Nov. 28, 2025

Nov 29th - Square Dancing, Garry Shandling, Enos the Space Chimp, Howie Mandel, Don Cheadle, NKOTB

Nov 29th - Square Dancing, Garry Shandling, Enos the Space Chimp, Howie Mandel, Don Cheadle, NKOTB

National square dancing day. Entertainment from 1972. 1st chimp in space, 1st successful video game, Coffe rationing began in WW2, Invisible ink invented. Todays birthdays - Diane Ladd, Garry Shandling, Howie Mandel, Andrew McCarthy, Don Cheadle, Jonathon Knight, Anna Farris, Chadwick Boseman. George Harrison died.

Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard http://defleppard.com/
Do-Si-Do and Face the side - square dance
I can see clearly now - Johnny Nash
Got the all overs for you - Freddie Hart
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent
Hanging tough - New Kids on the block
Got my mind set on you - George Harrison
Exit - It's not love - Dokken


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Hello, I am Jeff.

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Welcome to History and Factoids about today psent about cool media.

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Today is November the twenty ninth.

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Turn your partner right hand around and a look for

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the corner, allamanleft, where to stay right a partner right,

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a left, right hand over hand around you go. When

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you meet your partner, turn back half way around, go

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the other way back, go the other way around when

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you meet your owns if you have a right hold

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by alaman left from the corner.

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Got It is National Square Dancing Day. It's not American.

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No, it actually started over in Scotland, Ireland and England

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in the sixteen hundreds. I'm betting you know the rules.

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Four couples, They stand in the square, boy girl, boy girl.

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Then a caller tells the dancers what they're supposed to do.

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You know, embarrassing, it's actually kind of fun. Now you

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danced up beat music that's played by fiddles, guitars, accordions, bagpipes.

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Whatever you prefer.

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Square dancing is really good exercise for you. Yeah, that's

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a nice way to be sociable and meet new people. Now,

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whether you're gonna wing it or take some classes, get

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squared dancing a shot. Probably enjoy it more than you

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thought you would.

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Now.

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Square dancing is also the state dance of nineteen different states.

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All right, this is going on in entertainment. On November

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the twenty ninth, It's back. In nineteen seventy two, number

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one album was Catch a Bullet for by Kat Stevens.

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Johnny Nash had the number one song with I Can

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see Clearly Now.

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Con se Rain I can see you all. I'm stas

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in my way.

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Going on the.

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Handy Blind Freddie Hart. He had the number one country

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song with I've Got the all Overs for You. The

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number one book Jonathan Livingston Seagall by Richard Bach. The

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top movie seventeen seventy six. Now it's the story of

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the Declaration of Independence, but they for some reason break

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into song and dancing during the story. Stars William Daniels

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Howard to Silva and Ken Howard. Let's see what happened

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in the world. On November twenty ninth, seventeen seventy five,

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James J. He invented invisible ink. Yeah, he was a doctor.

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His brother John Jay was a congressman in the Continental Congress.

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He later became the first Chief Justice of the United

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States Supreme court Well. Invisible ink was a way for

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the two to communicate it as James's contribution to the

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fight for independence. See he really wasn't for it, but

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he just wanted to help support his brother. Invisible ink

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is actually pretty easy to make. All you need to

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do mixed two tablespoons of baking soda with two tablespoons

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of water. Then he is in swabs or a toothpick,

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and then you write your message. Then you let it dry.

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Then in order to read the message, Yeah, you just

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dab gripe juice on it. Yeah, so now you're a

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super spy or a drug dealer. Eighteen sixty four, here

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in Colorado, the Sand Creek Massacre took place in the

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southeast Colorado. Six hundred and seventy five men of the

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third Colorado Cavalry. They attacked their Rapo and Cheyenne Indian

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camps on Sand Creek, killed over one hundred and fifty,

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mostly women and children. Started the Colorado Indian Wars. It's

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now a San Creek Massacre Historical Site. It's about one

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hundred and seventy miles southeast of Denver. Eighteen seventy seven

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Thomas Edison. He demonstrated his newest invention a hand crank

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photograph or a record player. Nineteen twenty nine, American pilot

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Richard Byrd He was the first person to fly over

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the South Pole. They were so happy about it. He

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was made a rear admiral in the United States Navy

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for it. He had forty one years old. He is

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still the youngest admiral ever in the United States Navy history.

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I guess it doesn't matter now, but bird he actually

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missed the South Pole by one hundred miles really pissed

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people off. Nineteen forty two, due to World War Two,

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the United States started coffee rationing. Yeah, every family was

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allowed one pound of coffee every five weeks. Now there

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was actually plenty of coffee in Latin and South America.

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They were having record harvest down there. But see how

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the ships are being used for the war effort, so

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there was no way to haul that coffee up here

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to the United States.

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Nineteen sixty one.

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Now he had trained for one two hundred and fifty

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hours for this critical mission. Now it was go time.

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Enis He was launched in his space. Yeah, the five

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year old chimpanzee began the first chimp to orbit there.

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Actually orbited it twice. He was he was recovered safely. Yeah,

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it was just a test flight for what John Glenn

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was going to do in about three months. So when

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John Glenn became the first American, I guess we had

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to say he was the first American person to orbit

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there with don't now the Soviets they didn't use a

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chimp to test. They didn't test anything. They just launched

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your Gagarin up there. Yeah, they did it the previous April.

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Now Ain't just died a year later from dysentery, but

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they said it wasn't because of the space flight, which

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makes sense. I mean, if he's gonna crap himself to death,

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he would have done it when he was in the rocket.

