March 16, 2025

March 17th-St. Patricks day, Nat King Cole, Lovin' Spoonful, Kurt Russel, Gary Sinise, Rob Lowe, Leah Amico

March 17th-St. Patricks day, Nat King Cole, Lovin' Spoonful, Kurt Russel, Gary Sinise, Rob Lowe, Leah Amico

My co-host today was 3 Time olympic gold medal winner and Softball Hall Of Famer Leah Amico,  find out more about Leah and her book "The Gold Standard"  https://www.leahamico.com/
St Patricks day.  Entertainment from 1990.  Chad give Angola 1000 cows,...

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My co-host today was 3 Time olympic gold medal winner and Softball Hall Of Famer Leah Amico, find out more about Leah and her book "The Gold Standard" https://www.leahamico.com/
St Patricks day. Entertainment from 1990. Chad give Angola 1000 cows, Californium discovered, Rubber band invented. Todays birthdays - Nat King Cole, Eunice Gayson, John Sebastian, Patrick Duffy, Kurt Russel, Gary Sinise, Paul Overstreet, Rob Lowe, Billy Corgan. St. Patrick died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Cocoran https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
I'm a little leprechaun - The Kiboomers
Escapade - Janet Jackson
Hard rock bottom of my heart - Randy Travis
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
Unforgettable - Nat King Cole
Do you believe in magic - The Lovin' Spoonful
Ball & Chain - Paul Overstreet
1979 - Smashing Pumpkins
Exit - Ghost town - Deidra Thornell https://www.deidrethornell.com/
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Hello, everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factory.

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Is about today? Today is March the seventeenth, Now my

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co host today. She's just totally cool. Not only is

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she a Hall of Fame softball player, she's actually one

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of the greatest hitters of all time. Nowadays, she is

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so much more. It's gonna be fun to hear all

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about her. Lea, why don't you introduce yourself?

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Yeah, I'm Leah Amiko. I'm a three time Olympic gold

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medalist with USA Softball, a two time world champion with them,

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and I really got my big start in college at

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the University of Arizona, where I also won three national championships.

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And I am married to my husband Tommy for twenty

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six years, and I'm a mom of three young adult boys.

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You know, we got one wander that I think gets

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underrated pretty much, not just in softball, are you, but

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pretty much along. You were a three time All American

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academic too, weren't you?

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Yes, I was, And I actually loved telling people about

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that because the school did not come as easy for me,

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and I had to work really, really hard. But I

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feel like that same effort and focused allowed me to

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really excel on the field when I was able to

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do something that I was passionate about and I felt

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was a little bit more natural for me.

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So you just went one of those natural kids. You

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had to really work at it in softball, Oh, I.

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Had to work. I think I worked harder than most people.

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And there was just something inside of me that was like,

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I have to do my very best. I really want

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good results, and that just continued to drive me day

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after day.

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Still does too.

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Yes, and everything I do, well, that's great.

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Notes. You know what alse happened on March seventeenth today,

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don't you. It's pretty obvious.

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Yes, I'm.

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The tiniest men that you have seen if you ever

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catch me.

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So it's told how good you might be taught of gold.

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Today is Saint Patrick's Day. Today we celebrate Saint Patrick

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and the arrival of Christianity into Ireland. See today also

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celebrates the high Irish heritage, their culture. You know, in general,

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it's basically the one of the biggest one day festivals

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in the world and pretty much every country celebrates it.

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See you pundering why do we wear green? Well, it

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makes you invisible to leprechauns. See leprechauns. They like to

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pinch people that they can actually see. So yeah, everybody's

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Irish today. The Catholic Church, they started recognizing Saint Patrick's

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Day back in sixteen eighty one, see March seventeenth. It

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usually falls during lint, and you can't drink during lint,

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so they thought just giving everybody a nice break for

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one day and letting them all drink would be a

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good excuse. But the first Saint Patrick's Day, prey, it's

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actually older. The first Saint Patrick's Day Bread yeah, held

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then the Saint Augusta, Florida in sixteen oh one. Now

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Sat Patrick Stakes always being a lot bigger in the

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United States than over in Ireland. Ireland they really didn't

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celebrate it. But then in the nineteen seventies they were

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watching what was going on in the United States with

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all the parades and party and they said, hey, we

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want to partake in that. So now they actually celebrate

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Saint Patrick's Day in Ireland too. So yeah, I wish

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you all the best of the luckily Irish with you

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out today. So you're California girl, what took you down

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to Tucson for the UFA to play softball.

