Oct. 9, 2026

Oct 10th-Angel Food Cake, David Lee Roth, Tanya Tucker, Mr. Big, Mario Lopez, Mya, Exploding Cue Balls

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National angel food cake day. Entertainment from 1961. Deadliest Atlantic hurricane, Susan B. Anthony silver dollar, Billiard balls that explode. Todays birthday - Earl Dixon, Helen Hays, David Lee Roth, Tanya Tucker, Eric Martin, Jodi Benson, Mario Lopez, Mya. Orson Wells died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran https://diannacorcoran.com/
Angel food cake song - Cynthia A. Todd
Hit the road Jack - Ray Charles
Walk on by - Leroy Van Dyke
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
Running with the devil - Van Halen
Just a gigilo - David lee Roth
Delta Dawn - Tanya Tucker
Just to be with you - Mr. Big
Case of the ex - Mya
Exit - Fire in the Air - Harry Love & the hell Stompers https://harryloveandthehellstompers.com/

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Hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and

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Factoids About Today presented by Cool Media. Today's October the 10th.

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Angel food cake, angel food cake, the best darn thing

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my mama can make.

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On my birthday, make no mistake, I get.

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Angel food cake. Angel food cake, angel food cake, the

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best darn thing my mama can make.

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Today is National Angel Food Cake Day. Woo-hoo! This light, fluffy,

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airy cake. It got its name because it's what's believed

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that angels might be eating. Angel Food Cake. It was

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created in the United States in the mid-1800s. No one

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gets credit for it. It's low in carbs, so that's cool.

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Pretty simple to bake. Beaten egg whites, flour, sugar. No butter.

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So it's baked in a tube pan. That's the pan

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with the hole in the center. Now that allows the

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cake to rise when it's baking. See, if you cook

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an Angel Food Cake just on a regular pan, all

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you get is a big cookie. Yeah, it won't rise.

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And then you get to top your angel food kook

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however you want, so that's all up to you. Let's

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enjoy some angel food cake today. Do you know anyone

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named Kevin? I can honestly say I do not. But

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if you do, it's National Hug of Kevin Day. So

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you might be asking yourself, huh, I wonder what happened

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on October 10th back in, let's say, 1961. Well, Judy

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Garland had the number one album, was Junie at Gardner Hall.

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Ray Charles had the number one song with Hit the Road, Jack.

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Leroy Van Dyke had the number one country song with

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Walk On By.

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I belong to another. It wouldn't look so good to

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know someone I'm not supposed to know.

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Just walk on by. Wait on the corner. The number

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one selling book was Agony and Ecstasy by Irving Stone.

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Top move was King of Kings. It's about Jesus living

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under Roman rule. Stars Jeffrey Hunter and Siobhan McKenna. Howard Hatfield. 1977. Aerosmith.

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They were playing a concert in Philadelphia when someone threw

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an M-80 on stage. When it exploded, it hurt the

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singer Steven Tyler's cornea and hurt guitarist Joe Perry's hand. So,

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of course, the concert was over. Yeah, they had to

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take those two to the hospital. Now, to show that

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there were no hard feelings against the people of Philadelphia, Aerosmith,

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they went back and played a concert there next year.

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Steven Tyler got hit in the face with a beer bottle. Ah,

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let's see, it happened on October the 10th. It was

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today in 1780, the deadliest hurricane ever in the Atlantic Ocean.

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It was called the Great Hurricane in 1780. It hit Barbados. Yeah,

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it had wind speeds of 200 miles an hour. It

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destroyed Barbados. Then it did some island hopping, took them

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all out. Grenada, St. Vincent, St. Lucia, yeah, all of them.

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Pretty much when it got up to Bermuda, though, then

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it veered east. Yeah, it never did make landfall in

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the United States, but it had killed over 27,000 people

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on all those islands. Remember, that was 1780, not populated

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like today. Now, do you like shooting pool? In the 1800s,

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billiard balls, they were made from ivory, from elephant's tusks. Yeah,

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they were expensive and kind of hard to get. Then

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in 1865 in Albany, New York, John Wesley Hyatt, he

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solved that problem. He took this new invention called plastic,

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and he modified it into a celluloid. He used this

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thing called celluloid nitrate. Now, if you looked and felt them,

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you could not tell the difference between the celluloid and

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the IV balls. Got really popular. There was one difference

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between them, though. The celluloid ones, yeah, they turned out

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to be flammable. If you hit the balls just right, boom,

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they would explode. Today, billiard balls are made from phenolic resin. Now,

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don't you honestly think pool would be more exciting if

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the balls would explode? 1886, Griswold, Lowerland. Dude was a rebel.

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He wore a short black dinner jacket to an autumn

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ball in Tuxedo, New York. Now, when he walked in,

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everybody thought, what a goofball. No one had ever seen

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anything like that. But as they watched him through the night,

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he was just talking to the ladies and he was

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dancing and he was having a good time. By the

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end of the ball, everyone thought that jacket was pretty cool.

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So the tuxedo, it's been worn to fancy events ever since.

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This would really be embarrassing. 1957, President Eisenhower, he had

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to apologize to the finance minister of Ghana. See, the

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guy was visiting the United States and he'd been refused

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service at a Dover, Delaware restaurant because he was black. 1973,

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United States Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned over allegations of

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tax fraud. Gerald Ford replaced him. 1978, Congress. They approved

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a silver dollar with Susan B. Anthony on it. When

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it came out, everybody just thought it was a really

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ugly representation of Benjamin Franklin.

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Go, go, go, go, go.

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Go, go shawty, it's your birthday.

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We gon' party like it's your birthday.

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We gon' sip a card like it's your birthday.

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And you know we don't give a, cause it's your birthday.

