May 10, 2026

May 11th-Minnesota Birthday, Irving Berlin, The Animals, MTV VJ's, Massachusetts Bans Christmas

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National Eat what you want day. Entertainment from 1965. Minnesota became 32nd state, Only British Prime Minister assasinated, Adolf Eichmann captured. Todays birthdays - Irving Berlin, Denver Pyle, Eric Bordon, Martha Quinn, Natasha Richardson, Cory Monteith. Bob Marley died.

Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard http://defleppard.com/
Healthy food vs Junk food song - English Tree TV
Mrs. Brown, you've got a lovely daughter - Herman's Hermit's
Girl on the billboard - Del Reeves
Birthday - The Beatles
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
White Christmas - Bing Crosby
We gotta get out of this place - The Animals
MTV commercial
Buffalo soldier - Bob Marley
Exit - Its not love - Dokken http://dokken.net/

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Hello there, I am Jeff and welcome to history. In fact,

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it's about today, presented by Cool Meeting. There is maybe

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eleventh Life, Healthy Food Life, Jump Food to your Life,

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Healthy food or your Life Jump Food Up Pop Jess

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sa Facons. Healthy fruit makes you strong, Healthy takes you fast,

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jump makes you weak, Jump food makes.

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You faking fat.

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It is national eat what you want to day. You

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can break your diet for the day. You can eat

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breakfast for dinner. It's something that you like that others

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think are gross. Get off you know for today, you

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know what, Just go for it now. Today started out

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as eat ice cream for breakfast day, but we can

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do better than that. Today is all about you have

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fun and eat whatever the hell you want. See's going

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on in entertainment On the eleventh Let's go back to your

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nineteen sixty five, the number one album was the Mary

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Poppins movie soundtrack. Herman hermits they had the number one

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song with Miss Brown, You've Got their Lovely ductor.

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Let don't say she Do I Know down Home my

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niece uts it good to fine and She's drowns Don't.

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Love lad Tie Raeves. He had a number one country

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song with Girl on the billboard, Rolling Way, Jimmy hold

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On Parade from Chicago, Crusade, Lewis Lolos R. L. Appreciate

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a bunch of We's alike. Me can hardly ever got

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a girl to look at him like the girl worried

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nothing but a small tell in the picture on the billboard.

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In the number one book was Up the Down Staircase

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by Bill Kaufman. The top movie was the Sound of Music.

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In nineteen thirties Austria. A young nun is sent to

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care for the seven children of a widowed naval officer.

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Stars Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. All Right, what happened

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in the world On May the eleventh, eight sixty eight.

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The Buddhist holy text, the Diamond Sutra. It was printed, yes,

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the oldest surviving book in the world that has the

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date when it was printed on it. It was found

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by a monk in a cave outside of dung Hung, China.

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In nineteen hundred ten sixty eight, the first Queen of

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England was crowned Matilda of Flanders. She was the wife

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of William the conquer. Ceremony took place in Westminster Abbey

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in London. How long how old is Westminster Abbey? It

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has built in seven fifty five sixteen fifty nine, Massachusetts.

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They made Christmas illegal. They thought it was pagan and

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an idolitarian. So if you celebrated it, you're lucky if

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you were only received a fine from them. Now they

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brought Christmas back in sixteen eighty one eighteen twelve in London,

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John Billingham, he was sitting quietly by the fireplace and

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the lobby of the House of Commons when Britain's Prime

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Minister Spencer Percival walked in. Billingham, he just casually got up.

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He walked over, told him, pulled out a pistol and

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shot him in the chest. Perceval screamed out, I've been murdered. Well,

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he was right. He dropped dead to the floor. Now,

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Spencer Persval, he is the only British Prime minister who's

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been assassinated while he was in office. Now Billingam. He

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didn't run, try and escape for anything. He simply said

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to all those around him, you all know who I'm here.

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I'm here to get payback. See Billingham, he'd been falsely

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thrown in prison in Russia for five years. Yeah, and

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the British. They didn't do anything to get him out,

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so now he was pissed off and wanted to pay back.

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Ended up getting hung for it. Happy Birthday, Minnesota. Eighteen

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fifty eight, Minnesota became the thirty second state Minnesota. It's

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a Dakota Sioux word. It means sky tinted water. Now

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the land have won ten thousand lakes. It actually has

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and forty two lakes. Capital of Saint Paul. Highest point

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is Eagle Mountain at two thousand, three hundred one feet.

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State bird is the loon, butterfly is a monarch fish,

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Walleye Trey, Norway, Spine, frou Honeycrest Basketball. Minnesota state muffin

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it's the blue Bear. Some people born in Minnesota Prince

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Judy Garland, Bob Dylan, Wynona Ryder, Lindsay, Von Jessica Biale,

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Vince von Jesse Venturo and my Pillows Mike Lindell some

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of the people born in the North Star State. Eighteen

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sixty two, the Confederate Ironclad worsh up to Virginia. It's

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crew blew it up. Yeah. See the Union had it

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dead nuts man, it had no way of skating, so

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they blew it up themselves so it wouldn't be captured

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by the Union and mus against them. Francis Henry just grunge.

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He will go on later to form the Tour de

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France bicycle race. But today, in eighteen ninety three set

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the speed record for bicycles. Yep, he got his bicycle

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up to twenty one point ninety five miles an hour.

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Nineteen forty nine in the country of Siam. It renamed

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himself Thailand nineteen sixty is really special force. The soldiers.