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You know, the opportunity to get a college scholarship. I

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actually had Long Beach State, which was very close down

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the road, that asked me to come and offer me

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a scholarship as well. But I took one visit to

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the University of Arizona in Tucson, and I absolutely fell

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in love with the campus, the athletes, the coaches, and

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I went to a football game and that was it.

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I just thought it was nothing like my southern California

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football games and honestly ended up being the biggest blessing.

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Ended up being really the best place for me. Everything

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in Tucson is surrounded around the university, so for us

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to be able to play and be one of the

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top teams in the country, Long Beach Stay at the

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time was also top in the country. But I feel

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like in Tucson was where you got all the attention

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and it was really a great place to thrive.

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And you guys definitely did thrive, won three titles while

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you were there. Now it's been almost I don't want

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to date you or anything, but it's been almost thirty years.

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Do you still hold the highest batting average in the

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women's college Words series? I do.

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I hit seven to fifty. My sophomore year went nine

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for twelve, had a few walks, sack hits, and you know,

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I think back to like, I don't even know how

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that happened. It was the best experience ever. And the

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fact that it has remained for three decades is really insane.

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Man, you talk about being in the zone, right, that

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might be one of those what he got work that

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Joe Demajio fifty six game hitting streaks, that's almost unattainable. Thenbody,

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don't want air embarrass you there, but you did good?

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Yeah, No, I honestly I think back and actually I

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didn't even know it until many years later when I

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was working at the women College World Series calling radio,

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and I saw records book and it outlined every year,

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and I did not realize that three out of my

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four years there I actually led in batting average at

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the Women's College World Series. So three out of four

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I was hitting over five hundred, and obviously that included

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the seven to fifty mark.

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And that is incredible. All right, let's see happen in

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entertainment on March seventeenth, It's back to your nineteen ninety

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The number one album was Forever Your Girl by Paula Abdell.

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Jennet Jackson had the number one song with Escapade. Raddy

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Travis had the number one country song with hard Rock

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Bottom of My Heart.

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I Keep Waiting you too? Did you keep saying? Kny Star?

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Hell up these logging star.

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To.

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The number one book was The Burn Ultimatum by Robert Lendlham.

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The top movie was The Hunt for the Red October.

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The Soviet's best submarine captain. He heads for the United

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States and an undetectable submarine. Now the United States has

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to figure out if he's detected, defecting, or he wants

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to start a war. Stars Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin and

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James Earl Jones twenty fifteen at a St. Patrick's Date

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concert over in Brussels, Belgium, the band The Script. They

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bought all eight thousand people at the concert to drink

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so according to the Guinness Book of World's Records, that

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is the largest round ever paid for. So do you

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do any coaching and clinics and that kind of stuff?

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I for so long had done clinics around the entire country.

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I do a full here and there now actually coach internationally.

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I coach team Israel, the junior national team. So this

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summer I'll be in Spain with them and as well

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as in Vancouver, so a lot of opportunities to continue

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to share the game. And actually I'm also taking a

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cruise in August. I'm out of New York with softball

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players that want to come and cruise and play some softball.

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Well that sounds fun, So I'm betting is the biggest

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question you get for Well, I guess it transfers to

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the boys too. How do you keep the kids from

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being afraid of the ball?

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Oh?

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Gosh, you know what I tell them? Because I actually

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had an athlete a long time ago I worked with

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and the main thing that I did was I got

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her thinking all the things she was trying to do.

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And if she's thinking about what she's trying to do,

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she's not as worried about what she doesn't want to happen.

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And so all of a sudden, she went from this

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athlete who was jumping away on every single pitch to

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becoming the best hitter on her team.

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Well, that have really good advice there. All right, let's

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see what happened in March seventeen h There is more

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to Saint Patrick's day than from March seventeenth and White

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Air say, it just so happens that you have the Catholics.

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They use it to drink. But a sixteen year old

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boy who'd become Saint Patrick, he was captured by Irish pirates. Yeah,

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he was in his hometown in Great Britain. They'd throw

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him on a boat and took him over to Ireland.

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So he was sold as a slave. When he got there,

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he worked six years before he was able to escape.

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When he went home, he became a priest and then

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a bishop. Then he returned to Ireland. He wanted to

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teach that pagan country all about Christianity. Then Saint Patrick

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he died on March seventeenth and for sixty one. You

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know anything else that happened in England in like eighteen

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forty five, I.

