Sept. 30, 2026

Oct 1-Walter Mathau, Jimmy Carter, Julie Andrews, Randy Quaid, Zach Galifaianakis, Brie Larson

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National Hair day. Entertainment from 2000. Model T went on sale, Disney World opened, October begins. Todays birthdays - Walter Mathau, Jimmy Carter, Tom Bosley, George Peppard, Julie Andrews, Herb Fame, Randy Quaid, Zach Galifianakis, Brie Larson. Tom Clancy died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
Hair from movie soundtrack
Music - Madonna
Thats the way - Jo Dee Messina
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent https://www.50cent.com/
Sound of music - Julie Andrews
Shake your groove thing - Peaches & Herb
Exit - I'll never know if I don't ask - Buck Ford https://www.buckford.com/

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Hi, I am Jeff, and welcome to History and Factoids

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About Today. Today's October the 1st. Now, I'm still trying

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to figure out what to celebrate for the National Day today.

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I mean, it's International Coffee Day, but we just celebrated

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coffee two days ago. It's National Homemade Cookie Day. There

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are lots of days about cookies throughout the year. It's

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National Black Dog Day, but I don't have one of those.

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National Pumpkin Seed Day. That should be closer to Halloween,

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I think. So, I guess I'm going to have to

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break down and celebrate something that I just don't have

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a lot of nowadays. Yes, today is National Hair Day.

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I hear you, brother.

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Now, hair care has come a long way since Cleopatra

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washed her hair in donkey milk. Now, to do today right,

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they want you to celebrate, kind of show off how

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hair is your personality. You know, do something different, be

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something spontaneous. Maybe get a different cut. You don't have

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to go too wild. Just have fun with your hair.

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And yes, remember to do proper hair care today and

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all that kind of stuff. Now, I don't want to

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be a downer, but I just want to remind everybody

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that you realize, though, that for every hair that you

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can actually see on your head or your body, yeah,

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it means it's dead.

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That's right.

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The hair, it's dead as soon as it leaves the follicle.

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So that's a lot of money that's been spent on

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something that's dead. Just putting it out there, though. Okay,

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I'm a little jealous of you with hair. All right,

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it is October, the eighth month. Well, it was the

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eighth month. Birthstones of October are opal and tourmaline. The

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birthflowers are marigold and cosmos. Now, if you were born

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in October, that means you're either a Libra or a Scorpio.

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October is full moon. It's the harvest moon.

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All right, let's see what happened in entertainment on October 1st.

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Let's go back to the year 2000. Number one album

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was Music by Madonna.

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That was the number one song was Music by Madonna.

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Jody Messina had the number one country song with That's

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the Way.

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That's the way it is.

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You gotta roll with the punches. That's the way it goes.

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You gotta bang when the wind blows. You live, you learn,

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you crash and burn. It's hit or miss. That's the

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way it is.

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The number one selling book was The Bear and the

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Dragon by Tom Clancy.

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The top movie was Remember the Titans.

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Well, back in Virginia in 1971, an all-black school and

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an all-white school, they had to integrate. So this movie

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follows the football team. It stars Denzel Washington and Will Patton.

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All right, what happened on October the 1st? Now, during

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the Civil War, if you were drafted up into the

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Union Army, yeah, you could actually pay to substitute for it.

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That's right. Back there, it was legal.

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The rich guys would pay another guy around $ 300 to

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actually go into the Army for him. Well, today in 1864,

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John Somerfall Staples, he was paid $ 500. Yeah, he was

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the substitute for U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln, he wanted

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to be just like everybody else, except the guys with money. Now,

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in South, they used substitutes down there in the Confederacy, too. Now,

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some of those substitutes down South, they got up to $ 3, 000,

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so they.

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Knew they weren't coming back.

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Now, Staples, though, he had a pretty good filling in

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for Lincoln. Yeah, he didn't see any action, and he

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was pretty much a clerk, and then he ended up

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as a prison guard. Now, today is a big day

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for socialists out there, not just here in the United States,

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but worldwide. 1867, Karl Marx published his book Das Kapital.

