May 16, 2026

May 17-Black Bart, Dennis Hopper, Bob Saget, Enya, Nine Inch Nails, NKOTB, The Corrs, Nikki Reed, Bill Paxton

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National Walnut day. Entertainment 2020. The book The Wonderfull Wizard of Oz released, Hawii's coldes temperature. Todays birthdays - Black Bart, Maureen O'sullivan, Dennis Hopper, Bill Paxton, Bob Saget, Enya, Craig Ferguson, Trent Reznor, Jordan Knight, Andrea Corr, Nikki Reed. Donna Summer died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
The walnut song - Hmm Thats strange
Stuck with U - Arianna Grande Justin Bieber
The Bones - Maren Morris
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
Only time - Enya
Closer - Nine Inch Nails
Step by step - NKOTB
Breathless - The Corrs
Last dance - Donna Summer
Exit - This town ain't big enough for the both of us - ChrisGuenther https://www.chrisguenthermusic.com/

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Hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history and

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factoids about today. It is May the seventeenth.

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I love walmnuts. You love walnuts. We love walm nuts, womnus, walnuts, wollnuts, womnuts,

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woo woom nuts, wom nuts, woo nuts. I love woom nuts,

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You love wom nuts.

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Yep, today's National Walnut Day. Now I would have thought

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it would have been in the fall. But anyway, walnuts.

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They were invented by the Babylonians in two thousand BC. Oh,

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they didn't invent them, but they were the first ones

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to farm them. Now, walnuts, they are very, very healthy

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for you. They're also great for reducing swelling and forever.

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They freshen your breath. Now you can celebrate today with

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walnut cocktails. You can put them on cookies, salads, muffins,

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ice cream. Just take the shelves off. So eat healthy

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today and eat your walnuts. Let's see what happened in

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entertainment one May seventeenth. Let's go back to twenty twenty.

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Then one album was here and Now by Kenny Chesney,

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Arianna Grond and Justin Bieber had in him. My song

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was Stuck with You.

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I could stay nice, sign sod and the cake and

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find the.

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Snow more in stressing and this's nothing n nothing night

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I can do stuck wheel. Why Marion Morris had the

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in One Country song with the Bones to.

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The Pine The class cuse shadows that the play Okay,

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do see you have a Man's come and then a

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crack in.

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The foundation dnys Wild He stayed the house on Falling.

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The number one book was Comino Wins by John Grisham.

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The top movie was The Invisible Man. A woman's abusive

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X kills himself and he leaves her all his fortune.

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Now she thinks he faked that death because she has

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to try and prove that he's actually hunting her. Stars

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Elizabeth Moss, Oliver Jackson Cohene, and Harriet Dyer nineteen sixty five. Finally,

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after a two year investigation, the FBI ruled up that

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song Louis Lewis by The Kingsman. It was not obscene. Nope,

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you just can't understand the lyrics. Okay, Let's see what

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happened on May this seventeenth, seventeen ninety two in New

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York City, twenty four merchants. They started the New York

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Stock Exchange. Now it was on Wall Street, but it's

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just down the street from the building it's in today.

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Nineteen hundred at L Frank Brahm's book The Wizard of

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Ohs was published. Now in that first edition The Wicked Witch,

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she sent a pack of wolves to kill Dorothy. Well,

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the tin man killed him with his axe. Then she

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sent a flock of crows to peck out Dorothy's eyeballs. Well,

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the scare crow rang their necks. Then she sent a

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killer winkie slaves to kill Dorothy, while the cowardly lion

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took care of that. She finally captured Dorothy by those

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line monkeys. Oh, pretty much the same book. Nineteen forty three,

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millionaire Howard who is He was test flying his Scorsky airplane.

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He ah, he crashed it into Lake Mead. Now Howard,

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he was okay though, but it killed the government agent

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who was on the plane making sure that it was

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safe to fly. Nineteen fifty four, the United States Supreme Court,

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they unanimously, unanimously overturned Plus versus Ferguson. You have a

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decision that came down in eighteen ninety six. They replaced

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it with Board versus the Board of Education Brown versus

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the Board of Education. See what it did. It basically

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ruled that separate black and white at schools, they were

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not equal, So it pretty much ended segregation in public schools.

