March 30, 2025

March 31st-Taters, Lefty Frizzell, Tommy Tutone, Mr. Kotter, Christopher Walken, Rhea Perlman, Ewan MacGregor

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National Tater day. Entertainment from 1992. Eiffel Tower opened, US buys Virgin Islands, Canada's 10th Province. Todays birthdays - Lefty Frizzell, Shirley Jones, Richard Chamberlain, Christopher Walken, Gabe Kaplan, Tommy Heath, Rhea Pearlman, Tony Cox, Ewan MacGregor. Salina died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
The Tater song - Tater Tot Mark Verbeck
Save the best for last - Vanessa Williams
Is there life out there - Reba McEntire
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent https://www.50cent.com/
If you've got the money - Lefty Frizzell
Partridge Family tv theme
Welcome Back Kotter tv theme
867-5309 Jenny - Tommy Tutone
Cheers tv spoof
Dreaming of you - Salina
Exit - One more drink - Cody Joe Hodges https://codyjoehodges.com/home
countryundergroundradio.com
https://www.coolcasts.cooolmedia.com/show/history-factoids-about-today/

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Hey, hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history

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and Factoid's about today? Today is March the thirty first. Well,

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let's maketats for you and me. Oldtatos, old tators. I

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love that stuff. Potatos, old taters round the ground to

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the drug. You can make your dat around na stab

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just serve potato baby. Today is National tater Today. Now, potatoes.

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They are the most vegetables in the United States. Yeah,

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they're vegetables. They're high in vitamins and minerals and fibers.

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There are over two hundred different types of potatoes that

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are grown in the US. So how do we celebrate today, Well,

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wakem bake them and cover them with all kinds of

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great toppings. They can mash them, boil them, slice them,

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fry them. Now, they do have a lot of starts

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in fat, so we don't want to go overboard them.

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But I enjoy some taters today. She is going on.

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In entertainment on March thirty first, Let's Got Your nineteen

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ninety two number one album was Roping the Wind by

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Garth Brooks. Vanessa Williams at the number one song with

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Save the Best for Last.

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Now we're standing face to face.

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This craze and place just chance hand go save the

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best fleas.

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Reba McIntyre. She had the number one country song with

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is There life out there?

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Snap so much?

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She hasn't he stay off the family?

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She used, don't want she shoot?

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Should she know?

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And she she doesn't want.

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Leave, She's just.

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The top selling book was The Pelican Brief by John Grisham.

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The top movie was White Man Can't Jump Wesley Snipes

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and Woody Harrelson. They team up to win money on

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the basketball court Condom People. It also stars Rosie priz Ah.

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What happened on March the thirty first, fourteen ninety two,

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Spain's King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella they issued the Alberamba Decree.

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Now it ordered that all Jews living in Spain had

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to convert to Catholicism or leave Spain. They had until

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July thirty first to do it. Now, if they didn't

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leave or convert, they would be tortured in or executed.

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Around twenty thousand, converted another eighty thousand. They left that degree.

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It was still around until nineteen sixty eight. Yeah, that's

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when they finally took it off the books. Now, Jews

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they had been able to practice openly for a number

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of years before then, though, and he guesses on what

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the first town was to be completely lit by electric

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electric lights. It was eighteen eighty Wabash, Indiana. Eighteen eighty

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nine in Paris, Eiffel Tower opened up. Now it was

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built to be the entrance to the World's Fair. Nine

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hundred eighty four feet tall. That was the world's tallest

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man made structure until nineteen thirty when the Chrysler Building

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opened up in New York City. Six million people. They

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still pay to go to the top of the Eiffel

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Tower every year. Nineteen seventeen, the United States officially took

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possession of Danish West Indies. Danish West Indies, that's right. See,

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the United States has paid Denmark twenty five million dollars

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in gold for it. The US they renamed them the

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Virgin Islands. That's the only place in the United States

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where cars they drive on the left side of the road. Yeah,

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Denmark didn't even do that anymore. Nineteen eighteen, the first

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daylight savings time the United States went into effect. They

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stopped doing it in a couple of years. Yeah, that

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one's World War One ended, but they brought it back

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in World War two, and yeah, it's been going ever since.