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It talked all about how he thought the capitalism system sucked.

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In 1890, the United States Congress created the Yosemite National

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Park out there in California. It was the second national park. Yeah,

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Yellowstone was first. 1891, Stanford University opened up. Now, Leland

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and Jane Stanford, they had actually donated $ 40 million or

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endowed it or whatever to start the university. See, they

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created it to honor their son, Leland Jr. Now, he

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died when he was 15 years old from typhoid fever.

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So today, it's actually Stanford's official name. Yeah, it's Leland

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University.

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Now, that $ 40 million that they granted or endowed or whatever,

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it'd be about $ 1. 5 billion today. 1908, Ford's Model T

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cars went on sale.

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$ 850.

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$ 950 if you wanted it to come fully loaded. Now,

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cars at that time cost around $ 2, 000 to $ 3, 000. $ 850

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back then would be about $ 29, 000 today. Big party in

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China today. Yep, it's a national holiday. 1949, the People's

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Republic of China was formed by Mao Zedong. I mean, sure, China,

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it goes back a couple thousand years and everything. But see,

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they only celebrate the current communist regime. So today in China,

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they consider it their 76th birthday. Yeah, they celebrate the

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party and not the country. 1971, Disney World opened up.

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Cost $ 3. 50 to get in.

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around $ 160 to get in. If you go to Epcot,

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that opened a day in 1982.

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1989, 52-year-old U.S.

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Army General Colin Powell became the youngest and first black

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chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Now that is

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the highest military position anybody can hold.

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Okay, who was born on October the 1st. Actor Walter Matthau,

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he was.

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Born in New York City in 1920, won an Oscar

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for the movie Fortune Cookie.

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He was in over 80 movies, made 10 with his

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buddy Jack Lemmon. He had The Odd Couple and all

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those grumpy old men movies.

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That was some of them.

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Walter, he was nominated for Oscars for Koch and The

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Sunshine Boys.

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Didn't win those.

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But he won two Tonys. I would never picture Walter

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Matthau on Bronson Radweather. He had two sons and a

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daughter from his first wife. Married his second wife in 1969,

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and they had one son. Walter, he died from heart

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failure in 2000 at 79 years old. Jimmy Carter, he

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was born in Plains, Georgia in 1924. During World War II,

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he was in the Navy, came home, and became a

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peanut farmer down there in Georgia. Went into local politics,

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then more local politics, became the governor of Georgia. Yeah,

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ended up as the 39th president of the United States.

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Served from 1977 to 1981. Now, he lived the longest

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of any president we have. He lived 100 years old,

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and he lived 44 years after he was president. That's

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the longest anybody's done that. And Carter, he was the

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first president born in a hospital. So yeah, those were

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all his major accomplishments. He didn't do much as president. Now,

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Jimmy married Rosalind in 1946, and they had three sons

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and one daughter. They were married 77 years when Rosalind

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died in 2023. Jimmy died a couple months after his

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100th birthday in 2024. Actor Tom Bosley is born in

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Chicago in 1927. Best known for playing Howard Cunningham on

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the TV show Happy Days. Then he was the sheriff

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on Murder, She Wrote. And then he was the priest

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in The Father Dowling Mysteries.

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That's kind of funny. He was Jewish.

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Now, he was.

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Before TV, Bosley, he wanted Tony on Broadway, too. He

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had a daughter from his first wife, married his second

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wife in 1980. They were together until he died from

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the staph infection in 2010.

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83 years old.

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Actor George Pappard, he was born in Detroit in 1928.

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He first got famous when he co-starred with Audrey Hepburn

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in the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's. Then he was in

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Pork Shop Hill, How the West Was Wong, The Third Day.

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Now get this, he was cast to play Blake Carrington

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on the TV show Dynasty. Three weeks before it went

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on the air, yeah, they fired him. So they had

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to do all the scenes they had shot with him.