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Nineteen sixty one, Cuba's Fidel Castro he offered to give

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the United States all the prisoners Cuba captured during that

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Bots Bay of Pigs evasion. States was getting five hundred

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bulldozers Hawaii in nineteen seventy nine, and they set their

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record for coldest temperature ever recorded twelve degrees was the

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top of Monacia on the Big Island.

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Joke doked Coke joked joke, shuge dish shiverbf day. We

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gonna he like thish Shuverday.

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We don't simple targe he's like thish shubirth Day.

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And you we don't give up birthday.

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Let's check out a born on May the seventeenth. So

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do you think the name Bartholomew Roberts sounds scary or

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tough for anything like that? What about Pirate Black Part, Yeah,

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the movies about that guy and write books about him.

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Now Black Bart He rolled the season only from seventeen

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nineteen to seventeen twenty two. Now before then he was

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a merchant navy captain for England, but he only made

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four pounds every month, so he was captain in a

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slave ship when it was over run by pirates and

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they realized that pirates made a lot more money than

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he did, so he switched sides. Now after he became

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a pirate, he's the guy who came up with the

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skull and crossbones for pirates. He captured over four hundred

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years during that quick three year thing. His legend has

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grown a lot bigger over the years. Though he was

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born in Wales in sixteen eighty two. He was killed

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fighting other pirates in seventeen twenty two, thirty nine years old.

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Actress Marino Sullivan. She was born in Boyle County, Ireland

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in nineteen eleven. She acted from nineteen thirty to nineteen

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ninety four. Now she became a huge star playing Jane

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in a whole bunch of Tarzan movies. Now some of

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her later movies that you might have heard of, where

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Hanna and her sisters and Peggy Sue got married. She

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was married to her first husband for twenty seven years

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when he died, and they had seven kids. One of

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their daughters his actress Mia Ferrell Marine. She married her

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second husband in nineteen eighty three and they were together

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until she died from well during heart surgery in nineteen

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ninety eight at eighty seven years old. Actor Dennis Hopper.

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He was born in Dodge City, Kansas, in nineteen thirty six.

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His first two movies were with James Dean, Yeah, Rebel,

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Thout a Cause and Giant. Then Dennis wrote, directed, and

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acted in Easy Rider. He's nominated for an oscar for Hoosiers.

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He probably should have won that one. Tannis. He had

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a daughter from his first wife. His second wife was

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Michelle Phillips, remember from the Mama and Them Pappas. They

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were married for eight days. Dennis said the first six

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were pretty good. Then he had a daughter from his

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third wife, a son from his fourth wife. Married his

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fifth wife in nineteen ninety six and they had a daughter, Dennis.

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He died from prostate cancer in twenty ten at seventy

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four years old. Actor Bill Paxton. He was born at

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Fort Worth, Texas in nineteen fifty five. He was in

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a lot of big movies, weird science, Aliens, Tombstone, Apollo thirteen, Twister,

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That's just someone Now. He married a second wife in

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nineteen eighty seven and they had a son and a daughter. Bill.

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He had gotten rumored rheumatic fever when he was a kid,

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a damnage his heart, and then in twenty seventeen he

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was having surgery to get it fixed. He didn't work.

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He died. He was sixty one years old. Comedian actor

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Bob Sagett. He was born in Philadelphia in nineteen fifty six.

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Started as a very successful stand up comedian. Now Bob

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did stand up his entire life. Now, despite his really

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clean cut image, he was one of the dirtiest stand

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up comedians on the stage now the other idiots. They

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would joke that Bob could have made Red Fox Bush.

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On TV, he started in Full House. He was the

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original host of America's Funniest Videos. He voiced Ted on

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How I Met Your Mother. Bob had three daughters from

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his first wife, married his second wife in twenty eighteen.

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In twenty twenty two, he died when he fell and

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in his head. Sixty five years old. She is Ireland's

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best selling solo artist of all time. She's actually Ireland's

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second biggest selling artist of all time. She's behind you too.

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She's so big, she just goes by Inya. The sixty

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five year old. She was born in Windoor, Ireland in

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nineteen sixty one. Now she is the sixth of nine kids.

