May 18, 2026

May 19th-Chewbacca, Pete Townshend, Grace Jones, ZZ Top, The Ramones, Lainey Wilson, Devil's Food Cake

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National Devils food cake day. Entertainment from 1981. Buffalo Bills 1st wild west show, Youngest Doctor of all time, Worlds largest jumping frog jubilee. Todays birthdays - Peter Mayhew, Pete Townshend, Grace Jones, Dusty Hill, Joey Ramone, Lainey Wilson. Jackie Kennedy Onasis died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
Devils food cake song - ?
Bette Davis eyes - Kim Carnes
Seven year ache - Roseanne Cashe
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent https://www.50cent.com/
Star Wars movie theme
Let my love open the door - Pete Townshend
I need a man - Grace Jones
Sharp dressed man - ZZ Top
Sedated - The Ramones
Heart like a truck - Lainey Wilson
Exit - Home bar - Douglas Riley https://www.douglasrileymusic.com/

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Well, hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history

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and factoids about today. Today is May the nineteenth.

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You haven't said no.

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Turked skirk skirk skirk there strong kirked the strong kirk

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skirked turk.

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Today is National Devil's Food Cake Day. So I was

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Devil's food cake different from regular chocolate cake? Well, Devil's

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food cake. It's chocolate eer if that's a word. Say,

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it's richer, darker, fluffyre It's made using boiling water instead

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of milk, and it has cocoa instead of chocolate squares,

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think chocolate cake on steroids. Is it healthy? Oh no,

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but it shure tastes good. So take a break from

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your diet today and enjoy some devil sweet cake. Let's

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see what's going on in entertainment on May nineteenth. Let's

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back to nineteen eighty one, and one album was High

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Infidelity by Irio O Speedwagon. Kim Carnes had the number

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one song with Betty Davis eyes He's you.

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Just Please, She's coach Yes and she knows what it

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takes to her blush stand up song, She's Bad Today.

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Roseanne Cash had the number one country song was seven

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year Ach.

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You look so careless when they're shooting at balls. Don't

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you know howt egs all heroes. When the pockets off full?

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Tell me trying to kill the seven year me?

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See water hard?

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Continue?

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Boy, say what is he going to give us?

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Some room?

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Becomes best.

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The number one book was Noble House by James Clovell Todd.

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Movie was The Four Seasons, Three Couples. They vacation together

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every season stars Alan Alda and Carol Burnette. Ah, what

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happened on May the nineteenth, sixteen forty three? The English

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colonies of Massachusetts, Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven they

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joined forces. Yep, they united. They're called the United Colonies

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of New England. They wanted to unite the Puritan colonies,

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and they wanted to defend themselves from the Indians and

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those Heathens and the Dutch colonies from the New Netherlands. Okay,

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around noon about seventeen eighty in New England that people

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began to panic. They thought the world was just about

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to end. It became completely dark, the sun was totally

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blocked out. In order to see you how to light

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candles last and for day and a half. Well, it

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turns out the smoke was from some huge forest fires

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up in Canada. Eighteen eighty three, Buffalo Bill Cody held

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his first Wild West show, held it in Oba, Nebraska.

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I would have thought he would have gone further east.

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Nineteen twenty eight, Angels Camp, California held their first annual

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Frog Jumpin' Jubilee. Fifty one's frog that very first contest.

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Now it's held every year. See they started it to

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celebrate Mark Twain's story that celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County. Yeah,

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it's the largest frog jumping contest in the world. It's

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always heard the third weekend in May. If you want

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to go next year. Nineteen sixty five, Patricia Harris became

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the first black woman named as a US ambassador. We

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sent her to Luxembourg. Nineteen eighty one, Miss New York

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Debrean Fountain became the first Miss American contestant disqualified from

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the pangant Oh Debrean, she put padding in her swimsuit.

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Bro nineteen ninety five, seventeen year old ballamer ale and

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Body He became the world's youngest doctor.

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Yep.

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He had graduated from Mount Sinai Medical School in California

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and got a ninety nine percent on his medical boards.

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His family had moved to the United States when he

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was three from India. Now what's he doing today, Well,

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he's an ophthalmologist. He's an eye doctor out there in Oregon.

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Joke gop, gop joke joke sharge dish shivers day.

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Please gonna pause.

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He left this shiver day.

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We won't simple target Thish shibirth day. And you know

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we don't do.

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Was check out. It's born on May the nineteenth. Actor

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Peter Mayhew. He was born in Barns, England in nineteen

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forty four. Now standing seven foot three inches doll He's

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kind of having trouble getting some acting jobs, but then

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he got the perfect role for him, the role of

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a lifetime. Got played Chewbacca in the Star Wars movie. Yeah,

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Peter played in in the played that Wookie in five

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different Star Wars movies. Got married in nineteen ninety nine.

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He had three step children from his wife's previous marriage.

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In twenty nineteen from a heart attack at seventy four

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years old. Now, he didn't make the noise for Chebacca

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though no those are recorded See Chebacca's voice. It was

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a combination of sounds from Bears, Walrus's Lions and Badger's.

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Killed Him. But you can see Me get in to Ya.

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That was Pete Townsend's biggest song as a solo artist.

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He's eighty one today. He was born in Chiswick, England,

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in nineteen forty five. Of course, Pete's best known for

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playing guitar for the band The Who. Helped form The

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Who in nineteen sixty four. He's gone to school with

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John Intwistle and Roger Daltrey nineteen eighty two.

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The Who.

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They wanted to retire while they were on top, so

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they Hell helped their farewell chore. Oh they're kicking off

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this year's farewell tour in July, if you want to

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go see him. Eighties, released six solo albums. Now on

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his solo albums he plays keyboard, banjo, accordion, harmonica, ukulele, mandolin, violin.

