one song with hipstone line.

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Maybe when you're talking on the woman gomes so be

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waning beating them onto log four stone line I'm starting

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talking here.

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This train track attempts to see if they did kiss shit.

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Kenny Chas and he had the numb one country song

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was Summertime, ship Shades.

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And a tough Are You the bottle of the Our

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big song on the radio single colls Want we Know

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a smile, It's a kiss, It's a simple.

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Time. The number one selling book was The Husband by

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Dean Konz. The top movie was Click Adam Sandler. He

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finds a remote control that allows him to fast forward

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and rewind over different parts of his life. Well It,

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I'll go South from the remote kind of takes over

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and overrides what he decides to do. Also stars Kate

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Beckhamsale and Christopher walkin All Right, What Happened on June

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the twenty fifth Happy Bert David g It's Today. In

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seventeen eighty eight, Virginia became our tenth state. It's named

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after England's Queen Elizabeth. She is known as the virgin Queen.

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I guess that's why Virginia is for lovers. It's capital

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is Richmond. Highest point is Mount Rogers at five thy

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seven and twenty nine feet. Virginia state bird is the

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Cardinal fish is brook, trout, flower and tree are the dogwood.

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Mammal is the Virginia Big eared bat. State drink in

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Virginia Rye whiskey. Eight presidents have been born in Virginia.

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That's the most of any state. Some other people born

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in Virginia Sandra Bullock, Patsy Klein, Chris Pratt, Missy Elliott,

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Gabby Douglas, Rob Lowe, Warren Baty with Wayne Newton just

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some of the people born in the Old Dominion state. Now,

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it was Custer's last stand today in eighteen seventy six

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at the Battle Little Big Horn in Montana, Sioue. Indians,

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led by chiefs Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, they ale

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to kill Custer and all Turner in sixty eight of

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his men. That included two of his brothers, his nephew,

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and his brother in law. Nineteen ten, the United States

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passed the Man's Act that said that women could not

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cross state lines for immoral purposes. Now Man was m Ann.

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It was a guy's name. Nineteen thirty eight the United States,

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the minimum wage log kind of went into effect there. Yeah,

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they said you could only work forty four hours a week,

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no more, and you were guaranteed twenty five cents an hour.

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Nineteen fifty the Korean War began North Korea. They wanted

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the whole country to be communists, so they attacked South

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Korea with over sixty thousand troops. But China and Soviet

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Union they jumped in on North Korea sign some of

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the United States and the United Nations jumped in on

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South Korea. Sign A ceasefire was signed in nineteen fifty three,

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but technically the war's still going on. See no peace

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treat he has ever been signed, just that truce nineteen

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sixty one. Over in Iraq, they declared that Kuwait is

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part of Iraq. Kuwait declared, no, we aren't. That's the

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rationale that Saddam Hussein used to invade Kuwait in nineteen ninety.

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How would you like to hold this record? Nineteen seventy seven,

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Virginia park ranger Roy Sullivan. He was struck by lighting

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for the seventh time. He lived again. First time he

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was struck by Lightning was in nineteen forty two.

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Jo stopopop joke shug, dish Shivers Day, Please gonna pu

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he left dish shiver We got simple potage.

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She's like dish shivers Day.

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And you know we don't Birthday.

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Well, let's check out a barn on June twenty fifth,

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starring June Lockhart.

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You Riley.

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John Provo, says Timmy and of course last actress Jim Lockhart.

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She started acting in nineteen thirty three, when she's eight

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years old. June was born in New York City in

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nineteen twenty five. She just died last ye October, one

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hundred years old. She's one of the last surviving actors

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from the Hollywood Golden Nasier. She wanted Tony Reward once,

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but she's best known for TV. She played Timmy's mom

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on Lassie Juned Up too So then she was on

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the mom in Lost in Space. She was a doctor

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in Petticoat Junction. She retired from acting in twenty twenty

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one at ninety six years old. Said that was enough. Now.

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She has twice divorced. She had two daughters from her

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first husband. Get this Jim Huge David boyfriend.

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They be ab So you p this song is bad

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your So do you think this song is about.