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They were able to capture German war criminal Adolf Ackman. Yeah,

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they did it in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Then they were

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able to sneak him out of that country and break

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him back to Israel in order to stand trial. Now,

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Argentina was pissed that Israel came into their country and

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did that. They threw a major fit, but it was Argentina,

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so no one really cared. Nineteen seventy two, on the

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Dick Cavet TV show John Lennon, he said that his

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phone was tapped by the FBI. The FBI, they weren't surprised,

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they said, yeah, they had heard him talking about it.

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Go Cop Cop Goat shows this shiverthday.

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We're gonna pause.

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He left this shiverday. We gonna simple cause he left

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this shivers day. And you know we don't do That's.

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Birthday, all right? Who's born on May the eleventh?

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Slide the one too.

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No, not Bing Crosby. Nope, we're talking about the guy

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who wrote the song White Christmas. Irving Berlin. He was

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Jewish born in Russia in eighteen eighty eight. Came to

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the United States when he was five years old. Now,

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during his sixty year career, he wrote fifteen hundred songs,

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twenty Broadway shows, fifteen Hollywood movies. Some of his biggest

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songs you'll know, God Bless America. There's no business like

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show business, but non the rants. Now, he couldn't made

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music the first half of his career. His first wife,

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she caught typhoid when they were on their honeymoon in Cuba.

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She died five months after their wedding. Married his second

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wife in nineteen twenty six, and they had four children. Berland.

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He died in nineteen eighty nine at one hundred and

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one years old. Actor Denver Pyle. He was born in Bathune, Colorado,

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in nineteen twenty most known for TV playing Uncle Jesse

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on The Dukes of Hazzard. Actually first got known on

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The Andy Griffith Show and then The Life and Times

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of Grizzly Adams. Now, when Denver was on the Envy

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Griffith Show, he used the money from the show to

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buy old oil wells, you know, the ones that they

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expected to be going to drive pretty sick. You know

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how they have a lifetime for the oil wells gonna Yeah, well,

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he kept buying up those going bankrupt oilwells. Everybody thought

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he was just wasting his money. See oil was only

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about two dollars a barrel, so that they knew there

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wasn't gonna be enough oil in those wells in order

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to get his money back. Then they came out with fracking. Yep,

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so all those old almost dried up oil wells. They

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had a second life, and he made a lot, a

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lot of money, a lot more money than he made

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from thirty years of acting. He had two sons from

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his first wife, married his second wife in nineteen eighty three.

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Died in nineteen ninety seven at seventy seven years old

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from lung cancer.

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Place we got.

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It's a manner life for me and you That was

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Eric Borden singing lead for the Animals. Eric he's eighty three.

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He was born in Walker, England in nineteen forty one.

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He joined the Animals in nineteen sixty two. Some of

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the hit songs that he sang where the House of

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the Rising Sun, we got to get out of this place,

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It's my life, don't bring me down. He left in

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nineteen sixty nine and formed the band War. They had

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they had spill the line the World's of Ghetto Cisco Kid.

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Then he kind of went solo. He does a couple

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of Animal reunion shows here and there, but he pretty

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much performs by himself nowadays. His first wife she left

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him yep for Jimmy Hendrix. Then he had a die

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her from a second wife. Married his third wife in

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nineteen ninety nine, still TOGETHERTV. I want my TV, I

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want my MTV.

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I want my Mtvamo Company, I said, I want my MTV.

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I want my MTV. Now, a lot of you younger

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listeners you won't know this, but MTV they used to

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play music videos. Yes, seriously they did. They even had

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disc jockeys, but they didn't call them disc jockeys. They

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call them video jockeys or VJs instead of DJs, and

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they would actually talk about the music they were playing

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and all that kind of stuff. Yeah. The most popular

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vj av them all was Martha Quinn. She's sixty five today.

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She was born in Albany, New York, in nineteen fifty nine. Now,

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since MTV quit using VJs and quit playing music, she

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has done national DJ work. Yeah, mostly on satellite radio.

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She did play Bobby Brady's Wife, and those are Brady

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Bunch Reunion TV specials. She married in nineteen ninety two

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and they have two children. Actress Natasha Richardson. She was

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born in London, England, in nineteen sixty three. Her mom

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was actress Vanessa Redgrave. Natasha she did quite a bit

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of theater. Some of her movies were A Fat Man,

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A Little Boy, The Parent Trap, made in Manhattan. Her

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second husband was actor Liam Neeson. They got married nineteen

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ninety four. They had two sons. Then in two thousand

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and nine, Natasha she died from head injury she got

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from a skiing accident. Forty five years old. Actor Corey Monteith.

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He was born in Calgary, Canada, in nineteen eighty two.

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He's most known for the TV show Glee. He started

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as Finn Hudson on it. He was also in the

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movie's Deck the Halls and Final Destination three. Now Corey,

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he actually started having trouble with drugs and alcohol when

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he was thirteen years old. He's in and out of

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rehab now. He just completed rehab in twenty thirteen. Two

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months later. Yeah, he died from heroin and alcohol overdose.

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He's thirty one. All right, today's factoy. That will win

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you a beer now, I said earlier at Minnesota they

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have almost twelve thousand lakes. That's not the most for

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any state. No, the most is Alaska, they have over

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three million lakes. Well, thank you for being here today.

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We appreciate you. Get chanced at by Coolmedia dot com.

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That's cool with three of us. And let's end with

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Bob Marley. It was a Buffer.

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In the America.

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Stolen from a Bramerica. Bob died today in nineteen eighty one,

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at thirty six years old. He said, open your eyes,

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look within. Are you satisfied with your life the way

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you're living it? You guys, have an awesome day and

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we'll talk tomorrow. No,

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