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They had to have John Forsythe come in and read

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to him. But Parr, he wasn't too bummed out about it.

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He just went over and he played Hannibal Smith on

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the TV show The A-Team. George, he had a son

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and a daughter from his first wife. Then he had

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a son from his second wife. Then he married and

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divorced three more times real fast. Now he died from

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lung cancer in 1994 at 65 years old. With songs

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they have sung for a thousand.

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Years The hills fill my heart with the sound of music.

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Julie Andrews, she's 91 years old today. She was born

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in Walton-on-Thames, England in 1935. Now she started performing when

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she was 10.

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And she still is.

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She won an Oscar for playing Mary Poppins. She was

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nominated for Oscars for The Sound of Music and Victor Victoria. Now,

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she had a daughter from her first husband. Then she

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married movie director Blake Edwards in 1969, and they had

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one son and three daughters. Blake, he died in 2010.

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The Herb in Peaches and Herb is Herb fame. He's

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been there since the beginning in 1966. Seven different women

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have sung as Peaches. Currently, Wanda Mackle, she is Peaches.

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Herb's 84.

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He was born in Washington, D.C. Some Peaches and Herb

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songs were reunited, shake your groove thing, close your eyes. Herb,

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he's been married since 1959.

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They have four kids.

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Actor Randy Quaid, he was born in Houston, Texas. He's 76.

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He is four years older than his younger brother, actor

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Dennis Quaid. In his first move, Randy, he just had

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a really small role in the last picture show. Been

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in 90 movies since then, though. Now, because of all

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those vacation movies, I always just consider him as a

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comedic actor.

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Not even close.

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He has done actually more dramas than he has those. Yeah,

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he can actually kind of freak you in some of them, too.

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He was nominated for an Oscar for The Last Detail. Now, Randy,

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he had a daughter from his first wife, married his

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second wife in 1989. Actor Zach Galifianakis is 57. He

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was born in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina. Now, he's best

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known for playing Alan in all those Hangover movies. He's

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also in Due Date, Dinner for Schmucks, The Beanie Bubble. Now,

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he got married in 2012, and they have two sons.

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Actress Brie Larson is 37. She was born in Sacramento.

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She won a Best Actress Oscar for Room. Yeah, never

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heard of it, but.

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Yeah, apparently. Room, okay. Now, she's also been in Kong,

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Skull Island. That's a pretty good movie.

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Now, she's played Carol Danvers in all the, well, not

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all of them, but some of the Captain Marvel and

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Avenger movies. All righty, our quote of the day today

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comes from writer Tom Clancy. He died today in 2013

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at 66 years old.

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He says, life is about learning.

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When you stop learning, you die, right? Well, thank you

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all for listening today. We appreciate you being here. Don't

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questions about today's show. Our country underground radio artist today

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comes from Cammie out there in Louisville, Kentucky. She wants

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to hear a Buck Ford song, I'll Never Know If

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I Don't Ask. You guys have an awesome day and

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we'll talk tomorrow.

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Girl, where'd you get that accent?

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Are you from Tennessee? Did you come here by yourself?

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Are you with somebody?

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What's your name?

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What you drinking in that glass?

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Can I buy you the next one? Mind if I

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sit down? Wanna move with the music? Am I moving

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too fast? I'll never know if I don't ask I've

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got a pocket full of questions Are you looking for love?

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Looking for a friend? Or just trying to catch a bus?

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Do you even like cowboys? Now do you want to dance?

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I'll never know if I don't dance.

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Now where'd you get that necklace? Does that say forever?

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Where's he at now? Oh, how long were you together? Wow,

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that's a long time.

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Do you miss what you had? Did your mom give

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you that grin that goes from head to ear?

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Are you that happy it's over? Did you buy me

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that beer?

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Well, thanks, girl.

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You should have done that.

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Little kids get misled.

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I'll never know if I don't laugh.

Oct 1-Walter Mathau, Jimmy Carter, Julie Andrews, Randy Quaid, Zach Galifaianakis, Brie Larson

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