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Her whole family, including her parents, are really big in

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music and she soldo over eighty million records. Some hits

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that made it to this side of the pond in

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the United States are Oracle Flow Only, Time Ready or Not.

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The biggest hit over here was I Don't Want to Know.

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That was with mary O Williams and P Diddy. And

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yet she hasn't married yet, but she does have a

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South American fish named after her. Comedian Greg Ferguson and

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he's sixty four. He's born in Springburn, Scotland in nineteen

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sixty two. Yeah, it was a very successful comedian over

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in the UK. Came to the United States in the

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nineties to be on the Drew Carey Show. Never left.

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He went and hosted The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson,

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Celebrity Name Game, done a lot of voice working movies.

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He had wen child from his second wife, married his

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third wife in two thousand and eight and they have

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a son, Trent Reznor. He is the lead singer and

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song I had it for nine Age Nails trind sixty one.

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He's born in Newcastle, Pennsylvania, nineteen sixty five. He formed

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nine Nag Nails in nineteen eighty eight. Now, from nineteen

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eighty eight to twenty sixteen he was only a permanent

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member in the band. Then in twenty sixteen he let

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Atticas Ross become a permanent member with him. Nineties Nails.

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They sold over twenty million albums. Now they've been nominated

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for thirteen Grammy he's won twice. Trent he had a

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really bad drug addiction when he was younger, but he

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beat it. Yeah, he's been sober since two thousand and one,

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so that's great for Trent. Got married in two thousand

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and nine and they have five kids. He won't champion

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number here yours to see your fincher of me All

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the ship set here. That was Jordan Knights singing for

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New Kids on the Block. Jordan is fifty six. He's

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born in Worcester, Massachusetts. In nineteen seventy. New Kids they

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formed a nineteen eighty four. Jordan's pretty much been their

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lead singer the whole time, sold over eighty million records.

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The Right Stuff, Hanging Tuck, Hanging, Tough, Covered Girl, Step

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by Step. Those are some of their biggests. Jordan. You

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got married in two thousand and four and they have

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two sons. Andrea Carr. She sings lead for the chorus

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Andrea's fifty two. She's born in Dundal, Carland, in nineteen

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seventy four. Now she is the youngest of the chorus kids.

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She her two sisters and brother. They formed the chorus

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in nineteen ninety. Some songs that have played here in

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the United States are Runaway Dreams and Breathless. This Little

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over forty million albums. Besides singing Andrews, she also plays

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the tin whistle and the ukulele. She's multi talented. She

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got married two thousand and nine and they have one

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daughter and one son. Thirty eight year old actress Nikki Reid.

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She was born in Los Angeles in nineteen eighty eight.

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She's most famous for playing What Rosalie Hale and all

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those Twilight Soaga movies. She was also in Chain Letter,

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Pond Balls Out. She retired in twenty nineteen. You have

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just wanted to be a wife and a mom. She

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got married to her second husband in twenty fifteen and

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they have a daughter and a son. All Right, our

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quote of the day, we're gonna go with Donna Summer

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Sunday Day, Yesday. Donna died it in twenty twelve at

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sixty three years old. She said, I'm just an ordinary

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person that did some extraordinary things. Thank you all for

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joining us today and don't forget to follow us now

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you're listening to us on check out the show notes

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for all the links to that podcast, the radio stations

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and all that fun stuff. Our country under ground radio

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artist today. It comes from Brent in Kansas City, Kansas

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wants to hear Chris Gunther song. This town ain't big

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enough for the both of us. Y'all have an awesome day.

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We'll talk tomorrow.

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Everybody's watching when I walk in, crucifying me for all

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love your sins. They don't know the story about what

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you did. Now I have to explain myself to you all,

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love your friends. This town ain't big enough over to

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both of us. Everybody knows what's school and all. Why

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can't we just settle this and get all. I'm tired

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of going out and feeing wrong. You were the one

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who walked out on me. Find your own business, saying

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let mes be, it's far the better. Now, I'm a say.

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Go let young li fnd you out of my way.

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This now ain't big enough for the both of us.

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Everybody knows what's going

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