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Nineteen forty nine, Newfoundland they became Canada's ten province. Now

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Canada they have ten provinces and three territories. The state

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in Canada. Nineteen seventy two. Yeah, that was a really

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sad day for the Canadian Navy. It was their black

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top day. Yeah, it was last day that they were

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allowed their daily rations of rum.

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Yeah.

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Eight soldiers used to get a roster of rum every day.

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Nineteen ninety nine, the movie Ten Things I Hate About

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You was released in the theaters. I never knew this.

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That movie is based on the Shakespeare play The Taming

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of the Shrew.

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Doke joke joked, joke, shot dish Shivers day.

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Please gonna pause.

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He left this shuverday. We want simple targe. He let

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thish shivebirth day and you know you don't do that's birthday.

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Well, let's check out who it's born on Marsh the

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thirty first. If you got the money, I've got the time.

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We'll go homepy homing man.

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We'll have a time.

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Will ain't all the night spots dance, drang, beer and wine.

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If you got the money, Honey, I've got the time.

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Country singer left to Frazel. He's born in Corsicana, Texas.

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In nineteen twenty eight. One of the most influential country

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artists of all time. Nineteen fifty two, he had four

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songs in the top ten at the same time on

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the pop charts. Yeah, if you got the money, Honey,

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I got the time, Give me one, Give me more

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and more and more and more of your kisses. I

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want to be with you always. She's gone, gong gone now.

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As fast as left to his career went up, it

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came down just as fast.

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Yeah.

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He was a big time alcoholic, made him really unreliable,

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hard to work with. I was always in trouble with

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the police, was constantly crashing cars. Finally God him in

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nineteen seventy five, died from a massive stroke forty seven

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years old. He was married and had three kids. Come now, everybody.

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Hear us sing.

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It's nothing bad me and together?

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When was sing.

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Five and mom moan all day we go to.

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Help her and music for me.

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Shirley Jones, she's ninety one. She's born in Charlotte, Pennsylvania.

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She played the mom on the TV show That Parked

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his family. Now, before then she was really successful in movies.

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She starred in Oklahoma, Carousel, The Music Man. She won

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an oscar for Elmer Gentry. So, as you can tell

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from those movies, yeah, she did a lot of Broadway.

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Her first husband was Jack Cassidy. When they got married,

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he brought his son, David Cassidy into the winning. Then

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they had three sons together, one of those of Sean Cassidy.

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She married her second husband in nineteen seventy seven. They

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were together until he died in twenty fifteen. Actor Richard Chamberline.

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He was born in Beverly Hills. In nineteen thirty four,

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started on the TV show starring as Doctor Killed There.

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Then he was in the miniseries Centennial, on the miniseries Shogun.

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Some of his movies were Julius Caesar, The Three Musketeers,

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The Four Musketeers. He did a couple of those Alan

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quartermain movies. Now, he was outed in nineteen eighty nine,

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but he didn't admit that he was gaining until two

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thousand and three. Now he had a thirty tier thirty

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two year long year relationship with the guy, but they

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broke up in twenty ten. Richard he died two days

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ago on March twenty ninth. Yeah, I was from a stroke.

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Ninety years old. Actor Christopher walk In is eighty two.

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He was born in Queens, New York. Been and over

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one hundred movies. The Deer Hunter, he won an Oscar

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for that one, The Dogs of War, Suicide Kings, Joe Dirt,

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Wedding Crashers, nominated for an Oscar for Catching Me If

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You Can. He's been in music videos for Madonna, Skidro

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and Fat Boys Slim. He's been married since nineteen sixty nine.

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Welcome Back Your dreams were your chicken out. Welcome that

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same old place, the names Simul James, since you hung

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around with those dreams every day and turned around.

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Actor comedian Cabe Kaplan. He was born in Brooklyn, New York.

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He's eighty today now. He started out doing stand up

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then he got his own TV show, He was Catter

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and Welcome Back Catter. Some of his movie is were

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Fast Break, Nobody's Perfect nineteen seventy eight.

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Gabe.