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Thought you were going to do a clip fork. In

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eighteen forty five in London, England, Stephen Perry invented the

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rubber band. That is something that's helped us a lot.

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That's a bigger invention than you might have got. In

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eighteen ninety eight, off the coast of Staten Island, John

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Philip Hollands successfully tested the world's first modern submarine. It

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stayed submerged for one hour and forty minutes. And then

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in nineteen fifty, scientists at the University of California announced

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they had discovered the elephant. Elephant, no sorry. And then

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in nineteen fifty, scientists at the University of California announced

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they had discovered the element California. It's number ninety eight

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on your periodic table. It's radioactive and man made, the

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second heaviest of all the elements and the most expensive.

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It costs twenty seven million a gram. They only can

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make half a gram a year.

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What can it be used for?

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Detecting oil and water levels in oil wells and detecting

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metal fatigueing airplanes, So basically nothing you can't do manually

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for a lot less.

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Yeah, that's a lot of money for a rock. I guess.

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Nineteen fifty eight, the United States they lunch. Their second

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satellite in this space was the Vanguard one. It was

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to measure the shape of the Earth. Now, get this,

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that's it was only six inches across, but it was

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the first satellite that was powered by the Sun. Now

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it went silent in nineteen sixty four, but still up

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there just circling around us, waiting to fall the earth.

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I think they think it'll be about tw hundred and

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fifty years before it comes down. Now, this story, it

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just cracks me up. For some reason, I just think

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it sounds so funny. In twenty twenty in Africa, over

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one thousand cows arrived on the Angola border. See, they

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came from the country of Chad. Chad decided they were

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going to start paying Angola back the one hundred million

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dollars that they owed them.

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Bop dop doped.

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Dop shog thish shive birth day were gonna tar he

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left this shiverbfday. We don't simple targe he like this

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shive birthday and you know we don't give birthday.

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Yeah, we'll get I hit that button a little early

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before we talk about birthdays. You got something really cool

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called the gold Standard. You want to tell us about that? Yeah.

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I've been speaking for a lot of years and really

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just would answer the call when people say, hey, can

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you come speak to our team, our organization, our company,

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our league, And I really would just say, what's my audience?

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Who I want to talk to? But more recently, as

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I've continued to have more and more engagements and opportunities.

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I realized that what is my branding, what is the

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main message? Then, no matter where I go, I want

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to make sure to include and I've titled that the

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gold Standard. I wrote a book on it called the

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Gold Standard Fourteen Ways to Live a Life of Excellence.

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And really the key behind it is that every single

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one of us has the opportunity every single day to

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make an impact, especially when we show up as our best.

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And I realized that I had talent in my sport.

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I would not have become an Olympian without it, but

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more than that, especially at the higher levels, I was

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outmatched in talent many times with speed, power, but never

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with heart, passion, hard work, attitude. And so I talk

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a lot about the choices that we make to lead

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to excellence, and you know, it's really about the journey,

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really focusing on what you are doing and allowing the

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results to take care of themselves. And so for me,

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the Gold Standards all about excellence, but it's about choice

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based and how we can give our best.

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That is really cool. So what do you do with

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your three gold medals? Are they in a display case

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or something?

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They are not? I keep them tucked away safely, and

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then when I'm on the road and i'm speaking, I

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allow everyone to see them and hold them and wear them.

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Many times, I think my medals have been around more

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next then I don't know most people, they have been

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all over the country, they've been all over the world.

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And for me, that's that's part of the fun, is

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sharing them. Most people say, I've never seen a gold medal.

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I've never touched a gold medal, and I love sharing

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it with people of all ages.

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It is cool. I mean, if you have you're basically

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your If there is the gold standard, it's nice to

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have a free gold medal sitting there going around your

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neck too.

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Yeah, that helps, That helps give me a little credibility.

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All right, let's go back to some birthdays. Let's see

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what Nat King Cole was doing.

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Forgettable.

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That's what you are. Unforgettable only of Funnt Kinkole.

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He was born in Montgomery, Alabama, in nineteen nineteen. He

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started out as a into jazz music before he slid

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over into pop in mainstream music. Now he had over

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one hundred hit songs. Some of them are unforgettable. Smile,

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let their be, Let Their Be, Love Mona Lisa Startist

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sold over fifty million records. Was the Shoes back in

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that time. Married a second wife in nineteen forty eight

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and they had five children. One of them is singer

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Latin Natalie Coole and Now. He died from lung cancer

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in nineteen sixty five, only forty five years old. Actor

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Junus Grayson. She was born in Croydon, England, in nineteen twenty.