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Nineteen seventy two and sunny Vale, California, Andy Caps tavern

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Atari they put in their first video game, pun It

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became the world's first successful video game.

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That's huge hit. Three years later they made us you

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could actually play it at your house.

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Co Co cot Co cop Coat show.

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This shibf day, were gonna pause.

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He left this shiverthday.

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We gonna simple car He's like, it's shibirth day and

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you know we don't give us birthday.

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You know, if you were born today, you were most

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likely conceived on March the eighth. Something to think about

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all r unless he was born on November the twenty ninth.

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Actress Diane Ladd. She's eighty eight. She's born in Laurel, Mississippi,

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in nineteen thirty five. She started out as a New

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York City chorus girl. Been an over one hundred and

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twenty movies and TV shows. She was nominated for Oscars

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for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Wild at Heart, Ramblin Ropes,

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some movies that you might have actually seen, China Down,

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Christmas Vacation goes to Mississippi. Her first husband was actor

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Bruce Dern. They had two daughters, One of them is

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actors Laura Dern. Laura and Diane. They've been in five

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movies together.

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Diane. She's been married to her third husband since nineteen

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ninety nine.

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Actors comedian Gary Shandling was born in Chicago in nineteen

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forty nine. Started off riding sitcoms Yeah Sanford, Son and

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Welcome Back God Or were a couple of them. Then

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he became a very successful stand up comedian, got his

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own TV shows, The Gary Shanling Show and The Larry

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Sanders Show. He was his biggest movie. He was probably

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What Planned to You From Yeah, Gary. He was a

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lifelong bachelor. Died from pulmonary embolism in twenty sixteen at

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sixty six years old. Comedian Howie Mendel He's sixty eight.

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He was born in Toronto, Canada, in nineteen fifty five.

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He really big as a stand up comedian. Then he

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went into movies. He was the voice of Gizmo and

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Grimlins and then walked like a Man, a Fine Mess,

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Hansel and Gretel.

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On TV, he played us Straight.

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He did the drama Saint Nosewhere for six years and

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Hedvice Bobby's were All and then he hosted Deal or

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No Deal. Been a judge on America's Got Talent since

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twenty ten. How He's been married since nineteen eighty and

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they have two daughters and one son. Actor Andrew McCarthy.

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He was born in nineteen sixty two in Westfield, New Jersey.

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Sixty one year. He was a member of that Brat

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pack back in the nineteen eighties. Some of his movies

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Saint Elmo's Fire, Pretty in Pink, Less than Zero, Weekend

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at Bernie's and all those movies. He had one child

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from his first wife, married a second wife in twenty

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eleven and they have two children. Actor Don Cheito. He's

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fifty nine. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in

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nineteen sixty four. First starring role was in the movie

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Hamburger Hill, then Boogie Knights, Traffic, Ocean's eleven, twelve and

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thirteen movies, nominated for an Oscar for a Hotel Rwanda.

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He has played war Machine and six Captain America and

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Avenger movies. Don He's been with his wife almost thirty

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years and they have two children.

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Don't born on because they won't take.

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but you're not gonna.

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Be He might not be as popular as his younger

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brother Jordan, who is the lead singer. But Jonathan Night

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he's fifty five today. He's born in Boston nineteen sixty eight.

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He was an original member and New Kids on the Block,

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and they started in nineteen eighty four together until nineteen

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ninety four. Yeah, they broke up. They were all gonna

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have huge solo careers. Well that didn't happen.

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So the new kids.

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They've been back together since two thousand and eight. For

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your interested, they're actually gonna go back out on tour

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in June. Jonathan he has his own TV show on HTTV.

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It's called Farmhouse Fixer. He restores all old farmhouses and

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makes him look really cool. He was out it for

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being gay in two thousand and nine, said he didn't care.

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He's been with his husband since two thousand and eight.

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Actor Chadwick Boseman. He was born in Anderson, South Carolina,

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in nineteen seventy six. First Really Got None playing Jackie

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Robinson in the movie forty two, then did Draft Day,

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played the Black Panther in four movies. He's nominated for

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an oscar for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Way. He was

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diagnosed with colon cancer in twenty sixteen. No one outside

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of this family knew about it. Fired at for four years.

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Died from it in twenty twenty at forty three years old.

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Actress Anna Faris she's forty seven. She's born in Baltimore, Maryland,

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in nineteen seventy six. On TV, she played the baby

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surrogate for uh Chandler and Monica on the TV show Friends.

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Then she starred on mom, most known probably for starring

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in the Scary Movie franchise. He's also in Hot Chicks,

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Southern Bells, The House Bunny, Overboard. Her second husband was

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actor Chris Pratt. They were together for nine years and

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had one son. She married her third husband in twenty

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twenty one. All Right, today's factoid that'll win you beer.

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A two by four board. Yeah, it's actually one and

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a half by three and a half. Well, thanks for

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being here today. We appreciate you.

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Good a chance. Stop by coolmedia dot com.

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That's cool, three of them and see what's going on

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with us on the podcast, radio stations and all that stuff.

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Let's end today with George Harrison. It's cooling time, precious time.

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Take the patient sometimes.

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To do it, to do it, to do it, to

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do it, to do it, to do it.

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I got my mindset.

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The former Bill. He died in two thousand and one

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at fifty eight years old. You've when you've seen beyond yourself,

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peace of mind is waiting there. You guys, have an

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awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.