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Hi, and welcome to history and factor. It's about today.
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I am Jeff. And today is March the second, a.
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Muffins much and now it's just ninety nine and now
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there's nothing like the christ you.
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Today is National egg McMuffin Day. McDonald's. They are celebrating
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the egg mcmuffins fifty first birthday today. Now they as
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you heard in the commercial, they started selling them for
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ninety nine cents back in nineteen seventy five. Today they're
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selling them for one dollar. Guessing in flation. Now you
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can actually get the sausage McMuffin with egg if you
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prefer so, we're gonna pay a buck. Might we'll get
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a piece of sausage in it, right, all right? List
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who's going on entertainment? On Marks the second? It's back
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to nineteen ninety. Number one album was Forever Your Girl
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by Paula Abdull. She had the number one song with
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opposites of tract.
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Steps Steps, We Got You, Gather.
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A Wee cot you.
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A week Good Love. The number one country song was
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from the Oak Grades Boys. It was no matter how high,
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No matter how high, I'll.
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Always look love to you. You will always be number one.
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I'll settle for a number. You've always been there for me, Baby,
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I must confess I'll always look come to you no matter.
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The Number one book is Oh the Places You'll Go
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by Doctor Seuss. The top movie was The Hunt for
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Red October. Both the Soviets and the United States are
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tracking a Soviet submarine captain and still learn of their
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nuclear subs went rogue stars Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, and
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Sam Neil. All Right, what happened on Mars the second
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eighteen oh seven? The United States? They outlied importing slaves.
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Now in the United States, where slavery was legal, you
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can still buy and sell slaves, but they had to
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already be here. You couldn't bring him in from the outside.
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Won't go, in fact, until January of eighteen oh eight,
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eighteen thirty six, Texas declared their independence from Mexico. Now
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he's not as famous as Thomas Jefferson, but George Childers
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wrote the Texas Declaration of Independence. Yes, the Alamo is
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being fought right now at the same time, So in
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the next couple of days we'll find out how it
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turned out. Do you know what a peon is? I
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know you've probably heard the name. A peon is basically
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an indentured servant. It's called P and G. Now it's
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where a work is stuck with an employer that he
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can't get away from. They used to have to pay
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off a debt or something. Eighteen sixty seven, the United
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States they outlied P and H. Yeah, they fought a
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whole war getting rid of slavery. They weren't going to
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allow a loophole. Nineteen seventeen, the Jones Act went into offense.
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It gave the people in the US territory of Puerto
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Rico US citizenship. Now, this might kind of hurt some
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of you golfers out there your egos. Florida in nineteen
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thirty two, an Australian golf trick shot artist Joe Kirkwood.
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He shot in eighty three using only his putter on
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all eighteen dollars, got six pars and a birdie. Now
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a couple of years ago, guy in Arizona he got
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in eighty four. But he's the closest to never go
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eighteen holes with just a putter. No one's ever gotten
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into the house that eighty three. Nineteen forty nine, the
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US Air Force bomber the Lucky lady too. It landed
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at Fort Worth, Texas. Now I'd taken off there on
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February the twenty seventh. It was the first plane to
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fly NonStop around the world and at fourteen crew members
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and they worked in eight hours, chefs, they went twenty
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three thousand, four and fifty two miles in ninety four hours.
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Now they were refueled in air, but over the Philippines,
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the refueling taker crashed and killed all the crew members
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on board. So, yeah, the celebration flight in historic event. Yeah,
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it was really somber. Also in nineteen forty nine, So
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do you give much thought when the street lights come
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on at night?
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Oh?
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Remember back in the day someone manually had to go
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turn those street lights on. It was in New Milford, Connecticut.
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They were the first town to install streetlights that came
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on automatically. Nineteen eighty three, the first Compact disc went
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on south which makes no sense who would own a
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compact disc player?
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Now?
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Since the nine eleven terrorist attacks in two thousand and
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one over in Afghanistan, the United States ground troops the
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only ones doing the fighting were special Forces. Today. In
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two thousand and two, Operation and a Conda began. It
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was the first time the United States conventional soldiers joined
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the fight. Twenty twenty, after thirty five Yeah, this was
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a sad day. In twenty twenty, after thirty five years,
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the rap group Public Enemy fired Flavor Flave.
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It played a Bernie Sanders rally for free Coke.
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Coke shot dis shimmer Oday. Pause.
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He left this shiver on simple cars.
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He left this shiversday.
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And you know we don't give.
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Well, let's see what's born on March. The second writer,
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Theodore Geizel, you know him as Doctor Seuss. He was
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born in Springfield, Massachusetts in nineteen oh four. One of
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the best known children writers of all signed sold over
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on six hundred million books. Now he illustrated the books.
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Oh yeah, he did his own artwork. Some of his
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books you might remember were hort Nears or Who the
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Cat and the Hat? How the Green Stole Christmas Green Eggs?
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And Him? Now eleven his books were made into TV movies.
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Six of them became movie movies, you know for the theater. Now,
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three of his books were turned into TV series Get
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This you wanted? You know how cool doctor SEUs was.
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He's a guy invented the word nerd. He married his
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first wife in nineteen twenty seven until she died in
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nineteen sixty seven. Married his second wife in nineteen sixty eight,
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and they're together until the doctor died in nineteen ninety
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one and eighty seven years old from cancer. Nope, doctor
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SEUs never had any children of his own.
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It's not been slo.
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That song is called Baba looo babloh. It's one of
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the funnest words to say now. The song was done
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by Desi Arnaz and his orchestra Deasi. He was born
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in Santiago to Cuba, Cuba. In nineteen seventeen, his family
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moved to the United States so he could go to
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high school there. He started out playing conga, drugs and singing.