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She was the first James Bond girl. Yeah. She was

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James Bond's love interest in the first two Bond movies,

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Doctor Noen from MRC I Would Love Now. She played

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Sylvia Trench, so they didn't get into the runch he

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nicknamed yet now. Her other biggest movie is probably Revenge

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of Frankenstein. She divorced twice. She had a daughter from

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her second Asin you know. She died in twenty eighteen

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at ninety years old.

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Imagine Benny turtles Halls the music whenever it son since

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it's bad, gives the music.

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It makes you feel happy like an old time.

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I'll tell you about to imagine.

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To tell us aangel, Malla Rush.

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That was John Sebastian singing for the Love and Spoonful.

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He's eighty one was born in New York City. His

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parents were in show business. His godmother was Vivian Vance,

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the actress who played ethel Mertz on I Love Lucy.

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John started out playing his harmonica in blues bands. Then

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he helped form Love and Spoonful in nineteen sixty four.

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They got their name from a TV commercial for maxwell

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Ha Coffee. They're in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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They had these hits Summer in the city. Did you

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ever have to make up your mind? Dreamer? Do you

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believe in magic? They broke up in nineteen sixty eight.

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John went solo. His biggest hit, My Friends.

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They all land.

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Welcome Back.

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Your dreams were your ticket?

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Uh, Welcome bad that same old place that you left

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bat Well.

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The names they.

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All change since you've hung around.

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But those dreams every day and they're turning around. Yep.

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John Sebastian had the theme song for the TV show

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Welcome Back. Hodder went to number one in nineteen seventy six.

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John married his third wife in nineteen seventy two, and

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they have two children. Actor Patrick Daffy Duffy was born

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let me say it again, sure. Patrick Duffy was born

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in Towns in Montana. He's seventy six. He's most known

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for TV. Started out starring in The Man from Atlantis,

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then was Bobby Ewing on Dallas. Was on Step by

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Step with Suzanne Semer's for seven years. He married in

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nineteen seventy four. They had two children. His wife died

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in twenty seventeen.

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Actor Kurt Russell's seventy four. He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts.

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He started acting at twelve years old on TV nineteen seventies.

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He was Disney's biggest movie star. Made over a dozen

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movies for Disney. Some of them are like The Computer Work,

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Tennis is Strongest Man in the World, Super Dead. Then

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he made that rare leap. He went from child superstar

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to add an adult star. Made over seventy movies as

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an adult, Escaped from New York, The Thing Overboard, Tombstone, Yeah,

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some of them. He played Elvis twice. Do you know

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what movies he played Elvis in? Well, actually, he's not

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fair to you. He actually did one in the TV

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movie where he actually played Elvis. Then he played Elvis

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again in the movie Forrest Gump, and it's just kind

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of a small scene in there. He had a son

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from his first wife if they were there for four years.

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After they divorced, he got with Goldie On. They've been

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together since nineteen eighty three and they have a son.

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Actor Gary Sinisee is seventy. He was born in Blue Island, Illinois.

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Now.

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He was also in Forrest Gump. He was nominated for

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an Oscar for playing Lieutenant Day and he was also

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in a Paulo thirteen, The Green Mile, The Quick Than

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the Dead Ransom Mission to Mars on TV start on CSI,

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New York for nine years.

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Now.

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After all his success as an actor, he's actually a

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more successful humanitarian. He is a huge supporter of American

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military personnel and veterans, received over twenty humanitarian awards over

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the year. And yes, he did marry in nineteen eighty

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one and they have three children.

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My friends, they all like me. Ela sam My back

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and told me how the thought I was insane. He said, son,

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you're too young. Where the Bowland chain b don't you

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like spalls?