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They won't let him play those on The Who albums hed.

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He has three kids from his first wife. I married

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a second wife in twenty sixteen.

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Take me out of ninety Meney Away some Time.

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Jule my dream.

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Actress singer model Grace Jones. She's seventy eight and she

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was born in Spanish Down, Jamaica in nineteen forty eight.

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Spent her teen years in Syracuse, New York. Nineteen seventy

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she was one of the top models in the world.

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In nineteen seventy seven she quit yep I'd become a singer,

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start out doing disco, then nuweve believe or not. She

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actually had some hits too, well that song I Need

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a Man and pull up to the bumper, nipple of

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the bottle, shit a slave to the rhythm. Some of

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her movies are Conan The Destroyer of You Do a Kill,

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Becoming Our Boomerang, and then cyber Abandits Now. In the

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nineteen seventies she had a son from a boyfriend now Grace.

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She had a lot of public boyfriends over the year.

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There were rumors that she had married a couple of them,

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but according to Grace, she says, I only married one

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of my boyfriends and he was a Muslim from Turkey.

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Shoes Crazy About a.

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Dusty Hill was the bass player for the band's zz Top.

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Dusty is born in Dallas, Texas, nineteen forty nine nineteen

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sixty nine. With Billy Gibbons on guitar and singing lead,

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Frank Beard on the drums and Dusty on bass. Yep,

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Zzy Top four they just the three of them for

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fifty one straight year solo were fifty million records. Tushe

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Noomstate Toobsteak, Boogie, give Me Ay You Love, and Sharp

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dret Man Cheap Sunglasses. They have some of their biggest

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hits nineteen seventy eight or nineteen seventy six. The guys,

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they took a couple of years off so their drummer

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and Frank, yeah, he could get sober and get off

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of drugs. So they didn't really communicate or anything. So

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when they got back after two years and they hadn't

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talked about it at all over the phone or anything,

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Dusty and Gibbons, Yep, they showed up and they'd both

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grown beards. Yeah, those beards. Z Eazy Top was famous

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for now. Dusty married his longtime girlfriend in twentousand and ten.

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They already had a daughter. Dusty died in twenty twenty one,

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at seventy two years old. He had been sick for

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a little while and then he died in his sleep.

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Joey Ramone, He's sang lead for the Ramones. He was

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born Jeffrey Hyman in Queens, New York in nineteen fifty one,

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helped form the Ramones in nineteen seventy four. Why the Ramones.

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We'll see Paul McCartney. When he would check into hotels,

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he used his name Paul Ramone. The guys thought that

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was really cool, so they all picked the name, you know,

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like Joey or Frank or d D or something like that.

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Then they followed it by Ramon and that's how they

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became the Ramones. Now the Ramones, they are considered the

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first true punk band of all time. I mean, some

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Stuges fans are gonna argue it, but it's true. Now

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Didy he was supposed to be the lead singer for

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the Ramones, but Dede couldn't sing and play the guitar

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at the same time, so Joey was a From nineteen

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seventy four to nineteen ninety six, they toured almost NonStop,

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did two thousand and two and a sixty three concert

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called The Quits in ninety six. See Joey. He had

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been diagnosed with limphoeman nineteen ninety five. Now I fought

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it until one month before his fiftieth birthday in two

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thousand and one. Some of their classic songs, I want

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to be Sedated? Do you remember rocking roll Radio? She

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is a punk rocker. Now they're in the Rock and

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Roll Hall of Fame. There are a lot of tribute

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bands out there for the Romans. If you want to

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see live remone music, it's not too hard to find

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that tribute or tribute band form orr. I can just

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watch the movie Rock and Roll High School, I.

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Gotta Ground for Waters came out, Boy, you need.

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I Gotta hard like.

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Spengel.

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Country singer Landy Wilson's thirty four. She's born in basket

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in Louisiana in nineteen ninety two. Basketing and has a

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population of two hundred and fifty people.

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Now.

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In high school, Landy she traveled all over the South

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performing his Hanna antenna and in concerts. Then after high

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school she just moved to Nashville to do it on

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her own. Now she's done some acting. She was on

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season five a Yellowstone. Some of her number one songs

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are things A Man out of Know, Watermelon, moonshine, Never

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Say Never with Coase Windell. If you want to go

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see Laney, there's actually a documentary of her on Netflix.

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It's playing right now, and she'll be going down on

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tour on May twenty third, so throughout the whole summer.

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Felden here lady, she is engaged all right. Today's quote

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of the day, We're gonna go away, Jackie Kennedy on

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NASAs She got DA In nineteen ninety four, at sixty

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four years old, Jackieyel said, if you bungle raising your children,

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I don't think whatever else you do very much matters. Wow,

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thank you for listening to I don't forget to follow us.

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radio artists today because from Kobe but Larrymie Wyoming he

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want to stay here Douglas Riley's song Home Bar. You

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guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

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Watching the door, they'll be waiting for me. Then will

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rim this about our days glovery, shoots some mad ball,

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and after that there's a corn hole tournament in the

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art out bag. Katis inside he's writing them tables.

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I'm gonna make her mind if I'm ever able. We

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all need a home boster. Please we all go bar

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really too far just down the road, bar with the

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lights around me.

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Hum.

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We all agree that we're all friends here. As long

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as here's cold, beautiful. I need a home, sweet home, home,

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Ball

May 19th-Chewbacca, Pete Townshend, Grace Jones, ZZ Top, The Ramones, Lainey Wilson, Devil's Food Cake

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