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He turned that into the Desi Arnaz Orchestra. Now they
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were big. They're the ones who introduced the conga line
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in the United States. He did some movies and he
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met luci O Ball and they fall and Live.
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They formed Desilu Productions. First show they produced me Yeah,
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I Love Lucy Now Deasy. He was really good in
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the entertainment business and all that. He came up with
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using three cameras to film a TV show instead of one,
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and he came up with taping shows. See at that time,
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all the shows were done live in New York and
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everyone else has had to watch him at that time, Daisy,
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he had him to the show live in New York
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and then tape it and play it back later in
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the rest of the country. He also came up with
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the idea reruns. Now Desi and Lucy, they divorced in
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nineteen sixty after twenty years of marriage. They had a
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son and a daughter. Desi married his second wife in
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nineteen sixty three. She died nineteen eighty five. Des He
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died nineteen eighty six from lung cancer, sixty nine years old.
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Now after he died, he didn't know this. They found
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out that he had fathered a daughter when he was
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only fifteen years old. Yeah, they were able to confirm
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it with DNA testing.
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Hitchhiked away across the USA, plugged her eyebrows on the way,
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shaved their legs, and then he was a She She says,
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he babe, take a walk on the wild side. Said hey, honey,
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take a walk on the wild side.
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That was lou Reed. He was born in New York
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City in nineteen forty two. Help formed the band Velvet
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Underground that was nineteen sixty four. They're considered one of
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the most influent, influential undergod bands in American music history.
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They were kind of a bridge from the underground scene
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to the punk ro Syne read. He went solo in
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nineteen seventy three. Some of his songs you might know
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Walk on the wild Side, Satellite of Love, Sally Can
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Dance Now. All his songs are about drugs, abuse and pressure.
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That was his life story. He was addicted to drugs
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and alcohol and son Ford from mental illness. He's married
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to his third wife in two thousand and eight. Their
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together until he died in twenty thirteen at seventy one
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years old from liver disease. That she is considered that
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one of the best voices of all time. Karen Carpenter.
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She was born in New Haven, Connecticut in nineteen fifty
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now and she and her brother Richard when they formed
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The Carpenter she was the drummer. Yeah, she had to
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work her way to the front.
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Now.
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During her lifetime, The Carpenter sold thirty five million records.
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Today they sold over one hundred million. Some of their
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heads are close to you. We've only just begun rainy
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days and Monday hurting each other. She married once for
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two years. Then in the nineteen seventies she developed an
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eating disorder. It had ended up being anarexa, but nobody
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knew anything about it back then. Nobody could blieve that
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somebody just wouldn't need it was incomprehensible back then, Well, Karen,
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she died from anarexia in nineteen eighty three, at thirty
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two years old. Now everyone knew that there were such
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a thing as eating disorders. That song Runaway started it
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all for bon Jovin got up to number thirty nine
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and iineteen eighty four. Now they sold over one hundred
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and fifty million records there. Lit Singer John bon Jovi
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sixty four. He was born in Perth, Damn Boy, New Jersey,
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in nineteen sixty two. Now, originally they call themselves Johnny Electric.
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They were quickly told to change that name. Bon Jovi. Yeah,
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it was a good call. Now, John, He's done some
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acting too. Biggest movie was U five seventy one. It
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was a submarine movie. He married his high school sweetheart
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in nineteen eighty nine and they have a daughter and
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three sons. Actor Daniel Craig. He was born in Chester,
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England in nineteen sixty eight. Fifty eight year old started
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out doing theater over in London. He still does, but
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now he also does theater on Broadway.
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Now.
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He is most known for playing James Bond in the
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last six James Bond movies. Yeah, the last one was
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No Time to Die in twenty twenty one. Now they
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want to do the newest one, but they can't figure
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out who to replace him with. So I'm just saying
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I have some free time, you know, I could probably
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do it. He was also in Cowboys and Aliens The
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Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Knives Out. He had a
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daughter with his first wife, married actress Kates Rachel Why
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Is in twenty eleven. They have a dog.
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That was.
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Chris Martin. He sings league for the band Coldplay forty nine.
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Born in Extra, England in nineteen seventy seven. Now, the
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guys in cold Play they got together in college, except
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they call themselves Starfish. Now some of their friends were
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in another band called Coplay. When those guys broke up,
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the guys in Starford said, hey, man, can we use
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your name? This guy said, yeah, go for it. Coldplay
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is now sold one hundred million records. Some are yellow
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something just like this my universe Viva Levite. Chrissy was
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married to actress Gwyneth Pelthrower for twelve years and they
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had a son and a daughter. He was engaged to
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actress Dakota Johnson for a few years. They called it
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off and broke up last summers.
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Yes, when I said man coming back, I mean.
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But everywhere you see, oh crazy in my brain down everywhere.
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But I'm still on number.
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Country singer Luke Combs. He's thirty six, born in Huntersville,
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New North Carolina in nineteen ninety. Now his first thirteen
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songs I Went Number one is eighteen number ones. Now
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he is kicking off a stadium tour on March twenty first.
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He married in twenty twenty and they have three sons.
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That third son he was just born on February the nineteenth.
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Alrighty are quote of the day. It comes from Dusty Springfield.
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Dusty died today in nineteen ninety nine, at fifty nine
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years old. She said, my affections are easily swayed. I
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can be very unfaithful. Well, thank you all for listening.
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They don't forget to follow us. We got some kind
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of cool news for you. If you look on the
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show description, there's a link over to Spotify. Now. On Spotify,
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we have our own history and factoids about today playlist. Well,
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for each month, we're gonna play every song that I
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played here. You can actually go listen to the whole song.
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Well I don't belong to Spotify, Well, click on the link.
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They're gon say, hey, you want to sign up? You
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say yeah. All you basically have to do is give
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your name and your email address and they'll say, hey,