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Change country singer Paul Overstreet it's also seventy. He was

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born in Van Cleeve, Mississippi. He is a very successful

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song songwriter. You might know some of the artists he's

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written songs for that became number one hits. Randy Travis,

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Keith Whitley, Blake, Selt, Blake Shelton, The Judds, Kenny Chesney,

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Tanya Tucker. It's just to name a few. He's had

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a lot of success solo as well. Some of his

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hits love helps Those, I See my father and Me,

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Daddy's Come Around, Ball and Chain. His first wife was

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Dolly Parton's younger sister, Frieda. They were only married a

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couple of years. He married his second wife in nineteen

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eighty five. They have six kids. Actor Rob Lowe is

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sixty one. He's born in Charlottesville, Virginia. When Rob was

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a baby, he got mumps, went undiagnosed, ended up losing

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all the hearing in his right ear. So yeah, he's

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still deaf in his right ear. His first move was

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a first Move. His first movie was The Outsiders, then

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Class Saint Almos, Fire, About Last Night, a couple awesome

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power movies on TV. He also starred in West Wing,

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Parks and Recreation, Brothers and Sisters. Currently, he is on

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nine to one one Lone Start and he hosts the

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game show The Floor. Yes. Actor chadlow is His younger

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brother Rob married in nineteen ninety one and they have

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two sons.

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So you also do some softball analysis, don't you.

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I do.

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I do postseason for collegiate softball with ESPN. I do regionals,

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done that for about seventeen eighteen seasons now and so

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kind of keep my eyes open throughout the season. I'm

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doing my own traveling and speaking, and then when it

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gets to the end, I get to see the teams

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that who have ended up on top.

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Oh cool.

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Shakedown ninety so.

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Kids ne.

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That was Billy Corgan, singing lead for the span of

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Smashing Pumpkins. He's fifty eight, born in Chicago. He formed

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Smashing Pumpkins in nineteen eighty eight. Sings le eight, plays

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the guitars, right sellers and song songs. Yeah, he's only

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the original original member still there now their biggest that's

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our bullet with Butterfly Wings nineteen seventy nine, zero tonight. Now,

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Billy he's really big into professional wrestling. He actually owns

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a National Wrestling Association of the NWA. Yeah, so he

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if you end up pro wrestling, yeah, you'll probably see

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Billy doing somewhere around there. Married once for four years

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him and his second wife. They have two children. Now

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we've talked about you doing that the gold standard and

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all that work. Can people actually contact you and come

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see you speak? How can they get a hold of you?

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Yeah? My website is Leah Amico dot com. L E

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A H A M I c O. Some people say Amaco,

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but it's a miko. And I'm on social media. My

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Twitter is Leah twenty USA. You always keep that number

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twenty with you and as well as Instagram it's the

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same handle. So yeah, definitely can find me there. You

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could google my name and you'll find a lot of

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different options and views of different things that I've been

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a part of. Just one of the things that I've

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always laughed at is I was very versatile as an athlete.

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I played one year as a picture at Arizona, then

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two years in centerfield. In my last year as first

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baseman Olympics, I played two in rifled and one at

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first base, and so moved around a lot. And I'm

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also versatile in all the different things that I do

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as well.

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That's true. Member, she's street time All American academic, so

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you know she's smart too. Listen to so you gonna

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do any celebrating on Saint Patrick's Day.

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You know what, I'm actually going to be home with

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my family. We might, you know, might have to just

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make some green eggs and ham or something like that.

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I'm not really sure. But you know, it's funny because

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I actually went out to a tournament locally here at Fullerton,

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and I remember in college that was always when Saint

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Patrick's Day fell, was when I was playing and competing,

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and just brings me back those memories.

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Cool. The oldest bar in the world, I guess since

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the Saint Patrick's Day we probably know. It's in Ireland now.

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It's called Shawn's Bar. It's actually eleven hundred years old.

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It was back made back in the nine hundreds. Now

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let's have our quote of the day. It is by

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the man himself, Saint Patrick's. He said, the Lord is

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the greatest of all. I have said enough. You know what, Lea,

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It's been really fun talking to you man. I really

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appreciate you being here.

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Thank you so much, Jeff. I've had a great time.

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And we and every show. We have an internet radio

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station called Country Interground Radio where we play the best

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up and coming country artists and independent artists today. Are

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artist today digit Ronelle. She's gonna have her song ghost Towns.

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You guys have an awesome Saint Patrick's Day and we'll

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talk tomorrow.

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song thought our co take glue d just to see

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what was going on.

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Boy, No, it's.

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A swell home and.

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Baby t see you freewhere.

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Round every corner, camp back, roast up, signed.

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Down Black Street a lagoa round every.

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Highway drive with that so so song on my Redium

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at a Pine time, on vaccine my cors sounds crazy

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and now but you just came pay in a round.

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You got me there, Anna, ghost town Boys, you'd never

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wrote out go down them or read me about to

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