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Okay, so he was born on October 10th. Earl Dixon.

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He was born in Grandview, Tennessee in 1892. Now, Earl,

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his wife, Josephine, she was a real klutz around the house.

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She was constantly hurting herself. So much, though, that in 1920,

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Earl invented the Band-Aid. That's right. It made him easier

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to fix her up. See, before then, all you had

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was some cotton gauze pads and some not-so-sticky tape. So

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Josephine's klutziness ended up making them a lot of money. Earl,

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he died at 68 years old. Josephine, she actually outlived him.

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Considered to be the first lady of American theater, Helen Hayes.

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She was born in Washington, D.C. in 1900. She was

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the first actress to win the Oscar, Grammy, Emmy, and

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Tony Awards. Yep, the EGOT. She won her first actress

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Oscar in 1931. Then she won her second Oscar in 1970. Yeah,

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that was for the movie Airplane. Now, she didn't win

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any awards, but she's also in Herbie Rides Again. I

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just wanted to give you something that most of you

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had actually seen. She married once for 30 years before

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they divorced. They had two children. She died in 1993

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at 92 years old from heart failure. Okay, now this

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is a rock star. This is not a rock star.

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David Lee Roth is 72. He was born in Bloomington, Indiana.

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The original lead singer for the band Van Halen. They

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had it from 1974 to 1985. Now, they gave him

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the lead singing job because he owned a lot of

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sound equipment. That's right. By making him lead singer, they

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didn't have to rent or buy any of it. Now,

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when David was with Van Halen, they sold 57 million records.

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They sold 27 million with Sammy Hagar. David, he's really

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six solo albums on the side. Like I said, you

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can't call him rock. Van Halen, they did screw Rop

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over a couple times, though. They'd announced they're getting all

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back together, then pull out at the last minute. David

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has two daughters and one son.

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Delta don't watch that flower. That was 13-year-old Tanya Tucker

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with her first hit song, Delta Dawn, back in 1972.

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Tanya was born in Seminole, Texas.

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She's 68 today.

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Now, she is one of the few child singers who

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ever really made a smooth transition into being a really

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successful adult music singer. She released 25 albums, 89 singles.

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Some of her number one songs are Just Another Love,

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One Love at a Time, I'll Come Back as Another Woman,

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It Don't Come Easy. She had a son and a

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daughter from a boyfriend. Then she got engaged to another guy.

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Then she found out she was pregnant, so she canceled

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the wedding. Yep, she did not want to walk down

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the aisle pregnant in her wedding dress. So then she

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had a baby girl. Then she never married the guy.

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Wake up, who cares about little boys that talk too much?

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I've seen it all go down.

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The game of love was on and down.

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So come on, baby, come on over. Let me be

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the one to hold. I'm the one who wants to

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be with you. That was Eric Martin singing lead for Mr.

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Big.

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He was born in 1960 in Long Island, New York.

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66 years old. Now in the late 1970s, he started

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out singing in punk bands. Then he'd just go from

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band to band to band. Finally joined Mr. Big in 1988.

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Now that song, Only Wanna Be With You, that was

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their only really big hit here in the United States.

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But Mr. Big, huge in Japan. Eric, he got married

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in 2002. Actor is Jody Benson, 65. She was born

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in Rockford, Illinois in 1961. She's mainly a voice actress.

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She was the voice of Ariel in the Little Mermaid movies,

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that whole franchise. And she was also Barbie in the

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Toy Story movies. She got married in 1984 and they

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have two children. Mario Lopez.

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He's 53.

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He's born in Chula Vista, California. California first got known

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playing Slater on TV Saved by the Bell then all

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those reunion shows on Dancing with the Stars he got

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second place he lost to Emma Smith nowadays he's pretty

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much mostly just a TV host he did Extra for

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nine years he's been on Access Hollywood since 2019 he

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was married to actress Allie Landry for two weeks Then

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she found out that he cheated on her at his

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bachelor party. So he didn't have a bachelor party, married

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his second wife in 2012. They have one daughter and

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two sons. She's so cool. She just goes by Maya.

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Maya is 47 today. She's born in Washington, D.C. Started

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out studying to be a dancer. Then she switched over

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and became a singer. But I'm sure she still dances

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at her shows. Now, as popular as she is here

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in the United States, she's even bigger worldwide. She's over

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20 million more records worldwide than here in the United States.

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Some of her hits are It's All About Me, Moving On,

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Case of the X, Lady Marmalade. That was with Christina

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Pink and Lil' Kim. Maya, she married in 2013. She

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married herself. Yeah, sometimes I don't ask. Let's go back

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to pool. Now, billiards is one of the oldest games

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of all time. It dates back to the early 1500s. Now,

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of course, we talked about it. So what they make

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the balls of, they've changed over the years. But the

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cloth on the table, it has not changed. The cloth

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they used on the table in the 1500s, it was

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made of wool. Today, the cloth on pool tables, made

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of wool. Well, thank you for being here with us today.

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Let's end with actor Orson Welles. He died today in 1985.

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He's 70 years old. Orson says, my doctor told me

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to quit having intimate dinners for four, unless there are

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three other people there. Today's artist of the day. It's

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another request from Grace and Grit, the Christian country station.

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Goes from Lila out there in Spokane. She wants to

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hear Harry Love and the Hill Stompers and their song

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Fire in the Air. You guys have an awesome day

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and we'll talk tomorrow.

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Preacher had the room in the palm of his hand

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We were young and hungry, waiting And every hour was fixed,

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every seat was filled Till that altar called Preacher had

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been preaching everything that he got There was pressure building up,

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it was starting to get hot There was something in

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the air that night From the top of my head.

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from the top of my

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There was fire in the air.

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