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Dog? Now? Carly says that all three verses of that

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song are about different guys. Now the first verse, yeah,

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it is about Warren Baby. Carly Simon's eighty three. She's

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born in New York City in nineteen forty three. Her dad,

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he co founded Simon and Schuster, that been publishing company. Carly,

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she started out singing with her sister. They were the

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Simon's Sisters. Her sister quit in nineteen seventy one. Yeah,

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then Carly hit huge after that. Some of her ads

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are Mockingbird. That was with James Taylor. You're so van vain,

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nobody does it better Jesse. She still releases music. If

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you want to go, hit up her website. She was

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married to James Taylor for eleven years and they had

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two daughters. She is married to her second husband for

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twenty years when they divorced. Now, Carly she has a

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breast cancer survivor since nineteen eighty eight, so that's cool.

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Comedian Jimmy Walker was born in Brooklyn, New York, in

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nineteen forty seven, and he's forty nine now. He's still

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tours doing a stand up comedian act. Yeah, it's tours

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all the time. So if you want to check him,

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he's probably coming to your town pretty soon. Best No,

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not for playing JJ on the sitcom Good Times, but

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on the show he got a really famous catchphrase final Yeah,

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that kind of got him pretty type cast. He was

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able to get into the movies The Rabbit Trap, Concord

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Airport seventy nine, Going Bananas, Sweet shout out.

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That's no problem. He's the same.

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Towns. That was Tim Finn singing lid for the band

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Split Ends. Tim was born in New Zealand in nineteen

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fifty two seventy four today. He co founded Split Ends

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in nineteen seventy two. I Got You One Step Ahead

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six months in a Leaky Boat and similar songs now

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and they broke up. He joined his brother in the

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band Crowded House. That didn't work out so well, so

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he's raised eleven solo albums since Tim He's married and

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they have a son and a daughter. Comedian Ricky Gervais

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is sixty five. He's born Reading, England in nineteen sixty one.

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The nineteen eighties is a new wave band.

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They were called the Siona dance that didn't pay the

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bills though. In the nineties went into stand up comedian

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and he co created the TV show The Office over

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in Britain is such a huge hit they brought to

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the United States. In movies, he played Doctor McPhee and

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Night at the Museum movies. Most of his movies are

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actually voice rolls. He was on the show The Office

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here in the United States for eight years. He's been

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with his girlfriend since nineteen eighty two. Nope, they never

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had any entire desire to get married or have kids.

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Waste.

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George Michael His born is East Finchley, England. In nineteen

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sixty three, he and Andrew Riginally they formed Wham in

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nineteen eighty one, sold over thirty million records. Then they

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went their own ways. In nineteen eighty six, of course,

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George hit huge solo, sold over on hundred twenty five

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million records. Solo. Now he was with his boyfriend for

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four years when he died. See, we had a lot

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of trouble with drugs a long long time. Yeah. I

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finally got him at twenty sixteen, at fifty three years old.

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All right, our quote of the day, it's gonna come

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from Michael Jackson. Michael died today in two thousand and

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nine at fifty years old. He said, I will never

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stop loving and helping people the way Jesus said to

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thank you for listening today, and don't forget to follow

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us whenever you listen to on check out the show

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us forever we're doing Our country und ground radio artists

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Today comes from tim in South Dakota. He was there,

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Timothy Craig song cigarettes some bad decisions. You guys have

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an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow. Hey, hey, it's not

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just what you're raffing. Everybody knows.

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It's all about the trip.

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He had been on the highest mountain fixing for the scars,

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got his closest sycodkat.

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Fitted up right and burned it out cold. I pled

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my hand up in left the show.

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Should I go left? When right's ben all along?

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Should I head south back where I came from?

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Now I'm on my way down.

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No provisions smelling like Cingarett bad decisions.

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He had nothing wrong with believing, following your heart, sticking

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to your guns.

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Looking to go a ride with no phyme or reason,

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got no window. I way, No when your done Now,

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I'm on.

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My way down.

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No provision, thanks, smelling my cigarettes. Bad decisions.

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