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He became a professional poker player. Yeah, he played. Just

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retired from playing boker in twenty twenty one. He was

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It's really good. He is in all those big world,

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the series of poker tournaments and all that kind of stuff.

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His career innings, he made over two million dollars. Gabe.

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He has one daughter. You know, I might have a

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little trouble telling you my cell phone number, but I

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won't have any trouble telling you Jenny's number. And that

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was forty years ago. That was Tommy Heath. He sang

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lead for Tommy two Tone. Tommy is seventy eight born

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in Pure Illinois. Now the band is called Tommy two Tone.

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It's not him. The band start out, they call themselves

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Tommy and the two Tones, but they shortened up the

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Tommy two Tone. Yeah, they're a one hit wonder with

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eight six, seven, five three on nine. Jenny Now Tommy

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he said, yeah, he knows there are one hit wonder.

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He'd rather be a three hit wonder, but one hit

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wonder is better than no wonder at all. He eventually

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left music, became a software engineer. He got married and

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they had three daughters. Then he made enough money from computers,

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retired from the software job. Yeah, and brought the band

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back together. They're out there releasing new music and touring.

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Making you way in the world today. Tink saying everything

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you got it taking a break from all your worries.

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I'm sure it would help a.

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Lot, wouldn't you like Catway? Everybody? I like that version better.

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Actress Real Pearl Mon seventy seven. She's worn in Coney

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Out of New York. She's best known for playing Carla

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on the sitcom Cheers. She won four Emmy's playing Carla.

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Her newest TV series she has that is called Curses.

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She's been voicing on it for the last two years.

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Her biggest movie was Barbie. She played Ruth Handler in

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the show Rieah. She married Danny DeVito in nineteen eighty

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two and they have three children. They've been separated since

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twenty twelve, but even though they don't live together, they

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have absolutely no intention of ever divorcing. Actor Tony Cox.

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He was born in Union Down, Alabama. He's sixty seven Tony.

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He's three foot six inches tall. He's been in over

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fifty movies. He was an Ewok in Return of the Jedi,

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then movies that you've actually seen him in. He was

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a black actor in Spaceballs. I think he played Dink

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and He's Willow, Me and Myself and Irene. He was

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in the Bad Sand of movies. Now he met his

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wife and he was still in nigh school. They got

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married in nineteen eighty one. They have one child, Tony.

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He retired from acting in twenty sixteen. He made his

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money and he's done. Actor Ewen McGregor. He's fifty four.

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He's one of Perth, Scotland. His first big movie was

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Trained Spotting and then he played Obi Wan Kenobi in

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the three Star Wars prequel movies. He's also in Mulin Rouge,

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Black Hawk Down Men, who'ster at Goats. He has four

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daughters from his first wife and he has a son

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with this getting current wife. Alright, we're gonna end with

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our quote of the day. We're gonna go with Selena.

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Killed to listening.

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Selena was killed today in nineteen ninety five at twenty

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three years old. She said, if you have a dream,

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don't let anybody take it away from you. Always let

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the impossible be possible. Well, thank you all for listening today.

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Don't forget to follow us on however. You listen to

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as on now from our Internet radio station and Country

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Underground Radio. We're gonna play our Country and around radio

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artist of the day. We're gonna go with Cody Joe

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Hodges and his song one more drink, You guys have

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an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

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Send enjoying the view man of my own and having

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up you, then you won't. I caught my eye and

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I leaned over and tried to say how, And I

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fell off that old barstow. And if you just signed

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up one more drinking, I don't leave this barter one

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more drink? Man, where's my coffer?

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One more drinking?

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Then I'll shick sometass. One more drink and then I.

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Smoke and dress.

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One more drink and then I'll find me a girl.

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One more drink, and then I'll pocular.

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One more drink.

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So I dusted myself offer that floor. No need to

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cuss because I've been there before. So I jumped up

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and threw down my hat. I looked her around and said, Huntin,

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did that? You're looking white?

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You?

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But everybody and the bar was amused.

March 31st-Taters, Lefty Frizzell, Tommy Tutone, Mr. Kotter, Christopher Walken, Rhea Perlman, Ewan MacGregor

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